What I did today! (PICS) / Machwon's Mod Thread
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RE: What I did today! (PICS)
ORIGINAL: Slicktastyk Matt
How hot does your intake get? I just noticed that if I ever get a new intake I'll need to get a new pluggy thingy that's almost up to the throttle body. That little rubber hose thing. Yeah I had to cut mine about an inch to have it fit on the JLT lol.For some reason I feel like I have some cheap plastic thing in my hood with the RAI
How hot does your intake get? I just noticed that if I ever get a new intake I'll need to get a new pluggy thingy that's almost up to the throttle body. That little rubber hose thing. Yeah I had to cut mine about an inch to have it fit on the JLT lol.For some reason I feel like I have some cheap plastic thing in my hood with the RAI
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RE: What I did today! (PICS)
Thanks guys! I actually went back to work on it to make it more polished and it looks amazing now! I'll take some pics tomorrow and post them up. I also went on a polishing rampage and sanded / polished the metal front shaker bracket as well. I think it looks pretty sharp! I'll include a pic or two of it as well.
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RE: What I did today! (PICS)
ORIGINAL: Slicktastyk Matt
Machwon you need to stop man. You're making me want to go and polish something now!! Worse comes to worse it'll be my *****!! [8D]
Machwon you need to stop man. You're making me want to go and polish something now!! Worse comes to worse it'll be my *****!! [8D]
Mach, great job on the polish. I tell my woman that all the time, but for an ENTIRELY different reason!
But still, looks great. I love those coil covers, too! Coming soon to a Mach near me! Nice...
About the mods you posted, I would avoid the L/Ts for two reasons (and this is not just flat out contradicting you but just adding to the tech or our new, kickass section)
1. Cost and install. L/Ts are expensive and install is either (a) a BITCH or (b) pricey to farm it out.
2. Stock manifolds on Machs are VERY good from the factory. Some say they're good to 600 HP.
Also,
those mods I think would put a Mach at 310+ rwhp and maybe more depending...
So bang for buck, unless I was planning some MAJOR engine mods, I'd go for an O/R Prochamber and some quality catback and leave the manifolds in place until the mods got REAL serious and spend that $600-800 (parts + labor) elsewhere, like on a NX kit [8D]
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RE: What I did today! (PICS)
Thanks for the compliments Groundpounder! How's your mach coming along? As far as the longtubes go I have been VERY impressed with the gains they give our machs. on my previous 03 mach 1 I ran the prochamber for a while, and while it wasn't tuned it put down 287 / 305 with prochamber, intake spacer, JLT RAI, and catback. I bought up a set of BBK longtubes, and O/R Shorty X and it put down 305 / 324 untuned....that was enough to impress me . You are totally right about the cost of the install however...Unless you have a mechanic friend that does the whole job for 350.00 . So if you're like me and can get some of the stuff for cheap i think longtubes are a definite improvement for our cars. And NO exhaust out there will sound as cool and deep as longtubes do...I was Very suprised with the change in tone of the exhaust. I actually took a few shots of the stock manifolds (still laying around here somewhere lol), verses the longtubes and you can see just how hindering the stockers are.
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RE: What I did today! (PICS)
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I'd go for an O/R Prochamber and some quality catback and leave the manifolds in place until the mods got REAL serious and spend that $600-800 (parts + labor) elsewhere, like on a NX kit [8D]
I'd go for an O/R Prochamber and some quality catback and leave the manifolds in place until the mods got REAL serious and spend that $600-800 (parts + labor) elsewhere, like on a NX kit [8D]
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RE: What I did today! (PICS)
Ok everyone- as promised here are the pics of the finished intake tube, and shaker bracket...along with these cool little Mach 1 ID tags I just got today. The very observant will also notice the addition of a Roy's Intake spacer :
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really nice job man..
I was watchin Barrett Jackson Auction today on SpeedTV and one of the older cars had a sign under the hood that said "SHAKER" and it actually shook...it was so sick I wonder where you can get em?? haha
I was watchin Barrett Jackson Auction today on SpeedTV and one of the older cars had a sign under the hood that said "SHAKER" and it actually shook...it was so sick I wonder where you can get em?? haha