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Coilovers, Ionic body kit, B-Pipe, or TV?

Old Jun 8, 2007 | 11:29 PM
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Coilovers, Ionic body kit, B-Pipe, or TV?

HMMM.... Cattman Y goes on shortly, whenever I have time to crawl up under it for 2 hours or so. Buuutt... next mod is about a month away or so, so I need an opinion. I am currently running H&R's on stock struts , and want something stiffer. So I think I've narrowed it down to the 3 choices of:
  • Coilovers: hopefully Boss Chens, maybe K-sports (900-1300)
  • The Ionic Dynamics Kit for the A33's (750-900 installed)
  • Cattman B-Pipe: What kind of difference does this make other than minimal HP gains?(300ish)
  • or 42-50" TV. Problem with this TV is the only things HD I have is PS3 and 360.... so there's really no point for me to waste all that money only something I can't utilize, especially considering that TV would suck some serious power.(1150-1400

I am open to any other suggestions, like simple things like Hella horns or easy things like that.

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Old Jun 8, 2007 | 11:30 PM
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and also, does anyone know where you can find a HALF-size rear window spoiler anymore?
Old Jun 12, 2007 | 09:01 PM
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I would get the Boss Chens, and Paradox Systems sells the half window spoiler.
Old Jun 13, 2007 | 08:36 AM
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Eh. I ended up with Ksports. Ordered em yesterday. Jinsu had the price guarantee in the GD forum, and I got em quite cheap. So Y-pipe and K-sports go on next week sometime, and I'm looking into the half spoiler ASAP.
Old Jun 13, 2007 | 12:39 PM
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Did you mean a 50" TV for your CAR?!?

I assumed you meant for your living room, and was gonna vote for that until I noticed you mentioned it sucking some serious power (which I assume you wouldn't care about in your house )

.....sheesh that's bigger than any TV i have IN MY HOUSE (36" Sony, 32" Zenith, 27" Sharp, 25" Sharp)....although i'm lookin 2 get a plasma.....

.....anyway yeah in that case I would've voted for coilovers
Old Jun 13, 2007 | 07:29 PM
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Yes, it was for my house. I've got a 37" Samsung in the living room now, but the woman wont let me play 360 on the surround sound system and **** the neighbors off. And half the time, we have company over, so I just play in the bedroom(27" non-HD JVC). The LCDs and Plasma TVs suck over twice as much power and put off near 3 times the heat as projections(DLPs). You ever walk through the TV department and feel the heat wave? I pretty much turn the TV on when I get home at 11 or so and usually have it on till 3-4 AM, then watch like an hour or two of TV while eating breakfast, getting ready for work etc. in the morning. I may sound cheap, but I'm not gonna pay an extra 5 bucks a month just cus the TV is only 3" thick rather than 13".

Still glad I got the coilovers
Old Jun 17, 2007 | 07:49 PM
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Simple since you are open to potentially spending $1400, just get a smaller HDTV and the cattman b pipe. I have the 32'' flatscreen panel LCD Toshiba 32HLC56 for about $750 from Sears (If they even still have any). It weighs like only 20 lbsm and has an HDMI port which works awsome with my PS3... I could not imagine using my PS3 with my old tube.

Anyways, getting back to car stuff, yeah the gains are minimal with a b pipe, but it is still a key part and having a complete exhaust set up.

Ditch your old 27'' set a smaller yet still flat screen panel LCD HDTV with HDMI port, and you would still have 600 for the car.
Old Jun 18, 2007 | 09:25 AM
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well, here's the breakdown of what I spent in the last few weeks:
Cattman Y: $357
Berk Intake(lil while back) : $187
Ksports: $720 (plus the like $200 3-year unlimited alignment package at Tire Kingdom)
5-day vacation to ST. Augustine/Daytona for July 4th weekend: Approx $800-900ish
Tires(middle of July): $500ish

So I've kinda hit my limit on spending money on myself. Time to start building up the old reserve acount again.

And as far as the B-pipe, I'm thinking about just changing out the resonator to a much smaller one or deleting it entirely, but I am unsure of the result of that. I do know that it will make it louder, but I am hoping not to change the tone very much. I like the way the setup sounds, but I just want it a tad bit louder. I think n3985 has a resonator delete pipe, but does anyone know if he has a video?
Old Jun 18, 2007 | 11:05 AM
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I think n3985 has a resonator delete pipe, but does anyone know if he has a video?
http://forums.maxima.org/member.php?u=40822 Moot point, but he does have a 3.5L though.
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