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honestly, i just want a light (aluminum), non-sliding set of calipers that perform just as good as the LGT brakes. And would be great if they fit normal LGT rotors. oh, and cheap. say $500-700? cause i don't track. just prefer to lose some weight and those sticky slide pins/bushings. would go after 2 piece rotors, but they're too much $$$$ for not tracking ($880 for a set of DBA fronts).

yeah, i guess the benefit of the Caddy upgrade is that the calipers are $100 each new, rather than $1k for a used set (STI Brembos). there are already quite a few expensive options, and this is another. not to say they aren't awesome.

Holy cow, $1400 starting price and without rotors! the caddy brakes are WAY cheaper.

how much roughly for a set and you can run them without a spacer with 04 bbs?

i'll be honest, i loved the bathrooms in japan since they were like that. tub fills to the brim and just overflows to the floor and thus the drain. shower can just be right in the "room" as well. well, she thinks that since she watched a video of someone putting the same vinyl floor down in a big square room in under an hour, that i can obviously do that too. took me an hour to do the piece in front of the shower. wanted the edge that's exposed in front of the shower to be fairly good (will still put a little trim piece there), and there are 5 other cuts to dimension and make. and snapping the planks longways isn't the easiest. her thinking is that we were redoing the whole bathroom ourselves before the baby came, so she could destroy whatever she wants. I think she was thinking it would somehow be really easy to get all the tile up around the tub, but it's not. she also destroyed the drywall around the base of the tub and the wall next to the tub. so we'll probably just have a drywall guy come to $500 in work to fix that, and who knows how much to have someone do the tile. i hate tile and hate putting it down. mostly when you'll literally have to cut each and every piece to go around the tub. and who knows what we'll do about the vanity. it's like 79.5" long or something, so way beyond the standard sizes. will have to be custom, but also need to keep in mind where the two sink plumbing lines are so that we don't have to spend money to have that redone too. all in all, if i had ripped up the carpet and destroyed the tile myself, she'd be killing me with nagging right now about how i started a project and won't finish it and how she'll be forced to pay someone to do it. instead we never talk about the tile. lol.

yeah, i shoulda taken photo's of the two corners in front of the shower. one side had black carpet. the particleboard underlayment was raised there too and i ended up chiselign it down flat and laid some primer down to give it back some strength and an inkling of seal from any possible moisture. will add some caulk between plank and shower and a tiny quarter round to cover the 1/16th gap i left. tonight will be two "intense" boards to cut, and then three runs of nearly cut free planks. then back to having to cut almost all the boards, but it's so close to being done. well, with the floor. wife smashed off 6 of the tiles off the tub surround, so we'll have to redo all that sometime soon too...

fact. which is some of the difficulty with installing it. we'll deal with new trim later, but this is quite enough work for now. hate this trim, as it's too busy for my taste, but nearly the whole house has it so it's not like we're gonna spend $5k having all our trim redone... oh, and this all used to be carpet. and honestly, who the F*** puts carpet in a bathroom? i can't believe it still happens. when we were home shopping last year, i went off about it with my wife and she told me that it was "obviously special carpet made for bathrooms." i didn't say a word and the conversation essentially ended that second. and for those that are waiting for the punchline, there is no special bathroom carpet. carpet is carpet.

spent naps and post-bedtime hours installing vinyl plank floor in master closet past two days. had to cut at least half the boards. bathroom and WC next. at least there are three solid runs in there...

interesting idea...

well, while it reads like you're only talking about one thing, you're really talking about two different things. 1. "bigger" turbo vs. "smaller" turbo (vs. efficiency, obviously) 2. the increased "exhaust" efficiency of a proper TS system your first point is more of a thought experiment. could come up with hypothesis both for and against. most are probably right (to an extent), but with your current system it appears that the "against" column carries more weight. and the second point is "fact", at least for the Subaru OEM SS vs. TS systems, although the amount of savings to be had is still under debate. all in all, there are just so many variables. in other news, with this 100+ degree weather we've been getting here, i've essentially got a mild WAI going on and have seen a small increase in mpg.

swap the front O2 to the bung after the turbo. should have no ill effects, as this is where the jdm sensor is located.

but those "new" wheels would have needed 6 hours of plasti-dipping to get them the color you wanted... And i used to count my time as free until i had a kid. now i find value in the time i have and most often find that hiring someone to do most of the work is worth it.

it looks great. cheaper, easier and quicker than paint or powdercoat, and great results.

Installation sucks. Parts hoarding is where it's at.

the in and out connections are also angled, so it just fits better that way. and the mount is on the outside, towards the fender, in that orientation.

bam. new island countertop with 15" bar overhang:

well, guess it's time for pseudo-island countertop time until we decide on a legit countertop...

you're always so concerned with mounting everything... As for the topic at hand, let me know when you're done testing the full STI intake. i'll gladly take it off your hands. i was actually a little too excited when you said you were selling off all your parts, only to find out you (obviously) are keeping the good stuff for yourself.

ignorance is bliss?

no, we'd just get 3 new cabinets with matching white thermal foil to change the sink location and use the space a little better. no refinishing of the existing. would replace the base cabinets to the left of the range. well, sort of. we'll be paying a plumber to redo the sink water and drain for the new location, getting 3 new cabinets to use space better and move the sink, and i really want to remove about 5" off the wall to the right of the fridge. we got a counter depth fridge but can't push it in all the way cause you can't open the right door with that non counter depth wall. idiots. at least there isn't a footing below. and the two pictures are both older pictures of our current kitchen arrangement. orange walls are from offer day, and brown walls are from listing. we have grey walls now and dishwasher and frisge are new, slate aplliances. new slate gas range and microwave in boxes in garage. @rhitter, did you stick a tape measure through and it's actually 7 feet deep? could fill it as-is with play sand thru the crack.

mine was painted too, can still see it on the railings. i assume they didn't choose purple, but that's what color it is now after the sun got to it and no one maintained it for what looked like 5+ years. we had lichen a half inch tall, the quite wide gaps between boards was usually filled with algea/moss/lichen/dirt so that water coudn't get through easily, etc. and the major rotted spots where were someone had potted plants with a drip system. so they essentially held water against the deck constantly for years. genius. would have replaced a board, but was afraid of it standing out as new after it was stained with the rest. the color we chose came out much darker than expected though, so probably wouldn't be at all noticeable. we'll probably redo the deck within the next 5 years so not too concerned. all the boards are still quite serviceable, although they did soak up tons of stain on the first coat.

and just to circle back around on the deck refinishing. pic of during pressurewashing, first coat, and a full deck after first coat (of two coats). haven't finished the railing paint yet, probably cause we wanted to use the deck again, but that only requires the deck surface to be completed... also, hilarious how everything looks so much better in pictures. like 10% of the boards are nearly dead (cracked, rotted, etc. - but still structurally safe...). even the kitchen looks nicer in pictures... As for future deck work, we're wanting to keep it the same or a little bit smaller of a footprint, but make it all one level, and at the lower/lowest level. the upper deck is actually original to the house's construction, and the lower section was added (can tell the boards are newer, and are all screwed down instead of nailed like above. railing is also different). but quotes for that work were $9-$12 and most contractors didn't have time till winter. so instead we spent $500 and some time to clean it up and keep it functional for a few more years.

After searching yesterday, people do tile exterior "decks". glad you aren't, although you should do whatever if it makes you and/or your significant other happy. who cares about a bunch of blow-hards on the interwebs... As for my renovations, we've been planning to do a kitchen remodel, new flooring throughout (wood all downstairs, carpet all upstairs), and redo our master bath a little (floor, vanity, bathtub tile, shower door...). all before the next kiddo comes. we've been gathering quotes from all over for new kitchen cabinets while we firm up the layout. for background: we hate the tile counters, angled sink, lack of island bar area, and thermal foil and particleboard cabinets just don't look nice, mostly after 20 years. so looks like ~$8.5k for new cabinets. spent over a month working the details and prices... so we wanted to make a decision on who we wanted to go with to get the cabinets last night, but the wife also questioned whether we should even get new cabinets. that spiraled out of control and now we're talking about spending $1.5k to replace 3 base cabinets with "matching" style cabinets (would "flip" the sink essentially), and we'd go ahead and still do everything else we wanted (new counters - including bar on island, etc.). $7k savings, and can just replace the cabinets later with something nice if we want (after the kids grow up... ). i assume i could get my new gas range installed sooner too (it's just sitting in the garage, and most contractors for cabinets can't do the work till september/october timeframe...).

i'm with jasejase for once. tile?