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Will this be happening next Friday? I have the day off....

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Awwwww.

Huh? WHAT DID YOU SAY? I CAN'T HEAR YOU OVER THE SOUND OF HOW AWESOME IT IS.

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I don't really know, but I assume there's probably detonation occasionally as the ECU cuts fuel as you lift your foot. Hopefully there's so little fuel (and air) when that happens it's not destructive. I don't think it's possible to tune that out because the ECU has to cut fuel when you lift your foot enough.... but I don't lose sleep over it.

I saw a fair amount of knock below 2500 rpm and 1 g/rev when I was on the stock tune, so I've pretty much just ignored it when I started tuning. Usually when the knock sum increments in my logs, it's from lifting my foot off the throttle.

Hmmm, I think we're looking at the same ebay page.

Has anyone done this with projectors from an Acura MDX? Is it any harder / easier / different from an RX 330 swap? Thanks!

+1 Every time someone says the Legacy fog lights suck, I wonder if they've checked the aim on theirs. Mine were angled way too low from the factory, and basically worthless. Now they work just as well as the fogs on my previous car (91 BMW 325ix).

Exactly... The laptop only get power when the car is on. I did kill a battery by leaving map lights on.

Awesome, thanks.

I did pretty much the same thing for my laptop. I have it set to sleep after a few minutes, then hibernate after a few more, but I like your idea of staying on until 70%, I'll have to try that.

Very nice.

I don't type a lot, but I do type just enough that using my thumbs to hunt-and-peck is kind of annoying.

I still have that keyboard, minus the mousey bits. I agree, it sucks. I'm still looking for a small keyboard that doesn't suck. I have a Logitech DiNovo mini that's well built (a thing of beauty, really) but hard to type on. I'm looking for a laptop keyboard minus the laptop.

2000-2001 RS and also in the.... a) ...2000-2001 Legacy GT? b) ...2005-2009 Legacy GT? I've spun both rears on slippery surfaces so it works like it should. It's there to maintain traction while driving (not racing) and it works fine for what it was designed for. I do look forward to getting a better front diff, and maybe a center as well (for more rear bias) but my rear diff will be the last one to get upgraded, if ever.

With the car on a lift you can tell if the VC has gone completely open if you just spin one rear wheel by hand. If the diff is totally open, the other wheel will spin the opposite direction. If the VC still has some stick to it, both wheels will rotate the same direction (and it will take more effort, as the whole drivetrain as to move for that to happen). However that doesn't tell you if it will bind up properly when you've got one wheel with traction and one without. I don't know how to verify that except to be on a slippery road and feel/guess which wheels are slipping and how much.

My BMW 325ix has a center diff that occasionally behaves like you described - the engine lugs down a bit in tight corners. It has always had matched tires (always bought sets of four, never had a flat, etc, etc) so while that may cause such behavior it's not a requirement. Note that differentials can fail in different ways, so there are multiple unrelated correct answers to your question. In your case and mine, I think the differentials (strictly speaking) are working just fine, but the viscous couplings are failing. I wouldn't be at all surprised if VCs also had a failure mode that makes them irrelevant, leaving the differential effectively just an open diff.

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I put a piggyback on the cigarette lighter fuse slot.

Yeah, but... that's what nasioc is for.

Thanks for all the Eibach pics, guys. I've been wondering about those springs for a long time. On stock struts they look perfect. Bovesnh1, what kind of wheels do you have? Those look pretty cool too. I was looking for that style for a while but gave up.

Like the others said, just don't turn it up so much that you hear distortion. You'll be fine.

Why isn't this thread a sticky in the walkthrough forum? This is good stuff, thanks for bumping it up.