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Member Profile - mason.a's 3.0 spec.B

Postby mason.a » Tue Oct 07, 2014 4:17 am

This is my first car, a 2008 Liberty 3.0 Spec. B 5sp.

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Was bought in Adelaide completely stock at the start of this year with about 89,000km's, now sports a few mods and upgrades all done by myself.
Loving the car and am planning on keeping it for the next few years. Let me know what you guys think and your opinion on future mods!

*Planned mods*

Engine/Exhaust:
- Kido Tune
- Raptor Headers
- Ultrex Stainless Mufflers
- K&N Air Filter
- Intake Resonator Delete
- X-Force Mid / Y-Pipe

Brakes/Handling:
-Kumho KU31 225/40R18
-Whiteline Rear Swaybar
- Whiteline Front Strut Bar
-T3 4000 DBA Slotted Rotors F & R
-Stainless Steel Braided Lines



Cosmetics/Other:
- Plasti Dipped Matte Black Rims
- Plasti Dipped Grille
- Plastidipped Interior
- STI Rear Lip Spoiler
- "3.0" Chrome Badge
- 4300k HID High Beam Conversion
- LED Parkers
- LED Indicators and Flasher Unit (Courtesy of Leo)
- Philips Ultinon Flat LED Number Plate Lights
- LED Boot Strip Lights
- Fusion 900w Subwoofer
- Dynamatted Front Doors
- Full Window Tint
- Polaris Reversing Camera
- Nav Screen iPod integration
- Rota Gravels
- Ultrex front lip


This forum is full of amazing cars, which is my motivation to start working on improving my own.
Any comments, advice or tips are appreciated
Cheers :)

Mason
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Re: Member Profile - mason.a

Postby smok0 » Tue Oct 07, 2014 4:59 pm

excellent first car :)

oh and just a heads up, modding is very addicting, I have a gen 4 myself (only a NA) and have spent close to 6k on mods over the space of about 10 months lol...
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Postby mason.a » Wed Oct 08, 2014 12:43 am

smok0 wrote:excellent first car :)

oh and just a heads up, modding is very addicting, I have a gen 4 myself (only a NA) and have spent close to 6k on mods over the space of about 10 months lol...


thanks mate :)

seems like i'll be heading down that road soon, it's hard to stop once you see all the possibilities throughout the forum!
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Postby BigBCalais » Wed Oct 08, 2014 10:13 am

Looks good mate, what colour is it? hard to pick up from the photo

I know what you mean after looking at the forums it made me want to mod my car more so badly :(

how's the reversing camera? hard to install?
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Postby mason.a » Wed Oct 08, 2014 3:11 pm

BigBCalais wrote:Looks good mate, what colour is it? hard to pick up from the photo

I know what you mean after looking at the forums it made me want to mod my car more so badly :(

how's the reversing camera? hard to install?


Thank you, I believe the colour is steel silver, i'll get some better daytime photos up tonight.

The camera wasn't too bad, I have factory navigation so it integrated into the screen nicely through the dedicated port on the back. Have to make sure you get an NTSC camera though !
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Postby mason.a » Mon Nov 10, 2014 5:32 pm

Update November 10th

So as with a lot of sedans, the boot can be hard to see in, especially at night. There is a small halogen globe in there from factory, but even replacing that with an LED would have still been pretty poor, especially as its not even centered !

Luckily the 12V plug is removable from the back, so I decided to pick up these LED 5050 strips from eBay:
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The price was around $5 for the both delivered, so as well as being much brighter than a single LED bulb, its also cheaper.

Using spade terminals, I was able to plug these directly into the factory plug without any modification.

*note* The LED strips i bought had very poor 3M tape on the back, which kept falling off the metal it was stuck to, so for another $5 I bought a 3M roll of double sided tape, 10mm in width. Now the lights stick extremely well!

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Postby Scratchy » Thu Feb 05, 2015 5:25 pm

Looks good. I might be keen to try that out, add a front lip to your list! ;)
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Postby mason.a » Thu Feb 05, 2015 5:42 pm

Scratchy wrote:Looks good. I might be keen to try that out, add a front lip to your list! ;)


Makes such a big difference at night, it's great!
Will definitely get onto that, looking at performance / exhaust mods first whilst trying to keep some sleeper status in the appearance. Not looking to add too much that will draw police attention to a driver on red P's :lol:
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Postby mason.a » Tue Feb 10, 2015 1:58 am

*Update*
Just put an order in with Tim over at Raptor for some Stainless Steel Headers a few days ago. Cant wait to get them fitted and get a re-tune on Matt's next Perth trip!
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Postby Kody.B » Tue Feb 10, 2015 5:08 pm

Very nice first car, and a solid start to the mods too.

Good stuff :good:
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Postby mason.a » Wed Feb 11, 2015 3:00 am

Kody.B wrote:Very nice first car, and a solid start to the mods too.

Good stuff :good:


Thanks buddy, congrats on the Rex! :)
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Postby mason.a » Tue Feb 17, 2015 6:41 pm

*Update*

Raptor Headers arrived this morning and they look great.

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Now looking for an exhaust shop in Perth that can install them at a reasonable price.
Also planning on putting in an order for a pair of Ultrex Stainless Steel Mufflers. This car desperately needs more noise 8)
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Postby mason.a » Wed Feb 25, 2015 9:33 pm

*Update*

Raptor Headers have been installed along with the new rear mufflers and the car sounds 1000x better than stock!
Now all I need is a re-tune, then the mods will be taking a break for a while.
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Postby mason.a » Wed Apr 08, 2015 10:39 pm

A photo of the new mufflers. I thought they'd stick out a lot but I've really started to like the look of them.
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Postby mason.a » Wed Apr 08, 2015 10:44 pm

Couldn't find many videos of the Ultrex Mufflers and Raptor Headers combination, so I decided to upload my own.

The mufflers are pretty subtle cruising at over 4000RPM, but between 500-3500 it gives off a great note aswell as when being floored. Doesn't drone at all on the freeway either which is a huge plus.

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