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Postby WheelieBin » Thu Jul 05, 2012 6:31 pm

Edit: So Facebook has broken all the photos I was being lazy and hosting from there - will fix that later

Car: Diamond Grey MY08 Liberty GT-B Sedan

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Current Mods:

- Black Premium Slim (XX) Plates w/ Front Plate lift kit
- Spec.B Badge
- Enkei STi's - Shadow Chrome
- Replica JDM STi Boot Lip Spoiler
- OEM Honeycomb Grille
- TCP Quad Tips
- AVO Dump Pipe
- Perrin TMIC
- KiDo Racing Tune :D :D
- Double DIN Facia Kit / Kenwood DDX4038BT / Alpine PDX v9

Planned "Mods":

Most stuff isn't actually mods - but here we go (in rough order):

- Brake Rotor Machining
- Three Port Boost Solenoid
- Repair / repaint Wheels (all rashed/chipped - thanks to coming off at track day and a few random gutter incidents :()
- Repair or replace rear bumper (still has a hole from a tow-bar incident :()
- Paintless (hopefully) dent removal to get rid of some pine cone dents. The pine trees have since been cut down! :)
- Detail to remove minor scratching/heatlight restoration (LHS is all foggy and weird)
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Postby bigBADbenny » Thu Jul 05, 2012 11:30 pm

Nice one! :D
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Postby seanmau5 » Fri Jul 06, 2012 12:17 am

Lowe ;) (moar)
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Postby alessandro132 » Fri Jul 06, 2012 9:35 am

Nice upgrade, Ben! :good:

Is this one auto or manual?
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Postby WheelieBin » Fri Jul 06, 2012 9:47 am

I have to drive auto unfortunately - I have a physical disability and had to have a medical done to get my license, and based on that they've decided I can't drive a manual (due to the clutch).
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Postby alessandro132 » Fri Jul 06, 2012 10:21 am

Fair enough, well you do have the paddle shifters so it's still good :mrgreen:
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Postby WheelieBin » Fri Jul 06, 2012 10:28 am

alessandro132 wrote:Fair enough, well you do have the paddle shifters so it's still good :mrgreen:


Yup :D
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Postby MH3.0R » Fri Jul 06, 2012 12:32 pm

Well, in my opinion, for auto's, best to get the Kido Tune. The improvement on the shifting will blow your mind (and most manuals :lol: )
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Postby WheelieBin » Fri Jul 06, 2012 12:34 pm

Yeah (see list ^^ :))... I may have sent an email to them the day before I picked up the car ;)

I've told them I want to go ahead with it now I *have* the car, just waiting for them to get back to me.
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Postby MH3.0R » Fri Jul 06, 2012 12:47 pm

Have you got a RomRaider / ECUFlash setup on a notebook, with a Tactrix cable etc and confident to read and write to the ROM? If so, then you're good to go remotely, otherwise, start reading the RomRaider site and getting setup.
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Postby WheelieBin » Fri Jul 06, 2012 12:59 pm

MH3.0R wrote:Have you got a RomRaider / ECUFlash setup on a notebook, with a Tactrix cable etc and confident to read and write to the ROM? If so, then you're good to go remotely, otherwise, start reading the RomRaider site and getting setup.


Haven't set it up yet, my laptop pretty much stays in the boot after I get home from work at the moment, will do it over the weekend. I don't have a cable - don't they loan the equipment?

That said, is it worth buying the cable anyway so I have the capability of changing things later?
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Postby MH3.0R » Fri Jul 06, 2012 1:02 pm

WheelieBin wrote:
MH3.0R wrote:Have you got a RomRaider / ECUFlash setup on a notebook, with a Tactrix cable etc and confident to read and write to the ROM? If so, then you're good to go remotely, otherwise, start reading the RomRaider site and getting setup.


Haven't set it up yet, my laptop pretty much stays in the boot after I get home from work at the moment, will do it over the weekend. I don't have a cable - don't they loan the equipment?

That said, is it worth buying the cable anyway so I have the capability of changing things later?


It is up to you, but several of us here decided to buy our own cables so we can do stuff in our own time, monitor, log and even after some time and experience, some have even gone on to do their own tuning/flashing.
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Postby WheelieBin » Fri Jul 06, 2012 4:53 pm

Well, it'll be a few weeks off, but I'm now 'in the queue' for a KiDo tune (waiting on the tuning gear to be available) :D
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Postby MH3.0R » Fri Jul 06, 2012 7:02 pm

I am sure you will be excited when you get you 1st DBW tune. Mine made such a radical difference to the auto behaviour. Again today, driving in peak hour traffic, I had examine the tacho to know what gear I was in when it is in auto mode. Smoooooooth and sliiiiiick.
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Postby WheelieBin » Sun Jul 08, 2012 8:57 pm

Better photos!! (thanks Taylor :))

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(bonus of a 3 car cruise - one of which was piloted by girls who got lost ;) - we stopped here for ages and chatted to a guy doing speed runs on his bike)
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