If I had to guess that rubber diaphragm was most likely designed to expand and retain a certain amount of pressure inside of the system, once the threshold was exceeded (probably pushing that spring past a mechanical limit) it would vent air back into the intake (releasing pressure and...
What's the offset on your front wheel? And how's the ride quality on those BC's compared to stock? No rubbing still from lock to lock and full compression?
Ran into an interesting issue the other day, merging onto a highway and when the light turned green on the onramp I kicked the accelerator to the floor and pinned it there till I caught up to traffic speeds (~30-40MPH, rush hour after work). When I got up to traffic speeds, I took my foot off...
Cellphone microphones won't capture what you'll hear in person, with the windows up you'll hear a lot more of the growling intake noise and with the windows down you'll hear the turbo sucking in air as well as spitting it out when you redline it in "1st" gear and it "downshifts".
Pretty easy, I did mine at 11PM at night outside so my biggest worry was dropping something onto my sloped driveway. The paper towel into socket for the one deep airbox bolt was a neat trick, be sure to do that so you don't drop that into the engine bay.
Pretty much, I don't have allen keys...
Out with the old, in with the new:
takes a little bit of wiggling to get out, it sits on a rubber post/dildo looking thing that centers it
my airbox didn't line up exactly with the stock mounting holes of the old airbox. I needed every mm of play that the mounting brackets had on the...
Changed my oil over the weekend and noticed that the oil filters I ordered: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00STVLTU2
Are not 100% the same as the one that came off my 1.5L:
Different mechanical design and different marking (6C14 vs AS501 or some shit I took a shitty pic so sue me)
An...