Just a few updates here and there over the holidays...
I'm still in search for the perfect braking solution. Oddly enough I liked the performance of my Rotora 13"/14" BBK the best but those are long gone (sold) and would not fit under a 17" rear wheel. I'm not sure I liked my Brembo solution which I talked about the rebuild a few posts back. I dug into my pile and pulled out my front Stoptech ST40 kit. By itself, it hate the brake bias when paired with the NA2 OE rear brakes. The current solution i've been testing is using a custom setup I built using a Boxster rear brake caliper and a AP Racing rotor. This gives me a 59% front bias setup. Note: 2002 Type R OEM bias is 55%. 4 corner Stoptech is 63%. Front only kits are somewhere north of 75% or higher ---> basically immediate front tire lock up which I hated. The only thing I hate about a 4 wheel BBK setup on the NSX are the shitty choices of e-brake assemblies. This brembo setup is annoying me at the moment.
Front off-the-shelf ST-40 Stoptech kit.
This is my custom rear BBK setup. It's a 330mm rotor but the Brembo e-brake solution or any other e brake solution is lowsy compared to stock. I'm considering going with a electric parking brake assembly.
Also, i've said this before... the 17/17 wheel/tire combo is AWESOME. Everyone should try it.
The other big To-Do item was to get my HJS cats fabricated. I must say.. I couldn't be happier. My car runs a bit rich at the moment while I refine the tune (rich is safer) so the exhaust smell is awful. These even almost make the smell pleasant. The flow is great. They feel like Test Pipes in terms of power and throttle response. The sound is about 25% louder than the stock cats but about 75% quieter than test pipes. There is just a tiny tiny bit of decel rasp which was obnoxious with TPs and not audible with stock cats. This is all from my highly not calibrated ear and ass dyno btw. They weigh nearly twice as much as the SOS standard cats (shown in the picture) but oh, so worth it. Again.. very happy with these despite the price penalty. I'm curious how these will perform on the CA SMOG Sniffer test.
Lastly here's my photo dump of a project i've had in mind for a quite a long time. I purchased a Comptech V2 exhaust some years ago. As my car blows out exhaust flames on occassion the first few track days with the muffler burned up all the stuffing. I could tap on the muffler and hear jingle bells from all the emptiness inside. I set this aside for a while thinking of ways to rebuild it. I didn't want to sell it to some poor chap expecting non-blown out Comptech muffler. I like the size and fitment as well as the heavy duty SS construction. Cutting the shell for example took a lot longer than I expected because of the thick guage steel that was used. Definitely not like the cheap ebay mufflers that you can cut with tin snips. It was the heavy construction that gave me confidence to cut it open and install an "access door". Most mufflers deform into a limp noodle when structurally compromised in such a way. Admittedly I did a piss poor job with the cutting wheel. I also did a shitty job with the riv nuts. I will have a stainless frame water jetted and welded around the opening asap as the muffler rebuild seems to be working out quite well.
OK.. less chat. more photos. (the lines are from my vacuum cleaner). Very simple and effective straight through exhaust design.
Christmas dinner stuffing
1st layer
My plan was to have the outer layer be the better sound absorbing glass mat fill.
Inner layer closest to heat source be the SS "scrubble" as Burns calls it.
[MENTION=25108]illwillem[/MENTION]'s cat's dream world balls of SS yarn balls
Forgot to take a photo of the step prior to this which is another layer of scrubble
For the riv nuts
Ugly but surprisingly effective. I'll modify the cover with some water jetted parts if this proof of concept works out for the long term. I'M SO SICK OF BLOWN OUT EXHAUSTS
