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Well this is shaping up to be quite epic.

 

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I'm glad this car is local - maybe I'll see it driving around at some point, once it is done!

 

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A little movement is still movement - great work!

 

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That's gotta be some kind of record.

I bet you it still drives less scary than when I took my Camaro out last Friday, haha.

 

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The 2.0TD makes 280 lb-ft on overboost - and it actually makes more than that in real life. Ours dynoed (stock) at about 260 wtq or something like that. But yeah, the horsepower figure is wayyyy lower.

You can hear the turbo and the wastegate a bit in the LUZ, yeah.

 

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When I replaced the subframe and lower control arms on my '98 Cavalier (after the stock subframe developed a 360 degree crack between the front and rear mounting points of the passenger-side LCA while we were driving, about a mile from our house at the time), I want to say it had about 3 degrees of toe out on each side. Driving it to the dealer to have it aligned was absolutely terrifying.

My Camaro, right now, is even worse. The alignment was a quickly done eye-ball job, and clearly is nowhere near close to good, but with the massive dead zone in the steering box, it was nearly impossible to keep in the lane on a straight portion of the road - let alone in a gradual bend.

 

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Just make sure to seal the connections for the blind spot sensors - the crazy electrical gremlins they can cause when they corrode and short can be pretty, well...crazy.

 

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You'll probably have that done before my Camaro is - thing seems to never be done!

 

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So that should be a little extra money there!

Did you change any of the seats out to the Buick seats?

 

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You'll regret that decision about the heated seats come this January. LOL

You're not wrong, haha.

We have heated seats in the '14 CTD and my Volt (along with the heated wheel), and it's something I wouldn't be without.

But - easy to add, if you don't want the power tracks.

 

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You'll be waiting 4-6 weeks, if I remember correctly back to the Cav. I had to do the same thing.

 

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@thebac Little bit of light street racing (on woodward) never hurt anyone....

I'm assuming that wasn't you running around without the hood...or exhaust...whoever that was, was shooting a nice blue flame out the bottom.

 

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That's what I figured, as I didn't see the two turndowns out back anyway. Can't say I saw your car, unless you weren't around Ducati.

 

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Tundowns seem to reduce but may also slightly contribute to a drone at 1500 rpm when under load. Taking them off makes it worse, but I think changing the angle might lessen the sound. Said turndowns may disappear or get modified (butchered) soon, if only to test the theory...

My buddy's '88 Mustang has an H-Pipe, into Bullets with turndowns right under the rear seat foot area. At first he didn't have turndowns, and the fumes from the exhaust were pretty potent (thankfully, it was corn-fed, so it smelled quite tasty). He added turndowns and it solved that issue, but the added drone on the freeway was pretty bad.

 

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Went down to woodward as well but didn't see anything interesting or find anyone else to play with.

You should have come up to Square Lake...Kingswood plaza was nuts. All of Bloomfield Hills PD, along with some of the state troopers, had to come in and shut everything down - every spot was full, easily a thousand people. I've never seen it even remotely that busy in years past.

 

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It'll be dead - Woodward attendance even on a Friday is basically nothing the week after the cruise, haha.

 

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That totally looks like the torque strut on the bottom of a Cavalier. I had to replace mine when the subframe cracked 360 degrees around:

 

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I'd just go with the T.

 

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so your saying those Saturn rims will fit on my 2014 Diesel Curze?

Sure looks like it.