OK - a day under the car and a few skinned knuckles. What a way to spend a Saturday.

Well, let's get at it... got the QBM lower torque mount, front IPD sway and QBM end links installed today. First - out with the old:

Now - let's do some comparisons here. First, take a look at the IPD Sway compared to the stock sway. A noticable difference!

Note the thickness. And YES the urethane matches my paint job

Now let's do a compare of the endlinks. This is probably going to kill me when I try to sell these VMS links later but.... for the betterment of the VS community. Below we have....

the stock endlink

the VMS endlink

and the QBM endlink

No slander here but... SLATER for the WIN!

While I had the front of the car jacked up (...plus me after a large coffee, a Krispy Kreme donut and 4 Red Bulls ), I pulled the control arms do that I could get the axles set into the M66. Seems to fit like a Latex Glove!!! Here is a pic of the front sway and endlinks installed:

I also hacked out the old exhaust which will soon be up for sale to some new proud owner (teaser). Stock downpipe into a 2.5" pipe and into a Magnaflow CAT.

Here is a pick of the whole exhaust including Stainless Magnaflow muffler. People have commented on the nice exhaust note from this setup. The buyer would just need a muffler shop to do two welds and you are GOLDEN

Here are the components for the new exhaust. Starting from the right hand side:

- the beginnings of a custom 3" downpipe

- Magnaflow Stainless high-flow CAT

- Magnaflow Stainless Resonator

- HKS Stainless 120mm muffler

All sections with have V-band flanges so that I can drop out components occasionally.

And finally... I was going to keep this under my hat for the Davis meet. But since it is not running yet - I figured I would post what is soon to come!!! I figure it will take about a week for every COP in the south bay to remember that plate!

EDIT: Now I have to make this project work, because I can't go back and change the plate to "Project 5"

Tomorrow is another day.

Scott C.