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LoL... this reminds me of a buddy of mine who has a POS miata. the guy bought a Momo steering wheel off ebay and installed it himself... guess what? the bolt they gave him was cheap and when we were driving through the twisties on Page Mill Rd, he turned his steering wheel and it fell off ! ROFLMAO! the car went right off the road and into the tree.no injuries, only a f'd up front end.
Damn ebay! LOL
Damn ebay! LOL
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The only things that will be different is the tranny. If your dad's manual coupe is 05+, then the motor's internals are different too. But even still, the intake, intake plenum, headers, cats, exhaust, suspension, etc... will still be the same.
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And quite honestly, I wouldn't really bother with the intake. Changing out the filter and z tube is fine, but some aftermarket intake systems for this car might actually lose power.
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if you get test pipes, make sure your exhaust system is resonated or you'll be raspy like me
ALSO, do NOT buy those cheap exhaust gaskets-- make sure you buy COPPER gaskets or they will burn up in no time and you'll have a leak in your exhaust-- on the bright side, whenever my car drops below 2.5K RPM it makes a sick 'blow-off' sound from that leak , I BS'd some random dude that it was turbo and he believed it too but exhaust fumes smells like S***
One more thing... get a spacer or some kind of adapter for you 02 sensor or it will be tripping the ECU and cause a CEL and your car to run too rich (trust me on this one =/ )
ALSO, do NOT buy those cheap exhaust gaskets-- make sure you buy COPPER gaskets or they will burn up in no time and you'll have a leak in your exhaust-- on the bright side, whenever my car drops below 2.5K RPM it makes a sick 'blow-off' sound from that leak , I BS'd some random dude that it was turbo and he believed it too but exhaust fumes smells like S***
One more thing... get a spacer or some kind of adapter for you 02 sensor or it will be tripping the ECU and cause a CEL and your car to run too rich (trust me on this one =/ )
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You don't need any spacers... what you do need is some sort of non-fouler. There are electrical types that you hook up to the sensors, and there is a mechanical type that you are calling a spacer. The mechanical non-fouler can be a simple DIY project as long as you have access to tools, and you should be able to find write-ups on this all over the web... just Google it. They both work great btw... only a crappy electrical unit may burn out...
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