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  1. While not totally banished, I can only produce it when it's cold out and I'm accelerating hard from a stand-still into a tight left or right turn. After all the various bushing mods and bracing I did, when it does occur it is now much less subdued; more like somebody knocking on the floorpan with their knuckle rather than hammering away on the unibody with a 5lb sledge.
  2. On my car, which is used as a DD off and on, concerns about NVH went out the window with all the modifications I've made since I bought it new in early '05. Even with the addition of a pair of powered sub-woofers in the trunk a few months ago I still find myself more often than not leaving the stereo off and just enjoying the symphony of sounds emanating from the engine and the heavily modified intake and exhaust systems. I have two pair of new 6 1/2" mids waiting to go in the doors but even after that I'll probably still prefer the tune played by the car over that by the stereo system much of the time. That said, I have not noticed any additional NVH from these billet bushes but remember that's probably because if any actually is occurring it's likely masked by the multitude of other aural inputs that result when squeezing the go pedal on my GT. Even if your mods are nothing more than a bit louder/aggressive exhaust than stock, I really don't think these will cause any noticeable increase in NVH.
  3. About a week ago I replaced the stock rubber drive shaft center support bushings on my '05 LGT with solid billet aluminum ones from Torque Solution, purchased from FredBeanParts.com. http://www.fredbeansparts.com/media/catalog/product/cache/1/image/5e06319eda06f020e43594a9c230972d/t/s/tscarrierbearing_1_1_1.jpghttp://www.fredbeansparts.com/media/catalog/product/cache/1/image/5e06319eda06f020e43594a9c230972d/t/s/tscarrierbearing2_1_1.jpg While I'm recently just out of the 1000 mile break-in on my new build engine (ringlang failure of OE pistons) and still have not fully thrashed on the new engine, these did seem to add to the solution of eliminating the infamous "growl". These are not a single solution to the problem. As anyone who has followed or read through the entire thread knows the fix is to eliminate as much of the built in "softness" of all of the drive train and rear suspension bushings. Remember, the Legacy was designed to be a "near luxury" sedan so the engineering, especially for the NOAM market, focused on limiting NVH as much as possible, thus the cushy bushings. Other mods I've made to remove slop, and in the process eliminate the "growl", include: RalliTEK poly AT mount insert Beatrush rear differential front member Whiteline rear differential bushing stiffening inserts Spec-B rear lower arms (stiffer bushes than GT)
  4. http://www.mapsofworld.com/olympic-trivia/images/olympic-posters/st-louis1904.jpg
  5. http://www.africamuseum.be/about-us/img/1897
  6. http://www.dugout-memories.com/1890dodt2.jpg
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  8. http://www.1869homestead.com/gallery/1869_7.jpg
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  10. http://www.richmondancestry.org/cemetery/Richmond_Mary_W_1809.jpg
  11. http://www.pafa.org/SiteData/images/1805KnitCa/a9a9d20b46f0fcd9/1805KnitCapBlackFull.JPG
  12. Bottom center shows all parts of the air intake. You shouldn't need #9 Meter, Air Flow unless yours is damaged. Also some people remove #10 Resonator for more sound from the intake so you can leave that off if you want. http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b380/TRS60586/Misc%20Legacy/parts966.jpg
  13. Post #71 above shows mine from back in April.
  14. You'll want the Cool White/Super White. http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b380/TRS60586/Misc%20Legacy/LED_interior_lighting.jpg
  15. All were plug-n-play. One thing was some bulbs were polarity dependent so if they didn't light up as first installed I just reversed them. Also the festoon bulbs I used in the map lights were a little longer than the space between the two contacts. Those clips have some flex in them so I got the LED bulb in there by inserting one pointed end into one clip and pushing the bulb in that direction to widen up the gap enough to get slip the tip on the other end of the bulb into the other contact clip. Since the quoted post is from at least a couple years ago Autolumination.com has probably changed their offerings of festoon type LED bulbs somewhat but all of my LED bulbs I got from them are still working so I have no complaints about quality.
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