Hey guys, after my problems with my EL headers. I decided I wanted to try my luck with some other mods to stop being depressed they didn’t work lol.
First thing I did was install some swift springs. I ordered them from MAPerformance. They were clearances to $200 usd. I originally had koni + stock springs. All I can say is wow. The springs lowered the car a good bit of course but I’m mostly surprised how it feels. It just feels like this is what the car should ride like. What has me the most surprised is the ride quality. I assumed bumps in the road would be a lot worse than the stock springs. Koni adjusted 1 turn from soft in the front and rear is perfect. The bumps Or pot holes in the road feel almost exactly how it did with the konis and stock springs.
Next mod, found a used q300 exhaust for cheap. I decided the price was right and I was tried of my magnaflow exhaust having extremely uneven exhaust tips. So matter what I did the driver side tip would hang extremely low to the ground and the way it hung on the exhaust hangers just didn’t look right. (This could also be my fault maybe I bought the wring one but this was years ago I don’t remember the model number). Anyways the q300 was easy even to install. I really like that I could ditch the gs 3in dp to stock catback adapter. Since the magnaflow started at 2.5 to work with the oem dp. Getting everything lined up and even was extremely easy. Fitment perfect. It’s not as quiet as the magnaflow, but it’s not bad at all. Acceleration is more rumbley and deep. The best part is the magnaflow has drone around 2.8k and up. The q300 does not have this. Cruising at 70mph 3k rpm I can hold a conversation easily. If I didn’t find it cheap locally I probably wouldn’t of switched but I think it was well worth the money.
I did do some other little stuff, like slowly buying some jdm upper black interior pieces, buying an sti map light/sunroof piece with the microphone and then removing the oem microphone and mounting my double din’s microphone hidden in there. Not sure if it’s on this website or another one but I read people trying to wire the sti microphone to work but it always ended terrible with a lot of static or not working. So I took the easy way and still looks oem since you don’t see a random microphone hanging out in the open.