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Here's some shots with my Rebel with the kit lense. Waikiki: MD near Elk Neck Park: My s95 for when lugging a bigger camera isn't an option:

Just remember offset is the distance from wheel centerline to mounting face. So comparing a 7" to a 8" wheel, the 8" wheel will stick out more with the same offset.

Thanks man!

The only reason I didn't include a resonator after the cat is because originally (had the cutout fit) there was no room for it. When I found this out, I wasn't going to wait around for a resonator to come in the mail to do the rest of the exhaust. So, like I said, a res will probably be added later,

Aside from my welder jamming up every 10 mins, today went pretty good. Everything is finished and welded all the way to just before where the tips are going to be. There wasn't enough time to really dig into that portion of the project. The stainless hooks I got off McMaster worked out good for the front factory exhaust hangers. Even with those welded in there was still some sag around the gas tank. I guess more and heavier material will do that.. The shop had a broken stainless exhaust that I stole a 90* hanger from, a common two hole rubber hanger, and I used an extra stainless hook I had to make an additional hanger under the rear lower control arm mount. I threw a bolt through the hook to the LCA mount with big washers up top to distribute the load and welded the stainless 90 to the exhaust. The result is awesome. The play in the exhaust is very minimal and factory feeling. I did have to do some minor tweaking of the passenger exhaust hanger and pipe to get the muffler level and tips symmetrical but other than that it went smoother than I thought it was going to. I also finally got to mount my ABS module. I cut up a silicon coupler for cushion between the module, body, and bracket. Bracket positioning was dependent on body contour but it's solid. Video of the exhaust routing: />http://youtu.be/SoT4rZ4swm0 Sound clip: />http://youtu.be/fhs-_cRdteM I'm not super happy about the rasp up top but the idle did end up being deeper and throatier than I thought it was going to be. I'll probably add a resonator later but it's good enough for now.

It was a bit tougher than I thought it was going to be. The inlet position on the new muffler was a good bit off from the original location making it hard to tuck the muffler up and still clear everything. The inlet had to be rear of the exits and the muffler clocked to fit the 180*. Then the bends to the rest of the exhaust from there were a bit tough. It's going to need some tweaking after welding. The heat will distort it a bit I'm sure.. especially since it's stainless. (more thermal expansion than mild) Either way though it's better than doing it in a driveway/the street like the last 3" exhaust I built:

You want a sound clip of a tacked together exhaust? lol.

I got most of the exhaust tacked together today. The cutout doesn’t fit due to how long the headers are.. It puts the cutout in a more narrow portion of the tunnel. So, for now it's just the cat and muffler. Only the rear hangers (reused 15mm ones whoo) are tacked on and I still need to add the hangers in the center. Any sagging in the exhaust in the pic is a combo of the missing hangers and the fact that it's just tacked. The rear was a huge PITA to tuck up and get out of view. I did guess right on the bends though. I only ended up with one extra 3" bend. The tips are still in the mail. It's going to be a bit more work to tuck them up in the bumper than I thought. The bumper support is right there.. The plan is to still go for it. I'd go up into the bumper maybe 3/4".

Heart this car.

I took off today crossing my fingers that I would be able to get on a lift at my buddy's garage and do my exhaust. They were pretty busy so I gotta wait till monday.. For whatever reason I decided to start on the engine wire tuck in 30*/feels like 15* weather. I'm using a 95 S1L67 harness to chop up. There's a few differences like the coolant temp sensors, TPS, knock sensor circuit, etc. but it's not too bad. The plan is to run the TPS/MAF/IAC wiring under the TB, meet it up with the relocated coolant temp sensor, run through the injectors behind the rail, pic up the O2 and Alt back there and the wiring that goes to the oil pressure sensor/VSS/T2V solenoid/knock sensor, then head to the firewall. I'm not quite sure how I want to run the front bank injectors. I've seen people use a small hard line before running the injector wiring through and over the plenum. Here's the bigger part of the tuck.. I'm going to relocate the coil pack behind the lower passenger side radiator and run all the rest of the wiring under or along the lower part of the passenger side unibody rail. The rear spark plug wiring will be apart of this too. So you wont be able to see any coil packs or spark plug wires, there's going to be no huge ugly harness running across the front of the engine, and minimal visable wiring everywhere else. Given how I couldn't feel my fingers most of the time, I'm not sure when the next time I'll work on this is. It's definitely an above freezing job. It is progress though..

I'm a fan of Nissan so I see nothing wrong with this.

Holy crap! Glad you and your girl are ok.

^^ Lol. I don't blame ya. You might want to contact Ryan at Sinster Performance (gmtuners.com) to double check there's nothing more you can do. That dude is the man and the reason I can do my own tuning. @ Ghost, I wish I was heading out to Cali soon.. I miss that place. I don't have anything on the horizon but I never really know where I'm going to be till two weeks or so before it happens.

Thanks a lot man. I just try to do stuff the best I can so I don't have any regrets later. It doesn't work all the time but I've been getting better at it. I actually have OBD1.5. The baud rate is between OBD1 and OBDII, I have OBDII codes, OBDII port, but I think the main difference between your pcm and mine is I still have a removable memcal (with eprom). I remember coming across this with the 94/95 W-body guys before and they did not have a removeable memcal.

Those are what I'm going with. I looked through 100s of tips. Oval is the way to go on a low and wide bubble butt car. I'll get a sound clip with it's done. Hopefully it's not super loud with the cutout closed.

The transmissons have the L (longitudinal) designation. So it looks like RWD.

Most of my exhaust stuff is ordered. 3" cutout 3" and 2.5" mandrel bends Borla XS muffler 3" enter two 2.5" exit Stainless hooks for the donut hangers in the middle Magnaflow cat Everything but the cat is 302 stainless. The cat is 409. Stuff I already had: 3" flex section 3" v-band 2 O2 bungs I need to measure the flex section, cutout and cat when I finally get back to Philly (been gone since the 26th) to determine if I can fit a resonator in there too. As for the tips.. I'm leaning toward these: Cutting the bumper like this: So that you can't see the tips from the side like this: It'll be more like this: Here's a pic of my rear for reference:

I love the headers and x2 on the cool story of the superchager.

I like how low it is but it looks like they cheated by using a smaller diameter tire. Those wheels are wayy too skinny for that much stretch and that large of a car. I don't mind a little (and i do mean little) stretch but it could really use a lot more meat out back at least. The style of the wheels is kinda meh for that car too. Summary: the stance is correct if it were a smaller car.

Hahaha. Too good.

NICE job on the Beretta. It's nice to see a Beretta owner with good taste.

People polish aluminum different ways buy what I do is start with either 180 or 220 and work my way up 320-400-500-600-800-1000-1200-1500 hand sanding. Then I use a polishing compound with a polishing wheel. For the tight radius spots, I use a dremel on low speed with a plain shank and sections of directionally wrapped/taped sandpaper. I work my way up in grit the same way and use a small section of cotton shirt with polishing compound. Polishing takes forever and there's no real short cut to it.

Sweet! Thanks guys!

Wow. Awesome story. Dad of the year award for sure. True love for a car is a rare thing. Everyone will tell you that they have it but actions speak louder.. I've more or less had a 95 Bonneville in my life for almost 17 years.. with 9 years actually owning one myself.

haha.