Blackwing Amateur Install Complete!
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Blackwing Amateur Install Complete!
Well, it is done. Took me about an hour. Very, very easy mod to do on your own, even if you don't know what you are doing (assuming you can follow the step-by-step directions) Thunder7, go for it!
I just can't figure out how you guys with all these super mods can get any kind of traction! My 02 Coupe has these mods: 3.42 gears (it's an automatic), Ed Wright Programming, and the Blackwing. That's it -- nothing else! And traction is already a significant issue. The thing just flat out hauls butt and burns tires! I'm through modding -- I just don't need it any faster than this!!
Thank you to the author of the instructions -- jwight and Magnetic 1
Thanks SteveL2, RWhite, C5StockSwap, and FYNL4 for the helpful tips!
:cheers: :cheers: :cheers:
I just can't figure out how you guys with all these super mods can get any kind of traction! My 02 Coupe has these mods: 3.42 gears (it's an automatic), Ed Wright Programming, and the Blackwing. That's it -- nothing else! And traction is already a significant issue. The thing just flat out hauls butt and burns tires! I'm through modding -- I just don't need it any faster than this!!
Thank you to the author of the instructions -- jwight and Magnetic 1
Thanks SteveL2, RWhite, C5StockSwap, and FYNL4 for the helpful tips!
:cheers: :cheers: :cheers:
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Re: Blackwing Amateur Install Complete! (daesoph)
I'm through modding -- I just don't need it any faster than this!!
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Re: Blackwing Amateur Install Complete! (RedHot)
With your rear end gears and initial mods (mod. sickness is incurable, BTW!), traction around town is at best limited to normal accelerator pedal pressure until you get up in the rpm's and even then, you may break loose.
Most of the guys at the strip end up using Drag Radials on the rears. If you drag race the car and want equivalent times others are getting with your mods, DR’s or better is needed.
Most of the guys at the strip end up using Drag Radials on the rears. If you drag race the car and want equivalent times others are getting with your mods, DR’s or better is needed.
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Re: Blackwing Amateur Install Complete! (daesoph)
After our most current mod we all say that's all, until the next "got-to-have" thing comes along. You are hooked - no sense denying it. Congrats on the Blackwing - I certainly enjoy mine on the car.
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Re: Blackwing Amateur Install Complete! (Thunder7)
Ok, ok... I might do a few other little things. Maybe an exhaust dress-up plate or some of those stick on letters. :lol:
The pictures would probably be pretty lame... I'll post photos of doing some wikkid burnout or something. :jester
The pictures would probably be pretty lame... I'll post photos of doing some wikkid burnout or something. :jester
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Re: Blackwing Amateur Install Complete! (daesoph)
Congrats. :thumbs: I'm afraid I'll have to join the others on your comment about not doing any more mods............... :lolg: I've said the same thing, and now I'm considering taking a deep plunge. Go figure. :rolleyes:
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Re: Blackwing Amateur Install Complete! (SteveL2)
Congrats, that's a great mod! But please don't insult us by saying you're done modding. :rofl: Now that you've done this yourself, you'll be thinking what else you can do to get another 10 hp. You've been bitten by the mod bug and there is no known cure.
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Re: Blackwing Amateur Install Complete! (daesoph)
I'm through modding -- I just don't need it any faster than this!!
:cheers: :cheers: :cheers:
:cheers: :cheers: :cheers:
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Re: Blackwing Amateur Install Complete! (daesoph)
And traction is already a significant issue. The thing just flat out hauls butt and burns tires!
After one day of driving, it is noticably quicker, and very easy to break traction with less than full throttle. I'm kinda looking forward to blowing through the EMT runflats and will then get another brand of runflats with better traction (any suggestions here ?).
The way I'm going, the EMTs are not long for this world anyways. :D
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Re: Blackwing Amateur Install Complete! (daesoph)
I just can't figure out how you guys with all these super mods can get any kind of traction! My 02 Coupe has these mods: 3.42 gears (it's an automatic), Ed Wright Programming, and the Blackwing. That's it -- nothing else! And traction is already a significant issue. The thing just flat out hauls butt and burns tires! I'm through modding -- I just don't need it any faster than this!!
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Re: Blackwing Amateur Install Complete! (Scissors)
Yes indeed! I'm probably the only guy alive that was willing to spend $2000 on gears, labor, and reprogramming before I'd spend $250 on the Blackwing...
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