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Here are the pics (sorry theres cutting oil and aluminum slag all over in them and I hadn't washed the car in a couple months)...its either grind down the steel brace (hard) or grind the aluminum fins (easy) ...I used a Dremel 115 bit (Same one people used to use to grind their subframes for toebolts when the subframes were aluminum)...the cut is only about a centimeter high and a centimeter deep on each of the last two fins...If you are a bit more careful than me (not hard) and clear the slag as you go.. you probably will just have to repolish the leading edge of the parts of the fins you cut its really a tiny section so it shouldn't take too long
Thanks so much for posting these pictures, Hashim. That's not much to remove at all. In fact I think one of those fins is already missing on mine since I bought it from Z1 Motorsports heavily discounted since it was already damaged. So I already cut the lower portion of the last fin off before polishing so you can't really tell it was ever there. Did the Bell brace come already powder coated red? Just curious since I may want to have it redone in candy red to match the rest of my undercarriage parts.
Adrian... if you buy it from Z1, then you get it in Z1's particular dark silver. Which is nice, but not what you're looking for. So instead, reach out directly to Arthur Bell and ask for one unpainted.
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Yeah what Roch said! Mine came pre-painted in Red...IIRC correctly it cost more to get it unpainted for some reason and now they only have Red and gold as options but I'm sure Arthur will do it unpainted if you reach out to him directly, he responded to me on here through DMs and on facebook pretty promptly
Adrian... if you buy it from Z1, then you get it in Z1's particular dark silver. Which is nice, but not what you're looking for. So instead, reach out directly to Arthur Bell and ask for one unpainted.
Great idea! Thanks for the suggestion, John. I'll contact Bell Race Works directly and see what they can offer. Unpainted would definitely save me a few $ when I go to get it powder coated. Or even if it comes painted, rather than powder coated, then it will be easier to strip. You can remove traditional paint by bead-blasting, but powder coating either needs to be burned off or chemically stripped, which can get quite expensive.
That sucks, mine just started doing almost the same thing about two weeks ago apparently its a common problem (that I never heard about before)...have you tried cleaning the resistors on the senders?... this guy posted a couple of great videos on fixing the problem:
It seems like a quick fix, I'm hoping to have a few minutes to try it this weekend...I was looking at pricing out the Senders/pump....its seems silly but its almost the same price to get the sender as a whole pump/sender for the passenger side and the drivers side sender is a similar price as well.
Thanks for sharing - saved to my YouTube playlist for the G
Havent been on the forum in a while, but heres a little update. Recently installed the stillen gen3 ultra long tube intake and installed the front oem lip along with the side and front splitters from ez splitters couple days ago. Motordyne shockwave exhaust should arrive soon
Havent been on the forum in a while, but heres a little update. Recently installed the stillen gen3 ultra long tube intake and installed the front oem lip along with the side and front splitters from ez splitters couple days ago. Motordyne shockwave exhaust should arrive soon
Looks good. Making me think about adding them to my sedan as well.
Havent been on the forum in a while, but heres a little update. Recently installed the stillen gen3 ultra long tube intake and installed the front oem lip along with the side and front splitters from ez splitters couple days ago. Motordyne shockwave exhaust should arrive soon
I have an aluminum composite splitter someone made me on my car now, how do you like the quality of their side splitters? I feel like they’re easier to deal with if they brake than full skirts I’d like to get a set. Also how do they install? I didn’t my front splitter with lag bolts and self tapping screws
Getting the trunk lip done today. Came as a black “carbon fiber” finish so I tried wrapping it with satin white pearl vinyl. Looks good from the photo, but in person it wasn’t quite right.
Got it back off the car and tried hitting it with light coats of white satin paint and clear.
The bearing/tire noise issue is a zombie and won’t die. Went to lunch today and hit 70 for the first time in a while and the noise and vibration is much worse at that speed. Going to take it back again on Wed. Wish me luck.
05-31-2019, 03:49 PM
