What have you done to your KK lately

Jeepin_it_real · **Posted:** Sun Jul 26, 2009 12:55 am

installed my new super 44 by flowmaster... and my MBRP exhaust tip... cut off the resonator too... sounds RIDICULOUS... i love it! :twisted:

Diggerfreek · **Posted:** Sun Jul 26, 2009 1:02 am

have a sound clip? I have always thought about doing that

Jeepin_it_real · **Posted:** Sun Jul 26, 2009 1:05 am

not yet digger... will soon... just got it done today... camera is broken but i'm going to borrow a friends... its louder than yours and sounds alot more throaty.. ( at least from wat i can tell on your clip)

Diggerfreek · **Posted:** Sun Jul 26, 2009 1:06 am

oh now I just might have to do some cutting... what did you do about the hanger?

Jeepin_it_real · **Posted:** Sun Jul 26, 2009 1:08 am

cut the existing bracket off and welding each side of it to the original location ... worked out nicely.. i welded directly onto the pipe. well not me personally but i told the nice guy at meineke exactly what i wanted and he did it haha

Jeepin_it_real · **Posted:** Sun Jul 26, 2009 1:09 am

i will post pictures and clips when i can... next step now is to finally install t he jet chip that's been sitting in my trunk ;-)

Diggerfreek · **Posted:** Sun Jul 26, 2009 1:18 am

Sweet

so how about getting some of those clear side markers over here :wink:

Jeepin_it_real · **Posted:** Sun Jul 26, 2009 1:20 am

haha... pm me and i'll send you some info tomorrow on who to talk to...

Jeepin_it_real · **Posted:** Sun Jul 26, 2009 12:08 pm

just installed the jet stage II module... can't wait to try it out... gunna wait til i finish this tank of gas and fill up with 93 octane so i could give some better readings

Diggerfreek · **Posted:** Sun Jul 26, 2009 12:13 pm

Well the just means you need to burn through this tank then :twisted:

Diggerfreek · **Posted:** Sun Jul 26, 2009 12:13 pm

getting ready to go wash it

Jeepin_it_real · **Posted:** Sun Jul 26, 2009 12:41 pm

haha yes it does... and that is exactly what i planned on doing... next step: install my LOST KK sticker

Diggerfreek · **Posted:** Sun Jul 26, 2009 1:19 pm

Jeepin_it_real wrote:

haha yes it does... and that is exactly what i planned on doing... next step: install my LOST KK sticker

did you get a white or black one?

Jeepin_it_real · **Posted:** Sun Jul 26, 2009 2:04 pm

haha i got the black one... only to match my car.... it looks real good...

rickm · **Posted:** Sun Jul 26, 2009 2:52 pm

Rick K wrote:

I got new license plates!

nice plates. I'd love to do the same, but here in CA that adds $35 per year to the cost of registration.

Our guvernator has balanced the budget with no new taxes... but he didn't mention that he was going to raise the price of vehicle registration.

I just got mine in the mail for my 08 KK, it was $313. My daughter's 09 Scion XB was about the same price, over $300

I may have to take out a loan to register vehicles this year.

rickm · **Posted:** Sun Jul 26, 2009 3:23 pm

I also put in a new set of plugs like someone else posted. However, unlike them, this was not the easiest set of plugs I've ever installed.

I installed a set of the controversial E3's. Wanted to see what all the controversy was about first hand.

I can't remember the last set of spark plugs I've changed. My wife says it's been at least 20 years.

Diggerfreek · **Posted:** Sun Jul 26, 2009 4:05 pm

I think the factory used an impact to put them in :shock:

Jeepin_it_real · **Posted:** Sun Jul 26, 2009 5:11 pm

rickm... tell me how the plugs go... that'll most likely be my next engine related step...

ups4 · **Posted:** Sun Jul 26, 2009 6:50 pm

rickm wrote:

I also put in a new set of plugs like someone else posted. However, unlike them, this was not the easiest set of plugs I've ever installed.

Please tell us what problems you had, Rick.

It would be beneficial to those thinking about doing the same thing.

I found it pretty straight forward, but I had the experience of having done my KJ's a while back, so maybe that helped some.

Paul

Edit: Never mind :oops:

I just saw your post over in the "Spark Plug" thread.

rickm · **Posted:** Sun Jul 26, 2009 7:02 pm

If you are looking at the front of the car, the plug toward the front left was difficult to get to. First, I had to take the air filter top off and fold it back. Then there was no way to get a socket down in there without bending that large pipe coming out of the A/C compressor. I didn't have to bend it too far, but I did have to bend it a little bit to get a socket down to the plug.

Other than that, it was fairly easy, except like Digger said, someone must have used an impact wrench or something to put those things in with at the factory. Someone posted that they were supposed to be torqued to 20 ft lbs.... that was a heck of a lot more than 20 ft lbs of torque.

Also, the little 10 mm nuts... I would broke them loose with a socket wrench, then tried to use my fingers to take them off. The all would come almost all the way off, then I'd have to use a socket wrench to get them up past the last few threads.

Other than that, it was fairly simply, no big deal.

The engine does seem to start a lot faster, and it does idle a LOT smoother. The other plugs were fairly clean, but the center electrode on a couple of them had started wearing at an angle, it wasn't smooth and flat anymore.

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