Got my money from uncle sugar!!! Finally ordered the tuner and some sequential tail lights. A little show and a little go. Gears next....woohooo!!

 

awesome! congrats! WHere did you get the tuner from?

 

AM of course! Got 2 day free shipping.

 

get those gear in and installed before you get out here...the guys at taylor barracks can do it but they be leaving soon! i know you dont want to pay economy prices...EURO is still killin the dollar even though my COLA has dropped from 700 a month to 380...bummer.

i break the stang out of jail in april! i cant wait. i didnt drive it all winter because if i wrecked it i would be screwed due to the drag radials and summer tires up front.

 

If you haven't already pick up a CAI. Love how the S197's respond to CAI and tune!

 

Woo-hoo! If you get 4.10 gears, you'll love 'em. I promise! I ordered sequentials for my car, had them on there for 2 days and they stopped working. I took the car to my uncle's to install them on a Saturday, drove it home, they were working fine that night when I showed my dad and brother, the next day (Sunday) I didn't drive the car at all. Drove to work Monday morning, went to show my friends and they weren't working. I sent them back and got a refund.

How do you know how S197's respond to mods? That's something I've always wondered about people who type stuff like that. Is it because you've read that from a lot of places, or because you actually know because you've felt a before and after difference?

Not digging on you or anything, I'm just wondering.

 

Shoulda went with VMP *whistles* but congrats Still waiting on my refunds Lol..

 

Many of us have friends with modded s197s not to mention dyno proven gains, and or gains on the track.

And yes, a JLT Cai and a Tune on a s197 is very nice.

 

+1.

 

I've got an Air Raid cai that's been waiting til I got the tuner. I called a couple of places about the gears today. The stealership wants $780 just to install, another will do it for $400 but no warranty. So I'll keep looking.


Sunshine, did you get the "plug in" sequentials or the "splice in"?

 

I got a whopping $60 back from the Feds. ha ha ha ha.....Cali owes me $1,311, but apparently the State doesn't have any money so who knows when I will get it.

 

Okay. I understand the dyno proven and track gains, but even if you have a friend with a modded S197, it's hard to tell the difference unless you are actually driving the car. I have a friend with an '05 GT, only thing done to it is lowering springs. When I ride with him, the only thing I can tell is that mine pulls a hell of a lot harder and accelerates faster because of the gears.



If you get a good place to do it, don't worry about a warranty. The first dealership I called wanted $700 for an install. The second dealership I went to are the ones who did one hell of a brake job on my '93 Mustang. They wanted $530 for the install. Even though the price was still a little too high, I couldn't find a quote cheaper than $400 anywhere around here and since I had a good experience with that dealership, I decided to pay a little more and go with them. I'm happy I did. 3,000+ miles on my 4.10's, no problems at all, and I love the hell out of them. Makes the car much more fun to drive. You'll love them.

Plug in. I got these:
http://www.americanmuscle.com/cdc-dynamite-sticks.html

Those are made by Stack Racing, not CDC. I'd go with CDC if I decided to get them again.

 

I got the Plug in as well. Mine work great and have not messed up yet. That stinks that yours messed up. Must have been a bad set or something.

I have a SCT tuner and CAI and i love it. Besides the sound i dont know if others would be able to tell the difference unless in a race or something. I can smoke em way better now than when it was stock (well just the one tire lol! ). Any ways i don't care its way more fun with the tune and CAI!

 

I owe this year...so **** uncle sam... I guess I made too much last year even though it was no more than I made the year before... so why the **** do I owe??? I have no clue cause nothing has changed on my end... I guess the gov't like to take from the poor to feed their politicians coke habits.

 

The poor huh. Aren't you a BMW technician? lol.

 

i'm waiting on about $5,500 from the feds and at some point another $1500 from cali.

 

you have the same misconception that 99% of ppl that arent in this industry have...just because the cars I work on are expensinve doesnt mean that I make a lot of $$..

 

I'm sure you make a decent living.

 

well based on what it cost my mom to get an oil change/service for her BMW I'd say someone is making some money.....might not be you, but someone at BMW is.

 

Isn't it like 120 or something for an oil change?