TheMarkV

As a student, I don’t have the most money to drop on something like coilovers (though they’re probably my best option all in). I’m getting a bit of mod fever to change the looks of my car and I’m torn between lowering it, or keeping the stock ride height and spacing the wheels. I’m either going to get some lowering springs on the stock shocks until they go and replace them too, or get spacers with stock suspension until I need to replace the shocks with upgraded ones. Either way, the cost is very similar.

As the name suggests, I just did the K&N drop in filter with ram scoops and cut out the charcoal filter in the air box. I wanted to keep a closed box system and wanted to get a couple of ram air scoops, so in lieu of a $500 price tag, I went with the K&N and modded the air box. (Being an N52, my engine appreciates little things like this: an N54 owner probably wouldn’t notice a difference whatsoever.)

Just did my own version of the golf tee mod last week, and it’s much better than I would have expected. Really, anyone with a stock exhaust should do this to make it the sound what it was always supposed to be, and it only takes two zip ties. I didn’t even disconnect the vacuum hose 😂 I still will be getting either a cat back or headers sometime in the future, but this is a good holdover.

I definitely don’t have the funds for this at the moment, but does anyone here have any experience with these or know if they would be a quality supercharger kit? The last thing I’d want to do is shoot myself in the foot in reliability. I’d rather do it right so I can go fast fast for as long as possible.