Few new toys for little red:)

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Was messing with the car today.
Stuff that is not pictured: red floor mats, short red antenna instead of longer black one. Third brake intelligent light flasher.
Pictured: red rubberized rim guards. I'm afraid of curb rush when my fiance starts driving it, plus in looks nice. I added left overs on back exhaust diffuser, so it now has red horizontal nice.
Second is Red short ram intake by Sila concepts.
Magneti Marelli piggy back was installed last week. BTW stck ECU is also Magneti Marelli.
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So it may look "cute" but is sounds and drives mean
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At this point is should be slightly more than stock Abarth (160 hp), and 183 torque. Stock Abarth is 170 tq.
 
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Originally Posted By: Donald
Looks nice. Do you have any kids?

Nope and not planing earlier than 2-3 years.

Originally Posted By: JHZR2
Warm air intake, eh?

Kinda, I don't want to suck water, and air will be heated by turbo anyway.
I may add hood scoop later, right above intake.
Originally Posted By: LT4 Vette
Looks good. I thought you bought the car for her ?

We won't need any second car soon,bimmer in my sig is half owned by me and my Father.
If I'll need second car I can use Frontier truck that sits in garage.
I work remotely, so I don't really need to drive
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That does sound nice! However, I prefer the rumble of the Burb's V8 with a Gibson Performance catback exhaust and Airaid intake tube. But I'm sure yours handles better and is a bit quicker off the line.

Any other mods planned?
 
Originally Posted By: Brons2
sounds like a diesel although I know it isn't

They all make that sound non turbo, turbo and Abarth, like it has timing chain, but they don't. It has something to do with Multi-air technology. It only does in on idle.
 
Originally Posted By: NMBurb02
That does sound nice! However, I prefer the rumble of the Burb's V8 with a Gibson Performance catback exhaust and Airaid intake tube. But I'm sure yours handles better and is a bit quicker off the line.

Any other mods planned?

I like mean sound of big v8s too, but also a "vacuum cleaner" sound, turbo wine and whoosh from blow off valves.
I was thinking of getting red front top brace, short shifter, red leather boot for it(currently black leather), 5000-6000k HIDs, those projectors look white when you look at then but it's yellowish on the road. After driving several years with HIDs in different cars, those suxx, but the beam is really good with nice cut offs to not blind anyone. Hate ricers with stock lights and 8000k HIDs that blind you mile away.
As I mentioned I may get a hood scoop, or maybe even whole carbon hood with scoop pre installed.
May take out back seats, and maybe dual exhaust from Abarth, if someone will sell it cheap. I've seen somewhere bolt on parts to add second muffler+ diffuser, but can't find it anymore. It was under $200 all together, just need to add 1 more hanger and swap couple parts.
Anyway for $1000 you can take 500Turbo to Abarth power level, and basic Abarth is little more than $2k more than Turbo. In my case 4k more. And you have softer suspension for everyday use, you can detune back by pressing button on remote with MM ECU box, and quieter exhaust if you not a fan of loud ones.
Anyway so far I have 3500 miles and I love it.
 
Originally Posted By: MBS500
Originally Posted By: NMBurb02
That does sound nice! However, I prefer the rumble of the Burb's V8 with a Gibson Performance catback exhaust and Airaid intake tube. But I'm sure yours handles better and is a bit quicker off the line.

Any other mods planned?

I like mean sound of big v8s too, but also a "vacuum cleaner" sound, turbo wine and whoosh from blow off valves.
I was thinking of getting red front top brace, short shifter, red leather boot for it(currently black leather), 5000-6000k HIDs, those projectors look white when you look at then but it's yellowish on the road. After driving several years with HIDs in different cars, those suxx, but the beam is really good with nice cut offs to not blind anyone. Hate ricers with stock lights and 8000k HIDs that blind you mile away.
As I mentioned I may get a hood scoop, or maybe even whole carbon hood with scoop pre installed.
May take out back seats, and maybe dual exhaust from Abarth, if someone will sell it cheap. I've seen somewhere bolt on parts to add second muffler+ diffuser, but can't find it anymore. It was under $200 all together, just need to add 1 more hanger and swap couple parts.
Anyway for $1000 you can take 500Turbo to Abarth power level, and basic Abarth is little more than $2k more than Turbo. In my case 4k more. And you have softer suspension for everyday use, you can detune back by pressing button on remote with MM ECU box, and quieter exhaust if you not a fan of loud ones.
Anyway so far I have 3500 miles and I love it.

The waste gate dump is a pretty fun sound, as is the turbo whine. The GP's supercharger makes a nice whine when you mash the throttle, but unfortunately it isn't all that noticeable inside the cabin.

Those mods sounds like a blast. All will be self installed, I assume? After all, turning a wrench is half the fun of modding your ride.
 
Yes, all by myself. Exept ECU box was already tuned. 500madness spent many days and nights to find best tune on dyno. Thats a main reason to mess with it. I can spend time wrenching. Since it my first new car, nothing is broken yet, so it's boring otherwise
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And it will.be a keeper as I feel right now, unless I will need 4 door, in that case-turbo dart. Most mods can migrate there.
 
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Looks good. Only thing I have a problem with is the 3rd brake light flasher. If it's like the one's I've seen on the road that flash rapidly when braking...well it's annoying as [censored] and MAKES me want to rear end the driver.
 
Originally Posted By: GMBoy
Looks good. Only thing I have a problem with is the 3rd brake light flasher. If it's like the one's I've seen on the road that flash rapidly when braking...well it's annoying as [censored] and MAKES me want to rear end the driver.

No, it flashes 3 times quickly then stops an stays on. It is actually microchip board that you connect to your light, you can change settings and it actually learns. If you are in traffic jam and hit brakes often it will not flash every time.
 
Originally Posted By: MBS500
Originally Posted By: GMBoy
Looks good. Only thing I have a problem with is the 3rd brake light flasher. If it's like the one's I've seen on the road that flash rapidly when braking...well it's annoying as [censored] and MAKES me want to rear end the driver.

No, it flashes 3 times quickly then stops an stays on. It is actually microchip board that you connect to your light, you can change settings and it actually learns. If you are in traffic jam and hit brakes often it will not flash every time.


Cool - that is good than. The one I saw had a strobe light effect the entire time the brakes were on, LOL - drove me nuts.
 
Originally Posted By: MBS500
Added couple big chinese(which came out to be pretty good quality) LEDs as DRL lights today.
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THAT is a nice touch!
 
Replaced Sila intake with Injen intake, that utilizes ram air.
Like it much more.
Little LEDs are gone from grill openings, I will mount them inside as additional map lights.
DRLs now have white (about 5000k) LEDs, had to install ceramic resistors, in order to get rid of error msg. They heat up, and if you touch them you will get a burn, hope they will not melt anything inside drl housing.
Little red has 5000k trouble free hard miles. Except one of the tpms sensors is glitching, it does not connect at first when you start, but then after couple minutes it connects and error msg is gone and it shows pressure in that tire. Will have studio take a look at that.
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Today it got lowering springs, so no stink bug look in the back anymore. Back dropped 1.3 inch, front 1 inch. Looks even now.
Also got new downpipe, sounds even more mean now.
 
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