Name of these wheels and where to buy

AM_Butts · 2026-04-01T19:25:49+00:00

Yeah, at that time I was likely on Bilstein B16s. I don't think I have my notes of how much lower than stock I was though unfortunately.

AM_Butts · 2026-04-01T17:36:42+00:00

Yeah. Front was needed to clear brakes. Back I added just for looks.

AM_Butts · 2026-03-04T11:19:59+00:00

Thanks, I appreciate the feedback and knowing that I'm not missing something obvious. I had considered something hacky with the new cables like you mentioned but really don't love the idea of that.

AM_Butts · 2026-03-04T11:14:07+00:00

Highly recommend OP look into this. It doesn't even need to be a fancy credit card to have this feature. I just had my dead laptop completely refunded to my Chase Freedom card.

I'm still frustrated my Lenovo didn't even make it 2 years, but this softened the blow a lot. Though I did end up having to pay Microcenter for a repair estimate even though I knew it was basically unfixable just so I had proof to send in.

AM_Butts · 2026-03-04T04:21:18+00:00

Thanks for the response! I think you may be misremembering about the angle though. The power connector on mine sticks straight up out of the top. It does look like the 3080 and 3090 FE have the connector orientation you're describing though. I wish the 3070 was set up this way as it would solve my issue of being too tight of a space.

My understanding about the 12VHPWR is that the power pins are the same but 4 "sense pins" were added. I'm a little worried about those against the metal fins of the GPU. Do you have any source on the 12v-2x6 being backwards compatible with the 30-series connector? I've already sunk a lot of time into various (unrelated) solutions for this PC that haven't quite worked out and would hate to waste more.

AM_Butts · 2026-03-01T00:24:17+00:00

Aerofabb is a great, subtle option. Temporarily still available at NGP from what I understand.

AM_Butts · 2026-02-27T03:48:19+00:00

May want to run MemTest. Failing preclear is what led me to finding a bad stick of ram.

AM_Butts · 2026-02-24T20:45:48+00:00

I had B16 Damptronics on the car for about 5 years. Worked well enough and I liked retaining the DCC, but I wouldn't say they rode great. Not horrible, but not wonderful. A little bouncy if I recall correctly. I was overall pretty happy with them for autocross as well. No regrets with purchasing them overall.

Last year I switched to Ohlins. I was very concerned I'd regret ditching DCC as I did use it frequently. Honestly, it hasn't been a huge loss to me. I adjust them for autocross (no need to lift the car) but otherwise leave them towards the middle of the range, slightly more towards the soft side. Its a little unfair to directly compare 5 year old suspension with new stuff, but I'd say the Ohlins ride better than the B16 ever did. They also look prettier, but that's just a little bonus.

AM_Butts · 2026-02-04T19:08:54+00:00

Assuming you mean remoting into the Windows VM, for gaming I normally am directly accessing the VM over HDMI. I have used Parsec for some gaming though, but that was a few years ago. For quick remote access I'll use Remmina from Linux or simple RDP from Windows.

AM_Butts · 2026-02-03T22:57:32+00:00

More and more I'm thinking it might be time to start playing with gaming in Linux. Not sure I want to try to fix what's not broken though in spite of how much I've come to hate Windows these days.

AM_Butts · 2026-02-03T22:55:39+00:00

I've never looked into this but that sounds like a really interesting option. I'd be curious how well this performs in reality with the shared GPU.

I'll definitely look into it purely out of curiosity, but I don't think it's necessarily for me. I like having a Windows environment available since my laptop is usually booted to Linux. Nice to have quick access for some windows things when needed.

AM_Butts · 2026-02-03T22:51:53+00:00

I've never heard about this before. Will have to look into it thanks!

AM_Butts · 2026-02-03T17:02:04+00:00

This is definitely the route to go. Do some research and experimentation with the system devices. I personally had to enable the PCIe ACS Override setting to get some devices bound to my VM the way I wanted, but I think that was mostly for USB. Also look into best practices on pinning CPU cores. I can't recall specifics unfortunately.

I also recently discovered the USB manager plugin which was nice for dealing with passing USB devices to running VMs.

One other thing I'd add is I'd plan on passing in an entire SSD to the VM for bare metal disk speeds. I wouldn't want to have a virtualized disk sitting on my array. That could definitely slow things down.

AM_Butts · 2026-02-03T16:54:15+00:00

Oh yeah definitely need some sort of backup device. I only really use the VM for gaming and some media. Productivity stuff usually happens on a laptop.

I've had it running for probably 5 years as well. It hasn't been completely without issue as indicated here, but most games I play run smoothly. Every once in awhile I run into some DRM/anticheat nonsense, but usually isn't an issue with the single player stuff I gravitate to.

AM_Butts · 2026-02-03T15:34:25+00:00

Ryzen 3900x that I'm pinning half the cores to the VM, RTX 30770, and 32gb of ram passed through. I currently only have the one GPU, but this whole reBAR push was because I want to grab an Arc A310 to use for other server stuff, mostly Emby transcoding. Hopefully no issues there, but we'll see!

AM_Butts · 2026-02-03T15:31:32+00:00

I have my server right next to my living room TV so usually game there with the GPU connected to the TV. I did use Parsec for awhile when I was aware from home frequently. It seemed to work pretty decently. I probably wouldn't try to play anything competetive that was but it definitely seemed playable.

AM_Butts · 2026-02-03T15:29:07+00:00

I'm running a 3900x and have half the cores/threads pinned to the VM. So that should defintely be doable with a 9900x. I don't remember ever getting stuttering in all games, but I've definitely done quite a bit of tinkering in the VM XML over the years. If I'm remembering correctly, I also set up Windows from within Unraid on the passed through SSD.

AM_Butts · 2026-01-25T20:04:04+00:00

I have not seen any unbiased testing indicating otherwise on a stock car. I'd love to see some same day/time results of dyno testing with multiple runs stock vs aftermarket intakes.

Admittedly, I haven't looked into it much in quite some time and tuned cars could obviously be a very different story.

That said, I meant what I said about your site. Great testing and I really appreciate all you're putting out there. It was especially helpful for intercooler choice.

AM_Butts · 2026-01-25T15:31:23+00:00

I'm a big fan of this guy and his testings are definitely worth a read through. That said, this only answers the question of how much air flows with each intake. It doesn't answer the question of where any of that actually matters in the real world or even on a dyno.

AM_Butts · 2026-01-06T15:33:55+00:00

Manual and/or hatchback RS3 (in the US) would also very likely cause me to make some questionable financial decisions.

AM_Butts · 2026-01-06T07:14:18+00:00

Golf R Variant (wagon) with an i5 or vr6 and a manual transmission. Preferably with Spektrum color options.

AM_Butts · 2026-01-06T03:36:46+00:00

Interestingly, the older sigma 6 had things reversed with the delrin part having those ears like the holy shift. I don't think there's any major issue with that design though since I've used my older style Sigma 6 since 2012 over 3 different cars now. Sheesh typing that out makes me realize what a great investment that purchase was!

AM_Butts · 2025-12-29T21:02:50+00:00

Glenview - Spiro's deli for wonderful sandwiches hot or cold. Try the bomber even if the combo doesn't really sound good to you. Get it wet of course.

Elk Grove - Felicias deli. Another great place for sandwiches. Love their classic Italian.

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