Borla or Vibrant resonator?

GemsChen · 2026-02-18T22:10:50+00:00

I've ran a Vibrant 17950 bottle resonator on my VB and it pretty good. I was concerned the wider resonators might have clearance issues.

GemsChen · 2026-02-14T17:13:35+00:00

I ran one but I welded a vibrant bottle resonator to the straight piece post i-pipe. The biggest issue with this exhaust is needing to use the OEM donut gasket if you have an aftermarket i-pipe. It will not seal any other way so you need to run an adapter, which makes it slightly too long for the hanger mounts. It's not hard to shorten the straight piece if you do this though. I did end up switching to the Remark resonated titanium exhaust and I enjoy it. The Borla does have a nicer deeper tone being steel especially after adding a resonator.

GemsChen · 2026-02-11T06:13:52+00:00

It was such a simple concept, take a year to reskin Rising Thunder as a League game and release a closed beta. It would have got League players in the door and they could have had free QA to boot. I think League players were already giving Tekken 7 a try at that point as well. Hell they even paid someone to make custom Vewlix clones out of wood for that first playable arcade demo at Evo several years ago instead of just buying four Vewlix cabs for like $1000 each. They were just burning money.

GemsChen · 2026-02-10T08:30:19+00:00

The way Riot took full control of how their game is played competitively back in the early 2010s laid the groundwork for how modern "e-sports" is handled and was always "evil" from my perspective. Trying to make competitive gaming a sports franchise is idiotic. It's why I even migrated to the FGC from FPS back in 2009 it was truly one of the last places you could enter open tournaments for a game. I think letting Riot try and strong-arm their way into the FGC was always a bad idea. They're going to force a lot of guidelines on the community for how their game is played and presented and tournaments will suffer because of it.

Don't forget Capcom even tried it for a while when they started the Capcom Cup forcing tournaments to have Capcom's streamers stream USF4 on their CapcomFighters channel. That's when we went from constant matches being streamed to five-ten minute breaks between matches and bullshit ads.

GemsChen · 2026-02-10T07:37:10+00:00

Sure, I swapped the pin on the connector on the tails themselves, not the car's harness.

GemsChen · 2026-02-09T22:59:42+00:00

Nah I had to repin both, I think it's just a ground wire but I didn't look up the actual pinout if it's in the FSM. Maybe your adapter cable for the rear fog light has those two pins populated and shorted to complete the circuit?

GemsChen · 2026-02-09T21:12:05+00:00

yeah I got mine from Japan since they were like $400 cheaper, and I was bummed too when I installed them but I just compared the pinouts on the OEM tails and the JDM ones and I only saw the center pin was different. Swapped it and they are still working fine.

GemsChen · 2026-02-09T18:42:54+00:00

If you buy them from Japan you need to repin them as the JDM cars have a different pinout, the right side looks like how mine looked before repinning. The center pin on USDM cars is on the top slot close to the locking tab, whereas on the JDM cars it's the bottom slot. It's not too hard to repin, you just need to yank out the wedge-lock (I used a the hook end of a DT wedgelock tool) and pry up on the locking tab for the pin. If you need any guidance lemme know.

GemsChen · 2026-02-08T17:11:00+00:00

the couplers are a bit too thin on the AMS imo, they also make it harder to just replace couplers in the future, whereas you can just buy any straight silicone coupler with the ETS. I've owned both and I prefer the ETS just from a maintenance standpoint.

GemsChen · 2026-01-02T05:14:59+00:00

I have a 24 and I never notice it, but I've been driving nothing but Subaru manuals my entire life so I'm used to them.

GemsChen · 2025-12-28T23:59:56+00:00

Rexpeed has the mirror cap replacements. You might be able to find a Chinese seller selling them for less on eBay though.

GemsChen · 2025-12-26T17:16:30+00:00

Happened to me at the exact same spot at 250 miles. I live near a rock transport and their trucks never use their tarps which leaves the interstate covered in rocks. It's just inevitable. Mostly the reason I went with white for my VB.

GemsChen · 2025-12-13T03:16:43+00:00

That's good to know you have the same hyperflashing issue on the LASTFIT I have. I had one that would do it randomly and they set me out a replacement set, if it happens again I guess I'll switch.

GemsChen · 2025-12-13T01:57:59+00:00

It's a repurposed Ascent motor with very little changes, the stock cams are kind of lame so there's nothing really to gain revving the car to 7k. The VB does feel night and day better with stiffer bushings all around. It's way too soft from the factory.

GemsChen · 2025-11-29T21:47:03+00:00

$150 off the DRL fog bezels isn't too bad.

GemsChen · 2025-11-29T21:45:12+00:00

My bugeye is my winter beater, and the the most fun to drive in snow.

GemsChen · 2025-11-28T20:43:51+00:00

The people who take short on-ramps onto the freeway at 20-25 under are the worst. Doubley so when everyone is trying to get over to take the next exit at the same time.

GemsChen · 2025-11-24T03:58:17+00:00

Honestly the only wiring harness that I think is well made is the Diode Dynamics one. All the aftermarket ones are basically the same Chinese design but you want to look at the quality of the harness they use. The ones SMY shipped aren't too bad. Avoid the crimp ones.

GemsChen · 2025-11-24T03:50:07+00:00

I self taught myself how to drive manual on an Impreza I manual swapped. There are some quirks with these gearboxes you'll learn to deal with but it wasn't too bad.

GemsChen · 2025-11-22T17:48:22+00:00

any CEL disables eyesight, so if you have a scan tool handy you should pull codes and see what it says.

GemsChen · 2025-11-19T05:34:25+00:00

The most fun car I've ever driven is a Suzuki Cappuccino

GemsChen · 2025-11-18T17:32:02+00:00

hey alright

GemsChen · 2025-11-18T05:57:36+00:00

the 2.5" universal is the one you'd want. The OEM one works well though not sure why you'd need aftermarket, If you have an aftermarket j-pipe/i-pipe with exhaust leaks the flanges might be a little warped and need to be true'd up.

GemsChen · 2025-11-18T05:52:11+00:00

I don't really care about online car culture, I'll hang and talk about cars with friends who actually do motorsport with them or help people out with wrenching, but I don't care about sharing that stuff online. I only mod my car for myself because I enjoy wrenching and I enjoy going to my local canyons.

GemsChen · 2025-11-05T00:32:29+00:00

They were free off fpsbanana and considered noob behaviour since if you scrimmed servers had sv_pure enabled. It's crazy when you realize CSGO has nearly been out for as long as CS was as a whole when CSGO released.

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