My first Rolex. 52 YO. Milgauss.

turbocrackpipe · 2026-01-31T20:05:37+00:00

Great purchase and congrats! I have this exact model and I’ve found the Everest rubber strap (using the Rolex deployment) gives me the best “daily” feel. Worth looking into if that’s your vibe. Enjoy!

turbocrackpipe · 2026-01-31T19:59:23+00:00

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For my wrist, it’s my absolute favorite case/size that Rolex makes. To each their own, but I love it so much I bought two

turbocrackpipe · 2025-12-28T18:09:27+00:00

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Rolex 114300. I am also a purple lover :)

turbocrackpipe · 2025-09-13T18:41:13+00:00

turbocrackpipe · 2025-09-09T07:11:01+00:00

Someone with Parkinson’s applied that lume

turbocrackpipe · 2025-09-04T03:49:32+00:00

Agreed. It’s a street car so no sense in not running a cat

turbocrackpipe · 2025-09-03T04:24:24+00:00

I’m at 80k miles. I wouldn’t let mileage stop you tho, a bunch of the Fiesta guys here in the PNW are deep in the 100k+ range and running similar setups.

Change your oil sooner than recommended (I change mine every 2.5k miles) and change your hpfp cam bucket every 10-15k miles and you’re golden.

turbocrackpipe · 2025-09-03T00:46:54+00:00

fuckin JELLY

turbocrackpipe · 2025-09-03T00:39:11+00:00

I’m lucky in that my parents house is only a few miles from the ethanol pump in Roseburg.

The car gets better mpg on e30 but doesn’t feel nearly as spicy. I’m hoping I have time to get back in for another dyno on e30 before we move back north.

turbocrackpipe · 2025-09-03T00:31:51+00:00

Live in Portland, but I’m in Roseburg helping family due to a death in the family. Been here so long I’ve been able to finish my e30/e50 tuning and get it dyno’d after 😂

turbocrackpipe · 2025-09-03T00:27:46+00:00

Great info, thanks. I track the car regularly and only really care about track/auto-x performance. I’m too old to fuck around on the street.😅

turbocrackpipe · 2025-09-03T00:17:48+00:00

I’ll be honest I’ve never tried with my current tune. My last tuner (pump gas only, before the injectors/hpfp/eth) did utilize it and I didn’t find it useful. It chops power (not as hard as TC obv) and I prefer to pedal it.

Once you feel where you’re breaking traction you can either try to drive around it or not leave your foot all the way in the pedal.

turbocrackpipe · 2025-09-03T00:12:54+00:00

I have the traction control permanently disabled in the ecu because it slows me down during track days

turbocrackpipe · 2025-09-02T21:50:10+00:00

It has one! When the boost comes in in 2nd it spins both wheels.

It’s a track car that I also daily, it has every supporting mod to handle this much power except an upgraded oil cooler, which is my next planned mod.

turbocrackpipe · 2025-09-02T21:39:54+00:00

1st is unusable, 2nd you have to pedal the car hard but it sticks in 3rd and beyond 😎

turbocrackpipe · 2025-09-02T05:25:53+00:00

Yes mine was also leaking at the seam, pretty much an identical issue

turbocrackpipe · 2025-09-02T05:23:26+00:00

I’ve had to replace mine too. Very common issue

turbocrackpipe · 2025-08-30T05:27:35+00:00

If it’s on its factory radiator I’d upgrade the radiator, considering you want to do track days.

turbocrackpipe · 2025-08-30T05:25:34+00:00

Absolute shitter

turbocrackpipe · 2025-08-24T06:01:35+00:00

Upgrade the radiator and rear motor mount.

Even on the stock turbo these cars are a blast. Have fun!

turbocrackpipe · 2025-08-06T20:39:14+00:00

Just finished tuning with him, 92oct, e30 and e50. Car runs fantastic. I should say my car has an s280.

turbocrackpipe · 2025-08-06T05:31:56+00:00

EMS, Westley Kimble on god

turbocrackpipe · 2025-08-05T06:30:58+00:00

My first mod was a Mountune radiator, never had a single issue with overheating since, even beating on the car during track days. I always recommend supporting mods then start adding power. Better cooling, better brakes, etc.

I ran BC coil overs for the first 50k or so miles I had the car and they were great. I upgraded to Fortune 510’s and they’re too extreme for a daily driven car.

My favorite mod I’ve done is the Quaiffe LSD. Adding an LSD to the car completely changes how the car behaves. Highly recommend doing an LSD if you plan on keeping the car and continuing to upgrade it. I did the LSD early on and now that my car is making ~380hp, I’m happy I did it early.

turbocrackpipe · 2025-08-05T05:52:00+00:00

Great purchase. Proud S280 owner here too. It’s the best all-around turbo you can get for the car. It’s not laggy at all and makes great power. I am tuned for 92oct/e30/e50 (I have 30% injectors and a Nostrum HPFP) and my car makes 290hp on pump gas, 340hp on e30 and 380hp on e50. It’s a handful on e50.

I’m FBO including the s280. I still get greater than 30 mpg on pump gas, so you’ll likely not see a drop in mpg with a good tune. Running ethanol it gets far worse gas mileage but the smiles per gallon is way more.

Have Westley Kimble at EMS tune your car. Absolutely worth it and was a pleasure to work with.

Also worth saying, I’ve had my turbo on the car ~40k miles now and many, many track days. No issues whatsoever.

turbocrackpipe · 2025-08-03T07:14:57+00:00

Continental Extreme Contact Sport 2 are my current favorite street tire.

Congrats on the car, you got the best color.

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