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Quote: Originally Posted by plato I hope you got a great deal on your new sweet ride. I know I did. I paid less than 10K for mine a month ago and its a year old. I'm not worried about warrenty work since it's a clone of three other GM cars. In fact if I ever need to take it in, I could take it to the Cadillac dealer that took over the Saturn dealerships inventory I bought my car from. I also talked to friend of the family who is a...

I realize unsprung weight has a fairly significant impact on many factors in a car but honestly I think you could cut the weight of your wheels and brakes in half and still not be able to tell much if any difference in performance, fuel economy or acceleration. Unsprung weight reduction is one of those final details people building up high performance vehicles should be considering... not somebody with an otherwise stock vehicle. You might as...

I researched extensively and went with Nokian WRG2 tires ... highly rated performance winter tire.

Quote: Originally Posted by stheyken I have an 07 Aura. The blower motor is bad. I can't seem to find any instructions on how to remove it. Please help!!!!! Thanks, Sean Not sure, but normally you just pop the blovebox out of the way and drop the blower down from the pass side footwell. I need to stick my head under there and see, but it should be pretty straightforward.

Quote: Originally Posted by Threxx I realize unsprung weight has a fairly significant impact on many factors in a car but honestly I think you could cut the weight of your wheels and brakes in half and still not be able to tell much if any difference in performance, fuel economy or acceleration. Unsprung weight reduction is one of those final details people building up high performance vehicles should be considering... not somebody with an...

thanks because you see i live in belize city central america and we get sirius here but they said that the xm antenna would not give you good signal like the sirius antenna. thanks

I just had some weighed for shipping. 26.6 pounds with packing and box. Net weight around 25.5 - 26.0 pounds.

Quote: Originally Posted by Askspot I will be attempting to replace my factory stereo with a Kenwood Excelon+ISO mount digital DSP controller. I will probably be posting pictures. It is weather depending though. I have a propane heater in my garage, however if it doesn't get above 15 degrees....idk lol Ok the weather looks good. It will be 25 degrees so I'll be able to get in the garage. So possibly looks for pictures coming soon.

It is a stupid design. I have changed my bulbs in the front a few times here and you basically have to take the entire headlight assembly out. To do that you have to remove a whole bunch of splash guards, and loosen the bumper so it can come down then you can get at the bolts that hold the light in and take it all out. Kind of a pain.

If anyone has access to the rims please weigh them. There are few ways to reduce weight on such a heavy car. I'm not just looking for acceleration, I'm looking for preservation of tranny life, cornering, fuel economy etc. So outside of reducing exhaust weight, rotor weight through use of floating brembo rotors, rim weight might help. My guess is that the stock rims are pretty lightweight but i don't know for sure.