Apr 14
Well I got my tuner shipped, ordered, and installed. As I stated before, I am buying everything through American Muscle because of their great service, and as part of buying the tuner, I got a free custom tune programmed into the tuner for the exact engine parts that I have installed so far. The purpose behind the tune was to have my Mustang run more efficiently with the original stock parts and to fully utilize the after-market parts I have installed so far.
With everything installed so far, I have noticed about a 2 to 4 MPG increase on the road. I haven’t done an extensive long road trip yet to be able to determine how much extra Im getting out of the gas tank, but that trip will come soon. I know that before I got everything installed, I could get anywhere from 310 to 330 miles on the tank for interstate driving. So I look forward to finding out the true benefit’s of working on my car once I have an opportunity to make that trip.
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Apr 03
I got the next phase of working on my car complete. I got a new BBK Throttle Body and a Steeda Throttle Body Spacer. The spacer pushes the throttle body out about an inch from the actual engine. There is a swirl design inside the spacer that helps promote airflow by breaking the surface tension of the incoming air. The new throttle body itself helps bring better and increased airflow into the engine for the purpose of adding more horsepower to the engine.
The two of these pieces together took a little over an hour to install because of the components and process involved. After I installed both pieces, I took her out for a drive again and noticed even more change. Claire, my Mustang, sounded a little louder on top of the CAI from before, and she had a slightly heavier gas peddle. I noticed of bit of the extra power as well. Working on my Mustang is turning out to be a really fun experience, and I can see it almost becoming an addiction lol.
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Mar 23
I just received my Cold Air Intake for my Mustang that I ordered a few days from American Muscle(great website and service btw). I ordered the BBK brand CAI for two reasons, one it was technically the cheapest by about $20 at the time of ordering and BBK also has a video on their website for installing the CAI on my 2005 series Mustang. Personally, I learn best through watching others versus reading or hearing, so the video installation series they have is great. Following the video, it took me no more then 30 minutes to install the BBK CAI. After installing the CAI my Mustang sounded a little bit louder, which is awesome.
I also took her for a drive for about 20 minutes just to make sure no warning lights would show up in my HUD. Thankfully none did and I actually noticed something different on the HUD. At first it was making me worry, but I later realized it was a benefit of the CAI. The meter that was different was the temperature meter. It was about 5 to 10 percent lower then normal. After a little while I realized that the CAI was actually cooling the engine itself. This was one thing that I did not expect out of the CAI. I got it because I wanted better air to be coming into the engine and for an ever-so-slightly better gas milage.
So the first step to working on my Mustang is done and it was really fun to be working on my baby.
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Apr 28
Well its been a long time since I have posted so I thought I would do some updates. Two months ago, I bought the new Macbook Pro and I love it. It has been nearly two years since I last had a laptop. I dont know how I managed without one when going to work or elsewhere without it. For the past four months or so now, I have been working on a new game in using Flash 9 and ActionScript 3. The main objective of the development of this game was to make it as dynamic as possible.
To work toward achieving that goal, I have, for example, one function for creating all the lasers that can be fired. I pass around 12 different parameters to determain the color, size, speed, direction, etc for each laser created. The lasers themselves are being created just with code, so I have next to no actual assets outside the menu. I still have about another month or two before I actually finish it, but its coming along well. It has been quite a learning process throughout the whole thing. At first it was pretty slow with all the visual effects I have going on, but I kept on finding new ways to do everything to make it more efficient on the cpu. So I have seen it go from really slow, to really fast even on older machines. I’m quite proud of it so far.
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Jun 05
Today Apple has unveiled a significant update to its Mac Book Pro line of computers. This update includes LED displays, which will help out with battery life of the machine and the display no longer has to take time to reach full brightness. It is instant upon power on now thanks to the new LED displays.
The processor also saw an update to the Santa Rosa series of the Intel Core 2 Duo CPU. One thing that I have been waiting a long time for is an update to the video which did happen with this update. The new video card is a brand new release of the NVIDIA GeForce 8600M series. What I am especially excited about is that this is a DirectX 10 compatible video card. Taking a guess from memory, it also appears that the hard drives received a boost in memory from 120 Gigs standard to 160 Gigs, which is great for someone like me who utilizes BootCamp so I can have a Windows operating system of a decent partition size.
Well, thats all I got for now about the update. Now just to find a way to start saving money.
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