How the heck do these things come out?!?!?!?! I was going to polish this puppy up but I can't figure out how to the bolts/grommet come off. Anyone has an idea how to do this? I'm guessing I'm missing something very simple.

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Dubs:00 VW GTI VR6, Low and Slow 91 VW GTI 8v, Shave the Bay!! 91 VW Cabriolet 8v, bitch Basket
GP's:04 GP GT, Past now G-Ma's Girlfriend's 97 GP GT, "Project Pink Power"

Don't they just pop out like the 3800 ones?

Where the heck is Pat!?!?

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'05 WRX STi - COBB Stage 2|Invidia DP|3" Borla XR-1|Coilovers|Camber Plates|Swaybars|Endlinks|Bushings|Braces|Anti Lift Kit|DBA4000s|SS lines|
Sold: 06 Cobalt SS/SC, 99 GTP 245WHP/326 Ft-lbs, 06 R6

I got them... finally. They do just pop out, but it took a pair of pliers and some muscle flexing to get them out. I was hoping there was an easy trick to it since I don't like using brute force to get things done, but I had to this time haha. I started polishing it up and it's coming out quite nicely so far.

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Dubs:00 VW GTI VR6, Low and Slow 91 VW GTI 8v, Shave the Bay!! 91 VW Cabriolet 8v, bitch Basket
GP's:04 GP GT, Past now G-Ma's Girlfriend's 97 GP GT, "Project Pink Power"

That's what you need me for.

"Oh they aren't coming out? Let me see it."

And of course after I break something we'd figure it out.

Why do you have 3400 VC's anyhow? Jeremy?

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'05 WRX STi - COBB Stage 2|Invidia DP|3" Borla XR-1|Coilovers|Camber Plates|Swaybars|Endlinks|Bushings|Braces|Anti Lift Kit|DBA4000s|SS lines|
Sold: 06 Cobalt SS/SC, 99 GTP 245WHP/326 Ft-lbs, 06 R6

Haha, yeah that's usually how it goes down. And yeah, for Jeremy. His is cracked, somehow, so I picked him up another one but I'm running out of projects in my apartment so I decided to start polishing the VC

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Dubs:00 VW GTI VR6, Low and Slow 91 VW GTI 8v, Shave the Bay!! 91 VW Cabriolet 8v, bitch Basket
GP's:04 GP GT, Past now G-Ma's Girlfriend's 97 GP GT, "Project Pink Power"

In that case I have an engine bay that needs some TLC

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'05 WRX STi - COBB Stage 2|Invidia DP|3" Borla XR-1|Coilovers|Camber Plates|Swaybars|Endlinks|Bushings|Braces|Anti Lift Kit|DBA4000s|SS lines|
Sold: 06 Cobalt SS/SC, 99 GTP 245WHP/326 Ft-lbs, 06 R6

I'm not touching that thing. Suby boxers scare me. Now VW boxers....

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Dubs:00 VW GTI VR6, Low and Slow 91 VW GTI 8v, Shave the Bay!! 91 VW Cabriolet 8v, bitch Basket
GP's:04 GP GT, Past now G-Ma's Girlfriend's 97 GP GT, "Project Pink Power"

I think it just needs some time with some simple green and a toothbrush.

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'05 WRX STi - COBB Stage 2|Invidia DP|3" Borla XR-1|Coilovers|Camber Plates|Swaybars|Endlinks|Bushings|Braces|Anti Lift Kit|DBA4000s|SS lines|
Sold: 06 Cobalt SS/SC, 99 GTP 245WHP/326 Ft-lbs, 06 R6

Come help me clean up the 350 in my 73. I never was good at making it look good under the hood. At some point though that motor is coming out, getting cleaned up and repainted. Two things are going to have to happen for that to happen though. I need another car and I need extra money to buy (or rent) an engine hoist. And a place to keep the 73 while the motor is out.

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98 GTP (RIP 11-5-09); 73 Z28 Camaro (350, TKO 600);01 Monte Carlo SS (L36, L67/L32 hybrid in the future)
"Death smiles at us all; all a man can do is smile back"

To the cracked some how. Lets just say that I finally found a substance that jb weld fails at. AKA pot aluminium. You can't weld to it, jb weld doesn't stick, and tap and die is a fail since its so weak. needless to say, that was the weak link on the turbo build, and its time to just replace the whole damn thing. Plus while i was going for a nice dark blue scheme for the cool side piping and red for the hot piping of the turbo, I decided to do the valve covers blue, turns out that this blue was not the color i wanted at all and i hate having a damn cracked blue valve cover that looks like shit. I have decided that its all going to be polished after this summer. valve covers and intake manifold. Unless i make enough money to do my ultimate project which is l67 swap.

IMO, save your money and turbo a L36. It's a better platform to work with and you'll make more power.

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'05 WRX STi - COBB Stage 2|Invidia DP|3" Borla XR-1|Coilovers|Camber Plates|Swaybars|Endlinks|Bushings|Braces|Anti Lift Kit|DBA4000s|SS lines|
Sold: 06 Cobalt SS/SC, 99 GTP 245WHP/326 Ft-lbs, 06 R6

That is actually a stellar idea.

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Dubs:00 VW GTI VR6, Low and Slow 91 VW GTI 8v, Shave the Bay!! 91 VW Cabriolet 8v, bitch Basket
GP's:04 GP GT, Past now G-Ma's Girlfriend's 97 GP GT, "Project Pink Power"

It wasn't hard. I pull it out from my hand. You might be skinny dude

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You guessed it Pat. I'm am indeed a skinny dude. I need to hit the gym.

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Dubs:00 VW GTI VR6, Low and Slow 91 VW GTI 8v, Shave the Bay!! 91 VW Cabriolet 8v, bitch Basket
GP's:04 GP GT, Past now G-Ma's Girlfriend's 97 GP GT, "Project Pink Power"

You and me both. I was doing good when i lived on campus. I need to get back to sculpting my guns.

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'05 WRX STi - COBB Stage 2|Invidia DP|3" Borla XR-1|Coilovers|Camber Plates|Swaybars|Endlinks|Bushings|Braces|Anti Lift Kit|DBA4000s|SS lines|
Sold: 06 Cobalt SS/SC, 99 GTP 245WHP/326 Ft-lbs, 06 R6

well maybe i should just stick to the turbo on the 3.4 untill i blow i up. From what i reseached the 3.4 holds up nicely with a turbo compared to the 3.8. and idk if i could go through all that pipe work again.

Jeremy the 3.4 can definitely handle some boost. I wouldn't say it does so better than the 3.8 though. And the nice thing about the 3.8 is that you don't need to custom fab a bunch of stuff,just buy someone's used parts

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'05 WRX STi - COBB Stage 2|Invidia DP|3" Borla XR-1|Coilovers|Camber Plates|Swaybars|Endlinks|Bushings|Braces|Anti Lift Kit|DBA4000s|SS lines|
Sold: 06 Cobalt SS/SC, 99 GTP 245WHP/326 Ft-lbs, 06 R6

Be glad I'm not in this quaker-lube meeting because Talladega is more important to me. You are lucky to not get beaten by me.

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I heard you're like a big cuddly teddy bear

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'05 WRX STi - COBB Stage 2|Invidia DP|3" Borla XR-1|Coilovers|Camber Plates|Swaybars|Endlinks|Bushings|Braces|Anti Lift Kit|DBA4000s|SS lines|
Sold: 06 Cobalt SS/SC, 99 GTP 245WHP/326 Ft-lbs, 06 R6

this is true kyle, thank god i already went through all the custom fabbing portion. that was half the battle.