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    Engine upgrades - anything I'm missing?

    AJP. Had Gearhead before but needed a tune to code out the rear O2's.
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    Engine upgrades - anything I'm missing?

    Yes, you can do it without disconnecting the condenser, but I pulled mine off so I could paint and refresh it, plus I have an A/C machine so there wasn't any reason not to. lol
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    Engine upgrades - anything I'm missing?

    Thanks! She's not perfect, but it has 170,000 miles on it, and has been through 10+ years of winter and salt, plus tons of road trips. Doing the job we bought it for!
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    Engine upgrades - anything I'm missing?

    Ended up not being able to source a condenser easily, so I decided to just scuff and clean it up and re-shoot it with some satin black paint. I'm surprised that nobody had one in stock locally, and didn't wanna wait another day. Just hit it with a Scotch Brite pad to clean it up, blew it out...
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    Engine upgrades - anything I'm missing?

    The Gearhead intercooler is no joke and is incredibly hefty. I went to slide it into the brackets on the on the bottom of the radiator and it broke them off. Thankfully I was able to just drill holes and bolt it together at the bottom instead of the slotted brackets. I also am going to try and...
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    Engine upgrades - anything I'm missing?

    Currently have the Flex torn down in the shop to install the Gearhead intercooler, Whiteline rear sway bar/bushings/brackets/hardware, Energy Supension front sway bar bushings/brackets/hardware, aftermarket transmission cooler setup, oil service, lubing the steering column boot, and getting some...
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    Ptu humming along

    I would if you already have the used PTU sitting on the ground. Doesn't get much easier to replace at that point.
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    Ptu humming along

    You can just build your own vent tube. Just remove the factory jiggle cap vent, install a barbed fitting (or similar), run some hose to wherever you want the opening to sit (mine is rubber clamped to the thermostat housing bolt), and put a regular old differential vent jiggle cap on the end of...
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    Ptu humming along

    Flush the gear oil out of that thing through the vent and setup an upgraded vent tube while you have it apart.
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    Engine upgrades - anything I'm missing?

    Gearhead intercooler is here and ready to go, Whiteline sway bar kit is ordered and waiting on that, and oil change is due in about 1,000 miles. Plan to give everything a good check over and see if there's anything else that needs addressed during the oil service. I'll also look at what my...
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    Engine upgrades - anything I'm missing?

    It's interesting the stock links won't fit. I assumed if they didn't then Whiteline would sell links with their kit. I figured on the trans cooler yes, I would mount it above the crash support since there's not a lot of room on the bottom.
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    Suspension upgrades - what are you guys running here?

    It's not just on the Flex, it's been on a lot of different vehicles over the years. Every time I've done just the springs on stock struts/shocks it always ended up floaty feeling. As soon as those lowering springs were paired with something like Bilsteins it made a HUGE difference.
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    Suspension upgrades - what are you guys running here?

    It's incredibly rare I've put lowering springs on factory shocks and struts and ever thought it was what I would call "good." Usually the springs end up under damped and it makes the car floaty like you mentioned. If I needed more lowering I'd be going coilovers for sure. I've got the alignment...
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    Engine upgrades - anything I'm missing?

    Gearhead intercooler is here, waiting on the Whiteline rear sway bar. Plan is at my next oil service to install those along with the trans cooler, which I'll pick out based on what I find when it's all apart for the intercooler install.
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    Engine upgrades - anything I'm missing?

    I figured I can just make some brackets and mount it to the crash support.
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    Engine upgrades - anything I'm missing?

    That seems like a fair amount of a job to make it work on a Flex. I feel like you'd be better off to just buy an aftermarket one and make your own brackets to mount it to the crash support instead of trying to hack the OEM one in.
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    Engine upgrades - anything I'm missing?

    Yes, that was the plan is to mount it to the A/C condenser.
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    Engine upgrades - anything I'm missing?

    Assuming it's just splicing some some barbed T-fittings into the rubber area of the hoses, running the rubber hoses to a cooler, and mounting the cooler? Probably could just pick one up from O'Reilly's or something that would work well, similar to this:
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    Engine upgrades - anything I'm missing?

    Assuming you just T into the factory rubber hoses and use barb fittings? From what I understand it's a pain to fit the factory SHO one. I might do the trans cooler during the Gearhead intercooler install.
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    Engine upgrades - anything I'm missing?

    What kind of setup are you using? I just assumed there was maybe some special fittings the stock one came with.

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