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Hello everyone!

 

My name is Mike and I hail from Simi Valley, a little north of LA. I have owned a 1988 Conquest TSi since summer and can firmly say that I am addicted. The car and I have had our ups and downs but i love it - and have been learning a LOT!

 

Been lurking around the forums since then and I want to thank all of you who have contributed to this site - your knowledge and expertise has been utilized many times with my car.

 

Excited to be part of the Community!

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Flag meh down if it has red wheel trim as well

 

 

 

http://i1289.photobucket.com/albums/b519/Calquest/20130819_190634_zpsa59affd7.jpg

 

 

http://i1289.photobucket.com/albums/b519/Calquest/20130819_190525_zpsdbbd5e4c.jpg

 

After carwash shots are the best...

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You might actually be one of the red ones I saw. Do you have starion or conquest taillights? I saw one on the 101 freeway going north near woodland hills with the rear spoiler painted black like yours and an aftermarket muffler. Sounded nice.
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Welcome. the best thing to do is go through all the connections - Terminal end connectors and clean them all!

die electric grease them up and your going to eliminate a lot of problems. do all the ones around the battery.

then check the fuel injector connectors one at a time so you do not mix them up. they always need a cleaning.

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Ayyrocky - may have been me, I have factory exhaust though - still sounds nice. Was looking at aquiring aftermarket and going with HKS LET-M01 if the factory muffler finally degrades and can get my hands on a M01. Any thoughts?

 

 

Importwarrior - I would not have heeded the advice you gave as heavily as I do now AFTER I cleaned, resurfaced and lightly greased (dielectric) all grounds and connections. Ordered new fusibles from engine machine service as well (awesome folks). The difference was night and day and honestly felt like I was driving a different car. I now feel like the significance of clean electrical connections in these cars can not be stressed enough.

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I'm in LA as well, might have been me, but my car is currently being converted to MPI. I have the HKS catback and I think it sounds very good, but its the only exhaust I've ever had so I can't compare it to others. I'm running a Mitsubishi OEM 2 1/2 inch resonator with it too so its really smooth almost like a 2.6 inline 6 cylinder. Btw all of us here in california should have a meet sometime in this summer it would be cool to see a few starquests together since they are so rare these days... What do you guys think?
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I'm in LA as well, might have been me, but my car is currently being converted to MPI. I have the HKS catback and I think it sounds very good, but its the only exhaust I've ever had so I can't compare it to others. I'm running a Mitsubishi OEM 2 1/2 inch resonator with it too so its really smooth almost like a 2.6 inline 6 cylinder. Btw all of us here in california should have a meet sometime in this summer it would be cool to see a few starquests together since they are so rare these days... What do you guys think?

 

http://www.starquestclub.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=133005&hl=

 

But I haven't been to successful lol

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Im down in costa mesa but I go to meets up in the LA canyons quite reguarly. Gotta get stallionproject86 and yourself to one of em for a cruise.

 

I'm 100% behind that idea gentlemen.

 

http://www.starquest...opic=133005&hl=

 

But I haven't been to successful lol

 

Sucks that the first attempt fell through, hope interest comes back and it gets off the ground! Sounds fun!

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Ayyrocky - may have been me, I have factory exhaust though - still sounds nice. Was looking at aquiring aftermarket and going with HKS LET-M01 if the factory muffler finally degrades and can get my hands on a M01. Any thoughts?

 

 

To be honest I've only ran the stock exhaust so far and haven't heard any starquests in person with an hks exhaust so I can't really give an opinion on how it sounds with it. But from what I've read on here they are good and have a nice deep tone that isn't too loud.

 

I'm in LA as well, might have been me, but my car is currently being converted to MPI. I have the HKS catback and I think it sounds very good, but its the only exhaust I've ever had so I can't compare it to others. I'm running a Mitsubishi OEM 2 1/2 inch resonator with it too so its really smooth almost like a 2.6 inline 6 cylinder. Btw all of us here in california should have a meet sometime in this summer it would be cool to see a few starquests together since they are so rare these days... What do you guys think?

 

http://www.starquest...opic=133005&hl=

 

But I haven't been to successful lol

 

When it comes to meets it seems like the SoCal area is dead. I know there's a handful of us down here but I guess it's just a matter of planning. I wouldn't want to wait until MOD to see a bunch of starquests again.

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Ayyrocky - may have been me, I have factory exhaust though - still sounds nice. Was looking at aquiring aftermarket and going with HKS LET-M01 if the factory muffler finally degrades and can get my hands on a M01. Any thoughts?

 

To be honest I've only ran the stock exhaust so far and haven't heard any starquests in person with an hks exhaust so I can't really give an opinion on how it sounds with it. But from what I've read on here they are good and have a nice deep tone that isn't too loud.

 

 

Here's your answer

 

 

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Damn that sounds clean.

..watched the canyon run twice - getting itchy palms.

I'm sold! hah

 

Amazon for 391 no tax w/shipping.. 10 in stock!? .. . . . . . .

http://www.amazon.com/HKS-LET-M01-Turbo-Exhaust/dp/B000AUQYYG

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