S550 Build

Love what you are doing so far! Those carbon fiber goodies from 3D Carbon look tits on your car man! Great job!

Absolutely Stunning build.. Fantastic color by the way.. ;)

Cannot get over the radar integration and mirror or the color matched Roush extractors...

Who did the work for the Radar system ? Cause - Whoever did it is a badass... Wow. Hats off to that Radar install... Where does one have to drive and how much do I need to spend to do the same ? Wow... So.Clean.

Very, Very Nice!!! Cannot wait to see where you head with it in the future, Congrats on MOTM!

Great-looking build. Those stainless exhaust tips sure look good on the rear diffuser there, if we do say so ourselves. How do you like the Street Series cat-back so far?

One of my favorite bulds so far...

Tb8983 said:

Who are you having do the dyno tuning in Portland? I live right outside of portland

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I have been talking with RPM about doing it.

Brian, question for you. You guys sent me a set of the banjo style valve stems which I love, however we can't seam to get the right TPMS sensors to work with them and the car. I used the Shrader easy sensors and they worked fine but they aren't communicating the tire pressure. Les Schwab ordered the factory style ones and those communicate properly but the short valve stems won't work with them. What did you guys do on your car?

The mirror is done by a company in Texas called radar-mirror. The install was done by my shop. I own a mobile electronics store in Bend, Or. I can't give the name on here due to it being considered advertising by the moderator.

it's great. real curious to see what it will sound like with the header install

JLsounds said:

Brian, question for you. You guys sent me a set of the banjo style valve stems which I love, however we can't seam to get the right TPMS sensors to work with them and the car. I used the Shrader easy sensors and they worked fine but they aren't communicating the tire pressure. Les Schwab ordered the factory style ones and those communicate properly but the short valve stems won't work with them. What did you guys do on your car?

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That's very strange because we used our short valve stem TPMS adapters with the stock sensors and they worked perfectly. This is the TPMS adapter I used with the stock sensor.

Brian@Vossen said:

That's very strange because we used our short valve stem TPMS adapters with the stock sensors and they worked perfectly. This is the TPMS adapter I used with the stock sensor.

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that is what you guys sent me. I just got a call from Les Schwab. Sounds like they might have figured it out. Thanks for the response.

JLsounds said:

The mirror is done by a company in Texas called radar-mirror. The install was done by my shop. I own a mobile electronics store in Bend, Or. I can't give the name on here due to it being considered advertising by the moderator.

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First, your car looks fantastic! Awesome job!

Have you been happy with the Escort and display in the mirror? I've REALLY been considering that exact detector since I've got a convertible. One of the things holding me back was the display. Is the display in the mirror bright enough?

I've also been toying with the idea of the T-Rex grille. Based on your photos it looks like the T-Rex emblem on the grille is optional. Do you have to do any custom work to remove their emblem?

MontelG said:

First, your car looks fantastic! Awesome job!

Have you been happy with the Escort and display in the mirror? I've REALLY been considering that exact detector since I've got a convertible. One of the things holding me back was the display. Is the display in the mirror bright enough?

I've also been toying with the idea of the T-Rex grille. Based on your photos it looks like the T-Rex emblem on the grille is optional. Do you have to do any custom work to remove their emblem?

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Thank you for the kind words. I sell and install Escort products at my shop and I love the product. We used to sell the other brand that starts with a K. Testing them side by side the Escort responded much faster. And this was with testing equipment provided by brand K. As for the mirror display, they can change the blue display to red which is what I would suggest. It cost a little more but well worth it. I wished I would have done it on mine. Grills..... They didn't come with the TRex emblems at all. Hope that helps.

Did you loose any functionality with the generic mirror they built it into? The stock one, on my car at least, has some kind of sensor on the backside. I'm not sure what it is for though. Perhaps rain sensing wipers or the sensor to turn the headlights on a night. (My window isn't near as dirty as that picture makes it look.)

MontelG said:

Did you loose any functionality with the generic mirror they built it into? The stock one, on my car at least, has some kind of sensor on the backside. I'm not sure what it is for though. Perhaps rain sensing wipers or the sensor to turn the headlights on a night. (My window isn't near as dirty as that picture makes it look.)

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No feature loss at all in the mirror. That sensor is for the auto dimming mirror by the way. When the ESCORT is powered down you can't even tell the display is in there.

JLsounds said:

No feature loss at all in the mirror. That sensor is for the auto dimming mirror by the way. When the ESCORT is powered down you can't even tell the display is in there.

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Thanks! I wasn't sure why there would be a auto dimming sensor on the front of the mirror. I think you sold me!