Tidying Things Up

I spent a few hours at the shop today doing some little things here and there. I'm a few hundred miles past 6000 on the odometer right now, so I did a tire rotation/inspection about a week ago as per FSM. Today I dropped my J-pipe and wrapped it in PTP Lava Wrap and secured it with some worm gear clamps. I had been meaning to do this for quite a while now, but am just now getting around to it since I wasn't looking forward to dropping the exhaust again. All went pretty smoothly and I replaced the turbo exhaust gasket with one from GrimmSpeed which is about 7x thicker than OEM and employs a fire ring design to prevent it from leaking in the long run. I also installed Perrin's brake master cylinder brace, which was a huge PITA to install. So many bolts to torque down with almost no room to work. Did not really notice any brake feel difference on the way home. Maybe I'll do more extensive testing on the brace in the future. Got rid of the F1 4th brake light. Getting ready to sell that since the rear end won't be needing it once it gets chopped up. Saw my heat wrap getting smokey at red lights on the way home, as expected. Hopefully it stays tight and does its job! I also got the charge pipe gasket from ETS in the mail today. It's just a thick paper gasket. Kinda curious to see if this will really hold my boost better than the RTV Copper will and hoping that once I put this in, my boost leak is solved. Not really looking forward to tearing apart the front end just to get to the charge pipe, but it is what it is. Might make some more bumper tweaks while it's off.... Stay tuned.