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The devil made me do it
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You mean Fast & Furious like this?
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This is your problem Doc... you keep thinking that we are doing this to benefit during auto-x.
I could care less about it, driving around cones doesn't excite me.
I will be willing to drive at Nelson Ledges' this summer though.
Again... how you mod your car depends on how you are going to run it.
Then others just care about being "Fast & Furious".
Everyone has different goals.
I could care less about it, driving around cones doesn't excite me.
I will be willing to drive at Nelson Ledges' this summer though.
Again... how you mod your car depends on how you are going to run it.
Then others just care about being "Fast & Furious".
Everyone has different goals.
I think if you are going to compete. Or drive at a track, or something beyond just going down the road grocery shopping, I can understand: AFTER you learn to drive the car.
There just seems to be an assumption on this forum that you "have to" modify the car. A guy in a stock RX8, who knows how to DRIVE, will beat a modified 8 on any course, track, straightaway, etc. if the mod car driver doesn't know how to use the car.
I will give you your props. YOU know more about this car than 99% of the people of this whole forum. You do things thoughtfully and with intent. Too many do it just because they think they "ought to."
I've got no problem with you wanting to improve the car. YOU know more than most people and do it with Knowledge and intent. MOST people here just add this stuff HOPING it does something. Then they brag about it.
Kinda like I love Guiness and you don't?????? I respect different goals. I just don't see the other goals. That's what I'm trying to understand. What is the goal? Beyond more HP to go faster? Improved fuel economy, maybe (good luck with that). You like the sound? OK. But call it "I like that sound better", not a performance enhancement.
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#2805
It's Not Easy Being Green
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Most of the 'performance' mods that people on the forum who just do daily driving end up making your drive more fun. It's not so much horsepower as the sounds and feel that are slight changes but end up being big improvements. And some of it is just matching the sound with the experience you are already having.
And for most people who are into the car enough to get on this forum the car is more than just a vehicle to get from point A to point B. And even more than just getting from A to B as fast as possible. It's a possession that you have the ability to make (relatively) unique to you which makes it that much more valueable.
Well I'm sure Jon would be the first to say you can't have one without the other (heh) but if you really want more torque the best mod would be to get the 09 transmission with the different gear ratios. Supposedly they have managed to get a little better feel of torquiness but not a lot of people with 04-08s have been in an 09. Beyond that just add the HP and accept the minimal gain in torque.
But -I- don't want more torque. When I'm on the track the car doesn't need torque as long as I'm driving the car right. And when I'm not the last thing I need is so much torque the car goes somewhere I'd prefer it didn't go.
And for most people who are into the car enough to get on this forum the car is more than just a vehicle to get from point A to point B. And even more than just getting from A to B as fast as possible. It's a possession that you have the ability to make (relatively) unique to you which makes it that much more valueable.
The real mod I'd like to see is something that gave the car some torque. More HP only helps so much there.
But -I- don't want more torque. When I'm on the track the car doesn't need torque as long as I'm driving the car right. And when I'm not the last thing I need is so much torque the car goes somewhere I'd prefer it didn't go.
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But the car sounds better and it is possible that he might pass an echeck without putting the stock cat back on...which I thought was the point. Yea...sometimes I would love to pop some flames at a red light to the asshat behind me...but I could live with just having the sound.
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And again.. I agree with you. But when someone decides they "have" to, its good to have people who have been through it, tested it, ran with it, to tell these people not to waste their money and to spend it else where.
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And the debate about learning to drive on an unprepared car verse a prepared car around cones doesn't weight heavily on the additional safety/control associated with a prepared car. It does at 130 miles per hour down the back straight with a car in front and behind you.
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Most of the 'performance' mods that people on the forum who just do daily driving end up making your drive more fun. It's not so much horsepower as the sounds and feel that are slight changes but end up being big improvements. And some of it is just matching the sound with the experience you are already having.
And for most people who are into the car enough to get on this forum the car is more than just a vehicle to get from point A to point B. And even more than just getting from A to B as fast as possible. It's a possession that you have the ability to make (relatively) unique to you which makes it that much more valueable.
And for most people who are into the car enough to get on this forum the car is more than just a vehicle to get from point A to point B. And even more than just getting from A to B as fast as possible. It's a possession that you have the ability to make (relatively) unique to you which makes it that much more valueable.
And Charles helped me to say it the correct way, "I would be more interested if there was an increase in torque across the RPM band than peak h.p. with a given product."
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I am able to come down tonight to help. I will eat dinner with the family and call you all up and see if you are still working on it.
I think Jon gets what I want to do to the car as well as WHY I want to mod it. The car is going to be a toy. Modding it is just for my pleasure not for whoopin' ***. I will want to eventually run AutoX and maybe a 1/4 mile or two, but where I place will not matter to me much as I just go to have fun. This thing is going to be the second biggest money pit next to my house, accpet I will enjoy it a lot more.
I think Jon gets what I want to do to the car as well as WHY I want to mod it. The car is going to be a toy. Modding it is just for my pleasure not for whoopin' ***. I will want to eventually run AutoX and maybe a 1/4 mile or two, but where I place will not matter to me much as I just go to have fun. This thing is going to be the second biggest money pit next to my house, accpet I will enjoy it a lot more.
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The method i was tought to use on my rx7's was to pour hmm what was it. I think it was power stearing fluid into the intake manny through a large rubber tube at the top. It made a fantastic smoke screen.
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Edit Edit: What all is going on with yall for new years eve tomorrow?
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Edit Edit: What all is going on with yall for new years eve tomorrow?
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But yeah I was looking at it and it appears difficult to just pour something down its gullet.