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Originally Posted by DaveSTi
Yeah, dropping the car off at the dealership is always a pain in the ass. Too much to deal with.
Sounds like the car was designed for the street but marketed for the track. That setup sounds underwhelming for a track car and i'm sorry that you're having these issues. They did a great job of convincing people this was the real deal.
Oh no...the ones I got from Tire Rack still have yet to work right...I gotta go to the dealer (once again a pain in the ass) to get the car to learn the new sensors. What a waste of money ($80 each). I just clear the light on startup and ignore it.
Those sound like the bargain rate Tennecos. I don't know if you're a Bilstein fan or not, but they are releasing shock upgrades for the R that work within the same design parameters as the Tenneco setup. Fingers crossed that they offer something for the RS, that way it would be a complete plug and play solution.
KW/ST aren't bad, but from the set I owned, the fixed high speed compression/rebound vs. the adjustable low speed on the V3's was a total time waste.
What's craziest about those 11.0 at 122-123 runs are that the car didn't have headers on it. It's a CAI, ported stock throttle body, ported stock intake manifold and a tune. The guy gained 40rwhp from those mods. Cost less than $1,000 in parts.  |
To be fair, it's a stock car and the setup is very usable. Just not ideal for track use...
The TPMS from Tire Rack at least "just work" so that's nice. Not like the BRZ that needed reprogrammed at the dealer, at least... but no individual pressures which is BS lol
I like Bilstein, I hope they come out with something for the RS. The Tenneco stuff is worthless, though they really advertise it as being great, of course. I have a buddy that works for Tenneco (in the States though) and I'd never knowingly buy a Tenneco product based on the stuff he tells me, lol
My V1s on my GTI are "meh" in my opinion. Great on the street, too soft for track/autocross use and oddly, they oscillate really badly on certain surfaces. Like it hits the high speed valving at too low of a force/speed and just drops into the travel, bounces off the bump stop, then repeat. Never felt anything like it before... Rarely happened but it shouldn't happen on a smooth surface.
Wow, that's wild... RS can't do that with $1k of parts, haha. I wonder if a GT350 could... I know they gain ~80whp from headers/tune, but IIRC that's more like $2-3k
On that note, looking into tuning "normal" American cars out of curiosity... What a gigantic cluster****.
Not one decent tuning tool on the market, they all have some ridiculous flaw.