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Focus RS. Also still waiting for that economic right/socially progressive party... any day now..

I had koyo and had an asi. Asi warped like a mofos over 3-4yrs but did not leak. Koyo is just better. Do you want to overheat when giving it a ton on a hot day or would you prefer to never worry?

60% of the time it works every time

The 6'5" person I mentioned is also 110kg, so.. Also: f**k it take the roof off then!

When I sell/smash R34/convince GF to upgrade to it.

MX5 SE only has like 100rwkw, with a tune they are 165ish which is about the limit of the block, but.. for the lols, it'd rock! I can't honestly say I'd rather drive a 400rwkw skyline over a 165rwkw MX5 in doing a track day/hill run/going to the shops, etc. I am 6'2 but my friend is 6'5" and fits into a MX5 with no issues. It's all in the seat and where you set it. There is a SUPRISING amount of room, unless you are literally the mountain, you can fit in a MX5. I also would prefer a SE with a chip over a S2000 - the MX5 is just simple, easy, and smaller/lighter than the S2000 and going off "the forams" it seems that at the limit the MX5 handles a lot better than the S2000 does. Parts are cheaper, easier to find, so much knowledge, cheap, small, simple, etc etc. And most importantly.... fun

To be fair my only experience was due to gf wanting to get into cars and "What would you recommend?" And I said MX5 for all the reasons everyone always 'says' MX5 though I had never driven one. Then I did, and I'm like ... this is the most fun little car ever. There's a wild amount of support for parts through pages like http://www.mx5mania.com.au Just... SO EASY to get parts, bolt on, info is everywhere. Given a stock one makes like 60rwkw, having 165rwkw with some sticky tyres would be an absolute blast, these things are just toys after all, if you focus on FUN instead of being fully sick and super cool looking man it's hard to beat the little MX5. But yeah I still feel silly stepping out of one, the stigma is real. (but entirely undeserved)

I actually got lucky charms from Naples in the car now. They are a very superstitious people. I also prayed at a Shinto temple for my car too. Doesn't seem to help much. Temptation is strong to sell and buy supra/mx5 turbo/something else, but car actually is quite good, just less than the sum of its parts due to something always being almost working. That said, did go for a ride in a 400awkw well sorted GTR with about 50k spent on it, all done at Racepace and thought "meh, I prefer mine actually" so it's not like it's a complete bucket when running.

Sounded like a manifold leak but not ticking, just a weird... sound. Could actually be an exhaust leak from the actual exhaust because I may have hit the flex join on a few things but you know, check everything. Fixed hose clamp going to gate from exhaust housing on turbo. You could move the band around previously so clearly it could be better sealed. Removed and new bolt after cutting the original bolt off with a hacksaw because long story. Howly sound and better feeling engine/spool so assumed fixed. Just makes a loud sound now. Didn't make any kind of sound before fixing the vband. Maybe always broken. Maybe not. Dropped dump pipe and intake, had a look, spun wheels around, clearly not making contact and all the fins appear to be intact, etc. Its more the intermittent nature of it that makes no sense, I've had leaks and manifold to turbo gaskets go etc, and it SOUNDS like that but all of those don't mysteriously stop making sound at 7psi. I will borrow a gopro and make a video cause everything on the net seems to imply it shouldn't be possible, but hey, not like the limits of reality has ever contained this car's ongoing problems.

I don't really know what it is, pretty confident there's no boost leaks (sadly I have become very very very intimate with my charge pipes and clamps and silicon joiners and they are all replaced). Just sounds like a big WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO as its spooling but no sound when actually making boost. The car sounds naturally aspirated from 7psi to 25psi which is really quite weird feeling. Just very much when the turbo is spinning up, but I wouldn't say its surge because you can hear the turbo spinning *down* after you come off throttle and you are around -15/20mmhg, which is just flat out strange. In b4 turbine blown out of exhaust or compressor wheel in intake valves, but of course both the wheels look perfect and have no play.

I tightened it and heard a mild howl.... and now it's become a massive howl. Perhaps the fail is backing up now.

Random car broken wtf problem. Turbo howls when in vacuum (between -10mmhg and 0) and then stops at about 6psi and then sounds normal. No, it is not the exhaust drowning it out. How can this be a thing. All I have done is tighten the v-band that is connected to the external gate (which is off the housing), but the problem happens at a point where the gate isn't even in play.

I did True and it kind of locks you into that one thing but gosh damn if I wasn't happy to have my wideband setup and ready to go in about two actual minutes with no wiring. With the amount of work that goes into cars, seeing something literally plug and play and just work was pretty damn sweet for the extra $15 it cost

Why don't you think it's a GT3076?

Can... can these actually fit?

This NSX just missed the mark as homage to the old one. Just feels like there needs to have been 3 cars in between them to see them as part of the same thing.

Nah it obviously wasn't the ECU's fault. The car was tuned on 24psi. But it's saved me in multiple cases, like say 18psi when the cells weren't so well mapped. I've since fixed boost leaks etc. This changes tune. I've changed exhausts. This may change the tune. I've also had a clogged fuel filter setting off engine protection due to lean. Point being was, car felt fine in all of these cases but wasn't. Infact, it was dangerously lean. I'd never choose an ECU without that function for saving a couple hundred bucks. Auto logging when the car does something weird is a god send. The features only seem un-necessary until you benefit from them once, and then they become must-haves.

Har har. Cars are variable things and things change under the hood. It's better to be able to see them before you feel the effects of something going wrong. People only say "I don't need it, my Power FC is fine" until you do want a feature or your logs or safeguards catch something that is unmonitorable or unknowable with a more basic management system.

I haven't had any issues with my PS2000, couldn't really recommend it more, though obviously there are others which have much the same features. If you don't need it though, or aren't interested in it it isn't worth it. However I personally could never go back to an ECU without these features (power FC). For example my car has been tuned many times. I recently dropped the boost to 18psi because reasons. Driving down a totally private road yesterday my car was at 18psi and as it turns out my AFR was 13.1:1. If I had a power FC or even Nistune I would never have really known this. My engine cut after 1s of this condition and because Haltech (and other better ECU's) automatically log this I was able to pull over and see why my engine just did that, and add fuel to the appropriate cells. Yes I have a wideband guage but I did not look at it. I also checked to see why the ECU was not automatically adding fuel to that area via the O2 controller. (can Nistune even do this?) All of the above would just be ignored in a PowerFC world, and you'd be happily boosting away on 13-14AFR under 18psi and you would never, ever, ever notice until your engine decided to melt. Even after going to a tuner many times and being tuned many times on the dyno. Am I paranoid a bit about this stuff? Yeah, maybe. Maybe I've had more problems in the past than other people. But getting a decent ECU, knowing how it (and your car) works to me is really a minimum requirement. I couldn't go back nor could I ever be happy not knowing, or recommending anything less. Anything less is "probably ok, maybe"

Should also state that all it really does is put a 2nd throttle to 60% max throttle. I was able to break traction pretty easily with stock power with the traction control on

My car is less broken now but still annoyingly broken.

angry birds

If Windows patches at all, it is officially good enough for the workplace

To be fair, I understand where OP is coming from - I just don't wash my car for a year and let it stay dirty because the introductory courses in keeping it nice and clean are somewhat similar to introductory courses in rebuilding an engine. Either that, or it's not possible to do a passable job in 30min to an hour.

Tbh, I would go option 1) then consider upgrading the brakes if you find out that what you have just absolutely cannot cut the mustard. It'll either happen eventually and you will want more stop power but getting there and having fun at the track is a good way to find that limit. And if you find you never need to replace them then eh you haven't gone to the track that much and as a result don't really justify a $2k+ brake kit. Either way, you win out. Its not too hard to sell a set of front GTT brakes when/if you decide to upgrade later, especially if you have a receipt from them being rebuilt at XYZ shop on XYZ date.