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My car used to miss on idle and never on boost. I pulled out the super expensive sparkplugs and replaced them with NGK coppers.

It has never happened again.

Yeah seriously better to make sure it's okay for even $150 to get it checked over by someone.

I personally wouldn't keep driving a car not knowing if it's about to blow or not. As the others have said an engine change will cost a lot more then an inspection and if it really needs a tune then that will still probably work out better then a new engine.

Don't buy a performance car if you can't maintain it

The car feels slow because you've retarded the ENTIRE map by maybe 3 or 4 degrees (depends how far you've rotated it). This will have a dramatic effect on the general feel of the car and response. You really only want to reduce the timing aroudn 4400-5200 as the turbo is coming onto boost (and stop the interpolation into R&R as it goes above 8psi). The problem with the R33 is that it isn't able to be flashed and you need a Z32 ECU to get Nistune. If you are sure you only want to potter around with 10psi or so I'd recommend getting an R34 SMIC and a generic mail tune/ECU chip.

LOTS of people aren't going to agree with me because if you are going to modify in the future you it will be worthless and you will end up getting nistune or Power FC or whatever anyway. This is what ended up happening to me. But if you aren't going to swap the turbo and put on a front mount then I reckon a mail order re-chip is the way to go. I was pretty happy with mine with 10psi and 180rwkw and the R34 SMIC. Adding a front mount did nothing but add a LOT of lag on the stock turbo.

my 2 cents.

Problem with a mail tune is again no one gets to see how his car reacts to the chip. Again all mail chips tell you to go get the A/FR's checked to make sure it's safe.

Toshi is a person who can flash your current tune and dyno it and re tune for as little as $700 re using the stock ecu.

His located in the business traders section and comes from Sydney. Not sure if that helps you because I'm using my mobile and can't see your location

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