Keep it standard or mod it
Sep 8, 2005, 12:18 PM
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Leave the engine stock.
I would upgrade the suspension with some JICs or Bilstein PSS9s (when they come out) and a thicker rear sway, and get an alignment with some negative camber. Not sure of the specs but I bet the FQ400 understeers and rides too high like the rest of the EVOs. I'd also add wider wheels and tires: 17x8.5/255. Stock wheels and rubber aren't enough for that monster.
I would upgrade the suspension with some JICs or Bilstein PSS9s (when they come out) and a thicker rear sway, and get an alignment with some negative camber. Not sure of the specs but I bet the FQ400 understeers and rides too high like the rest of the EVOs. I'd also add wider wheels and tires: 17x8.5/255. Stock wheels and rubber aren't enough for that monster.
Sep 8, 2005, 12:27 PM
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Originally Posted by RKT SHP
i think you should mod the car. however dont get all crazy with it and keep your stock parts. things i am talking are things like a cat-back exhaust or something simple like that and relatively easy to change.
Sep 8, 2005, 12:39 PM
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Originally Posted by Late Apex
doesnt it already come with a 3 inch turbo back
i agree that it's a collectors car keep it stock. But there's no fun in that! +1 for buying another evo and modding it! Plus for as temping as it would be to drive the **** out of the FQ, you're gonna need something else to fill that need. Even though thats what it was designed for, you wouldn't catch me tossing it sideways through a turn.
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Sep 8, 2005, 12:48 PM
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yeah... leave it alone. The only reason to spend the $ on the FQ400 is to HAVE the FQ400. If you want to mod, buy a lesser model and go crazy. You could buy a 320 and put 1/2 the $ into it in mods and be faster, but that's not the entire point of the 400...
Sep 8, 2005, 01:15 PM
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i'd keep it stock FOR SURE, it's a collector's car with everything built into it, buy a normal IX and get your mod mojo out on that. . .as for tires, A048's for sure. . .
Sep 8, 2005, 03:53 PM
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its a fq-400, a highly modded evo witha warranty, so why mod it. keep it as a track car or whatever the hell you had planned for it and go buy something else to mod the hell out of because you already have the baddest evo ever.