Who's running their Evo X nearly stock and loving it?
Jan 30, 2012, 04:43 AM
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I got a drop in K&N. That's it. Love my car. Would love love to do stuff to the car, but the germans restrict performance parts on cars worse than california. Everything has to be approved through them. Then they have to test it for HP, decibels, and emissions. You fail any of it and you are screwed. You can't go over an added 25% hp gain. Decibels can't be more than 2 decibels higher than stock. You have to stay at same emissions level as the car is at stock performance. /sigh Sometimes I hate living over here, But I got the Ring and the Autobahn.
Assume you can still tune the ECU and swap back for inspections... or use a Cobb AP?
BTW... very jealous of your access to the Nordschleife. I have taken a rental car out on the track (Audi A4 Avant) for a couple of laps. It was a good time, but could only imagine running my Evo out there.
Do you ever get over to Shumacher's Kart Center?
Jan 30, 2012, 12:39 PM
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Very interesting on German regulations... I have spent more than a 3rd of my time working in Cologne/Kerpen over the last 3 years or so, and never realized that they were so restrictive on modding.
Assume you can still tune the ECU and swap back for inspections... or use a Cobb AP?
BTW... very jealous of your access to the Nordschleife. I have taken a rental car out on the track (Audi A4 Avant) for a couple of laps. It was a good time, but could only imagine running my Evo out there.
Do you ever get over to Shumacher's Kart Center?
Assume you can still tune the ECU and swap back for inspections... or use a Cobb AP?
BTW... very jealous of your access to the Nordschleife. I have taken a rental car out on the track (Audi A4 Avant) for a couple of laps. It was a good time, but could only imagine running my Evo out there.
Do you ever get over to Shumacher's Kart Center?
I could run an accessport or ECU tune and no one would ever know. It's the one thing they don't check. I could also build up the motor, and unless they had 2 sitting side by side they would never know I did anything.
My brother-in-law's R34 was sitting at around 700hp when he bought it in the UK and imported it to germany. It didn't pass TUV and is now sitting at 450hp. It's still a fun car, but it was sooooooooo much more fun when it first got driven off the ship in bremerhaven.
I do plan on modding eventually. Just wanna save some money and get everything done at once since I have to pay for the approval process and the testing they do.
Feb 5, 2012, 11:23 AM
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Mine is stock, though I would love to modify it (hard to justify modifications to my wife). It's my daily driver and due to the nature of my work I travel all over the joint for work. I have had no mechanical issues at all; just need to keep it clean and the fluids changed.
Mar 15, 2012, 08:45 PM
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The race car gets all the goodies first.
Last edited by kadunkadunk; Mar 15, 2012 at 08:46 PM. Reason: race car add
Mar 26, 2012, 10:08 AM
#99
Just got a brand new WW GSR few weeks ago and will stay stock (at least for a while since it is a DD and don't want to mess with the warranty). Not a big fan of big wing in a back though (perhaps I'm getting old) so that might be the only mod I'll do in the first year... Other than that, loving the car.
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Mar 31, 2012, 05:19 PM
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When I get my MR it's going to stay stock, only thing that is calling out to me for a change is the front...seems like Do Luck and other people make nice add-ons to the face of the car...
