Ade70
New member
Hi all
Had a bit of a do with a CLK 350 (think it was automatic) and it just creeped past me today from a standing stop at traffic lights, I was into redline territory in first and second but then had to drop behind him as it was a dual carriageway into single lane so ran out of road into a notorious speed trap bit. I was fuming, I think the gear change took the wind out of my sails, although it wasn’t too shabby.
So I now have some questions about my first mods (this is not the catalyst as I have been thinking about it for a while but only owned this WRX for 18 months and it’s my first one ever).
Been on a couple of other forums but never got a good answer so trying this one out. I apologise now if this has been covered on here, if it has then please point me in the right direction to any threads that may help.
I’ve got a 52 plate stock 2.0ltr WRX with 56k on the clock, service history is good and I’ve had it serviced twice since I bought it and had new disks and pads and tyres put on it. Cam belt got changed 12 months before I bought it.
I’ve had a read today on torquecars website about tuning mods and am confused.
Induction kits: only add power top end RPM, might get a bit more MPG bottom end around town, most stock filters are fine (reckon mine is stock)
Exhaust: mine’s quiet, twin rear pipe 2” diameter each and could possibly be stainless steel (can’t post pics yet as still a newbee).
It’s not looking like I need to do much with intake and exhaust so what can I do to get my car up to 30% power increase without having to significantly put pressure on it before I need extra mods? Would a turbo and a remap do it? Or would I also need new fuel and water pumps and injectors etc? And what are these dump valves all about, I am not a big fan of the noise but have been told you don’t need to have them noisey? I realise a remap after any mods is the way to do it so I’d like to get my house in order first. I would not like to do x and y and remap and then someone say ah, but if you’ve done x and y you should have done z and then have to remap again if you get my point?
My car just seems to take a while to wind up and I'd have expected it to be a bit more responsive on acceleration around 3k revs upwards, only really starts getting exciting above 4.5k revs. Not after a car that pops and makes too much noise as I do long distance journeys in it, how about one of those switch chips I read about on here?
Anyway, thanks for letting me onboard the forum and any help would be appreciated.
ATB
Ade
Had a bit of a do with a CLK 350 (think it was automatic) and it just creeped past me today from a standing stop at traffic lights, I was into redline territory in first and second but then had to drop behind him as it was a dual carriageway into single lane so ran out of road into a notorious speed trap bit. I was fuming, I think the gear change took the wind out of my sails, although it wasn’t too shabby.
So I now have some questions about my first mods (this is not the catalyst as I have been thinking about it for a while but only owned this WRX for 18 months and it’s my first one ever).
Been on a couple of other forums but never got a good answer so trying this one out. I apologise now if this has been covered on here, if it has then please point me in the right direction to any threads that may help.
I’ve got a 52 plate stock 2.0ltr WRX with 56k on the clock, service history is good and I’ve had it serviced twice since I bought it and had new disks and pads and tyres put on it. Cam belt got changed 12 months before I bought it.
I’ve had a read today on torquecars website about tuning mods and am confused.
Induction kits: only add power top end RPM, might get a bit more MPG bottom end around town, most stock filters are fine (reckon mine is stock)
Exhaust: mine’s quiet, twin rear pipe 2” diameter each and could possibly be stainless steel (can’t post pics yet as still a newbee).
It’s not looking like I need to do much with intake and exhaust so what can I do to get my car up to 30% power increase without having to significantly put pressure on it before I need extra mods? Would a turbo and a remap do it? Or would I also need new fuel and water pumps and injectors etc? And what are these dump valves all about, I am not a big fan of the noise but have been told you don’t need to have them noisey? I realise a remap after any mods is the way to do it so I’d like to get my house in order first. I would not like to do x and y and remap and then someone say ah, but if you’ve done x and y you should have done z and then have to remap again if you get my point?
My car just seems to take a while to wind up and I'd have expected it to be a bit more responsive on acceleration around 3k revs upwards, only really starts getting exciting above 4.5k revs. Not after a car that pops and makes too much noise as I do long distance journeys in it, how about one of those switch chips I read about on here?
Anyway, thanks for letting me onboard the forum and any help would be appreciated.
ATB
Ade