Svenerachi1
08-14-2005, 09:45 PM
okay, for those of us not fortunate enough to have found a 5spd legacy, god knows i tried, is there any help as far as upgrades?
first off: parts and tuning. What parts are we talking about, and how would much of a performance increase am I going to get from reflashing the TCU/ECU? after a full stromrung exhaust system was installed ofcourse.
Wouldn't be worth the money before that
Reasoning for not simply doing a 5spd swap:
MONEY......................................... and I'm not Andretti with a manual.
I'm a pilot, i fly, i don't shift. :-P
The mistake most newb's make is that they think simply because they have a car that has the potential to do something, everything is limited by that "loose nut behind the wheel" (credit to whoever came up with it, wasn't me)
The reason i like my 4EAT is because I've learned how to drive it and can anticipate when its going to shift under different circumstances, and can control it through the accelerator, giving it gas downshifts, taking away and coasting causes it to upshift. fairly simple, but the reason i really like it is because i can pull up to some retard in a honda civic with a stick and a huge fart-can and some god-awfully ugly tach stuck in the most obnoxious place on the dash, and kick his ass everytime because he has no clue how to drive his stick-shift.
Granted the stick will almost always be faster, but only if the driver is better than my computer, hence the questions regarding tuning of the ECU, or TCU as may be the case
first off: parts and tuning. What parts are we talking about, and how would much of a performance increase am I going to get from reflashing the TCU/ECU? after a full stromrung exhaust system was installed ofcourse.
Wouldn't be worth the money before that
Reasoning for not simply doing a 5spd swap:
MONEY......................................... and I'm not Andretti with a manual.
I'm a pilot, i fly, i don't shift. :-P
The mistake most newb's make is that they think simply because they have a car that has the potential to do something, everything is limited by that "loose nut behind the wheel" (credit to whoever came up with it, wasn't me)
The reason i like my 4EAT is because I've learned how to drive it and can anticipate when its going to shift under different circumstances, and can control it through the accelerator, giving it gas downshifts, taking away and coasting causes it to upshift. fairly simple, but the reason i really like it is because i can pull up to some retard in a honda civic with a stick and a huge fart-can and some god-awfully ugly tach stuck in the most obnoxious place on the dash, and kick his ass everytime because he has no clue how to drive his stick-shift.
Granted the stick will almost always be faster, but only if the driver is better than my computer, hence the questions regarding tuning of the ECU, or TCU as may be the case