I just put couple 19s on my car and am pretty happy with them and dont think i'm gonna lower it now since i have to deal with alot of speed bumps and stuff.. Any ideas though on what else I should do? check my sig for what I have so far.

 

exhaust? test pipes/HFC? Pulleys? FI? Rimz? picture would help me recommend body parts...

 

No exhaust, I haate that droning sound, I would like to add an 05/06 midpipe but those are like impossible to find.. I dont know what pulleys do either so I cant say anything bout them..

Im trying to add pics but its not working right now..

 

06g, i see your from leawood, thats cool, I live in Prairie Village.

 

you need nismo kit, big brake kit just off the top of my head...that should keep you broke for a while

 

Heres a pic, i'll take more later

 

haha, i dont have my G right now, but over the summer we should "play" out at KCIR. you ever been there?

 

PS, you have the same things i have -test pipes + spacer - subwoofer.

 

Yeaa, i would love to get some brembos or stoptechs, but I am just a college kid who just dropped a grand on the wheels so my budget is a little limited right now..

 

do you have a tune? they get a TON of HP and TQ free with tunes on our cars...

 

Haha definately, im away at college but when I get back that sounds good, I've never tracked my car but always wanted to. My friend autocrosses his and tracks his golf all over kc v though

 

I dont know thaat much about cars, so I dont really know what a "tune" is or how much they cost or anything. details? also, what do test pipes do?

 

Car tuning is both an industry and a popular hobby, in which a car is modified in order to improve its performance and handling and improve the owner's driving style. As most cars leave the factory set up for average driver expectations and average conditions, tuning has become a way to personalize the characteristics of the vehicle to the owner's preference. For example cars may be altered to provide better fuel economy, produce more power at high RPM or the ride comfort may be sacrificed to provide better handling.

Car tuning is related to auto racing, although most performance cars never compete. Rather they are built for the pleasure of owning and driving such a vehicle. Another major facet of tuning includes performance modification to the car exterior. This includes changing the aerodynamic characteristics of the vehicle via side skirts, front and rear bumpers, adding spoilers, splitters, air vents and light weight wheels.

ENGINE:
Engine tuning as of late has been marketed as the replacement of basic engine components with after-market versions that perform the exact same functions as those replaced while promising an increase in power output.

Tuning is, on modern fuel injected engines, the electronically controlled management of ignition and injector timing & spray duration to achieve a desired, well burning ratio of air and fuel. The car's engine control unit (ECU) dictates these actions according to the constantly changing information fed to it from a variety of sensors located up and downstream of the combustion process. There is a sensor in the intake stream which measures the density/quantity of oxygen entering the engine, as well as a sensor in the exhaust stream to measure how much of it was used during combustion. The engine's operating temperature (and often intake air temperature) is also measured, the values of which are all used in computing a tune to maintain the manufacturers specific target fuel-to-air ratio.

Tuning an electronically controlled management system is often only necessary when major components of the engine have been changed. For example, fuel injectors have a limitation on how much gasoline can be supplied to the combustion process. If you turbocharge your vehicle, the turbocharger forces more air into the cylinders than they are capable of drawing in on their own, which requires fuel injectors with a much higher flow rate to compensate with the proper amount of fuel. The ECU however will apply the stock fuel map to the new injectors as if they were the originals, causing too much fuel to be sprayed. In this condition the car will not run well, or at all. This is where legitimate tuning comes into play. There are a variety of computerized products available to handle significant changes like this, ranging from Air/Fuel controllers, to piggy-back ecu's, to completely replacing the original system with an advanced 100% customizable stand-alone management system.

Tuning an ECU can also be used, especially in very recent vehicles, to remove restrictions put in by manufacturers to meet emmisions laws and to provide better mpg figures. Tests on vehicles emmisions are usually taken at idle or a set rpm, and therefore these tests can be gotten around by setting the values for fuelling closer to the manufacturer's original settings at the testing levels.

Air/Fuel controllers are commonly used to "lean" or "richen" an air/fuel mixture, by modifying the signal coming from the air intake oxygen density sensor mentioned earlier. By modifying the signal, the ECU receives a higher or lower voltage signal than actual, and compensates with a bit more or less fuel to achieve your desired result. "Piggy-back" computers work much in the same way, but they allow you to work with most other sensor input values, and more specifically allow you to control fuel flow rate and ignition timing by applying variations against the stock ecu's map. A stand alone computer system is similar in function to a piggy-back, but is significantly more advanced and replaces the stock computer altogether, requiring a completely custom map, and is used mostly for race applications. Any of these kinds of products require a specialist who understands engine tuning to produce safe results. In most cases a dynamometer is used to measure the effect of changes made and provide a way to determine exactly how much power your tune is making.

 

wait who? my pal from HS cant remember his name, haha, has a golf and races it... had a white miata before that, where did you go to HS?

KCIR is a blast, we can go run together and ill school you literally and metaphorically in drag racing. Im getting a stage 5 clutch installed tomorrow, haha.

test pipes delete the catalytic converters so there is only tubing between the engine and the outlet of the exhaust, therefore providing MUCH more air flow. But i got them for the sound, they multiply the sound by like 2x at least...

but they are illegal for the street, thats why i track my car with them

 

what about a coupe midpipe?

besides bending the heat shield a bit, its an oem fit and sounds great with that classic infinit snarl using the stock muffler.


Post pics of your G please