charleswrivers
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- Charles
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- '14 Odyssey, '94 300zx, 2001 F-150
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x2. I've never quantified how much it helps... but it definitely made me go from spinning like mad to the car seemingly to make just enough power for what traction I do have. My summer tires do a pretty good job on hot days where the car is making less power and the rubber is soft. In the winter? I still got a pretty decent amount of wheelspin without advanced VSA.Don't forget to try Advanced VSA if you haven't already. The medium setting is a good place to start.
Also try L for your best 0-60 times.
Whatever you do... you already have a pretty quick car for a FWD... and is probably as fast as my Si w/just my tune until we hit interstate speeds and most of my shifting is done. An intake... intercooler... downpipe... exhaust are just going to give diminishing returns compared to that first ~$500 or so for the Stage 1 tune and the 50 or so whp it gave you. Until you swap out the stock turbo... you're probably looking at relative large sums of money to make pretty small changes at this point after the TSP reflash. $600 for a set of tires that might drop your 0-60 by 1/4-1/2 a second... let you stop better... make your car feel better in high speed cornering... I really just keep beating that drum because I'm a very bang-for-the-buck kind of guy and I think it's the most bang-for-the-buck that's available to you right now. If you didn't have a Ktuner... I'd say Ktuner before tires. The follow-on bolt ons you mentioned just probably aren't going to be noticeable to your butt-dyno. You'd notice tires at least... and feel like the money went somewhere.
Given it's comparative low cost compared to exhaust... I'd say go for some flavor of intake. You'd at least notice the change in intake/turbo noise and it'd make you know you did something. Even the drop-ins (I just have the PRL Stage 1) provide a noticeable rise in "fun sounds". They do add more power and each seller will have a dyno to prove it, but the gains are single digits for the drop-ins... probably barely noticeable on an already 200+ whp car and just cracking the double digits on a real CAI.
Whatever route you go... good luck!
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