Awales74
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- First Name
- Andrew
- Joined
- Apr 19, 2022
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- Location
- Dallas Texas
- Car(s)
- Supra, Mazda 6
Lot of good advice. I have a slightly different take.
Cost of failure. For many of us, this is not our only car. And we have money to back up any misstep. I caution you sending an ECU of this huge investment overseas just because a bunch of forum members say it works great. If anything goes wrong, you'll have $60k paper weight to pay off.
Cost of the extras. Beware of the additional costs to all of the suggestions. JB4 almost requires a custom tune that's several hundred dollars. Unlocking your ECU only unlocks the ECU. You still need hardware, license, and a tune. Thousands of dollars along those paths.
Cost to environment. Catless DPs are loud, smell of gas, and really are harmful to the environment. Do a little research and read a bit about unleaded gasoline and cats and see the impact it had on major cities around the US. You may not buy into green peace, global warning, save the whales, snow flake arguments. But the impact of cats on smog is undeniable.
Cost of fun. You bought the car to have fun and part of the fun is dorking around with car. I get you. If you must do a thing, and that thing is performance, then take a look at the JB4+. This little guy will give about +6lbs extra boost at WOT. $250, 1 plug, terrorize your community. Don't like it, pull it off and sell it. Want to upgrade to JB4 -- they'll credit your purchase (up to 1 year). Otherwise cosmetic stuff. It's all worthless trivialities. But you buy what you like when you like and rarely find yourself in a position where you can't just dump it if you don't like it.
EDIT -- by the way, financially speaking, the answer is obvious. Cars are bad* investments. Expensive cars are even worse. Investments where you've sold your sole almost never work out in your favor (similar to "scared" money in a Casino). Best advice is get out of the Supra and buy yourself a 2-3 yo Honda Accord or similar.
Cost of failure. For many of us, this is not our only car. And we have money to back up any misstep. I caution you sending an ECU of this huge investment overseas just because a bunch of forum members say it works great. If anything goes wrong, you'll have $60k paper weight to pay off.
Cost of the extras. Beware of the additional costs to all of the suggestions. JB4 almost requires a custom tune that's several hundred dollars. Unlocking your ECU only unlocks the ECU. You still need hardware, license, and a tune. Thousands of dollars along those paths.
Cost to environment. Catless DPs are loud, smell of gas, and really are harmful to the environment. Do a little research and read a bit about unleaded gasoline and cats and see the impact it had on major cities around the US. You may not buy into green peace, global warning, save the whales, snow flake arguments. But the impact of cats on smog is undeniable.
Cost of fun. You bought the car to have fun and part of the fun is dorking around with car. I get you. If you must do a thing, and that thing is performance, then take a look at the JB4+. This little guy will give about +6lbs extra boost at WOT. $250, 1 plug, terrorize your community. Don't like it, pull it off and sell it. Want to upgrade to JB4 -- they'll credit your purchase (up to 1 year). Otherwise cosmetic stuff. It's all worthless trivialities. But you buy what you like when you like and rarely find yourself in a position where you can't just dump it if you don't like it.
EDIT -- by the way, financially speaking, the answer is obvious. Cars are bad* investments. Expensive cars are even worse. Investments where you've sold your sole almost never work out in your favor (similar to "scared" money in a Casino). Best advice is get out of the Supra and buy yourself a 2-3 yo Honda Accord or similar.
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