When you look closely at their complaints, it does not seem that any of the failures in question were Vishnu Parts or tuning, per se.


Percy

 

Thats correct. No vishnu failures. Their car was the problem. If Shiv wants he can shed more light. From what's been posted I won't comment right now as I would like to read the entire article.

 

I'm sure if Super Street or Import Tuner or someone like that did it they'd have no problem with whatever. Car & Driver seems to be the "my dome light doesn't work... better take it to the dealer!!!" kind of magazine. In other words not used to modding, and the side effects. I mean if you pump up a car and then thrash it with major acceleration runs, isn't it obvious that an organic style clutch is going to go??? Modding a car is not advisable if you can't even fix a loose screw (pun intended)...

 

I don’t know guys but I have seen stage 1+ and 1++ and they were extremely reliable. Shiv did not learn tuning yesterday so when tunes he knows what he is doing with his eyes closed. Their car had so many other issues and we all know that the boys at the C&D are not the smartest out there. I am going to wait and read the article.

 

The only thing i agree with C&D about is that limp home boil****.

I run into that like once a week!!!!! 15 psi out of nowhere, sucks when your on the freeway and a porsche is trying to race you........REALLY SUCKS

 

did C&D say in the article the problems with their EVO to begin with

 

Devin Pearce is an amazing tuner so I'm not sure what happened with that.

 

Second that.

 

Like a carbon clutch? Isn't that why people buy them?

 

Hiya... I haven't read the article but I was aware of the problems that particular car had. Namely an ailing clutch and a sticky BOV. It was a press car so it was a bit more rough around the edges than any customer car I've seen. But that is to be expected. However, I wasn't aware that anyone, other than myself, tried to tune the XEDE. Oh well, you can't win them all

We'll be back in C&D Supertuner shootout later this year (3rd year in a row) and we hope to redeam ourselves

Cheers,
shiv

 

best of luck my friend and I will see you in the dirty south.

 

Hey Shiv, C&D is going to be on your d*ck when you unleash the beast in the shootout. Good luck

 

thats not really that fast ......

 

Nope not at all.

 

Shiv- I think we here have a perfect example of magazines taking it a bit too far. As far as I know Devin did not have anything to do with it. He may have addressed some other problems, but he is an AEM EMS tuner and i know he did not touch the Xede.