Tuners, and the EVO X
I'll go out on a limb here and say that nobody will find out how much power the short block will be able to handle until the ECU setup is cracked. New gen ECU's are much tougher to hack; the 4G63 had it easy with it's practically open-source ECU. Time will tell of course; we can hope the new ECU will be easy. Ripping it out and going full standalone may have more repercussions than most people want to deal with [like no RKE, immobilizer, dashboard displays being all driven by CAN].
Tuning is key and from what I hear - CAN BUS is for the birds. Hard to crack and hard to modify for big power.
-M
why don't we already know the answer to these questions?? No one on these forums has any contacts with people who've already been inside the motors etc.??? Why don't we have any dyno numbers from over seas yet?? I really don't understand what the hold up is here..
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From: ATLANTA
Just face it mitsu does not want street races bumping their cars up to 1000Hp and racing around town... I they see you doing it they will make the care ugly and less mod friendly ala the 2000 eclipse
I'll go out on a limb here and say that nobody will find out how much power the short block will be able to handle until the ECU setup is cracked. New gen ECU's are much tougher to hack; the 4G63 had it easy with it's practically open-source ECU. Time will tell of course; we can hope the new ECU will be easy. Ripping it out and going full standalone may have more repercussions than most people want to deal with [like no RKE, immobilizer, dashboard displays being all driven by CAN].
Awww man, I had a 2000 Eclipse V6 at one time. I feel less cool now that I know everyone was laughing at me. I have since seen the light, but it was a good car back in the day.
you're the people same that's going to jump into the EVO X, thinking thats cool even tho its nothing more than another big joke
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From: Dirty Jersey
Oh, it's the guy that doesn't know his roman numerals and now it seems has problems with basic sentence structure of the English language. Seriously man, how could you afford that CLK?
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03-04 "terminator" cobras seek the older teksid blocks (theirs are cast iron) for their durability when they want to make big power numbers.
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Sure they dont generally have cracked sleeve problems but like i said once your using a large turbo its a different story and most people arent using large turbos on stis like 40r plus turbos for those exact reasons i stated. Well see what the real deal is with evo x's when tuners start slapping on 40r plus turbos on them.