Well the topic pretty much speaks for itself. What's is the best order to mod the X in?

I.e. intake, exhaust, MBC, Tune.......

 

A tune should be the last.

 

^^^ on a regualr car I'd agree.... but:

A) I keep reading about how poor the sotck tune is
And B) I keep reading about people doing simple mods and having problems... i.e installing an intake and the car randomly dies.

maybe a car like this requires more than one tune?!?

 

Just do an I/C, intake, catback (test pipe or h/f cat if you want), MBC and a tune all at once.

 

^^^ Yea, fantastic... now if the car cost 20 grand that wouldnt be a problem lol...


plus, when something goes wrong... i have to take everything back off and put it back on piece by piece.... man I would be pissed lol!

 

humm welcome to the big leagues. this isnt a honda.

 

im getting cat back with cat delet and mbc for my first power mods. The first mod however will be coilovers and 1" wheel spacers to make the stock rims fit the car. since im not balling enough for rims and coilovers right now.

 

lol never said it was.... *goes outside to remove stickers and pepboys hood scoop*

 

mod in any order you want but most important thing is to budget things out...dont get a $1500 intercooler, and a $1700 titanium exhaust and have a basically stock car...its alright if your a baller but for the rest of us...

for the same price you can get....
a 700 exhaust, some 400 intercooler pipes, $600 intercooler, $100 intake and then you have money left over for a tune and some badass coilovers, i dont understand why people would put a cheapass $800 coilover on a $35k car....

 

this has been posted and its an MBC which yield about 25 whp ( THE mbc is not expensive at all). If u got the money a tune($750) and an MBC would yield 50 whp+. Though u need supporting mods to make the tune work like an exhaust and intake so u get the full benefits of the tune

 

ok so...

MBC, intake, full exhaust, and tune.

then I.C, I.C piping.

 

on a side topic... anyone know any good tuners that have worked on X's close to PA?

 

That sounds like a pretty solid plan, but I strongly recommend gettin an I/C. The stock one heat soaks really quickly, especially if you plan to track the car.

Get a group of Evo/Suby guys together in PA and have Chris@AMS fly out there!!

 

you got it.

 

I thought with the Eccutek tune you dont need a mbc since it can control the boost with the ECU. Plus the maps Ive seen with ECU controlled boost look really smooth.