I'm coming from an SRT4 (turbo neon) and I've been noticing that the X doesn't really respond well to WOT. It seems to me that i almost get partial throttle boost or I boost just as hard at partial throttle than I would at WOT (i know that isn't quite PTB either). when i go wide open it seems that i am putting too great a load on the motor. do i just need a tune? or is this typical with the X? (e.g., no turbo whine and poor responsiveness to WOT).

 

You need a tune, you'll gain a bunch of horses and it'll fix your problem.

 

i just need to suck it up and do a buschur mail in tune. pretty embarrassing when my evo can get spanked easily and sounds like it is drowning in fuel under firm acceleration.

 

Two things:

Have you gotten the dealer reflashes? Made a huge difference in throttle response for me

Have you tried with ASC completely off. I ran yesterday with ASC completely off (hold the button for 4-5 seconds until the dash lights up with an exclaimation point) and the car FELT much faster (pissed off even!).

 

i am not eligible for the reflashes i was told. so i will just get an aftermarket flash. i want to be leaned out too big time and the factory reflash doesn't take care of that.

asc off or sawd off? what you're describing is sawd off. i will try that but am doubtful that will make a difference other than over/understeering into a guard rail.

 

Did you test drive the car before you bought it and started complaining..???? Thtas why we test drive to see if the car does what we want...

 

did they specify why you are not eligible for the flahses? to my knowledge everyone is eligible

 

How can you not be eligible for the flashes?

I think you have a crappy dealer (big surprise huh?)

 

If your dealer tells you that you are not eligible for the reflash, try another dealer. I simply asked if I could get the most up-to-date ECU flash and they were like, "sure". Took 10 minutes tops.

 

ok so that is just a douche bag reply. and probably shouldn't receive even this much attention

 

i believe it is the first 49000 or so made that get the reflash, right? and yes it isn't shocking to learn that i have a crappy dealer.

 

The car just needs a tune, that's all. Mitsu has the factory map tuned EXTREMELY conservatively and the factory reflash helps a good bit. It sucks that your dealer isn't letting you get it, but it doesn't really matter. The X picks up like 50-60 hp just from an ecutek tune and turns the car into a real monster. That's a much bigger gain than most cars get from the same mod. Although much of these little issues will be mostly resolved for the 2009 models, consider the 2008 X to be a diamond in the rough. It's a first year car, don't worry about it too much. A tune fixes 90 % of what is wrong with the car. Now if they can just get that tranny smoothed out a bit...

 

the latest reflash covers all cars till build date 4/08, i just got the reflash done, the car runs a lot better

 

well looks like i got to go in demanding. i don't see what the big damn deal is with adding new software. what's that set them back 10-15 minutes?

 

they might not have an evo trained/certified mechanic so they don't want to so anything wrong. Are there no non-suckass dealers in the area you could go to?

I know in Cali that people drive the hour or so to go to South Coast since they have better service there.