Originally Posted by aftershock141

These threads are ridiculous. If it will be your second, how do you not know by now?

Originally Posted by migs647

kyoo, they don't make an SE anymore. Only MR, MR Touring and GSR.

So as many of you have noticed I went from a MR to a GSR.

If I had the choice, I'd take the MR over the GSR every day of the week, including track day weekends. My MR with less power obliterates the GSR on a course / daily driving.

I got rid of my MR for 1.5 reasons. I was planning on buying a house, which didn't pan out, and the transmission is still $8k to buy if something small goes wrong with it. With that being said I never had one issue with my transmission, but wasn't going to attempt to pay $10k to replace it when my warranty ran out and something did go wrong.

That last point is all that kept me from getting another MR.

If you do get an SST, make sure you get '10 or newer. They have software updates that makes shifting better.

Also there are a few people that have MANY unreleased options for this transmission. When they finally get released, the MR is just going to be untouched, possibly in the 1/4 as well.

HOPEFULLY the SST will be rebuildable in the next year or so. If it is, cost will significantly go down and it will be a great option. If you can get over the fact that it's $10k to replace, go for it. If you aren't going to mod and want to bank on it going down in price before your 60k miles is up, go for it.

Originally Posted by kakashi

Just a heads up, the MR also has the half second lag you described earlier..

With some practice, you can get it down to maybe a quarter second, along with some tuning..

But it's also got the same problem. Bugged the ever living hell out of me at first, but you get used to it.

Originally Posted by migs647

kyoo, they don't make an SE anymore. Only MR, MR Touring and GSR.

So as many of you have noticed I went from a MR to a GSR.

If I had the choice, I'd take the MR over the GSR every day of the week, including track day weekends. My MR with less power obliterates the GSR on a course / daily driving.

I got rid of my MR for 1.5 reasons. I was planning on buying a house, which didn't pan out, and the transmission is still $8k to buy if something small goes wrong with it. With that being said I never had one issue with my transmission, but wasn't going to attempt to pay $10k to replace it when my warranty ran out and something did go wrong.

That last point is all that kept me from getting another MR.

If you do get an SST, make sure you get '10 or newer. They have software updates that makes shifting better.

Also there are a few people that have MANY unreleased options for this transmission. When they finally get released, the MR is just going to be untouched, possibly in the 1/4 as well.

HOPEFULLY the SST will be rebuildable in the next year or so. If it is, cost will significantly go down and it will be a great option. If you can get over the fact that it's $10k to replace, go for it. If you aren't going to mod and want to bank on it going down in price before your 60k miles is up, go for it.

Originally Posted by migs647

I spent 5 months looking for a clean IX that wasn't almost as much as a X for a track car. No luck, and getting financed for the ones that were as much as a X wasn't going to be possible since most financial institutions go off of NADA, and these cars were $5-$7k over NADA.

IX's are cool, but the OP wants to DD it. You miss out on things like cruise control, climate control, 9 airbags, hands free, more comfy seats (imo).

The one thing I definitely miss from my CT9A days, rear wiper.