Still around? Paul and I are headed to the Dragon.

 

Holy zombie threads, batman.

Any of you other w3606'ers still out there and kickin'?

I'll actually celebrate the 6th anniversary of Blimey's delivery date (10/13) while at MSSD this year - cool.

119k on the clock right now - will probably be about 123k by the time we get to the Dragon and the end of year 6. All awesomeness. Still nothing but love for this car.

 

Paul, I passed 50k miles today. I'm just less than a month from our 6 year mark.

 

That car seriously needs to deploy more

 

How do you have more than 8000 posts here? Good grief.

 

There was a year or two that I didn't really work... just posted. No one noticed.

 

Abuzavi and I will be at MOTD this week - cabin 550 or 552 or something like that... any of you other W3606'ers still kickin' around and plan to be there?

 

Guess not. They missed it. Their lost opportunity.

 

Twice

 

Yeah, W3606 battle buddies, still together. Coming up on 10 years of friendship. Just back from another trip to the Dragon - before I fly back to Portland.

 

I just purchase the alta cold intake & 15% pulley I need advice on a performance chip... Do I even need one?
Thanks

 

For just a 15% pulley? That's the only modification to the car?

No. Not at all. The ECU can compensate for that. That's well with the specs of what it knows about, thanks to the JCW options.

 

Also, for an R53, you'll probably never need a "performance chip" of some kind. At some point, if you do a bigger cam, bigger injectors, a performance head (the OEM one has its limits), then you'd want to get the ECU itself tuned. That's not something some chip will fix. That's having your ECU tuned for your car.

That's finding Jan (RMW - https://revolution-motor-works.myshopify.com) in conjunction with doing those types of upgrades, and having him tune the car. He can do a generic tune, based on the component listing you send to him, but he does magic when he physically lays hands on the car, and has access to a dyno machine.

That gets after the exact combo of your car.

Cold air intake? Non-OEM exhaust? Which spark plugs? Which sized pulley? Hell, which exact belt you have on the pulley. All of that comes into play with a tune like that.