I happened to see this little fella at a dealership down the street from where I work... figured I'd test drive it, purely for the sake of curiosity... bada bing, bada boom.

It's a 2009, and I plan to put 24 inch gold spinners on it, as well anything I can find at AutoZone that will stick to it with 3M tape.

It's a blast, and I'm very happy with it so far. I look forward to speaking with other owners, and learning how to put a cartoon PW mini in my sig.

 

Beautiful!
Welcome aboard!

 

congrats, you'll love it.

 

Welcome

 

Welcome aboard. Good luck.

 

Be sure to join "Peerage of the Pepper White" club..............welcome.

 

How do I go about doing that?

 

Looks great! Welcome.

 

Buy Accessport for it - it is a different car with a tune!

 

Masternut's right on! Hard to believe the difference on a stock JCW that the AP makes. Welcome! Love the PW with black wheels! BTW, PepBoys has a much larger selection of "stick-ons" than Autozone.

 

Can either of you get into some more detail on that for me? Is it a chip? What sort of results should one expect afterwards?

True @ Pep Boys having more stick-ons.

 

The Accessport connects to your ecm and changes your map. Stage1-3 depending on your mods. Im only stage 1 right now, but it's such a great difference in performance. Around 20hp and 40torque gains for stage 1, give or take. Def worth the money.

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Wow. Those are pretty significant gains.

What other mods dictate what stage of mapping you can/should do?

 

A stock car can do stage 1. I think an exhaust and/or FMIC can jump u to stage 2. I dont remember what gets you to stage 3, most likely intake, exhaust, FMIC, and the water/meth set up? you can always check the Alta website, they should have the info there.

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Thanks for the tip. I'll definitely have to consider that.

 

It totally changed my car... The clutch won't slip with factory tune when accelerating in 6th gear, but with stage 1 download the clutch won't hold. I agree with the 20 hp and 40 tq claims... has to be to make that much of a "seat of the pants" difference.

 

What do you mean by this? I'm confused.

 

He basically means the power gains from a Stage 1 is too much for his clutch, but I haven't experienced that.

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ahhh. Gotcha.

 

My clutch has over 60k on it... The extra power just brought about it's eminent demise a bit quicker. I'm sure a fresh clutch would've held just fine. It still holds in lower gears, just not as well in 6th... Still drive it.