#STOCK ECU TUNING INSTALL#
So I had Shad ditch the entire Mugen setup and instead install a set of lowered stock coils that had once been in Howard's RSX test car (Howard had worked at Comptech with Shad). That was rather a disappointment, as I didn't expect a Mugen shock to go bad after no more than a very few thousand miles. Turns out one of the Mugen SS rear shocks was totally shot. Didn't find anything, and so brought the car back to Shad at Driving Ambition. I spent hours checking for something loose, as that's what it sounded like. So I had to contact AEM, submit an extremely detailed form with all sorts of information to get a sticker that said, oh, yes, it's the same exact intake for 2004.Īround that time I noticed the car thumping over pot holes much more than before.
The place I went to in 2012 was more reasonable, but they objected to the cold air intake sticker only being for 2002/2003, but not 2004. Obviously I didn't go back to that smog station that seemed to get sadistic pleasure about not passing modified cars.
All in all, I had to go back to the smog place three extra times. No, I had to get a sticker that specifically said 2004 as well. Never mind that 2002-2004 cars are identical and that the header was good and approved for all of those cars. The car passed smog with flying color, producing only a small fraction of allowable emissions, but the smog place wouldn't pass the car because they didn't like a hose that came with my CARB-approved cold air intake, and they claimed my street header sticker was only good for model years 20, but not for 2004, which my car is. That's what you need to do at the 7th anniversary of initial registration. In 2010 the car had to get smogged for the first time. For the next several years I just took the car out for fun, enjoying the thrilling supercharger whine. The tensioner was replaced with the latest version and I throttled power back a bit by switching to the less aggressive 3.2-inch (I think) 8-psi pulley. So that was that for drag racing at the track. That was embarrassing, as was getting towed back home. That's mostly because back in 2008 the car got stranded at Sacramento Raceway when the alternator, which shares the blower serpentine belt, got ripped right off its base when the tensioner base shattered during a burn-out. Only 25,000 miles, but that doesn't mean the car's just been sitting. By the time the car gets traction, the race is already over. Around her, with all the available land, all there is is a 1/8 mile track.
The closest of those, I am told, is near Nashville. Unfortunately, also no local 1/4 mile track.
#STOCK ECU TUNING LICENSE#
No more ugly front license plate either, and no more having to deal with sadistic smog Nazis. So now the RSX, which still only has 25,000 miles on it, gets to sip 93 octane fuel instead of the miserable 91 octane California brew. And with me means I had the car shipped from California to our new home in Tennessee, where we've been living since June 2015. It's early 2016 now, and the RSX is still with me.
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