Goatwidcoat
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Hi all. Looking for some advise on what to prioritise next with my DC5. Picked it up in May last year, 100% stock and use as a weekend car and absolutely love it. Mileage will only be around 3k a year being 90% road, 10% track.
So far all I have done is fitted a Tegiwa intake and that alone has made the car 10x better just for the sound. I plan on only ever doing a handful of track days (most likely evenings, so not even full days) so I am not looking for a full track beast but a decent enough set up
I did two evenings at Donington at the end of summer in its stock form and even during the 30+ heatwave the brakes were flawless on track for 20 minute stints at a time and I was so impressed with how it was out of the box. That said, I want braided lines and new pads and discs all around and was going to tackle these first as they could do with being changed anyway. I was going to go with Hel braided lines, Racing Performance grooved discs and EBC Bluestuff pads. Had this set up on my MX5 previously and that never once faded on track but open to other pad/disc combos.
I have since read horror stories regarding low oil pressure on high G corners so was going to get a Clockwise Motion baffled sump fitted to minimise this risk. During my first two track evenings I never experienced any symptoms of low oil pressure but better to be safe than sorry.
I would like a new exhaust as mine is stock. I have wanted a Mugen Twin Loop just to give a little more grunt, still be track friendly and JDM points but these so rarely come up so I am considering just buying the Fujitsubo RM-01A. I believe this is louder than the twin loop but still track friendly.
With a changed exhaust and intake does the car now need to be remapped? If not for power, just to make sure that the air/fuel ratios are correct?
Ideally I want a spare set of wheels and semi slick tyres too but then that is another good chunk of change.
TLDR version:
I have always read online that brakes, tyres, handling should be tackled before power mods. I bought the intake for sound alone and the same with wanting an exhaust. Any power gains are a bonus but I am definitely interested in the day to day mid range gains that are made from a remap rather than the peak number.
My thinking is that lines, pads, discs and baffled sump are a must. It is from there that I am not sure where to go. In no particular order:
1. Continue down the handling route with coilovers and a proper alignment
2. New wheels and tyres
3. New exhaust and no remap
4. New exhaust and a remap (would also need to buy an ECU)
I currently have a rough £2.5k budget of which a fair chunk is being eaten by new pads, discs, lines, sump and full service so my long term plans will have to be over a couple of years. It won't help that a remap and dyno would take up roughly half of this budget.
With a limited budget where everything can't be done at once I am interested to hear what routes other people went with their DC5's.
So far all I have done is fitted a Tegiwa intake and that alone has made the car 10x better just for the sound. I plan on only ever doing a handful of track days (most likely evenings, so not even full days) so I am not looking for a full track beast but a decent enough set up
I did two evenings at Donington at the end of summer in its stock form and even during the 30+ heatwave the brakes were flawless on track for 20 minute stints at a time and I was so impressed with how it was out of the box. That said, I want braided lines and new pads and discs all around and was going to tackle these first as they could do with being changed anyway. I was going to go with Hel braided lines, Racing Performance grooved discs and EBC Bluestuff pads. Had this set up on my MX5 previously and that never once faded on track but open to other pad/disc combos.
I have since read horror stories regarding low oil pressure on high G corners so was going to get a Clockwise Motion baffled sump fitted to minimise this risk. During my first two track evenings I never experienced any symptoms of low oil pressure but better to be safe than sorry.
I would like a new exhaust as mine is stock. I have wanted a Mugen Twin Loop just to give a little more grunt, still be track friendly and JDM points but these so rarely come up so I am considering just buying the Fujitsubo RM-01A. I believe this is louder than the twin loop but still track friendly.
With a changed exhaust and intake does the car now need to be remapped? If not for power, just to make sure that the air/fuel ratios are correct?
Ideally I want a spare set of wheels and semi slick tyres too but then that is another good chunk of change.
TLDR version:
I have always read online that brakes, tyres, handling should be tackled before power mods. I bought the intake for sound alone and the same with wanting an exhaust. Any power gains are a bonus but I am definitely interested in the day to day mid range gains that are made from a remap rather than the peak number.
My thinking is that lines, pads, discs and baffled sump are a must. It is from there that I am not sure where to go. In no particular order:
1. Continue down the handling route with coilovers and a proper alignment
2. New wheels and tyres
3. New exhaust and no remap
4. New exhaust and a remap (would also need to buy an ECU)
I currently have a rough £2.5k budget of which a fair chunk is being eaten by new pads, discs, lines, sump and full service so my long term plans will have to be over a couple of years. It won't help that a remap and dyno would take up roughly half of this budget.
With a limited budget where everything can't be done at once I am interested to hear what routes other people went with their DC5's.
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