Eckohb and i race almost every weekend and this time we decided to film some. I am a 97 SE 5 spd and have intake, WS y pipe, and technosquare ECU. Eckohb is a 95 SE 5 spd and has Intake, Budget Y pipe, and thats it. So only thing differnt is the ECU. His car was acting weird though and if i didnt say that he would be mad. We are both gonna race again next weekend because we both ordered the Greddy SP and his car should be normal again. That should be great! another thing we both have is STS not like that makes a real differnce. Well here it is... http://www.we-todd-did-racing.com/we...EzZGZkMzF5NTQx

 

cool - car sounds good! wish i had a road around here like that.

 

heck those roads are everywhere around good ol Wisconsin lol

 

hmm, makes me want an ECU. nice vid!

 

Did you end up buying the local car you were posting about a couple of months ago or whenever? I believe there was also a more expensive one elsewhere in the state.

I suspect you bought the local one as I think it was Deep Evergreen and you weren't initially fond of the color? Now what do you think about it?

Is it DJ2, Black Emerald, or Deep Evergreen?

 

wow, ECU makes that much of a diff. Are the results really diff. when ecko's car is running fine ?

 

holy cornfield batman.

you guys race every weekend? i'd get tired of losing to the same car every week =\

 

wow thats a huge difference. Maybe on my next 4th gen i'll look into an ECU as one of my first mods...

 

note to echo: man sneak in some new mods on joosdawg and surprise him, dont forget to have a video camera of your own that day too ! lol !

good runs love the maxima madness !

 

can i program my own ECU and if not what do the upgrades go for 600$

 

I have the same mods as you joosdawg minus the intake.

 

Dam eckohb got owned lol badly too. dam and you guys are 5spd as well. shiet i need an ecu next!

 

Ceasar has had the TS ECU and has been running high 14's constantly but of course he has a complete cattman exhaust system. I think that TS ECU + Cattman System + MEVI or 00VI = WINS! That's just for an NA VQ30. VQ35 is a different story.

 

Damn, that's a big difference, and a big dent on eckohb's car. Does he plan on getting that fixed? How's the mileage with the ecu? Any different?

 

thanks for all the compliments guys! like i said though eckohb's car was acting funny so we think it may have been somthing like MAF or coil packs so we tryed my stuff on his car and it ran good for a min then back idk its wierd. He made a post about that a couple days ago i believe. When his car WAS running 100% the night before when it was too dark to film i still beat him both times we raced but not by as huge a gap. About the gas milage its been actually the same IF not even better than the stock ECU. Btw for the people that dont know i used the 95 automatic ECU so i get like 10 codes everytime i check lol but i still think its well worth it and i can deal with a CEL cause it doesnt bother me. -Ryan

 

nice video. yeah thats an insane kill. thats like what happened when i raced a 3.2 acura TL.
btw, i couldnt help but freeze frame right when the camera jerked back on the beginning of the first race and you had a hilarious napoleon dynamite lookin face hahaha.
anyway...ima pick up one of those ecu's one of these days.

 

wtf LOL your crazy man

 

haha yeah.
have you dynoed?

 

nope but i intend to in spring when i get everything on that im gonna be hooking up in the winter... i got special plans hehehe. I also plan on going to the track for the first time with this car this weekend. i hope to run mid 14's at least.

 

also if you couldnt tell neither of us got rubber into 2nd gear because both of our clutches SUCK and slip if you listen to the motor on the 1->2 shift again closley u can hear the slip and the "auto sounding" shift lol

 

Nice video, can't wait till I get my ecu.

 

Nice video, cars sound great too )

 

Also, you had all that extra weight in your car...including a baby seat... haha

Do you know if he will get that door fixed, or is he leaving it?

 

he needs to leave that dent and spend to money on mods ! lol

 

he is actually leaving it like that and getting mods insted. One of these days we plan on taking the door panel off and pounding the crap out of it til it almost looks normal

 

Was that a baby seat I saw in your car?

 

i got my jwt ecu for $600 plus tax.it came out to like $610 one of the best modds for the money. and it works so well with a vi .

 

my wife has that same baby seat i think. good race though. we use a road out by the airport to shoot vid's.

 

nice vid...ur cars sounds nice

 

"You're such a friggin idiot!!"

ahahahahahhaha...


Anyway nice vid. Sounds like yer holding on to 3rd a little bit too long though...

 

i know i did that to let him catch up and for show just to hear it roar normally in a racing situation i shift 3->4 a hair above 6000

 

Beat you to it...but it's funny...

 

The real question is if the baby was in it...lol

 

nope though she does love the 4th gens

 

We need to organize a Battle of the Maximas at GLD or something. Now that I've got the proper drivetrain and have gotten better at driving, I'm a competitor. Bring it!

 

sweet! but next time you should touge battle

 

go look in the reigonal forum eckohb and i were making a meet but no longer because were both gonna get our greddys and 5th gen clutches put in this weekend insted. one funny thing is that we both seem to do the same mods at the same time with the same stuff then race to see what happens
and what is a touge battle?

 

Joosdawg, what type of intake do you have? Im guessing that is what gave your car that aggressive sound? Sounds awesome .

 

i have the Black powder coated Frankencar midpipe with Apexi filter. In total costed about $225 which to me was a little expensive but it came with all Tbolt clamps and heavy duty things, it should last for a long long time. The filter itself costs like $100 by itself. Dont know if that really justifies paying that much for an intake but o well i love it

 

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