Hey everyone. Wondering if anyone out there did any upgrades (engine or otherwise) on your Spyder? Me - nothing with the engine, but I painted the edge of my Mag wheels. That's it. I may at some point change the color with a custom PPF. I've seen some insane examples at this car show I go to in Vegas (Gears and Grinds). Here's a pic of my wheels... This is me and my daughter carving the roads up at Mt Charleston.
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Vegas Bound
Mods to your Spyder RS?
Hey everyone. Wondering if anyone out there did any upgrades (engine or otherwise) on your Spyder? Me - nothing with the engine, but I painted the edge of my Mag wheels. That's it. I may at some point change the color with a custom PPF. I've seen some insane examples at this car show I go to in Vegas (Gears and Grinds). Here's a pic of my wheels... This is me and my daughter carving the roads up at Mt Charleston.
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Some of us (4RS owners) have changed the exhaust for more exciting sound in the lower rpm’s and to gain up to about 25HP at the top end and about 50HP in the 5000-6000 rpm range.
Very happy with Soul Performance OAP (+ resonators) + valve controlled muffler (+ resonators). She has a lot of interesting opinions in any rom range now. Slightly drone at 2900 rpm only.
Above shows horsepower and torque on the wheels of a 4RS as a function of rpm, as measured by a sumo meter.
I went for track oriented mods:
Manthey front camber plates and rear toe links
Alekshop rear camber plates
Antigravity Lithium Battery 60Ah
Stiffer front springs (45->60N/mm) + front helper springs (Rears kept at OEM 80N/mm)
Surface Transforms carbon ceramic brakes, RSC1 pads, steel braided lines
Set of track wheels - Apex VS-5RS
Also a set of musician grade earplugs, so I don't get any more hearing loss and tinnitus from too much track use (the volume is fine for road, but there is too much time spent in hearing damage dB levels on track).
Manthey front camber plates and rear toe links
Alekshop rear camber plates
Antigravity Lithium Battery 60Ah
Stiffer front springs (45->60N/mm) + front helper springs (Rears kept at OEM 80N/mm)
Surface Transforms carbon ceramic brakes, RSC1 pads, steel braided lines
Set of track wheels - Apex VS-5RS
Also a set of musician grade earplugs, so I don't get any more hearing loss and tinnitus from too much track use (the volume is fine for road, but there is too much time spent in hearing damage dB levels on track).
- Windschott high version clear wind deflector
- JQ Werks shifters
- Antigravity battery
- Kline Inconel OAP + Muffler
- Spyder/Cover
- Ed’s Bolster Covers
- Hardwire and blend mount for Uniden R9 radar detector
- Blue Spot rear diffuser
- Suspension Secret SRS Spring Kit
- GT4 RS front underbody aero (Part Number: 9GT807913 and 9GT-807-913-A)
- Manthey Racing air intake grille
. Actually I've gotten pretty good at ...
This is all very interesting. So far there is very little mention of interior or exterior mods (other than wheels). All mods seem to point toward a trend of people wanting more performance out of their RS models!
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