No-warranty-worry performance mods....

[CajunGreek]

In digging through the forums, this community has a hell of a lot of really nice cars where people have done some amazing mechanical work. There's some great articles and How-Tos on various mods that can be made to our precious 3s - some more intrusive than others in regards to how they are implemented.

I'd be curious to compile a list of performance oriented mods that can be done to a 3 without worry of voiding warranty. The boost and all can come when the warranty has expired! Oh - and trading the car in on something like a Viper doesn't count.

Off the cuff, I'd start with:


Performance:
Throttle Body Ground
Larger Exhaust pipe
Low-restriction muffler
Replace Stock air filter with K&N style
Timing Advance (so long as it remains in factory spec range)
Light-weight wheels


Handling and stopping:
Hi-performance brake pads (ceramic - bonus benefit for the brake dust problems on the 3)
Performance rotors (cross-drilled, etc.)
Tires
Struts
sway-bars

[keleko]

decent list, i might think of a few to add

now make each point a link to the right thread or how-to ;)

[Pretzellogic]

That's not a bad list. Glad to see new people in here with there heads on straight.

That being said, if you want gains you can measure with your butt-dyno, you'll need to void the warranty. You can always reassemble the car to factory-spec if something happens, I suppose.

I gave up my warranty a long time ago.

[CajunGreek]

That's not a bad list. Glad to see new people in here with there heads on straight.

That being said, if you want gains you can measure with your butt-dyno, you'll need to void the warranty. You can always reassemble the car to factory-spec if something happens, I suppose.

I gave up my warranty a long time ago.

Thank you much.

I've done quite a bit on older cars like my old Torino where the warranty was so far gone it wasn't even a distant memory, much less an actual concern. Change motor, cam, intake, stall-speed, gears.....on and on with no worries. Parts were cheap and the thing was easy to work on so anything was fair game. (This is where I get all nostalgic and pepper my commentary with "Back in my day"s.......)

But since I finally bought a new car, it's a novelty for me to have a warranty and I was thinking of what all I could do while protecting that precious warranty. I figure I'll get 2 years out of the warranty with the miles I do, so it's not too long until the real fun begins anyway.

[Pretzellogic]

But since I finally bought a new car, it's a novelty for me to have a warranty and I was thinking of what all I could do while protecting that precious warranty. I figure I'll get 2 years out of the warranty with the miles I do, so it's not too long until the real fun begins anyway.
You have better control than I, Gunga Din.

[Zano]

I had some of the stuff here on my "list" because I'm still under warranty. Good stuff though I didn't add the suspension stuff.

[CajunGreek]

My original list was compiled from some inspiration from various forum entries and a few of my own ideas. I know that there must be some more ideas out there!