I heard that RX-8s in Japan get a higher power output than USDM cars..., and I also heard that this was because of emissions and the EPA castrating our cars!

What exactly did the EPA do? What can I do to restore it?

My car already looks "JDM". Time to make it mechanically JDM!

Not true.

They may have a slightly more aggressive computer program for fuel control, but not mechanically different.

Horsepower is measured/quoted slightly differently in Japan.

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install a catless midpipe and get an accessport. Now you will have more power than the JDM.

install a catless midpipe and get an accessport. Now you will have more power than the JDM.
agree, and it will be a lot cheaper than trying to import a foreign car and federalizing it.

I already have a catless midpipe sitting in my room..., time to get off my ass and install it I guess.

A "Mechanically JDM" car would have a cat.

(Hello Kitty.....)

Faster or JDM?

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Faster. I'm not JDM obsessed, but I was rather pissed to hear that some government agency castrated our cars!

Faster. I'm not JDM obsessed, but I was rather pissed to hear that some government agency castrated our cars!

too bad, thats the way it is.

New ECU calibrations have closed the gap between US and JDM tunes - the Racing Beat 'race' calibration is optimized as close as a plug'n'play tune could be.


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