Things I've learned about the RS after 4K miles.
Discussion
They say to 'never meet your heroes'. The RS is the exception to the rule. I had some great expectations and it's exceeded all of them. I cannot say enough good about this car.
The Nitron shocks are worth every penny.
Upgrading the ring and pinion in my G96 transaxle to the Albins 3.00 makes first gear actually useful, lowers temps at prolonged freeway speeds, improves fuel economy without sacrificing speed and (using 2nd gear) lets me do 0-75mph without having to shift.
If you can get away with it, removing the cats is a solid choice. Everything runs cooler, the AC works better, it sounds better, it smells like victory and the coolant overflow doesn't weep anymore. IMO the perfect exhaust for the car is the X pipe and the de-cat. Suck it Greta.
Leaving the diff 'open' has saved me from chucking the car more than once during obscene throttle application. Let's be honest, this isn't a drift car and most of us aren't chasing tenths. Porsche makes this gearbox with an open diff for a reason and those reasons are stability, early warning and recovery - turns out all of those are good things when you're in a car that has the power to weight ratio of a scud missile.
I'm glad I didn't bother putting a radio in. I use some Shure earbuds that double as hearing protection. It's perfect.
If I had it to do over again, I would have opted for the manual gauges instead of the AIM dash.
When you go to car shows; if you leave the doors closed you will come back to hand prints all over your windows. If you leave the doors open you will come back to find a kid sitting in it and their useless parents taking pictures. Also, for whatever reason, when fat people look at your car, they have to lean on it. Idk why but if you're an American be prepared to find a nice way to repeatedly tell those folks that perspex is not a load bearing structure.
That hard to find rattle that's driving you nuts is one of the 'luggage bin' lids.
For street use the best PSI for the tires is 16 in the rear and 22 in the front. That's been the happy medium between tramlining and still being able to turn the wheel at low speed in parking lots.
Don't go over bumps quickly with the nose lift up or else the pump can/will shoot fluid out (at least mine does). Took me a while to figure that one out.
If you're running the LT4 or LT5 a Pedal Commander in Sport mode takes away the power application rubber band feeling.
The Nitron shocks are worth every penny.
Upgrading the ring and pinion in my G96 transaxle to the Albins 3.00 makes first gear actually useful, lowers temps at prolonged freeway speeds, improves fuel economy without sacrificing speed and (using 2nd gear) lets me do 0-75mph without having to shift.
If you can get away with it, removing the cats is a solid choice. Everything runs cooler, the AC works better, it sounds better, it smells like victory and the coolant overflow doesn't weep anymore. IMO the perfect exhaust for the car is the X pipe and the de-cat. Suck it Greta.
Leaving the diff 'open' has saved me from chucking the car more than once during obscene throttle application. Let's be honest, this isn't a drift car and most of us aren't chasing tenths. Porsche makes this gearbox with an open diff for a reason and those reasons are stability, early warning and recovery - turns out all of those are good things when you're in a car that has the power to weight ratio of a scud missile.
I'm glad I didn't bother putting a radio in. I use some Shure earbuds that double as hearing protection. It's perfect.
If I had it to do over again, I would have opted for the manual gauges instead of the AIM dash.
When you go to car shows; if you leave the doors closed you will come back to hand prints all over your windows. If you leave the doors open you will come back to find a kid sitting in it and their useless parents taking pictures. Also, for whatever reason, when fat people look at your car, they have to lean on it. Idk why but if you're an American be prepared to find a nice way to repeatedly tell those folks that perspex is not a load bearing structure.
That hard to find rattle that's driving you nuts is one of the 'luggage bin' lids.
For street use the best PSI for the tires is 16 in the rear and 22 in the front. That's been the happy medium between tramlining and still being able to turn the wheel at low speed in parking lots.
Don't go over bumps quickly with the nose lift up or else the pump can/will shoot fluid out (at least mine does). Took me a while to figure that one out.
If you're running the LT4 or LT5 a Pedal Commander in Sport mode takes away the power application rubber band feeling.
Edited by TR3B on Saturday 17th June 19:41
Edited by TR3B on Saturday 17th June 19:46
After a few months the menu buttons broke so I had to disassemble half the dash, remove it and send it back in for repair which took weeks. Its finicky, hard to program, there's no real manual for it that can help, if your initial math is wrong it doesn't calculate mileage correctly - and you can't ever correct it without taking the dash apart and sending it back in, the front/rear camera selection could have been a simple page button push but instead they made it a multi button 3 page drill down that takes a month of Sundays to get to. The whole reason I chose the AIM dash initially was for the ability to have parking cameras so I didn't destroy my splitter or diffuser but AIM made it such a pain to use I don't even bother.
If I were a track rat and using it to record lap times I'm sure its great. I'd probably like it if the page button that changes display options could be programmed to cycle through the cameras. I asked AIM about it and they said it would never happen - so for me the whole endeavor has been frustrating.
If I were a track rat and using it to record lap times I'm sure its great. I'd probably like it if the page button that changes display options could be programmed to cycle through the cameras. I asked AIM about it and they said it would never happen - so for me the whole endeavor has been frustrating.
Edited by TR3B on Sunday 18th June 22:07
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