by Robbks » Fri Jun 10, 2011 11:11 am
japan has better "standard" fuels and lower emissions standards so their tunes can be more agressive.
as for engine differences, JDM engines have been very different in the past to the AUDM conterparts, even for the same engine disignation
different compression ratios, diffferent heads, different ports, AVCS differences (fitted or not) and the list goes on
i.e
the EJ205 that was fitted to MY99-00 JDM and AUDM WRX's and GT/ S-tb Foresters are visually identical from the outside upon first inspections
but the AUDM forester has a different combination of pistons/ rods/ head gaskets to give a higher compression ratio, aswell as smaller cams to give more airflow and torque at lower rpm
coyote wrote:Sure, a GTR is fast ... but it's about as interesting as listening to grass grow.