EP3 Type R

**UNA91** · 07-10-2012 05:57 PM

Originally Posted by butterfingers

When u get used to the ep3 u forget its still sky high above ur average car out there. Got back into the average every day car and the difference was fkn tremendous

Lol true dat. I drive my old camry to work and to places i wouldn't park the EP3 and The handling is too scary lol. Mind you it has over 370 000kms on it but still going strong!

**JDM EP3** · 08-10-2012 12:14 AM

So I was in Bock Hill (Box Hill) last night and was parked on the main street when I spotted a FL EP3 saw a guy taking pictures of it and started talking to him. He was telling me it was his before he sold it and had done some mods like exhaust and j's racing ECU but no headers or exhaust and saw that the new owner had done some other work like gauges and stuff. Asked they previous owner if he tracked it and he told me no. WTF??? why mod your car and not do anything with it but drive it at legal speed limits?
As I was about to leave I see the new owner go over to his car and same shit. Might as well buy a camry and put cromies on it. Seriously why mod your car to go faster and handle better when all you will do is drive it on the roads as a daily. Ultimate fail imo.

**bluey45** · 08-10-2012 07:25 AM

Originally Posted by Icebox

what happened to your Ep3 =0? i dont see it parked outside where the tafe parking is no more

Still have it Icebox lol. Just parked in garage, was just test driving my parents corolla.

**butterfingers** · 08-10-2012 09:43 AM

Originally Posted by JDM EP3

So I was in Bock Hill (Box Hill) last night and was parked on the main street when I spotted a FL EP3 saw a guy taking pictures of it and started talking to him. He was telling me it was his before he sold it and had done some mods like exhaust and j's racing ECU but no headers or exhaust and saw that the new owner had done some other work like gauges and stuff. Asked they previous owner if he tracked it and he told me no. WTF??? why mod your car and not do anything with it but drive it at legal speed limits?
As I was about to leave I see the new owner go over to his car and same shit. Might as well buy a camry and put cromies on it. Seriously why mod your car to go faster and handle better when all you will do is drive it on the roads as a daily. Ultimate fail imo.

ultimately like u said, its in your opinion. maybe he just wants the extra oompf and the sound. maybe the extra kW figures stroke his ego.

**JDM EP3** · 08-10-2012 10:20 AM

Originally Posted by butterfingers

ultimately like u said, its in your opinion. maybe he just wants the extra oompf and the sound. maybe the extra kW figures stroke his ego.

Asian penor complexity?

**butterfingers** · 08-10-2012 10:21 AM

Originally Posted by JDM EP3

Asian penor complexity?

Could be man

**Symphorced** · 08-10-2012 03:29 PM

Originally Posted by JDM EP3

So I was in Bock Hill (Box Hill) last night and was parked on the main street when I spotted a FL EP3 saw a guy taking pictures of it and started talking to him. He was telling me it was his before he sold it and had done some mods like exhaust and j's racing ECU but no headers or exhaust and saw that the new owner had done some other work like gauges and stuff. Asked they previous owner if he tracked it and he told me no. WTF??? why mod your car and not do anything with it but drive it at legal speed limits?
As I was about to leave I see the new owner go over to his car and same shit. Might as well buy a camry and put cromies on it. Seriously why mod your car to go faster and handle better when all you will do is drive it on the roads as a daily. Ultimate fail imo.

lolol last time I spoke to you a couple of months back you said you weren't interested in tracking either?? Many people buy Ferraris, Porsches etc. and don't track them either....

**JDM EP3** · 08-10-2012 05:49 PM

Originally Posted by Symphorced

lolol last time I spoke to you a couple of months back you said you weren't interested in tracking either?? Many people buy Ferraris, Porsches etc. and don't track them either....

I know what your saying but I think you might have misconstruded what I meant,what I was saying is that I dont mind tracking apart from the cost (track days at $200+), thus I was saying that I wasnt interested in tracking on a regular basis.
The guys with porches or Ferraris usually dont go spending money doing mods to them and barely drive them at all its just for them to take it on a night out while they drop $400 on some wagu steak with their ugly ass slut like brianne eccestone, who the fcuk would want to be seen with her??? But if you look most have very low km's.

**Symphorced** · 08-10-2012 09:21 PM

LOL. I guess different people get kicks out of doing different things. Many, many awesome builds over all over the world (including Australia) which have race inspired mods but don't go out onto the track. I'd never do such a thing as I don't have that sort of cash myself, but for the people who do, I can respect their decisions to wanting to own a car modified to their own taste without wanting to track it.

**butterfingers** · 09-10-2012 08:37 AM

Originally Posted by Symphorced

LOL. I guess different people get kicks out of doing different things. Many, many awesome builds over all over the world (including Australia) which have race inspired mods but don't go out onto the track. I'd never do such a thing as I don't have that sort of cash myself, but for the people who do, I can respect their decisions to wanting to own a car modified to their own taste without wanting to track it.

exactly what i was saying.

on another note, got the car back after the master and slave cylinders got replaced and clutch felt awesome again.

i noticed there was fk all free play at the time i picked it up. by the time i got home with it, there was 1-2 cm more free play. is that normal? i know thats its not good to have no free play at all, but im worried about whether its normal for the free-play to adjust itself as i operate it.

**Poeter** · 09-10-2012 10:36 AM

Originally Posted by JDM EP3

So I was in Bock Hill (Box Hill) last night and was parked on the main street when I spotted a FL EP3 saw a guy taking pictures of it and started talking to him. He was telling me it was his before he sold it and had done some mods like exhaust and j's racing ECU but no headers or exhaust and saw that the new owner had done some other work like gauges and stuff. Asked they previous owner if he tracked it and he told me no. WTF??? why mod your car and not do anything with it but drive it at legal speed limits?
As I was about to leave I see the new owner go over to his car and same shit. Might as well buy a camry and put cromies on it. Seriously why mod your car to go faster and handle better when all you will do is drive it on the roads as a daily. Ultimate fail imo.

I think you'll find alot of ep3 owners who don't track with mods or not. Most just mod for blinginess for what I've figured. For example, I've seen many ep3 or ek's or eg with all these strut bars, funky coloured lower arm bars + LCA.

Quite honestly, i think these body reinforcement mods are just dead weights for most people. A typical driver don't have the driving skills or push the car hard enough benefit from these mods. For most case when someone claims they do feel a difference, it's more of placebo effect. Normally, I think it takes professional driver or someone with good circuit racing experience to feel minute difference.

Therefore, many just mod for bling rather than function. Not ultimate fail but that's what some people pursue.