Minor update on the car / build.
BFI motor and trans mounts are great.
I still have a rocking/bucking on acceleration and deceleration in the lower, torque-ier gears (mostly 1st and 2nd), and a slight hesitation or hiccup in the higher gears (3,4,5). I don't think it's the mounts anymore, having brand new motor and trans mounts, and brand new dogbone lower and upper insert. Unless my dogbone bushing itself is trashed, but it seems unlikely to me after only 3 years and 23k miles of casual city driving. No launches, no track days, no tune. It's just a daily driver.
My latest inclination is it could be the dual-mass flywheel somehow, or something with the clutch. I'd love a different clutch setup anyways as I've never been very fond of the OEM one, so I'm debating on whether or not it's worth it to save up for that. But in any case the lurching is kind of driving me nuts and ruining the driving experience in a way.
On another negative note my VWR + stock dampers setup is for sure deteriorating. Suspension feels crashy over any little bump.
Over the weekend I made some small coding tweaks.
Removed Direct Acceleration Tweak.
I did this to attempt to put things back to stock to see if it would help the engine rocking. It didn't, really.
Then I coded my tail lights to ROW settings so only the outers light up on braking. Previously I had inner and outer light on braking, but there was a slight delay from outer to inner that I couldn't figure out how to get rid of and thought it would be cleaner without.
Other than that I haven't paid the car too much attention in the way of mods lately. Had a kid 8 months ago and it has worked well for baby duty. It actually has more rear seat room for the car seat than my wife's CX-5. Was pleasantly surprised about that.
On that note I scored some OEM pop-in shades for the rear windows and hatch, locally, for free! They work great.
There's lot's of things I'd still like to do to the car, ideally:
- minimal looking front splitter
- proper summer tires
- clutch (probably DIY ttrs)
- ECU tune
- coilovers or better shocks
I don't know if or when these things will happen, but probably not anytime soon.