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Originally Posted by Fraxum
It is my understanding that most modern cars do not benefit from undercoating. I do not think I have ever seen a rusty 4th gen.
I had three of them. I do like.
It seems like with that MPH in your sig you can be low 13s easy. I want to start tracking my 5th gen. But will I break my axles? I am such a chicken. I broke a couple of 4th gen 10 bolts. Now I am gun shy.
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They do, especially in the rear. I've seen 4th gens that rust out at the rockers, and the rear quarters. Worse yet they always seem to rust out in the floor pans first before you see it elsewhere. Mine only has 36K but it had rust just from sitting on the floors. Wasn't bad (surface), but you could see the piss poor coverage under the car from the factory left it open to start oxidizing pretty quickly.
And yes, I know I could have hit 13s but I ran out of runs and it was my first time driving anything on a true strip with a tree. I had something ridiculously stupid in the neighborhood of a .8 reaction time. I'll have to dig out my slips.
Only downside of undercoating the car is that I still shell out some money when I redo the rear, driveshaft and suspension; they weren't touched since they were stock. Also, it was so nice of them to get a bit of overspray on the exhaust; gonna have noxious fumes for the next month or so if I Stabil it now, or a week or so if I can drive it.