Best moderate priced upgrade

[BobM]

Hi guys, I was wondering what the best moderately priced upgrades to the Peugeot RCZ would be? I have seen people on the from wrap the interior door pulls with carbon fibre which I love so will do, any other things you can recommend? I also saw someone one here paint the brake callipers gold and I thought they looked awesome too so I'm thinking about doing that. I need a new gear knob as mine is not looking its best so if you have any recommendations on that front it would be much appreciated. Anything else?

Best Bob

 

[Bart]

One of the things I've done to our RCZ is change the gear know as it had the rather tired looking standard version:
(not my picture)

The new one is a 2403 metal one:


One of the other options I looked at was a Citroen/DS one as well (2403 GF I believe):


It looks a lot better in my opinion.

 

[BobM]

One of the things I've done to our RCZ is change the gear know as it had the rather tired looking standard version:
View attachment 13315 (not my picture)

The new one is a 2403 metal one:
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One of the other options I looked at was a Citroen/DS one as well (2403 GF I believe):
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It looks a lot better in my opinion.

Thanks Bart, I agree it looks much nicer. I think I may go with one of them. I was recommended something similar in another thread and liked that too.

Cheers Bob

 

[will_berry70]

There's always a stage 1 remap for extra power. About £250-300 and I think 15-25% power according to their dyno figures.

 

[BobM]

There's always a stage 1 remap for extra power. About £250-300 and I think 15-25% power according to their dyno figures.

I heard that this can mess up the engine by putting stress on other parts? I don't know a thing about cars so cannot say if it's true or not.

 

[BobM]

There's always a stage 1 remap for extra power. About £250-300 and I think 15-25% power according to their dyno figures.

I just checked Celtic tuning and it gave me these figure for my car. I must say it's really impressive.

 

[BobM]

Can anyone speak on wether or not this is accurate and does it affect the car negatively?

Best Bob

 

[will_berry70]

Given that Peugeot have a stock 200hp RCZ already, and I doubt they redesigned the car for it, I'd be very surprised if that wasn't harmless. But I'm no expert

 

[Pedro]

Clutch & HPF are the ones to watch out for +the odd turbo thrown in then its possibly trouble with the drivetrain I nearly remapped mine to 230 on a 200 GT but when I researched it the cons outweighed the pros-more power does mean faster take offs & acceleration & more stress in the clutch Dept etc

 

[BobM]

Clutch & HPF are the ones to watch out for +the odd turbo thrown in then its possibly trouble with the drivetrain I nearly remapped mine to 230 on a 200 GT but when I researched it the cons outweighed the pros-more power does mean faster take offs & acceleration & more stress in the clutch Dept etc

Thanks Pedro, I would rather not take the chance if that's the case. I really like how mine drives and handles already.

 

[Bart]

If you like it don't change it. My experience is most people never use a cars maximum power and I can outdrive most people in a 145HP old MX-5

Our RCZ was tuned before we bought it (156->190 HP) and most of the time it's a lot nicer to just cruise but I don't know how it drives stock. My old Laguna was tuned, 205 to 245 HP but that was just to get rid of the turbolag at lower revs. Well, mostly anyways...