Thread: I really hope this car has more supporting mods

97s have retarded mystery knock, but account for the majority of the factory freaks.

Yeah 97s sure are like the plague! Some are fine, some are a PITA to work around the first year bugs and slow pcms. In this guys defense a number of years back a good friend of mine had a 97 with a 3.25 pulley, slp intake with ram air hood, downpipe, stock pcm, and borla catback and never had KR problems at all and was pretty strong up top for the time! When high to mid 13s was the numbers to run and try to catch up to lol. After tuning software came out we discovered that the pcm was only programmed with squat for timing which probably saved his butt in the long run! I guess it isnt a fair comparison though since his car DID have a passanger seat