Yes, it will be Imperial MPG, Canada is a British Commonwealth country, we signed a piece of paper for independence. Yes, the AWD is the same weight as the V8 cars, 4100 pounds. It still runs high 14's in the 1/4 bone stock. The back up camera and collision warning is super helpful on this car, a lot of blind spots. The auto dimming head lights and automatic, adjustable distance between other cars, cruise control, work great for the distracted or tired drivers, I am both. Also the heated mirrors and steering wheel are nice, along with the really nice AWD make Winter driving awesome. The heated and cooled front seats and automatic climate control make all weather conditions comfortable. The factory command starting is very appreciated in -40, not bad in +35C either. The V6 is whisper quiet and uses almost 0 oil in the 10000+ km full synthetic oil changes. The stock exhaust note is perfect, just loud enough when opened up. I have used a couple of different filters. These cartridge filters are an interesting idea. I had the plastic end break off on the Motormaster OE Plus synthetic blend filter, 88-91not using that one again. The K+N filter seemed decent. I used a Castrol full synthetic filter. This line looks well made in all the filters. I will probably go that route from now on, available local and under $15 on sale at Canadian Tire. I got a Purolator Pure One synthetic blend for about a $1 cheaper off Amazon. These used to be a really nice filter, a nice looking, white media with plenty of pleats. This car is my Wife's baby, I plan on keeping it forever. I am eventually planning a Redeye dual snorkel hood, same as the Hellkitty. It would be left in Gelcoat Black with a low gloss clear to protect it. Then a Hellcat air box and tube to work with the functional forced air hood. That hood reminds me a lot of the Oldsmobile W25 hood, I really like it. I would also do the PUG or ported lower intake and bigger throttle body, Ripp coils, actually dyno proven for a few HP and probably would help MPG. A Hemifever tune would also be done, I would pick up a spare ECM and have it done on it. The exhaust is super tricky to not sound like a ricer due to the exhaust shorty header built into the head itself. The cats are the most restrictive part of the exhaust, everything else is straight through. I would do the opposite of everyone else and do the head pipes first. AFE has head pipes with high flow cats in stainless, bigger where it comes off the head and eliminates a couple of factory kinks in the pipes. They claim 7hp and 11 ft/lbs of torque. I would also do a better X pipe then the factory as well. Supposedly the better X pipe lowers the tone slightly and is a hair louder. The Ripp and Sprintex Superchargers both work but both have minor issues. Sprintex won't allow the stock hood to close. Supposedly there was revised design that did work with the stock hood and now they pretend it doesn't exist, WTF🤨. Their instructions suck and usually minor parts are missing for $5500 US. Just under 400 whp and similar torque. The Ripp also has minor issues, is a easier centrifugal Supercharger bolt on, makes more hp but less torque, around the same power and also has minor issues. Both would make it a 12 flat 1/4 mile car. Supposedly there are better tunes than the supplied, tuned ECM. Honestly the smaller ZF 8 speed isn't my main worry at failure, it is rated at 440 ft/lbs of torque. It is the tiny front, aluminum diff on these AWD cars. It can only take so much punishment, looks really small, need to find the specs. If I go this route, I would probably keep a spare on hand.
