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It will be the width. GC8's don't like 225 wide tyres without rolling gaurds. Even though rolling diameter is the same due to offset the wheel has moved 7mm further out and then the tyre has gained another 10mm in width to the outside. Go to a 215 tyre and it will likely be fine. If you have lowered suspension this will make gaurd rubbing even worse. I am running 215/45R17 tyres on ET53 wheels and no rubbing at all. The 22B also has HUGE gaurds compared to a stock GC8, making room for the extra width.

Has anyone run a turbocare TCRX400 turbo on their car? Any results? Cheers

Seems a bit odd but a gull station 20mins away has force 10 so may have to use this one for the time being. Does anyone know what the story is? Are they discontinuing it or just taking it out of some stations? Also further to this, i actually have a VF36 turbo so it could be insteresting putting the VF22 P20 housing on it and running that instead if i need a retune. Has anyone got any real life feedback with a VF36 and p20 single scroll rear housing?

Haha Reviving an old thread. So I ended up finding a brand new VF22 from dodsons motorsport on trademe at less than half the price of a new aftermarket turbo. They had 3 of them sitting under a bench in the back of there workshop for years thay they found in a clean up. Fitted a IWG75 wastegate actuator. Then imported a ported matched up pipe from the UK, that tappered smoothly from the 60mm header collector down to 47mm to match the turbo exhaust housing. Also ported the housing and the wastegate. Fitted soem intake manifold spacers to keep intske temps along with a turbo beanie plus the factory heatsheild overtop of the turbo beanie. Car tuned on Gull force 10 98 made 255kw at wheels and 444nms torque. Been extremely fun! Have run a 12.15sec 1/4 mile at only 104mph as i missed 5th gear so coasted from top of 4th to the line. Left some time on the table there. (I know People will debate a VF22 will make that power but thats what the dyno sheet says and the 1/4 mile time i think is representative of that power also especially coasting from 4th. Have dragy footage to back it up) Now my problem is Gull has stopped supplying force 10 98 to my local station. So I will need a retune for another type of fuel. And possibly lose some power due to no ethanol content. So considering again. A slightly larger stock location bolt on turbo, since i will need a tune anyway. Has anyone had experience with the turbo care tcrx400 turbo? Or them as a company? Also looking at the GCG again. Be quite fun to hit 270-280kw if the 5 soeed box and open deck block would take it.

You could get a Red STI intercooler to throttle body hose. Looks OEM. What about 3D printing your turbo to airbox hose out of some decent plastic? Could look OEM and less likely to absorb heat, compared to alloy. You could paint the top of the Radiator black to look OEM. Just some quick ideas that came to mind. I like the idea of stock looking engine bays.

The biggest thing is to always rinse the underneath of the car with fresh water after every single time you go on the beach. Rinse through any underbody trays, and into any holes in the chassis where sand can get into. As far as tyres go, standard road tyres are fine in the sand, in fact they some times work better than A/T's and M/T's. The biggest thing is having a decent tyre that you can let the pressure down if you need to. Perhaps get some smaller wheels and then tyres with a bigger sidewall. Letting the tyres down in pressure makes a world of difference and reduces the load on the transmission. Always pays to carry a mobile compressor on board so you can inflate them again as soon as you get back onto the road. You will be surprised how well it will go on the sand. The Subaru AWD system is very good!!

An RA too by the looks. Makes it a bit sad.

Ideal!

Gutted. Just be wary that you will most likely get hit with customs duty and GST on its arrival when getting it in from australia.

Prestige tuning in Wellington are dealers for Xforce. Could be an option, being a little bit closer.

Good info. I am running an internal wastegate. Will most likely leave the stock actuator based in info above.

Thanks @boon very insightful info!!. The car is tuned with a LinkG4 and 3 port solenoid so no AFM. 3 port is plumbed to wastegate, compressor housing and turbo Intake.

Fair enough. But it is nice when people explain themselves and share their knowledge around how things work and why something is a good/bad idea.

Cheers thats helpful info. Perhaps I just stay with the stock actuator then if its not really going to make any difference to boost response etc.

Yep I am using a 3 port solenoid and the first tune up on the car worked fine. I have since changed a couple of things on my set up so I am going back to dyno to have the tune tidied up at end of March. Before doing so I wanted to do some research into these actuators to see if i would potentially see some further gains by changing to one. Would it be right to think a 12-14psi spring should mean the car should get to 12-14psi faster/easier as the wastegate is managing this before the 3 port solenoid takes over to manage boost control from there on after. I may be completely wrong in my understanding of all this, but I figured if you don't ask you don't know. There doesn't seem to be any info documented online of people using them, so maybe its not worth doing.