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What year? I'd say a GC8 around 4 seconds with the right tyres and driver... they get quite a bit slower after that.

geeking out over a legacy wagon. so sad.

According to FB Chris is away for a couple or three weeks so the dyno should be available for others to use. At least I hope so.

looks pretty good to me.

Silver R with a white bonnet? All ECUs are pretty much the same to be honest... you have a fuel table, a timing table, boost table and then all the compensation tables and settings etc etc. If my car was mechanically okay I would have just gone to Chris as well.

Chris Wall ex DTech and STM has come back to Wellington and started a new company. https://www.facebook.com/prestigetuningnz/ And of course there is macbilt where my car currently is... they haven't tuned it yet because it still has some significant problems, but I have high hopes for them fixing it and then doing a great tune. https://www.facebook.com/macbilt.

The left side of the motor runs lean and the right runs rich... so possibly when an O2 sensor says it's not rich it's just the overall reading isn't rich... but I'm not sure if that's how those sensors work exactly. Al suspects the cams are not dialled in correctly so is going to pull the motor to degree them. So that's the motor pulled 3 times in a year and I've only used it once!

Sorry, I see you have a newer model... I saw you use the word "cheap" so assumed you had a GC8

I have both front and rear CG8 STi swaybars I am not using.

You will notice a difference in handling... and noise, with most bushings. They are generally really hard to change if you don't have special tools and/or a press with the right fittings. If you are determined and don't mind some hard work and can invent new tools with what you find lying around in the corners of your garage, you will be able to change some of them yourself. Others you'll need a press for, no way around it.

Fingers crossed I haven't done much damage... I opened the oil filter that was on the engine for the first 500km and there are only really small pieces of metal through it. Rick reckons from my description it's a normal amount for a fresh motor.

I don't know yet, but am guessing the higher CR meant the tune was no good... I should have just taken it directly to get tuned rather than thinking I could run it in first. I am basically a giant retard. I thought the moderate driving I was doing would be fine... Al said the det was really loud... I couldn't hear a thing Don't know yet... wait for more info... probably just start again and fix it. I don't have much choice... I can't sell it or use it.

I have an update from macbilt... engine is detonating like crazy at 4k rpm, so I may have F***ed it already. I'm so happy I bought a modified WRX.

Or petrol will clean it up.

I don't know if he's tuning it personally... Just meant that he has the car and Ive only spoken to him about the problems and other stuff I want done.

Al Maclennan has it this time... he'll be using Shreds old dyno.

Disconnect the bottom of the fuel filler pipe at the fuel tank... it will come out very fast though. Why do you need to do this?

Having to add a lot of oil... a litre every 300 kms... that's a big improvement though, it was a litre every 70km before the rebuild. This has been going on for a year... I have replaced the valve stem seals, turbo, full short block rebuild, breather system has been sorted, no leaks. I have suspected that it's over fuelling for a long time but been told by two tuners that it's not rich. The thing is though that the oil rings were rooted both times the tune was checked, so I think that the amount of oil in the mix corrupted the readings. Third time is a charm... I just hope I haven't screwed the rings and/or bores already.

Dropped it off at macbilt so they can tune and hopefully stop it from using just as much oil as it did before I rebuilt the whole F***ing motor.

What do you mean that the studs came out of the block? It doesn't make any sense.

Zetum ZU37 road Dunlop DZ03G M2 compound for short sprints / autox. Nothing for the track yet.

mine will bounce off the limiter... I've not had a problem like yours though. sounds like a bug in the matrix.

http://www.jp-carparts.com/subaru/cartypelist.php?maker=subaru&car_baseid=F14000

BYO wheels. Ugliest car ever?

A 300kw subby has never been easy.