[/img]thankyou so much for your information guys!
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yes its still the green 96\' v2 GF8 wrx
as far as I am aware the v1 WRX and v1 STi had little to no difference engine wise and that it was the ECU which made it go harder (am I correct?) so with that in mind I decided that it would be okay to run a TD05 and v1 STi ECU (just so happens that I come across the most aggressive ECU).
I have some supporting mods such as a 2.5" free flow turbo back exhaust, mechanical mbc and I decided on just a free flow panel filter (HKS) as I was told that unless im tuning the car loads it would be a waste of time installing a pod filter and allot of warm engine air unless its devised to suck air from the outside.
thanks for letting me know about the fuel pump I will get onto buying a new one in the next week or so.
yes I have a green AFM and the stock 380 injectors.
okay so that picture you posted.... mine looks different, the big difference is that I have no chip in the upper left corner of that photo with the numbers F54P etc etc but the SA outer case sticker is the same but no blue dot (not that the case matters much) and the blue 000 RZ0 sticker on the yellow female 4 plug is the same (looks untampred too).
so would I be right to start thinking that this is a different ECU if there isn\'t that chip on the board?
it doesn\'t look like there is evidence that there ever was a chip there just the solder blobs for a chip to be soldered in.
I will upload a photo of mine shortly so you can see what I mean.
it doesn\'t bother me if it isn\'t the SA type ECU but i would like to know which ECU it is so that when its installed i know what boost to set on the mbc.
thank you so much for your time & help guys i\'m really grateful!