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Bias vote but V8 for me, was best valve for the money that I had to spend. -6 Speed Box/DCCD -Brembos -Quick Rack Steering -Watersprayer The rest is simply my opinion, I like the body style over all the other shapes (except for the 22B) nicest head lights (HID) and tail lights in my opinion, factory pumped out gaurds, nice seats/interior. Looks good from all angles.

I\'d be swapping over a know good 2nd hand air-flow meter (maybe another members if they close by, as it may not even be the issue and stuff paying that much on a hope. Could be a number of things really, have you tried getting fault codes?

Can you do that with a GFB BOV problem is it\'s a twin trumpet style one, wondering if you could Recirc even half of it, or would that just be a waste of time.

How much you after for it? Could be keen.

Hey guys, Might be a random question, but when I brought my car it had a GFB BOV fitted. I\'m sure it does the job fine but it\'s stupidly loud and those days are behind me. What are your recomendations as far as a replacement one goes, do I try and track down a stock one (are they any good)? Is their a brand that works well but isn\'t extremely loud or even adjustable? Just want to know what peoples thoughts are. Cheers

It\'s bloody nice country to drive in, went to Wanaka through Cromwell a few weeks ago as a mate had a voucher to have a go flying a Heli. Was a bit jelous that I didn\'t have a go really.

Pretty keen on a Process West one aye, I\'ve had some unforseen expenses come up so have to be carefull what I spend in the next couple months. I seen you had a HKS system come up the other day at a good price to, everything always seems to come up at the wrong time. Anyways cheers for the help SPOON and evowrx its good to be able to bounce some ideas around. Will let you know how I get on.

Yeah I definatly wouldn\'t say its a coil pack, least this is helping to point me in the right direction though I\'m quite keen on getting some Process West stuff soon TMIC and their fuel pump/surge tank setup. So don\'t want to do the fuel pump till then if I can avoid it.

Well when I noticed it doing it I stopped on a straight flat piece of road, and held it flat right through the gears and it went fine. It\'s kinda life it\'s coming on and off power right through to redline. But not drasticly I mean if you didn\'t know you probably wouldn\'t noticed it.

Will do some more testing over the weekend, is octane boosters alright to use just want to rule DET out? Heard mixed storys about them. Definatly only does it under load, for example 3rd gear pull from 50k\'s. Kinda like my Silvia used to do when it had a stuffed coil pack and could only pick it up under load, but not the bad miss like that though.

Yeah I\'ve been down that track before with a Legacy, a workshop who I used to trust replaced AFM, knock sensor, coil packs. Apparently they were chasing the fault around the engine bay (their words). This is a long time ago, not taken for a ride so easily now, just wouldn\'t think I would be looking at replacing sensors with only 60,000km\'s on the clock and definatly hasn\'t had a hard life. Cheers for the offer but couldn\'t really be futher away, bottom of the deep south. Might give AFM cleaner a try.

Yeah surging like in acceleration (seat of the pants feel), might just take it into Subaru and see what they recon don\'t really want to mess with it to much myself. Just thought it might be something simple, but yeah it\'s very hard to diagnose over the internet lol.

Yeah well thats what I was thinking, couldn\'t really understand why it would do it when it was cold outside / hot I could understand a bit more. I know my Silvia used to run higher PSI in really cold temps, could it be hitting factory boost cut? Seems a bit strange though.

Don\'t mind paying the money to fix it whatever the cause, I thought AFM\'s don\'t throw codes and the only way to test is with a good known unit. Have no boost gauge so can\'t really tell whats going on with boost levels etc.

Definatly in the feel and not noise, its like it\'s loosing power then coming on and off boost not really bad but enough to notice I would say more when under load. Doesn\'t seem to do it from a stand still and running up through the gears. It\'s a bit weird just enough to be annoying. Last night the temps were -2 degrees so thought it would be running really good. Would love to run it on 98 but nearest station is over 2 hours away. Guess I go get it plugged into diagnostic gear and go from there, just annoys me as most of the time they just start replacing sensors with no real idea on whats going on (past experiences). Just thought it might be something common, bov doesn\'t seem to be adjustable and seams to seal from what I can see and hear, would like to try a stock BOV to rule it out though.

Hey guys, First of the cars a 2003 WRX STI NZ New only done 60,000kms, when on boost in say third gear it seems to surge not really bad but definatly noticable. Not the cars pretty much stock standard, all thats been changed is a GFB BOV (which was fitted by previous owner) and the end muffler changed same thing though prior to me owning it. I\'m thinking it might be a fuel pump? Or maybe pulling timing because I can only get 95 where I live, but it doesn\'t do it all the time. Any suggestions will be helpfull. Cheers

Yeah man sure did, hope your still stoaked with the E-Tune.

I\'d be keen to go to a meet or something even a track day at Teratonga, my cars a V8 WRX STI in Blue, still with factory gold mags. If you see me floating around.

Yeah pretty much, I work for a Honda Motorcycles dealership you would be surprised what does get through under warrenty.

Not quite correct, dealers will cover anything that is a defect from factory under warrenty. I know this makes for another bit of a grey area. It\'s like most things theres a lot of "good will" for example if you brought a new Navara and took it off road and something broke they would probably cover it under "good will" to keep the brands reputation within reason. Same situation on taking a new WRX to a track day, but the problem is where do you draw the line. If you were doing a lot of quater miles and dumping the clutch would you expect the gearbox and clutch to be covered, same with a motox bike some 450 guys start in third on limiter, so you could imagion how long a clutch or even a gearbox will last.

Penrite 5W-40 for me (changed from Castrol even though I work for a Castrol agent) was going to run Motul 300V but even at trade price I couldn\'t really justify it even though I\'m sure it\'s a good oil. Serviced every 5,000km V8 WRX STI.

Current car just purchase price and servicing costs, I know my Nissan 180SX ended up oweing me over $20K but at the end of the day it\'s a hobbie. Between cars and motox it\'s a good way to stay broke but what else would you spend your money on. I mean some people have push bikes worth $20k or more, or do sea fishing $100k or more. So cars are cheap in the scheme of things. Its like most things though as long as you can afford it, thats the main thing.

If you guys are talking about mine, stock as far as I know. Going to be getting different mags and coil overs shortly just working out some options at the moment. Got some big plans for it in the future just as time and funds allow. Going to keep all the factory stuff so if I ever sell again can turn back to stock.

My new car, pretty stoaked with it NZ New and only 60,000km and has been well looked after and not stuffed round with.

Yeah gone past there minimum thickness, done Zenolli rotors on work mates Evo 7 running Brembos and seemed a good upgrade over stock rotors and pads. Nah based on good old Gore lol.