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    Welded internal wastegates

    in Engine Related

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    Never done it myself, but if the welds are half decent you are going to spend some happy hours with a die grinder and then probably have to replace the WG flapper 

    turbo dependant it would be easier and possibly cheaper to get a new exhaust housing and WG assembly 

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    Rookie engine building mistakes.

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    I think I get the idea of this thread - Comment your dur dur engine building or other mod moments for others entertainment and mutual facepalmage 

     

    • When I was 17 I was rebuilding my MY05 KXF250 - put it all back together and didn't torque the cam journals to spec, just tightened them up real good. Started it and the Cams picked up and seized within the first 10 seconds of it running. lesson learnt! 
    • Tried filling and painting a massive stone chip on my bonnet once, ended up getting the whole front of the car painted... I hate painting 

     

     

     

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    What have you done to your car today?

    in General Vehicle Discussion

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    1 minute ago, Dairusire said:

    Yep! :D

    Hahaha honestly, there's that thought going through my head which says I've got a Rev D, I have the right sump, and I've got sti headers and a. Vf36 just sitting there. How long will the standy twin turbos last emoji14.png

    You also have like 3 people in the area with Tactrix cables ready to go. Given the supporting evidence it would be wrong not to convert it. 

    Dyno run

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    36 minutes ago, Pappu1 said:

    if there are confirmed entries, i can see through and find what my local dyno place would do..

    in Manukay btw

    Always good to have pricing and details from more than one shop, I say go for it! 

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    Dyno run

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    2 hours ago, Individualities said:

    Same here. Just for s***s and gigs. Happily make a trip down if I'm not working (seasonal work). 

     

    Edit: if I was to make it down, how long/hard would it be to raise the redline on my car to 8000rpm @A_J_T? 

    Entirely dependent on if I have a definition to read your ECU. I dont think I do, if i did its a 10 minute thing

    2 hours ago, Andy_Mac said:

    Everyone was down at least 20-30kw over what they were expecting.

     

    Yea mine was down from 213kw to 193kw that day, a lot of people seemed upset about it but I was stoked that mine made 193 that day.. it was hot and humid and the boost mine hit confirmed it was pulling a little cause it was set to target 20psi and would consistently hit 20 on a cool day. That being said i did have to ask to have them toss a fan in front of it.. so wont be going back to them sadly.

     

    @PBMS you're up, not sure if you monitor this anymore though :( will email y'all

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    Dyno run

    in General Vehicle Discussion

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    Id be keen to toss my BE5 on and see how the DIY tune is actually performing haha. If we get enough interest im happy to make some calls and get group prices etc.. generally speaking i think 10 is the lowest number of cars to make it cost effective 

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    Rev d single turbo

    in Legacy & Outback

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    I've never seen one of these small turbos do that haha. Hopefully shavings from the comp wheel have not gotten into valve seats or anything. 

     

    Power wise with a TD06 you are probably looking at 230ish kw depending how well its tuned. Open deck blocks are good for that.. injectors will be the limiting factor here I think. 

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    Rev d single turbo

    in Legacy & Outback

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    @Gtbforme If you plan to self learn and do some tuning then i'd look into using the GReddy further. If it allows on the fly tuning then its absolutely worthwhile getting it setup. thats the only advantage i can see it having... Stock ECU can do everything, Launch control, multiple boost maps etc.. but one of the major limiting factors and frustrations with the stock ECU is you have to stop the car and connect a jumper every time you want to flash changes. if you could dial in base timing and boost while on the move that would be a massive gain, especially while learning.. imo anyway. 

     

     

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    Rev d single turbo

    in Legacy & Outback

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    20 minutes ago, Gtbforme said:

    That's hard out. The way I saw it was, I have a $1000 ecu sitting around, and it has the loom for my car. Seems odd it was ever setup for that plug layout if it were pointless.i mean getting a reflash or buying cables I've not heard of seems a lot more hassle and cost and time, then just plugging in the ecu I have right in front of me that's already setup for a v7 sti. Or am I missing something? 

    By the sounds of it the Greddy unit will flash data onto the stock ECU. Unsure never seen one before. regardless of what you go for you will need it reflashed anyway. You cant just toss in the Greddy and go, It sounds like the Greddy unit is currently mapped for a V7 STI so at minimum you will need to compensate for the higher compression ratio I would think. WRX STI runs 8:1 cr while the Rev-D is 9:1. 

     

    Long story short, unless you plan on tuning it yourself i'd stick with the stock ECU as its much simpler, less to go wrong and more common for ease of tuning.. sell the piggyback for some cash back 

    Rev d single turbo

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    Posted · Edited by A_J_T

    16 hours ago, Gtbforme said:

    Well that's bloody good news. How do they go about tuning the rev d denso ecu? Where do you send it to be reflashed? Seems like the greddy piggyback along with the sti flashed ecu would offer a world of tuning possibilities. I like the idea of having everything accessable from my laptop which the greddy allows for. Anyone done a td06? Any difficulty with oil or water feed? Front mount should keep everything fairly accessable with heaps of room I'm hoping

     

    TD06 should be fine, oil and water feed is normal Subaru layout. Going FMIC is smart as you said it frees up space.

     

     

    In regards to the ECU, you can connect to it with a Tactrix cable and log everything and flash changes directly to the ECU. pretty sure the Greddy unit wont be worth the while. The only thing I can think of is if the Greddy allows for on the fly real time changes to the map? 

     

    Check this thread out mate.

     

     

    Rev d single turbo

    in Legacy & Outback

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    13 hours ago, Individualities said:

     

    From memory the EJ207 has always had some sort of AVCS. So the base WRX STI tune won't exactly work?

    Just thinking in terms of drive ability. Cos how I'll probably do mine being based up North is drive to Auckland for a tune. Unless Chequered Flag up here end up getting a dyno. 

    You are correct, but you can simply zero out all the AVCS tables rendering it disabled. Mine was flashed and tuned with a V7 STI rom that way 

    Now i'm on the carberry rom which operates similar, it has AVCS capability but i'm not using it 

     

    In regards to getting it to the tune location, it will drive absolutely fine on the TT ROM

    Rev d single turbo

    in Legacy & Outback

    Posted

    G'day, welcome to the forum and welcome to the ever increasing ST conversion club 

     

    With the Rev-D it is really simple, just follow the Single Turbo conversion thread for all the hardware changes, blocking oil lines etc but no need to make any ECU changes. It is tunable so you just flash the stock Denso ECU with a WRX STI ROM and tune it from there. 

    Dont wast time with any piggyback ECU 

    Have a read of the conversions done on here. there are a number of Rev-D conversions kicking around including a couple of my own. 

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    Rev D reflash stuffs

    in Legacy & Outback

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    1 minute ago, 02 RSK said:

    When I open that file on a word document, it comes up with a whole paragraph of codes. I assume that is correct and expected? And after that, how do I upload this tune onto my ECU? Someone mentioned tactrix cable, is that the only thing needed to transfer this tune onto my ecu through my laptop? Thanks

    Dont open it with any text editor of any kind, if you accidentally edit anything in there incorrectly its not ideal. even changing the formatting can cause issues. 

     

    You need one of these Tactrix Openport 2.0 

    The application to open the file is ECUFlash which can be found here http://www.openecu.org/index.php?title=EcuFlash

    Romraider is another great tool for editing the ROM and Logging the car 

     

    Given the level you are at, My suggestion would be get someone that knows more to flash the rom on for you. Then they can run some data-logging and ensure its doing the right things for your car. That being said if you want to learn more we all start somewhere so the other suggestion would be read a whole lot about tuning and logging before moving any further on making an actual change, then when you have a good understanding go buy a cable and start with just datalogging and understanding the current tune on the car... 

     

     

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    What have you done to your car today?

    in General Vehicle Discussion

    Posted · Edited by A_J_T
    dur dur

    13 hours ago, Andy_Mac said:

    Just what I needed....

     

    Time to get out the soldering iron! Nice work with the soldering iron! 

     

     

    15 hours ago, Andy_Mac said:

     

    Don't know how you guys do it aye. I'm not even low and I spend the whole time worrying about scraping the front bumper on just about every driveway

    There has been multiple occasions when i've had to get out of the car and go shove my bumper back on after reversing out of a carpark or driveway and its scraped pretty bad or clipped onto carpark end dumpstops... such fun :)

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