[What have you done to your car today?]

car got driven a good 250km or so today road trip style, much traffic means not much boost was enjoyed for the most part but was good to be driving again after so long.

 

washed the car and vacuum'ed inside a little bit gettin her a little tidier for the auckland sub meet tomorrow. hope to catch a few of you there tomorrow

[What have you done to your car today?]

4 hours ago, willisnz said:

@Batbaruman what have you decided RE your exhaust?

bought his old one from @evowrx , is Dynomax VT , from the name it will max dyno results based on formula of velocity x time

 

might not look that cool when fitted but it's gonna go a long ways towards my enjoyment of car

 

 

 

[What have you done to your car today?]

picked up the car from @Subirex Automotive, it got some servicing loving and finally removed that noisy bosch044 thats been driving me nuts for oh so long.

 

what a pleasure it was to drive home the AEM 320 is pretty much silent, you only hear a very quiet little high pitch sound when you open the boot but other than that it ain't nothin, not even from passengar seat. Ajay neatly ran the new lines (after removing surge tank etc.) underneath car so nice tidy job too instead of shortcut way i was picturing in my head of just going through the trunk with the old lines haha. Going back next weekend for the exhaust and i think i'll have a car that I'm pretty happy to keep for some time to come. Engine bay looking better now too, will try clean it up during week and take some pics.

[Got another dyno turn today , better result]

On 11/7/2017 at 9:04 PM, Xuefenglei said:

Not too sure how the set up the boost as they took my electronic boost controller off . I think I have got wrong setting last dyno , got both electronic boost controller and standard boost solenoid on last dyno .


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because they are tuning your factory ecu, which has a very good boost control algorithm anyway and has added benefit of few satety features such as boost limit based on hot intake temp, raditor or oil temp or other bad condition just to name a few.

[Rear diff brace causing grinding?]

1 hour ago, calebwrx said:

Don't quote me, but I'm going to blindly say it should be normal.

Same results from installing a Group N trans mount on my car, now I have a very noticeable grinding sound from the box on deceleration. My conclusion = the noise was always there (might be normal, might not be, high chance it could lunch itself soon being a 5 speed), the new solid mounts just transfer it to the chassis and into the cabin more than the soft ones did. Could be the same thing for you?

yep mine too.. engine breaking noise from tranny is quite noticable but not overly terrible. any sound clips of yours @YoungOne

[Got another dyno turn today , better result]

comes on boost quickly which is nice, that's really decent top end too.. i'd trade down a measly 7kw from where i am and take that kind of response any day haha. what turbo is this anyway?

[New Topmount]

also putting anything like mesh in front of it directly hampers the intercoolesr efficiency as there is less total air moving across all the fins and they flow slightly differently to how it was designed. people will say it makes bugger all difference but theoretically atleast you are blocking a large percentage of the surface area of an object which is supposed to function as air to air cooling

[Can anyone identify this turbo?]

7 hours ago, Berg said:

It's not how we identify the turbo, it's what the turbo identifies as. I think it might be a trans or bi turbo who identifies as a twin scroll. Or maybe even turbo-fluid. Not all turbo who identify as fluid have a turbo fluid resevoir, it's just how they feel at a particular part of the rev range. 

 

Don't judge. 

 

Edit: some of my best friends are turbos.

aaaand turbo of the year award goes to

 

[Ask your tuning questions here!]

6 hours ago, Munkvy said:

Be very careful with antilag, if you get it wrong you may well hurt your motor and/or turbo (ask me how I know!).

haha yeah warning noted, i think if anything i may play with my cyclic idle just to get it sounding a bit better when i switch it on, anti lag it self i guess they set it like that for a reason and i probably won't tinker with that.

[What have you done to your car today?]

Just now, Subru said:

Good advice... I promise I will get scoop  

 

 

https://i.imgur.com/Oe7KX0d.mp4

 

[What have you done to your car today?]

 

32 minutes ago, Subru said:

Installed easy front lip on car, its fake carbon fiber, maybe black will look better but pic below.

Also drilled new holes in plate to fix where it sits.

Im pretty happy with the front end now, still need to fix headlights tho.

 

there are too many holes on your numberplate bro they are going to mess with the aerodynamics of this vehicle. ideally you should install a roof scoop asap and paint the wheels white to offset this

[What have you done to your car today?]

or make a little adaptor plate so you arent drilling in to either bumper nor plate

[Ask your tuning questions here!]

hey so my car when tuned/setup was with two pumps. in tank fuel pump (unkonwn) and external bosch044. bosch is being removed now and im replacing lift pump with a new unit.

 

new setup is just 1 pump, in tank. aem 320.

 

would there be any benefit to setting my new pump for 100% all the time or just leave as default ? from my understanding the default is 33% on cruise, 66% unders ome load and then 100% on WOT, with WOT being probably the only time one needs pump at 100%. bit of mixed info googling around, with many people particularly in american forums suggesting they direct wire their aftermarket pumps to battery bypassing the fuel pump controller, meaning it's at 100% all the time.

 

 

 

also with the different flow characteristics i'm expecting minor changes in fuelling, which it should probably trim by it self? if i want to keep an eye on this out of curiosity + paranoia + being a nerd what is the parameter i should be logging? i'm thinking if its doing a lot of trimming in certain areas then i should just adjust those areas of fuel table so it doesn't have to trim (dangerous me doing it i know, curisous and wanna learn )

 

leading from above, if i do leave the stock settings on new pump then my fuel pressures will be different at different throttle positions meaning fuelling / resulting actual afr will be affected (tuned for bosch044 at 100% vs 33-66% new pump).. or am i actually overthinking this as usual?

 

oh another noob question guys :

this setup seems super conservative. what sort of parameters do you want to be monitoring (oil temp, coolant temp, afr?) when working on antilag setup. what would you put in for a 'typical' functional setup, and say one that's more for show (popping/shooting flames)?

 

signed a waiver to get my password and had a really interesting afternoon coming out of my shell reading through all the ecu settings. can really appreciate the things tuners do

[Where/how do you buy your consumable parts?]

Research online and buy local or from my mechanic if not major price difference so margins can go to the places that provide services to me. If big price difference then I'll buy online

[Wastegate Sensor]

 

[What have you done to your car today?]

Fuel pump aquired, paid the $15 extra for e85 version 'just in case'. geez look how tiny that fuel sock is! Couldn't find oem sock to order in advance, I do hope the one currently in my tank is still a good condition oem one!

 

Off to drop off at ajays tomorrow 

[What have you done to your car today?]

4 hours ago, calebwrx said:

WRX wagons - when you've got rubbish to dump at 10 but need to smoke some Evos at 4....

 

huh, aren't both those tasks the same thing?

[Starting them early...]

awesome have you taken him for a ride? how does he react to boost?

[What have you done to your car today?]

1 hour ago, KiwiJoe said:

I finalised the Cobb AP etune on my WRX today, courtesy of Phil (philr8) at Dynotech Industries in New Plymouth. Very easy process in the end over about a week, and produced results I am happy with from the FA20 with only a Cobb catted j pipe and exhaust (in line what others around the world are getting with a custom tune and these mods: about 280-290whp). The final virtual dyno (green line):

From what I've read, I'm approaching a wall with the torque as the stock FA20 doesn't like much more than 470Nm, but an intercooler upgrade might help drivability a bit, as I've definitely noticed some issues with heat soak over the last year.

 

 

that looks really smooth, bet its a pleasure to drive. what car is this?

[New car options - 07+ Legacy, or SH Forester]

mate moving on from a 2.5l boxer turbo pretty much anything else you pick will be saving you a fortune on petrol given how much you drive

[Tracking down a Gf8 owner]

34 minutes ago, brucestubbs said:

Managed to figure out how haha

 

Also just remembered there's a youtube video made by some dealer on it. 

 

 

wow bro that vid was posted in July 2013 are you sure you saw it for sale still start of this year? The k's on vid was 80 odd ks, last carjam froM nov 16 says its on around 117ks just heads up in case you were looking for one under 100ks.

 

also thats a super enthusiastic sales person ay haha. good luck finding your dream car bro sorry i am not familiar with the owner of this one.

 

out of curiosity, what were they asking for for this car?

[Tracking down a Gf8 owner]

chuck the screenshot up if you can, might be easier for us to identify the owner based on pic of car rather than plate

[What have you done to your car today?]

6 minutes ago, THUNDA said:

 

I havnt measured my Rs volume wise. But that seems really high? I've got an externally vented gate and I wouldn't consider my car loud at all, when cruising it's relatively quiet, boosting with the windows up and the gate doesn't even seem loud. Outside is a different story though

 

im looking forward to finally attending a meet (once I can drive again - I'll probably drive before I'm ment to Obviously) have met heaps of clubsub peeps already from various other situations, can't wait to show the Rs off lol, feels like I've been telling people about how awesome its gonna  be for like 6months now ^_ ^

haha yeah its excessively high and only at certain RPM, i wasn't paying enough attention in physics obvs but it's some S*** to do with resonating at certain wavelength/frequency i guess where sound bounces inside cabin and volume goes nuts. if i record it from outside it actually sounds pretty amazing , still loud but not loud enough to be pulled over for.

 

also will be good to finally see you and your RS running bro, have seen thunda twice at pbms/ajays but she was always asleep! 

[Show us your banners and stickers!]

44 minutes ago, iludez said:

Where can i get a CS sticker?

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you get one with a yearly subscription which is $20 and helps support the club/this site : http://www.clubsub.org.nz/forum/index.php?/store/category/1-subscriptions/

i dunno if it's normal but i also got a free dominoes pizza voucher with mine.

 

otherwise can also buy stickers or other clubsub merchanidse here : http://www.clubsub.org.nz/forum/index.php?/store/

[Show us your banners and stickers!]

On 4/4/2017 at 2:37 PM, Batbaruman said:

Gonna replace the blue CS one for a white version that stands out more soon enough 

 

 

aw forgot how clean it looked before. currently sticker overload . 2 x clubsub stickers even!