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  1. Yeah the Possum Links are ancient turds these days. Even an old "classic" G4 leaves them for dead.
  2. If the WoF person can tell you've done it, WoF fail..... depending on the vehicle. Doubt it will do much for the sound, to be honest.
  3. You should definitely spend $1000 on tuning an engine that is mysteriously consuming so much oil that the oil pressure light came on
  4. If it's tuned for 91 what's the harm? Example would be the new Highlanders, spec'd for 91, run great on it. Our boat motor (Suzuki) specifies 91.
  5. People asking questions is what drives a good forum. How else do you get knowledge out of people? Every now and then some super helpful person writes a "how to" or something and that's glorious but they're few and far between.
  6. The point of these forums is to ask stupid questions You just have to wade through all the stupid answers. When people have 3 accounts with slightly random-looking email addresses associated with them it SCREAMS scammer or spammer at me. I don't really think you're either, but you're sketching me the hell out regardless. I think you're actually a MASSIVELY keen but quite young person who loves to yarn about cars and dream big about what you're going to do to them. Been there myself a while ago. But the multiple profiles thing is weird AF.
  7. Something is completely fishy here. Why do you have 3 accounts?
  8. Just checking, but about 6 weeks ago you were asking about a catback to fit the 3" downpipe that's already fitted on your 2003 WRX? So now you have an... earlier WRX... that is stock? EDIT EDIT: Are you Bugeye01WRX?
  9. Nobody in NZ does "Stages". It's a US term where they're all about getting a Cobb Accessport out and flashing the exact same tune on 500 cars with exactly the same parts on them. I wouldn't bother doing anything if you're planning to get rid of it. By the time you "stage 2" it, and add some broadly pointless gauges, you're already spending... let's see... north of $3000. That's $3000 towards an STI, that will kill the crap out of a "Stage 2" WRX. Aftermarket gauges are basically pointless. It's 2020, either let the ECU do it's job, or if you need to monitor the car better than the ECU can, get an aftermarket ECU and let that do its job. If something goes pearshaped, it's already pearshaped, knowing that your oil pressure just went through the floor almost certainly isn't going to stop your car going nogga nogga nogga.... If you have to do something to it, get some nice rims and decent tyres. Assuming you stay with a V8 (pretty certain it was V9 when it changed to 5x114.3) or earlier STI, it has the same PCD so you can change your rims over onto your new car when you buy it. Just make sure whatever you buy will clear Brembos. Likewise maybe some suspension goodies, just make sure they'll transfer. You could start buying other parts that will work on your future vehicle, but arguably they either won't do much at all or will actually make the car worse without a tune.
  10. That was my exact experience. Idle was crisp as. Just between about 2000-3000rpm at light throttle it would stumble and burp. Just the flow being inconsistent at very small openings.
  11. I had five-o 1650 top feeds, and while they were bloody good wide open, they were inconsistent as anything at lower flows. I think they ended up in a rally car where they would presumably spend more time down at the wide-open end of the paddock 😆
  12. Assuming we're talking about the same thing... you could totally make a UEL twinscroll header, with exactly the same pulse isolation. Two cylinders on one scroll, two cylinders on the other, just different length runners. A fair few 6 cylinder twinscroll manifolds out there in RB/JZ world are clearly not equal length, but have 3 cylinders per scroll and are definitely twin scroll.
  13. boon

    V7 sti TPS

    Being an AVCS Subaru of this era, worth checking for oil in your engine loom (seriously!). Disconnect the big engine loom connector on either side of the intake manifold and see if it's got oil in it. If it does, check inside your ECU. The issue identified here... the fact that there was 0.09v between the radiator and whatever earth was being checked suggests it was either a bad earth or a bad multimeter.
  14. Solely as a big turbo nerd, it's not an intrinsic fact of twinscroll though, is it? Like... if you really wanted to, you could make a UEL twinscroll header?
  15. From the factory, AFAIK, all twinscroll Subarus are EL, and all single scrolls are UEL. NZ New STIs were 2.5 single scroll UEL, JDM -v7 was single scroll UEL, JDM v8 onward got 2.0 twinscroll.
  16. Sparknotes: v7 has the best shortblock, arguably literally everything else on a v8 is better. "Only looking at 350whp" = budget about $10000 for getting there. More if you go v8. If you want that much power then who gives a turd what the turbo set up is, you'll be putting that on trademe anyway, so the twinscroll/singlescroll/UEL/EL thing is moot because you'll likely be replacing all of that, unless of course you go v8 in which case the stock headers are pretty awesome anyway. EDIT: For what it's worth, EL Singlescroll and EL Twinscroll sound pretty much the same to me
  17. No, you need to replace your engine now, sorry to tell you. (How do you think launch control works?)
  18. As a meta-thing, this video showcases f***ing everything that is wrong with America right now. A bunch of people flying cross-country in the middle of a pandemic so they can make some w**ky marketing video for the social media likes. People wearing masks around their chin, half of them not wearing them at all. GG USA, this is why you're f***ed.
  19. Only required a completely built motor and head work to get there Stock location still sucks. Why would you spend all that money and not go twisted? I mean they even went for an Emtron, it's not like budget was a consideration.
  20. Does that motor have AVCS? Assuming no but stranger things have happened.
  21. Since you own a modern(ish) model it almost certainly has a very capable factory immobiliser. No key, no start the engine, end of conversation. Would be worth confirming that if it's a japanese import, though. Only way you're pinching a modern one is either with the keys or with a towtruck.
  22. No bueno on the front hitch, there aren't any structures at the front of the car that are a. strong enough for a towball and b. legal to modify. You could definitely do a big steel beam across between the chassis rails to replace the bumper support and then hang a towball from that but there is no way in hell it would be a legal modification of the frontal impact structures.
  23. To accurately determine the torque on a rolling road requires things like accurately knowing the diameter of the tyre, because you are effectively "gearing" the power transmission to the roller. For tuning purposes, where you only care about increase/decrease based on changes to the tune, it's not an issue. But it highlights the pointlessness of comparing dyno sheets from different dynos.
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