Wierd ez30 accel issues - throwing up CEL sometimes only

[crosdp_sti]

hello again team

So my outback, 134k never had a issue BUT unsure of its mechanical history!

drive it 60km every day with 0 issues! and I'm a cruiser these day haha!

drove from Hamilton to whangarei.. not one issue, Gt up to go further north car was running mint.. going up a hill with abit more heavy right for areoun 3-4k rpm.. cel and traction control light come up.. guess then on it was in limp mode as I couldn't drive it over 3-4krpm

It drives 100% fine no other isses. gt told it might be bad gas, fulled my tank up - long behold floored it out the gassy and no CEL, slowed down.. took off again no iuues.. 10mins of 100km driving when to speed up from a round about BOOM CEL again.. at this stage I just gave up and drove it like a nana as it drive fine

I did notice a slight nock/rattle at 3200ish rpm.... BUUUUUUUUUUUUT the car will accel fine( no noises or ANYTHING) after turned off for a sec then back on but only for the first 1-2km

Now imma get it put on a scanner, just wondering if anyone ran into this, or am in need for a ez30 turbo build haha

Cheers team

[Rosssub]

What model Outback is it?

[crosdp_sti]

 Rosssub said:

What model Outback is it?

ahh 2003 3.0r 4th gen if that helps

[crosdp_sti]

So fault code came up at P1026 - cant seem to find this in the codes I have

[sobanoodle]

P1026 VVL Systems 1 Performance, page 218

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 sobanoodle said:

P1026 VVL Systems 1 Performance, page 218

sweeeeeeeet I was just downloading a pdf of the manual!!!! thanks saved me time!!!!!