My new toy.

[smallcool1]

Great looking cage! I'm old so I got an Outback Sedan H6 with the cold weather pkg. and yeah the heated seats are nice but I think the heated wipers are the cats ass.

[island boyeee]

but I think the heated wipers are the cats ass.

if by "cat's ass" you mean completely useless, I concur

[obsolete]

haven't heard back from you in a while. how's the car goin? you should bring it down for a meet sometime, we had 30 people last night!

also, i would definitely recommend getting it tuned asap, even stock. the things these tuners can do, just to enhance driveability, is amazing.

i just got rid of my accessport and got a pro-tune from a guy down in RI... holy shit! i'm now pushing 20 PSI in 2nd-4th, and 21 PSI in 5th!

(i are faster than u :p)

I was at DSG a couple weeks ago. Gonna do a new down pipe and do it again. Should be sitting nice and pretty. Getting some stuff taken care of right now. Then back to DSG / brakes and it's on to making her prettier.

What do you have done for power?

[obsolete]

Sweet ride buddy. Made is the U.S. too!!

Ummm, what?

[neuthunder]

I have perrin intercooler pipes sitting at my house waiting for an uppipe I bought off a guy up in tyngsboro off of nasioc. I was planning to do a cobb tbe but got screwed on taxes this year so I'm going to have to wait and see what happens

[Eddie]

Ummm, what?

Fact check: I stand corrected. I did think they have a plant in Indiana. Turns out it is only an assembly plant.

[island boyeee]

I was at DSG a couple weeks ago. Gonna do a new down pipe and do it again. Should be sitting nice and pretty. Getting some stuff taken care of right now. Then back to DSG / brakes and it's on to making her prettier.

What do you have done for power?

power-wise, just single high-flow cat down pipe, Perrin sport tone cat-back, Walbro 255lph fuel pump, and a tune from Matt Miner @ Wicked Innovation. btw, his tunes are only $150, and they fucking rock. He sent me my road dyno map, along with 2 similar cars' maps that were tuned on a dyno at EFI, and I made more power than both of them. 237hp and 316lb-ft, at the wheels

my suspension and brake setup is where my car really shines though. btw if you need help with the down pipe, or any install really, we have a full heated garage and plenty of know-how down here. and we work for free (and beer).

I have perrin intercooler pipes sitting at my house waiting for an uppipe I bought off a guy up in tyngsboro off of nasioc. I was planning to do a cobb tbe but got screwed on taxes this year so I'm going to have to wait and see what happens

dude, just get a no-name 3" dp for <$150 and be happy. cobb is way over priced. a pipe is a pipe.

Fact check: I stand corrected. I did think they have a plant in Indiana. Turns out it is only an assembly plant.

I was hoping you'd correct yourself... Fuji Heavy Industries FTW

[obsolete]

power-wise, just single high-flow cat down pipe, Perrin sport tone cat-back, Walbro 255lph fuel pump, and a tune from Matt Miner @ Wicked Innovation. btw, his tunes are only $150, and they fucking rock. He sent me my road dyno map, along with 2 similar cars' maps that were tuned on a dyno at EFI, and I made more power than both of them. 237hp and 316lb-ft, at the wheels

150 is a really good price for a dyno tune. Why did you go with a pump on a stock turbo?

Thanks for the offer but I have a heated garage with a lift and it's in Salem.

[neuthunder]

power-wise, just single high-flow cat down pipe, Perrin sport tone cat-back, Walbro 255lph fuel pump, and a tune from Matt Miner @ Wicked Innovation. btw, his tunes are only $150, and they fucking rock. He sent me my road dyno map, along with 2 similar cars' maps that were tuned on a dyno at EFI, and I made more power than both of them. 237hp and 316lb-ft, at the wheels

my suspension and brake setup is where my car really shines though. btw if you need help with the down pipe, or any install really, we have a full heated garage and plenty of know-how down here. and we work for free (and beer).



dude, just get a no-name 3" dp for <$150 and be happy. cobb is way over priced. a pipe is a pipe.



I was hoping you'd correct yourself... Fuji Heavy Industries FTW

Any chance you could help with an up-pipe install??? I'll keep my eye's out for down-pipes/exhausts.... just don't have the money for any of it right now.

[island boyeee]

150 is a really good price for a dyno tune. Why did you go with a pump on a stock turbo?

Thanks for the offer but I have a heated garage with a lift and it's in Salem.

sweet! yea i have to use my buddy's. luckily he's cool with that. oh, it's the kid that came that one night with the white STi.

it was a road tune. i put the fuel pump in cause i got it for $50 when i bought my SS brake lines! and i'll do any mod i can afford now, that will need to go in anyways when i finally get a bigger turbo. hoping to do transmission next, then turbo/ewg setup. at this point, i will be ready for a DSG tune.

Any chance you could help with an up-pipe install??? I'll keep my eye's out for down-pipes/exhausts.... just don't have the money for any of it right now.

yea we could probably do that. my buddy is installing a new up-pipe/ewg setup this weekend i think.

i HIGHLY recommend you scrounge together the money, by any means necessary, to get a dp, if you're going to be doing all the work to install the up. you have to take it off anyways... and don't forget to get new gaskets for EVERYTHING!

[obsolete]

Oh cool. The DSG tune is worth it.

Good idea. Take deal when you can get them especially if it helps furthere down the road. I'm staying with the stock turbo most likely. I've already done the mod my daily game and it get's shitty lol.

[Jim]

alex is ugly

[neuthunder]

sweet! yea i have to use my buddy's. luckily he's cool with that. oh, it's the kid that came that one night with the white STi.

it was a road tune. i put the fuel pump in cause i got it for $50 when i bought my SS brake lines! and i'll do any mod i can afford now, that will need to go in anyways when i finally get a bigger turbo. hoping to do transmission next, then turbo/ewg setup. at this point, i will be ready for a DSG tune.



yea we could probably do that. my buddy is installing a new up-pipe/ewg setup this weekend i think.

i HIGHLY recommend you scrounge together the money, by any means necessary, to get a dp, if you're going to be doing all the work to install the up. you have to take it off anyways... and don't forget to get new gaskets for EVERYTHING!

Well hell if i'm going to do the DP then might as well carry it all the way back and do the whole exhaust lol

[obsolete]

Jim is fat.

[mojobreakfast]

Fact check: I stand corrected. I did think they have a plant in Indiana. Turns out it is only an assembly plant.

Here's a stupidly non-interesting factoid from the realm of car geekdom. The Subaru plant in Indiana, in addition to building Subarus, also builds Camry's on contract for Toyota. If you buy a Camry there's a possibility it wasn't even built by Toyota - it was built by Subaru.

[island boyeee]

Oh cool. The DSG tune is worth it.

eh, that's what i used to think. but there's no difference, except the dyno is safer. all it does is simulate a road tune. i've been debating between the 2 for a while, and i'm glad i went with the road tune. now if the dyno tune was $150, that'd be a different story.

Well hell if i'm going to do the DP then might as well carry it all the way back and do the whole exhaust lol

except there aren't really any more gains to be had from the catback (except noise). and if you're on a tight budget, it's easier to justify just the DP.

[obsolete]

A road tune cannot tell you power output. You're tuning to a target AF. It's a different way of looking at things.

[ssg]

Here's a stupidly non-interesting factoid from the realm of car geekdom. The Subaru plant in Indiana, in addition to building Subarus, also builds Camry's on contract for Toyota. If you buy a Camry there's a possibility it wasn't even built by Toyota - it was built by Subaru.

I believe Toyota owns a controlling stake of Subaru or FHI/Subaru.

[island boyeee]

A road tune cannot tell you power output. You're tuning to a target AF. It's a different way of looking at things.

i'd rather pay attention to my AF ratio than try maxing out the numbers on the digital display

but now that i have the tune, i'm hopin there's some cheap dyno day events this year so i can see what i'm actually putting down

[obsolete]

i'd rather pay attention to my AF ratio than try maxing out the numbers on the digital display

but now that i have the tune, i'm hopin there's some cheap dyno day events this year so i can see what i'm actually putting down

Well on a dyno you have a A/F meter as well as a boost reference. It allows you to figure out what the engine is asking for and make power based on that. A/F has a wide range of what is safe but moving around in there along with timing can give you gains that are just as safe.

A street tune is a great option to save some money and make the car safe for the mods you have done and get a bunch more power out. I just see the dyno as a way to give the car what it wants and push it as safely as you want.

[island boyeee]

Well on a dyno you have a A/F meter as well as a boost reference. It allows you to figure out what the engine is asking for and make power based on that. A/F has a wide range of what is safe but moving around in there along with timing can give you gains that are just as safe.

A street tune is a great option to save some money and make the car safe for the mods you have done and get a bunch more power out. I just see the dyno as a way to give the car what it wants and push it as safely as you want.

uh road dune has A/F meter as well. it goes into the muffler, then plugs into the computer. everything else can be measure through the ECU.

[obsolete]

That's what I'm saying. Road tune is just A/F and datalog. On a dyno you get the same data plus the actual output of the engine which is the ultimate goal. Just my preference.

[KillBill]

Alex, nice car! Congrats!

Did you buy that at Lexus of Northborough?

[obsolete]

Alex, nice car! Congrats!

Did you buy that at Lexus of Northborough?

Actually I did.

[hqp921]

How many people on here also own subarus?

I'll start: I do!

I do too!

Sort of.

How many people on here also own a Saabaru? (I know of exactly one other person, lol).

awesome!!!! if you need any ideas on how to spend retarded amounts of money, I'd be glad to give you a few tips

if you go out and buy a blow off valve and a cold air intake, ill stab you

For those Subaru peeps who like to work on their own car... stumbled across a magazine last night, "Project Car" that'll be on display till 4/13/10. They happened to be building up a 2002 WRX Sedan, but half the magazine shows you, with tools needed and pics, how to do a turbo upgrade (i.e. remove/install turbo, intercooler, spark plugs, fuel pump, etc.); suspension upgrade (how to install coilovers, sway bars, etc.); and some basic maintenance stuff. Sure, you can find it all online, probably at NASIOC with good searching, or maybe you have the shop manual (I have the complete 05 Manual on CD-Rom... might cross over to many other years?); but it's neat to have it all in "one place" with step-by-step and pics.

- HP