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2005 XT owners
Andyjo replied to nipper's topic in 1990 to Present Legacy, Impreza, Outback, Forester, Baja, WRX&WrxSTI, SVX
No overheating here, and i'm not exactly running a stock setup. I've never had any problems in traffic, running it hot, and hard, temp gauge never moves from the middle :-p -
i've ridden in jeeps w/ swampers on the highway... let's just say it's sort of like one of those massage chairs :-p
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here's your answer: Make them fit
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Dude, aren't you like the only one around here w/ a lifted legy' sedan? :-p
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Alright, so one of the control wires poped off the circuit board in the control unit of my radio, for the aux in mod. I left my soldering iron & heat gun back up in NH... I'd rather not take a lighter to the circuit board... any ideas? it's sort of current sensive in there... and i can't stand driving w/o music... so...
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Nice work! that's like.. exactly how we built mine, except there was some bending and messing up involved with mine
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Haha, you know if you can't plug the accessport into your odbII port, and hit a few buttons you might want to have some stuff checked out Honestly, it's SUPER easy, you open up the box, plug the AP into your computer, download the newest maps, upload them to the AP, take it out to your car, plug it in, and hit 'go' the 1st time will take ~30 mins (v1.0), and then you're good to go! at first you might not notice anything at all, i didn't... but then after about 100 or so miles (after it 'learns') you really start to feel the difference. As for long term considerations.... no? i change my oil on a regular basis (3-4000) miles... run synthetic oil... I do actually have relitives in MI... weird.. not sure exactly where they live though... If you're drooling over the AP, you should slap some megan racing coilovers under there OHHH yeah, and you know that studder you get sometimes when you shift, and the revs are ~ 2000 rpm? (the thing subaru should have put out a tech service bulliten about.. but didn't..) well the fuel maps fix that. oh yeah, and a single accessport 'marries' itself to a single ECU, so you can't just go around upgrading everyone else's cars (yeah tried it, no dice.)
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I've been running it tuned since December i believe (there was alot of snow out...). It's a 5spd (come on, it has a turbo, what else would it have? ) I have had to run 87 octane before, in an emergency in the middle of nowhere Illinois, i just dropped the fuel map back to stock and drove it real easy until i found a gas station w/ higher octane gas. I've been running the 93 octane maps since i got it, mainly because most places around here sell 93, not 91, and if i'm going to be paying for 93, i'd better get all the power i can out of it I have the base map set to 91 oct, but the realtime maps at 93 (if i disconnect battery or something, it'll drop itself down to 91). If i can only find 91 oct.. i'll change the map, takes less than 30 seconds to swap the realtime maps around. As for gas milage... i'm not very good at keeping my foot off the gas.. so around town, back & forth to work and stuff i get about 22.2mpg, straight highway if i'm really good i can get 26.1mpg, and those are both with the 93 oct maps. If you think about it really, the higher octane maps are going to be more efficient than the stock ones... as for the 'economy' fuel maps, i tried them once on a trip out to Illinois for a few tanks, i got ~ 25-26 out of it, but you really have to drive it for the economy more (econo mode = no boost control). I believe i get ~ 17-18psi on the higher maps, but i haven't checked it in a while. (i usually run out of road, and don't have time to look at the gauge..)
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Umm... they make tuning stuff for the LGT and OBXT, you don't have to use wrx stuff, because not everything is the same, especailly the ECUs' I have an Accessport (cobb) for my OBXT, pushed it up to ~ 295hp @ 305ft-lbs, with all stock exhaust & TMIC. So, i'm at 'stage1' you can push it up to stage 2 by throwing a new up & dwn pipe in there, on the stock turbo, i think the high octane stage2 fuel mapps will put you at like... 305hp? i can took up the figures if you're really interested. If you're just planning on swaping the maps once, and leaving it, it's really not worth going for the accessport v2.0, it's the same thing as v1.0, just alot faster.. but if you're not swapping maps all the time, it doesn't really matter. and yes, there is a HUGE difference between the stock config & the tuned ones...
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Bov?
Andyjo replied to BoostedLegacy's topic in 1990 to Present Legacy, Impreza, Outback, Forester, Baja, WRX&WrxSTI, SVX
you want more power...hmmm... a bov isn't going to give you that much gain in anything with that car. You should waste your money on bigger ingectors, water/meth injection, UP/DWN pipes, port out everything, bigger turbo, FMIC, and finnally get it pro tuned you'll be destroying those wrx kiddies but that stuff is expensive... you could just get it tuned as is and yield a huge performance gain. -
WTF WAS SUBARU THINKING?! )(*!^#(*^(*@^$@!^%#@^%@ so the story, went to the dealer the other day w/ the woman, we were looking at some 03-05 impreza wagons, and i noticed something odd in the corner of the lot... it was an 08 WRX.... UHG! at first i saw the pics, and you know.. i was like, you know.. i could be ok, whatever, i'll wait till i see it in person... and BARF! it looks like a freaking Vibe with a hood scoop.... or a mazda 3... come on subaru, get a grib... gross.... they also had a regular impreza there... and.. ewww same deal... i don't think i'm ever going to own an 08+ impreza..... sorry if i hurt your feelings, but gross!!! :-p