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My 2005 WRX STi - 6/28/2016 dyno tune update 429 AWHP/377 AWTQ on 93 octane

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I like that blue on the calipers...I'm going to have to copy that color. :hide:
 


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So what about your beaters kyle? What do you have now?
 
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Bio248 said:
1) equal length headered cars still sound good and still have a rumble...they just make more power. point invalid. 2) every subaru motor blows up, regardless of how they are treated. the motors suck. 3) please for the love of god pipe the EWG back into the exhaust.
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1. I don't care for the sound, I've heard Invidia, Perrin, and Tomei in person and I don't like them. Power isn't the goal in my build, so there's no need for them. 2. Not every one, but once you start pushing them, most of them do. 3. Not gonna happen.
 
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Drunkie said:
I like that blue on the calipers...I'm going to have to copy that color. :hide:
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Lexus Ultrsonic Blue Mica. It was a tad darker than what I wanted but it's still a nice color.
 
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Drunkie said:
So what about your beaters kyle? What do you have now?
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Just the 97 Impreza. 206xxx miles and going strong, I just got done grinding, sanding sealing and priming some previously rusted areas. I'll be doing some fiberglassing over the next few days and plastidipping it as soon as I get my hands on an airless sprayer. I picked up 3 gallons of anthracite metallic when it was on sale over labor day weekend. Got the windows tinted and I'll be doing the wheels black again so no more candy cane.
 


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you'll take it to an exhaust shop and pipe it back in within a year.
 
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Why do you say that? It can't have anything to do with noise because it's 100% possible to daily drive a car with an EWG and not open the wastegate at all under normal driving conditions. Fr what I use the car for, I see no reason why I'd be worried about an EWG becoming annoying
 
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maybe if you do truly drive like a normal person it'd be fine, but the way i drive it would make me batty because of all that excess noise. i'd definitely have it piped into the exhaust.
 
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i had to drive a customers sti to the alignment shop the other day and the lightest touch of the throttle resulted in a big PSHH from the wastegate and it drove me nuts driving it 10 min lol
 
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redlinepontiac said:
i had to drive a customers sti to the alignment shop the other day and the lightest touch of the throttle resulted in a big PSHH from the wastegate and it drove me nuts driving it 10 min lol
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You can fix that with the proper spring in the wastegate. My friend Matt has a nearly identical setup and can drive the car all day every day without ever causing the wastegate to open.
 


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We're doing cams and EL headers now too. I've been sucked in to the dark side. The sound sucks but the reliability is worth it. My DD impreza has EL manifolds so I've gotten used to it. I'll have to buy another Subaru some day to cure my UEL itch.
 
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you're gonna blow up that motor just like every other dude ever, hah.
 
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Doubt it, at least not anytime soon. I don't care what kind of power it makes, It's being built to handle power and then being tuned to be more conservative the Pope. And if it happens so what? I'll build it again. This is a hobby, I do it because I enjoy it.
 
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i'm just saying that in terms of probability. every local i know that has tried making more than ~350 blows the stock motor in some fashion.
 


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I'm not going to have a stock motor, so it shouldn't be as much of an issue.
 
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kyle99gtp said:
I'm not going to have a stock motor, so it shouldn't be as much of an issue.
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Pistons, rods, valves, springs, etc. We're running water meth as a safety and not as a power adder. It will be more stout than most EJ motors. Sleeves are about the only thing we aren't doing.
 
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All this sideways business...

Where's the LSx?

:)

Digging the blue...dark or not, looks fantastic.
 
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