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  1. Exactly what kind of cable are you using? E.g. OpenPort 1.3, OpenPort 2.0, eBay special, etc. Try your cable+laptop on other Subarus. Try your cable with someone else's laptop. Try someone else's cable with your laptop. If you were in my area I'd help you out with all that, but I'm across the country from you.
  2. Yup, better street pads are exactly what you need. I too felt some fade with the stock LGT pads during high speed braking. I used and liked Carbotech 1521 pads (formerly called Carbotech Bobcat) on my LGT. There are other good street options as well. Note that proper bedding is very important for brake pad performance when switching pad compounds. If you don't replace rotors at the same time, either get the old rotors resurfaced, or be aware that it will take some time for the new pads to scrape off all of the old material, and you'll have to wait for that to bed the new pads properly. DOT4 fluid wouldn't be a bad idea either, but odds are you are not boiling DOT3 fluid. (The factory fluid is DOT3.) Still, if you've gone 30k+ miles on your current fluid, changing it is a good idea. ATE Super Blue / ATE TYP 200 (same thing, different colors) is a cheap, perfectly good DOT4 fluid that's widely available online.
  3. Interesting, sounds like some VAG-COM cables really do need 1.29a. Or maybe it's a Windows 7 thing. XP is the newest version of Windows I've used. I think most of the problems people have with EcuFlash 1.42 are from trying to use the FTDI-branded drivers with it, which doesn't work. But clearly there's more to it than that.
  4. Silver LGT wagon on 101N near San Carlos around 12:30pm today. Reminded me of my old car. Nice choice of ride.
  5. Scooby2.5: The 6MT is louder. I've only used it in STI's, which have less sound insulation than an LGT, but I'm virtually certain the transmission itself is louder. A stiff rear shifter stay will make it _much_ louder in the cabin. I've upgraded every drivetrain mount and shifter bushing in my STI _except_ for the rear shifter stay, and transmission noise is barely above stock. (Stock is audible in the lower gears however.) I've listened to videos with _just_ the rear shifter stay upgraded, and it's clearly much louder than all my upgrades combined. A stiff pitch stop will make the transmission very loud too, and is mostly worthless if you've upgraded your actual drivetrain mounts. Keep that one stock too if you want low NVH.
  6. EcuFlash 1.42 with its included drivers worked great for me with two different eBay VAG-COM cables. STOP! DO NOT DO THAT! Driver disks included with unbranded knockoff hardware are notorious for containing viruses. That's been the case since before we were all on the internet. The hardware, i.e. VAG-COM cable in this case, is typically fine, but you should throw the driver disk straight in the trash.
  7. Are AT ECU's physically different from MT ones, or just programmed differently? If the latter spend $10 on an eBay KKL cable and flash an MT image when you're ready. There's a website out there with tons of stock Subaru ECU images. I forget what it's called, but if you can't find it PM me and I'll send you a stock image that will work.
  8. Seriously? So they did everything necessary in the cabin air path for a filter down to the carrier but couldn't be bothered to include the actual filter? I guess that shouldn't surprise me, given that once they did include a filter they neglected to include a way to swap it. (Disassembling the dash does NOT count.) Sigh. Sometimes Subaru boggles the mind. The dust on my LGT's dashboard always annoyed me too. It was covered again within a day or three of wiping it clean. Sorry, I know this is OT, I just had to vent.
  9. If I recall correctly you need more than just the filter itself to add it to a 2005. Maybe you have the whole kit already, I'm just not certain from your wording. I figure you don't want to tear it apart only to find that you have to wait for more parts to finish the job
  10. I think you mean you have to rip apart your console and dash to install your filter in the first place. Very few 2005's came with one. My 2005 wagon did not. Are you sure yours did?
  11. You need a genuine Tactrix OpenPort adapter to read or flash a 2002 WRX. You can log with an eBay KKL cable (RomRaider and Learning View), but that's it.
  12. Reading or writing the ECU image doesn't involve the ECU definitions.
  13. The driver is not the problem. If Learning View doesn't recognize your ROM switching drivers will not help. Also there is no need to use the generic/unbranded FTDI drivers in my experience with eBay KKL cables. Follow my instructions for switching to the latest version of EcuFlash and its included drivers: Back to Learning View, I am surprised that an 05 OBXT ROM isn't supported. What market/country is your car from? What is the ROM ID? EcuFlash should be able to pull the image and tell you. You _may_ have either or both of these options available, depending on your car and your ROM: 1) If there is a RomRaider/etc definition for your ECU image, stick with it, and do without Learning View. Learning View is really convenient and nice to have, but you *can* record everything it shows by actually running the car through all the different cells and logging the appropriate variables. I'm sure Infamous1 can help you with that. 2) You could switch to a different ECU image that's both compatible with your car and supported by Learning View. It almost certainly needs to be from the same market (USDM/EDM/JDM/etc). Preferably from the same model year too, but doesn't necessarily have to be, depending on the changes made. E.g. any 2005 or 2006 USDM LGT or OBXT image probably works fine on any 2005/2006 USDM LGT or OBXT. Infamous1 should be able to get you such an image if you want to go this route. If not, let me know. If your car is USDM I have a compatible image supported by Learning View. Not sure if I do for any other markets - let me know if you want me to check.
  14. Did you completely uninstall the old drivers before trying EcuFlash 1.42? If so I suspect that your cable is bad or otherwise incompatible. You can either try ordering another one, or just pay the bigger bucks for an OpenPort 2.0, which gets you the added benefit of logging directly to a flash card. It's a really nice feature at the track or in any situations where a loose laptop is not appropriate or not allowed.
  15. Yup, you should be able to write if you can read. By "something goes wrong" I assume you mean bricking your ECU, as opposed to the tune messing up your engine. Bricked ECUs are VERY rare. Nearly every time someone has a problem writing to their ECU, it simply doesn't work at all, i.e. EcuFlash fails to bootstrap the ECU. I really wouldn't worry about it. Just make sure your laptop has plenty of juice left in its battery, do not plug it into any in-car power outlets / cigarette lighters, and make sure you have enough free resources for EcuFlash to run smoothly. My eBay VAG-COM KKL cable worked with the latest version of EcuFlash as long as I used the included OpenPort-branded drivers, NOT the FTDI-branded drivers. Since you're using EcuFlash 1.29a I assume you're using the FTDI-branded drivers right now. So I suggest doing the following: Plug in the KKL cable. Open Device Manager. Uninstall the cable's COM port. If it has an entry in the USB Controllers section delete that too. (I forget if it does or not.) Close Device Manager. Open Add or Remove Programs. Uninstall EcuFlash. Uninstall all FTDI and/or OpenPort driver entries. There will be at least two, maybe three. Close Add or Remove Programs. Unplug the KKL cable. Reboot. If the C:\Program Files\OpenECU directory still exists, delete it. (Or wherever you installed EcuFlash to.) Install the latest version of EcuFlash. (The latest stable release is 1.42.2595 as of this writing.) When the installation dialogs for the OpenPort drivers pop up as part of installing EcuFlash, install them too. Btw the latest beta version of EcuFlash works well in my experience, but most of the improvements are for either OpenPort 2.0 users or Mitsubishi's, so you should probably stick to the stable release.
  16. To make your choice extra fun the center diff is not the only difference in STI transmissions between the years. The 2006+ (IIRC) have reinforced (carbon-plated?) synchros. The 2004-2005 synchros tend to wear out after a couple years. The 2007+ have longer/taller 2nd, 3rd, and 4th gears than the 2004-2006 gears. 1st, 5th, and 6th are the same. The 2004-2006 ratios are generally considered better, but it is somewhat a matter of preference, especially depending on how wide your power band is. Last and least, the 2004 has a SureTrack front LSD whereas the 2005+ have a (Subaru-branded) helical LSD. They're both gear-based and perform similarly AFAIK. Since the transmission will be out of the car anyways I suggest swapping in the reinforced synchros if you're going with a 2004-2005 transmission. Consider swapping in gears for whichever ratios you want too, and if you do that consider the JDM gears, which have different ratios than either the older or newer USDM gears. (IIRC the JDM ratios are similar to the older USDM ratios with a shorter 5th and 6th, but I might be misremembering.)
  17. You have it right, only the 2004-2005 STi had a 35/65 front/rear torque split. 2006+ is technically 41/59, but that 1% difference (vs 40/60) is splitting hairs Btw the 2006+ center diffs have, in addition to the clutch back, a gear-based limited slip mechanism similar in effect to a helical LSD (e.g. Torsen, etc). With a 2004-2005 center diff the clutch pack is the only thing limiting slip. That could be good or bad depending on your desires.
  18. Was there even a spot for one? (I expect not.) Most 2005 Legacies did not come with a cabin air filter. A few did come with a filter, or at least were supposed to. IIRC their VINs were listed in a TSB to make the filter more easily accessible, because even the factory arrangement in those late 2005 builds required taking apart parts of the dashboard to replace the filter.
  19. I bought a KKL VAG-COM cable from eBay seller szhid about a year ago, and was able to both log and pull my ECU image reliably from my 2005 LGT using it. I never tried to flash my ECU with it (the car had a professional tune already), but given that reading the image worked I suspect reflashing would have as well. I always used the latest version of EcuFlash and the Tactrix-rebranded FTDI drivers it includes. On the other hand I couldn't get it to pull the ECU image from a friend's 2002 WRX. Logging worked fine, but it wouldn't catch the bootloader. A Tactrix 2.0 cable worked fine the first time on that car.
  20. There's a blue LGT wagon that usually parks around Prague & Geneva. Are you on these boards?
  21. I tried to restrain it, but my turbo refused to be associated with a mere 2.5i! Just kidding, of course. You showed up when I got fed up with people driving slow in the left lane.
  22. That was me. I had a lot of fun Saturday too, just riding chair 4 most of the day. I woke up feeling too sick to ride today though Damn this lingering cold/cough...
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