jackal8788

I had mine installed for $350 and I also changed the fluid at that time. My resurfacing was $50.

I made a friend:

I used the ACT HDSS and resurfaced my OEM flywheel. No issues.

I was actually able to spend some time this weekend hunting the boost leak and found that the first coupler connection of the RacerX charge pipe had shifted and the clamp was not fully encircling the tube - part of it was compressing the coupler into nothing at all. I re-aligned the clamp, tightened it up, and did 3 WOT pulls with nice steady boost at ~23.7 PSI peak tapering to ~19.9 PSI around 6600 RPM. I haven't had my evap code come back so I'll keep driving and monitoring that, but for the time being, I think I've finally got the car back it's old self. High five!

Thanks. I did check that and it appears to be tight there is no damage to the seal.

So today on my way home, my car threw a code, P0442 'Evaporative Emission Control System Leak Detected (small leak)'. I haven't researched it at all yet so I'll be doing that next, but if anyone has thoughts or comments, I'm all ears.

Looks great Zee!

<sigh> Although (hopefully) not a big deal, we developed a boost leak as he was completing the tune. I did 2 WOT pulls with peak at ~22 PSI and then 23 PSI. He made a few adjustments to the fuel as we were running a little richer than necessary and on that pull the boost leak presented. Since I was already 1.5 hours beyond when I told my wife I'd be back, I didn't get to look into it last night. It seems to be somewhere between the compressor and the intercooler though but it is not significant enough to have any impact during cruising or idle (vacuum) conditions as I am maintaining my normal vacuum signal of ~12 - 18" Hg and it is not running lean or jacking up the A/F Correction 1 as if compensating. I'll be looking into it this weekend to see if I can find the source. Once that's buttoned up, we should be....aahh, shit I'm not going to finish that sentence.......

I'll be meeting up with my tuner Thursday to road tune the car. I wanted to get on the dyno to get some numbers, but the shop doesn't have availability that works with everyone's schedule until August 10...not going to wait that long to get it dialed in. With a little luck, the Panda will be back to it's old self in a few days. That makes about 6 months of not getting proper response at WOT so yeah, pretty excited

Where the hell do you even find a grouping like this? I just about cause an accident ever time I happen to come across another Legacy

Subscribed - this looks interesting!

If anyone is interested, I will be posing for sale the classifieds later today the following: - TiAL MVS 38mm v-band external wastegate - Grimmspeed turbo inlet adapter (for mounting a 3-port boost controller), p/n 057047 - Hallman Pro RX series manual boost controller - Grimmspeed 3-port boost controller, p/n 057028

After more discussion with my tuner, he sent me a low (25% max) duty cycle map to re-flash, just to see what the peak boost would be that the car can reach. On this map, I maxed out at 19.1 PSI in third so it seems that the porting may actually have been successful after all and there will just need to be some adjustments made to the map.

Lol...yeah, it pulls very, very hard up to about 3400 RPM!

I know....

And for my own clarification, what is the limit of the stock sensor? I thought somewhere I read it was 3 bar, but if that's the case, why is 24 PSI the magical freak-out point?

I picked up 27.2 on the AP. Unfortunately, it was in second gear

Well unfortunately, this didn't work I am going to investigate the 4 bar MAP sensor first, then resume my evaluation of other options. Definitely was not pleased to see that stupid P0108 code flash up after leaving the shop but what can you do? It was a gamble and the house won this time.

Not without a little modification: http://legacygt.com/forums/showthread.php/charge-pipe-241429.html

Porting complete and turbo is being re-installed now. Also made a few adjustments as we found that the flapper door was not able to open fully. I'd like to think this will have enough impact to eliminate my issue!

Porting to begin in a couple hours.... #fingerscrossed

^ Isn't this the 5th Gen for the WRX as well?

This was a roundabout compliment (I think). Last night 2 high school-ish age guys in a haggard and ricey Civic were looking at my car while it was parked. As I was walking back to it, one of them said 'Nice Scion!' (L7 badges must have confused him a little). I said 'Thanks, but its actually a Subaru Legacy.' He and his friend look both looked surprised, then excited. They went back to their car and waited for me to back out, then proceeded to follow me, driving pretty close on my tail and revving a lot. We finally got to the interstate ramp and I opened it up (as much as I could while watching my boost gauge to see that it stayed around 22 PSI - still working on my overboost issue). When they caught me on the highway, one of them held up a tablet in the window with a pic of me zipping down the ramp. He then put the tablet down for a couple seconds and when he lifted it up again, it said 'Nice fucking Subaru!!'

In your experience, is there any danger in doing this if for some reason the porting is not sufficient to eliminate my overboost issue? I realize it is basically a band-aid that isn't solving the problem but if there is no harm or damage to my engine due to those spikes, could this at least be a work-around until I'm able to get an EWG header?

I may need to pick this up then. I assume there is some scaling that needs to be adjusted when this is installed?