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Deadbolt is about as honest and fair as they come - Jerry prides himself on customer service.

 

There is a lot of conjecture as to what his 18g turbo will and won't do but no dyno and boost curves that I know of have been posted.

 

Maybe Jerry can get one of his customer to publish his data.

 

I have one of his turbos but because of ECUtek total inabilty to control boost on my Outback I never make more than 16psi boost. I have every reason totally flame ECUtek but will give them one last chance to make my car work - it has only been since last Novemebr since my car was reflashed and it has never worked right. I wish their customer service was 1% as good as Deadbolt's.

 

Do not use ECUtek on Outback's under any condition you are wasting your money.

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I have one of his turbos but because of ECUtek total inabilty to control boost on my Outback I never make more than 16psi boost. I have every reason totally flame ECUtek but will give them one last chance to make my car work - it has only been since last Novemebr since my car was reflashed and it has never worked right. I wish their customer service was 1% as good as Deadbolt's.

 

Do not use ECUtek on Outback's under any condition you are wasting your money.

What are the differences between Outback’s and Legacy’s that the EcuTek wont work? I have a LGT and want a EcuTek but this story worries me :(

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Why not just swap out the intake manifold for a wrx center-throttle body type, wrx tmic, and wrx-style turbo? This would solve having to find turbo upgrades.

2012 Forester XT. Stage 2+

Retired from Racing. I used to build FMIC and more.

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Deadbolt's 18g is straight sale no exchange - it is TD-05 18g. Because our cars are fly-by-wire you need to use late model STi manifolds ,intercooler and BOV. You can make brackets to use FBW on other manifolds.

 

It is only a question on how much you want to swap out.

 

The long block is STi so you can swap as many things as you want that match.

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Why not just swap out the intake manifold for a wrx center-throttle body type, wrx tmic, and wrx-style turbo? This would solve having to find turbo upgrades.

 

The thing that I would be worried about is getting the air to the intercooler, our scoop is a lot smaller than a WRX/STi.

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Why not just swap out the intake manifold for a wrx center-throttle body type, wrx tmic, and wrx-style turbo? This would solve having to find turbo upgrades.

 

Because now your doubling/tripling your cost to upgrade just the turbo. Things will come....the car is still new. Patience my good man. :D

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The thing that I would be worried about is getting the air to the intercooler, our scoop is a lot smaller than a WRX/STi.

 

There should be a similar amount of room under the hood, just a smaller scoop.

 

I'm going to try and see what works, not planning on doing anything drastic (although I have bought the other manifold :lol: ) just yet... Plan on seeing what I can get out of a stock legacy with just a up/down/utec. :) I may be happy with that (all I want is 300whp daily) If I wanted a race car, I can just drive my hawk. :D

 

And yeah, I'm breaking the warranty at 1100 miles, but I did the same thing on my hawk when I got it, and I will prob. never see the inside of the subaru dealership again. lol... I have a modding disease. :lol:

2012 Forester XT. Stage 2+

Retired from Racing. I used to build FMIC and more.

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ok, we have first one sold. We will all know in few weeks just how good this set up can be at the wheels. This one is a Legacy GT so the ECU Tek should be able to milk it to a nice WHP.

 

Talk to you soon

 

Peter Sz

PLTek,llc

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ok, we have first one sold. We will all know in few weeks just how good this set up can be at the wheels. This one is a Legacy GT so the ECU Tek should be able to milk it to a nice WHP.

 

Talk to you soon

 

Peter Sz

PLTek,llc

 

Peter, is it a manual or auto Legacy GT? Do you know?

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I dont want to steal the thunder but some of the things on the car, as far as i know are:

 

Perrin TMIC, big MAF, crank pulley

larger 816cc injectors

custom fitting larger fuel pump

TBE

to be all stapled by ECUTek tune

 

 

This is an 05LGT 5MT

 

Best Regards,

 

PS

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I'd be really looking for a ball-bearing turbo over a thrust bearing unit. Probably why I'd love to get my hands on a VF36 and manifold/up-pipe over a VF37, same comparison for VF30/34 models. That's just personal taste and interest.
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Deadbolt is about as honest and fair as they come - Jerry prides himself on customer service.

 

There is a lot of conjecture as to what his 18g turbo will and won't do but no dyno and boost curves that I know of have been posted.

 

Maybe Jerry can get one of his customer to publish his data.

 

I have one of his turbos but because of ECUtek total inabilty to control boost on my Outback I never make more than 16psi boost. I have every reason totally flame ECUtek but will give them one last chance to make my car work - it has only been since last Novemebr since my car was reflashed and it has never worked right. I wish their customer service was 1% as good as Deadbolt's.

 

Do not use ECUtek on Outback's under any condition you are wasting your money.

 

 

Hmm damn man they kicked ass for my leg wagon.. they had me a new firmware hacked out for my cpu since it was a newer model then what they had.

 

What is so diff about the outback?

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