Tidgy

thats a 2.5 mate, no chance of getting a torque figure or spool like that on a 2.0 ;) Was limited by the top mount, had an sti one on it and was getting temp issues.

lol, yeah. bbc is rapidly going downhill even in my eyes. Interesting the budget is 150mill short, with £42mill a year from top gear which will drop off of the next few years its only gonna get worse for them

3 years early as well http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-35149963

As said, for the cost it's a pretty pointless exercise. Trading it in for a wrx or sti is a far cheaper option and get alot more bang for your buck.

Welcome, forged 2.5 if its gonna be a road car :D

dirty barstid

Time to dispell some myths ;) First off the standard 2.5 is pretty poor, ringlands and headgaskets are known to fail. However built right, there fine to 450bhp and keep the right side of reliability. For road use a built right a 2.5 is about as good as it gets in scoob, the low down grunt they produce makes them spool allot better than 2.0's. Anything above 450 then block needs work, pinning is an option but personally i'd go for close deck converting given its only about £500 give or take. In fact i just have. Just finished running in my closed deck 2.5 converted Type R. I had a forged 2.5 in my old hawk and yet to see anyone get near this on a 2.0. I've had 2.0's and i've had 2.5's and i'd go 2.5 all day long

Welcome

Oil change every 5k then rest of it as per recomended spec. Anyone leaving oil in a subaru (turbo model i should add) for 12k needs to go ask someone in the know and start doing it more often

Totally agree on the samco ones, wouldn't have a set of them either.

Be interesting to see how these last, normaly cheap ones give up the ghost pretty quick

welcome :)

http://www.enginetuner.co.uk

So they saying its been overserviced?

It's not just mappers, specialists are exactly the same. Biggest issue i have is i've seen dozens of people find out the hardway why you need a decent mapper. I've been around subarus for heading towards 15 years now and seen mappers and tuners come and go. I've been lucky enough to know and talk to alot of the more well known subaru owners with some of the big track/race cars. It also seems to you can't have an open discussion about things on forums, either for legal reason or it becomes a slagging match or if on facebook people just get banned when they put up the other side of the story, let me give you an example. After market ECU's, there a ball ache to setup to run like OEM, cold start and idle are particular areas that take alot of work, cold start is the worst because once the car is started in the morning you have to leave it over night again for the. Car came into a tuner running crap, idle was a mess, cold start was crap and yes you guessed it was running an aftermarket ecu. Was a Motec M800, not bad for about £3000 at the time. Car was a 03 plate sti had decat, panel filter and motec, nothing else. He wanted it running better and more usable as a daily car. Motec M800 is a race spec ECU and simply put was massively OTT and not needed for the spec (given the OEM drivability affects) so the customer was recommended to replace the Motec with a standard ecu and ecutek map, sell on the motec and fund the rest of the work that way. So thats what they did and walked away with a car they loved driving again, mega happy with the car and £100 in their pocket in money they got for selling the motec on to dave roe. Fast forward 2 years and they sell the car on with a wedge of receipts for work done etc etc. The receipt for the removal of the Motec is spotted by one of these pop up 'specialists' the new owner takes it to and of course without knowing exactly what and why it was done they start making accusations of ripping people off etc etc. when the reality is very very different. That one was on Facebook. The issue i have with Open source is it is not only ripped off ecutek software from the US but it has also allowed anyone to set-up and map away whether technically competent or not. Typically these mappers learn to map at the expense of the customer, local company was setup near me they mapped 20 cars we know of, 7 blew up during mapping and the customers got zero compensation, 3 of the 7 were forced to sell their cars due to not being able to afford the repairs. The final point to note is alot of these type of mappers do road mapping, they have no insurance and no tech backup. The customer is happily driving along thinking they are insured by their own insurance when in reality they aren't, if the police pull them over on one of the high speed pulls they will be prosecuted for driving with no insurance etc etc or od forbid they had a crash there own insurance would reject their claim and report them for driving without insurance. I get alot of stick for supporting Scoobyclinic, but when ever i hear something i tend to go an ask whats cracked off, 99% of the time it turns out not to be as stated and either customer didn't like the responce they got (how to you tell someone their headgasket has gone without upsetting them?) or faults have been found that need sorting so bill is larger than expecting (so if customer says he wants a new roll bar and gets a price for that but they find drop link bush has gone should they ask if the customer wants the bush done on the drop links or leave them with a duff bush?).

Welcome. Engine tuner are down your way and one of the few places i would use.

biggest pita is figuring out the restrictions for each race

finaly bought myself an xboxone. trying to get my head round how to play the dam game, not as keen on the menu layout as in 4

Dealers make their money on servicing, not on new cars ;) Mrs used to be sales admin for a dealer, margins on the cars is very small for the dealer, servicing is a tad different though

O totaly mate, although i tend to hear alot of the inside track of what problems people have claimed to have with clinic and lets say they are being extremely economical with the truth ;) Have I had the odd issue at times? yes, have I need to do anything but ring em and drop the car up with em to get it put right? nope. They ever rebuilt someones engine under warrenty due to ringland failure on a forged mahl piston. hahaha hull scoobs, there funny, only site i know where if you say a good word about a specific tuning company (in this case clinic) you get banned instantly. Make of that what you will.

Why is it ok to say someone is good but not that they are bad? There was a company setup a while back that was flash mapping cars, despite repeated warnings to owners people went to them for a map. out of 20 cars they mapped 7 blew up, 3 of the owners left subaru ownership because they couldn't afford the rebuilds. Would you want ot hear about bad things or not? at the end of the day you takes your choice and you pay your money

All internals could be damaged, vales, pistons, rods, bearings, crank etc etc. and to actually seize solid will more than likely mean engine is totaly scrap :(

Wouldn't let dynamite touch my lawn mower let alone my car, mates car had been mapped by him and it was pulling more timing than a clock with a near empty battery. His rep is less than great amongst the well known tuners and mappers such as Andy Forrest, Paul Blamire (zen) and on 22b.com where most of the big boys hang out etc etc Andy actualy called him DungKhan on there before he stopped going on after getting ripped apart on technical stuff Very very few folks I let anywhere near my car Pat Herborn (who maps ecutek and syvecs at clinic), Paul Blamire, Andy Forrest and engine tuner are the only mappers i would use.

yeah that'll do. :)

Should get to 300 on the standard ones. May need a fuel pump though