Tidgy

With reference to people who drive on your bumper, I feel for you guys who drive Imprezzas or have any mod that makes your scooby sound a bit out of the ordinary, I've only had my bog standard 2.0 turbo forester for 2 weeks and there seems an endless procession of chavs who want disappear up my exhaust. I can almost hear them saying "well go on then I thought these subarus are supposed to be quick". Usually as we are driving to some country park down twisty roads and I`ve got the missus with me and two spaniels pulling faces at them through the back window.

One sunshine, one day.

hmm, i do need a new bumper on the volvo, and tjhat dog that ran out in the road is a right menace,,,,, lol

Time for me to have a go.

So todays choice of subject,

Supermarket dawdlers and lunch shopping.

Picture the scene, you have survived the morning of starvation and slavery and Lunch time has arrived. You decide the best plan of action is to pop to the supermarket to get something nice rather than go to the mega unhealthy and overpriced canteen and the usual plate of chips.

You pull into the carpark at the super market full of hope for the small and quick shop ahead. You walk across the carpark, pick up a basket and head for the entrance,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

and bang, you get stuck behind some old codger doing 1 spm (1 step per minute). Ok fine, we all get old can wait a few extra seconds to get in. After what seems like 4 decades has been added to your life, you can finally go into second gear and over take the old dear.

Your promptly greeted by a wall of people running at you at 2000mph trying to exit 1 second before someone else, trolleys vying for the leed in what can only be described as a demolition derby. WIth cat like reflex's you dodge the onslaught and manage to get into an isle that isn't like a seen from a zombie apocalypse escape scene.

You spot what your looking for and some daft cnut, looking at which box of oxo to get from the 500 identical ones, not only that, the fact they have stopped with the trolley blocking half of the shelf. So you arrive at your destined shelf, still its blocked, you wait politly, you wait some more, still waiting, FFS pick a box already, still waiting,,,,,,,,,finaly you say 'excuse me' they ignore you, you can't possibly be talking to them, you wait even more, finally you say in a very loud voice 'excuse me, can I get to the shelf please'. 

You get a meek 'o sorry' back and they finally move their trolley just enough so you can stretch so far you put your back, shoulder, arm and wrist out but you manage to get what you want.

Hazzar, time to break for the exit.

hahaha, really? you really thought that would be the end of it????????

So you hunt for an isle that isn't a scene from raw hide and make decent progress to the check outs. Being lunch, the que is about 50 deep, only 5 out of 20 checkouts on mind you, but at least your on the home stretch.

You stand patiently, first couple of people look professional and don't hang around, must be on their lunch as well'. Then you spot them, the moment your heart sinks into the point of no return from totally despair, the  the 1spm brigade, they have all day to go do their shopping, but no , they pick the one time where people are gonna be in relative hurry to get in, get lunch, get back to the office. They finally get far enough forward to load items onto the conveyor at 1IPM (Item per minute)!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

You be the patient and polite person, wait, wait some more, go get your hair cut cos it's grown 3 foot while you have waited, then finally arrive at the checkout. Assuming the attendant isn't a complete c*ck and puts up the 'checkout is closing sign', they scan your items in 10 seconds flat, you pay in 5 seconds and bolt for the door.

By this time, round 2 of the dinner brigade are entering and the stampede is on to exit, your their fighting your way through trolleys, avoiding cosmic size crash's. And just as you arrive at the door, 'beep beep beep beep' and security holds the flow. The sudden stop of the people at the front backs up, the crash and bang of the train wreck behind signals all hope for a quick exit has gone. Of course its the trolley with the most items on it that has triggered the alarm, a trolley so full that a panamax ship couldn't even carry all of it, but security insist on checking each and every item off the list, the roll of the receipt is 5 foot long, £235 and 293 items,,,,,,,,,

But finaly a break, a true light of salvation, the other door, the original mass entry point has gone quiet. You check around you for space, there is daylight, you take off like Usaine bolt. You hurdle, one, two then three trolleys, making Aries Merritt look like an enthusiastic amature and the sunlight hits your face as you finaly reach the carpark, get to your car and get in.

As you sit, you let out a battle cry so loud they hear it back at the office, braveheart had nothing on you as you yell at the top of your voice 'Freedom!!!!'

FFS people, if you want to browse, dont go at lunch time you bunch of inconsiderate ingrates!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

and breath

at the min i think its an easy target for anything tbh given its lack of planes lol.

hola :)

she's a big owd ****** ain't she :o

shame we have fook all to go on her lol

That's huge lol

Did 43 mile no bother

how do you know :o

hahaha

hmm, bit out of my 'toy gadget' range :(

nah grey has left that slow blue thing for dead :D

lol

rebuild is the solution on mine. Was always gonna need it, done 105k, just trying to save for a house so not the best of times to need to chuck 4k at an engine lol

In the control panel there some tick settings you can turn off the bits you dont want lol

Where i got my type r from, which the engine has just gone on, although had it 7 months.

you have issues with yours?

nope def grey,,,,, hahahaha

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hahahahahahaha

I agree [emoji106]

Cos that means silver wins

As it's a slightly "lighter" version of grey

Silver is a close,,,,, ish, second,,,,,

yeah 5w-40 seems to the current recomendation?

you get your car from hurst by the way?

hmmm, im still not convinced, my car is same colour as this,

so i retract my previous Bull Sh*t statement, grey is def the fastest colour :D

think hey have change the recomendation to 5w - 40 now, best bet give em a bell

looking good :D

Suppose it depends on your budget really, at the end of the day what ever route you tale you'll be into the thick end of five hundred notes for the most basic of set ups,

Tidy, do you have a toucan connected to the syvecs ?

o yeah by the time you put RR time on etc

No, tbh i think alot of the syvecs modules are silly money, £450 for a two inch screen is a bit much IMO, I've bought a asus memopad and gonna Bluetooth it up to the android software when it's released, still gonna be over £350 for the setup, but a much bigger screen and can play games on it hahahaha

i do like foresters :D

there was one nocking around with 450bhp/480ftlb a while back :)

on a more serious note,  i ran this one for years no bother :)

As above, Kev is the gaffer at clinic. Clinic is the only place my car goes :)

Ecutek or Open source is a fairly hotly debated subject, each has its benefits and drawbacks. Ecutek is typicly more money for first map due to the license fee, after that they are the same price (set by the mapper/company).

On the flip side if there's any software issues or glicthes ecutek support their mappers, my old hawk had an issue with it kicking up a CEL, had it been opened sourced it would have been an issue, instead the fault got kicked back to ecutek by pat and they custom wrote a pacth for the software that has since gone into the latest Ecutek software.

Ecutek vet the mappers so can't just download and map away. Make of that what you will, but personaly i would rather have the back ground tech support that Ecutek have rather than googling for answers.

My type R now has syvecs fitted and thats a whole different ball game, same mapper mapped it, Pat Herborn mr syvecs himself :D

Its not that far from standard at the min, mods are currently, I got the syvecs from a mate who was stripping his car so managed to grab it cheap just when i was getting a remap anyway :)

330mm AP 4 pot from brake's

rear new age Brembo brakes

Gt Gen spec 2 headers

Full scr decat

Harvey smith up pipe

Factory option OZ wheels (think variation on supertourismo)

Syvecs

Retrimmed steering wheel

Uprated excede clutch

turbo was struggling and only made 290, had gone in for new turbo and few other bits and bobs. They clocked a rattle from the crank second the fired it up the night i dropped it off, so now needs a rebuild. Not sure on route yet, 2.0, 2.1 and 2.5 are all possible options :)

i'd like to say grey (since mine is lol), but it is in fact white

hahahaha

I must have dreamt it in a seedy way then lol [emoji28]

o er,,,,,,,

haha