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im still amazed how much emphasis people put on dealer service history, i've found most decent independent specialists know considerably more than the dealers.

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no no i know you weren't dude 🙂 just from experiance i know how it adds up when you chuick in labour, and then vat is a killer as well, it's so easy to underestimate the costs, always worth shoipping round, but ive seen plenty of prices for 500 builds from different tuners and they all end up there or there abouts.

yeh, not that hard mail order

Going from stock to 500, 20k isn't far off when you brake down the costs. Bear in mind your not doing it in your garage, so you have to take into account labour and such. Engine build, clutch, turbo, ecu, front mount, exhaust, headers, intake, injectors, fuel pump etc etc plus a hole load of supporting mods you;d wanna run like oil cooler etc

thats the US and they are well known for pushing them to destruction and just replacing the engine as they are cheap as chips. Also WHP is calculated differently and is roughly BHP flywheel figure, so 500 at the wheels is around 625 ish at the fly, not a hope in hell of a stock 2.5 doing that, maybe for a couple of dyno pulls, but thats it. Be very very wary of any information you get on Facebook as its a well known for dodgy info and cowboy tuners/mappers

at 500bhp your looking at rebuild so will be pricey.

yep, very much so

cs400 was a forged engine from factory

Welcome, 400bhp without a rebuild? good luck that it manages to survive to that and i would expect a rebuild in less than 5k miles

In that case i'd wait and bide your time, instead of dumping a load of wasted money save it and buy a decent wrx in a couple of years,

welcome

you do realise the insurance will prob cost less on a wrx than modding it and then insuring it?

Don't bother, by the time you've done what you need to do to do it properly it will cost more than selling it and buying a wrx that has alot more upgrades like brakes, suspension etc etc

pop back to the dealer and get them to sort it as car will still be under warranty

Welcome, not that many NI owners on here i think so if its from over your way prob unlikley to find them. Other thing is you can go to th4e mot history check and find out where the mot's were carried out, see where the owner was based, may hep find them if possible.

budget a minimum of £500 a side for a proper job, they go from the inside out so if its visible the inner arch is going to be a mess. Cambelt and water pump change (why change the water pump?) will be same as any spec impreza as they are the same setup, have to confess im not up to date on what going rate for these as last two i had were part of engines builds (on different cars i should add lol)

Need to find where the oil is coming from rather than covering it up.

I've got tein Flex z coilovers on always been really impressed, nice balance of firm but not hash ride. Coilovers are one of those things that can come in alot of different varieties that give massively varying rides in terms of how harsh. best advice i can give is see if you can find a local owners club and maybe see if you can get a few rides in cars with different setups to get an idea what they are like

It will need mapping for the new turbo.

First off need to confirm the turbo is fitted correctly and all lines are correct. Has it been mapped for the new turbo? has it been driven without being mapped?

hahaha, i thought torrent was 2000's? dam im old 😞

open source doenst have that inital bump, ecutek is about £175 for a license. but is a one time only purchae for the ecu, which is why there is value in a mapped ecu, even if the map is no use. As far as which to go for, personaly i'd always go Ecutek. If you have an issue with the software (which is nothing to do with the mapper) then the mapper can call the help line and get it put right. In fact i had that very issue with a strange maf overvolt, turned out to be a glltch in the ecutek software which is now patched so i dont get a EML and neither does anyone else for that issue. If it was open source, unlucky.

Ecutek software license, basically a mapping software that is used, interestingly the origins of open source stuff is cracked versions of ecutek.

Alot lol Full forged rebuild, turbo, injectors, etc etc etc Have a read here