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o right, didnt realise they were slide ones all round on em tis a bit of an !Removed! that

im at work, didnt say i was working,,,, hahahaha tbh was quite nice being so quiet over christmas, anoying that i couldnt get on demand stuff on tv though

whats on the back end currently? on scoobs front end does alot more braking than the back end so you dont have to do the rears as well.

i've told them not to rush so its not a high priority, garage is still full of crap hahaha

haha, im still offline at home but back tot he grindstone with working net lol

No real update as of yet, cars had the mechanical stuff done but when mapping got to low 300's and started to run out of fuelling and no time before Christmas to be looked at in depth.

bummer :( glad your ok though

Can you get the existing one rebuilt?

Offset will be an issue opn the wheels as well. You could chuck a set of D2's on it or a AP 4 pot kit for the ultimate, really depends on budget

def go for a daily, e39 5 series is a right comfy barge, £1000 should get a decent one, as long as you dont use a main dealer they not that bad parts costs wise and being bmw they go and go and go

What a fob off, if the cars affected by the recal needs to be done. cheeky buggers aint they

hunny im home :D how are we all? :D

Well, in about an hours time i shant be on again. It's been fun an all so i shall bid my farewells. Why the fook i have to wait till 11th of jan to get net put in in the new house I have no idea,,,,, you can't get rid of me that easy hahahaha Due back at work the 4th so shall be spammign away again then and then nets due to go in on the 11th

what power you running? Anything bigger than a TD04 will see an improvement when a front mount is fitted and mapped. thing is people get hung up on claims it causes lag. unless you get one with a stupidly large core then they don't. once you swap out the standard turbo you see improvements in power from a front mount, cooler temps allow more aggressive timing with the map, issue is always heat so improving the air cooling leaves more wiggle room for the mapper.

like all tuning varies from car to car, was pushed to just over 400 and then backed off due to temps. i wouldn;t wanna run more than that on a top mount thats for sure

pmsl, there's always one who has to lower the tone,,,, lol

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.

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.

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

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

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?).

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