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Dairusire last won the day on April 21 2022

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    2013: '00 B4 RSK Rev.C (sold 2014 June)
    2014: '99 STi Type RA V5.10 (Twinscroll setup with complete v10 GDB driveline), Still own.
    2018: '01 Legacy GT Rev.D 'E-Tune'

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  1. That is a super sus URL Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
  2. Not to revive a thread from the dead, but god I love these forums. Literally was looking for where the restrictor goes in the Primary turbo lines and sure enough @Rosssub had the answer back in 2015 lol.
  3. Wait, aren’t the wrx seats from the 01-06 Wrx’s black/grey anyway? Only the sti seats are blue black? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
  4. If you're referring to what looks like curbing in my first photo it's actually not haha. They got dropped on their face when off the car by my lovely now wife haha. chipped the crap out the paint haha
  5. My wheels are done with being Media blasted and now Powder Coated by @chulozumo! Ho boy do I think that's an improvement over the silver that they were! So. The before And AFTER!
  6. Narrowband for sure on all models. Wideband only on newer generation and some legacys? I think? Don't quote me. Oil pressure yes, but it's a switch sensor, not a pressure sensor. So it'll tell you 'yes' there's pressure but what that pressure is, it will not tell you. Again, referencing earlier models. Oil temp at least in the GC, GDs there is not. There might be in later models, but again. I'm pretty well shoehorned into earlier models. As for CANBUS, like I was talking about in reference to aftermarket ECU's eg Link and the like, they come with CANBUS (most do). That's what I was referencing where you can use CANBUS gauges or a Dash cluster, like a haltech IC7 or whatever the link one is etc. It's how I'm running the Link CANBUS wideband and soon to be Haltech EGT sensors and maybe a dash if I'm feeling spicy (I probably won't they're horribly expensive). The answer is yes, that piece of string is long. What I'm eluding to here is if you want them all, fine do it right. Otherwise the best options? Just spend the money elsewhere. Great tyres, lighter wheels and better suspension with good brake pads can be absolutely transformative. Or you could do nothing? Save the money? I kind of wish someone told me that when I started this whole thing with my car. End of the day, your car. Your choice. Your money. If you're happy with what you've done, who am I to tell you otherwise.
  7. I'm going to stop you here just for this not so quick explanation. It's not to be rude but to really advise you. Gauges and sensors are typically a complete waste of time, across the board, if not being used in real time by the ECU. The ECU is doing operations at literally the rate of tens of thousands per second, if not millions. EGTs, oil pressure, oil temp, boost pressure, Wideband, IAT, fuel pressure, ethanol content, fuel temp blah blah I can go on. In short there is absolutely zero chance you will catch something even 1/10th as fast as the ECU can and will. If you want to get gauges and sensors and really have it matter? Heres my advice to you. Do it once, do it properly. Get a motorsports ECU (link, haltech, motec, syvecs, holley. Your preference), get all the sensors you want, have them wired into the ECU properly, and if you want them displayed get some CANBUS gauges or get a CANBUS dash cluster which is programable to have everything. I say this because it is super easy to spend $1000 on gauges that realistically, won't save your car, engine and end of the day, your money. The above is horribly expensive, but sensors save even more expensive components. NOW! To your questions. To be honest, if you've lost oil pressure completely and notice it on the gauge it is already too late 99.99% of the time. Even if it hasn't knocked yet there will be major scoring to bearings, cams and other pieces in the engine. So yeah it's more so just noticing when driving around if it's somewhere it's not meant to be. Not enough to trigger engine safety protections but enough that I notice and then check my ECU logs. in the case of oil temp, Yeah in my example yes that is predominantly what it's for at least for me, but once again, ECU logging and engine safeties get to that well before I do. Also normally when you've got oil that hot and you're loosing oil pressure you should drop the oil and change it. Overheating oil can and will damage the oil in ways that can then do potential damage to your engine. Though, if you want them for the look, and less about the sensors themselves. Knock yourself out. They're cool as sh!t and I've love mine even though they realistically don't do crap for me haha
  8. imho, just oil pressure and oil temp. Once again, they best serve when actually integrated into your cars ECU, as an ECU will respond instantly where-as you might not even notice. Though, Oil temp and oil pressure are in some examples good on track for purposes of not pushing it too far. For example, I have oil temp and pressure in my RA, because with the temp it's a lot slower changes, easier to notice over time. Pressure is less about seeing it go to zero because if it goes to zero the damage is done. It's more so about knowing when your oil is too hot and you're loosing pressure because of that, tells you when to button off and give the car a few good low rpm cool down laps at a good cruising speed. Boost is another case of really only useful when troubleshooting an issue. Aka, hitting boost cut or the car has gotten sluggish or it's picked up a LOT more power and you need to figure out why. Though, it can be useful and for me it has proven so when I've looked at the boost gauge and realised there was 30psi of boost being fed into my stock EJ207. It was going REEEEEEALLY good there.
  9. My answer is that it's really only good for looks if it's not wired into the ECU and actually utilised. Like, sure you could use it on the road and be able to tell if you're running at 1.0 lambda when cruising but in reality, when you're actually driving it you will not or at least should not be looking at the gauge. You also, unless you're logging it, won't be able to tell exactly where in the RPM range at what throttle load the cars at so it's basically a turkey shoot.
  10. If you don't believe the marketing either, my ethanol content sensor in my Type RA confirmed that too lol
  11. I don't know why on earth you guys are suggesting 98? He's clearly said 100 octane is available and it's cheaper..... Do you guys read? So yes, 100 octane man. I can also attest that in a twin turbo legacy, just going from 98 to 100 octane got rid of a slight detonation problem I was having. Definitely not 95.
  12. Me having my RA go through wof on 235 semi slicks, swapped subframes, engine, bigger turbo, brembos, and 114.3 swap and passing.
  13. Well, I got it running after about 4 weeks of faffing round with getting some Radium fuel rails that weren't stuffed out of the box. Side note, Patrick at pbms was really helpful. With that sorted, it's also fixed the fuel leak I was experiencing. Boy this thing absolutely rips. Sent from my SM-G960F using Tapatalk
  14. Thaaaats not true anymore. The Rev A-D are all tunable now. An Lal at custom culture and tuning tunes them. There's also the group out of the UK AFAIK that sell off the shelf tunes and equipment for em. Sent from my SM-G960F using Tapatalk
  15. Theoretically, yes. Reality no. The MAF should be able to take care of any variation in airflow from turbo differences. Wouldn't hurt getting the car tuned if it hasn't been before though. They really come alive after one.
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