Thank you Equilibrium Tuning
02-21-2005, 03:18 PM
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Thank you Equilibrium Tuning
I just wanted to publicly thank Ed from Equilibrium Tuning for making my car feel like it should feel straight from the factory. The power response is great and extremely smooth. I had previously owned a cobb stage 2 flashed Ecu, while the Cobb did its job well, the smoothness of the tune done by Ed can’t be touched. We had previously delta dashed the Cobb to check for open/ close loop delays and fond them to still be there. From 3k-4k the fuel map hadn’t switched over yet and there was a good deal of hesitation there with Cobb. Now all that hesitation is gone. Just pulls like mad from 3k and up. I only have a downpipe and catback, no uppipe, but boost comes on strong and fast. I’m just amazed how the car pulls all the way to redline, there’s no drop off. Ed spent a lot of time tuning the car and wouldn’t stop until he was satisfied. He even called me the next day to come back in because he had a few ideas on how to better the map he already made. Thanks again Ed, your dedication to your customers’ satisfaction is phenomenal, and I’ll be sure to come back for tunes in the future.
-Chris
Just for clarification. The blue line is a road dyno of a Bone stock 04 WRX. My car is the red line. My mods are just a stromung downpipe and a borla catback. Stock 3rd cat and uppipe
-Chris
Just for clarification. The blue line is a road dyno of a Bone stock 04 WRX. My car is the red line. My mods are just a stromung downpipe and a borla catback. Stock 3rd cat and uppipe
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02-22-2005, 10:59 PM
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its smooth to huh. Well done ed good numbers glad to hear you love it chris. Eq tuning is just that a balanced tune. Great power and keeping safe the key to a great daily driver.
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02-23-2005, 11:31 AM
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Are you running a stock cat in the up pipe? I highly recommend you change that out fast. If the up pipe cat ever decides to go, chunks will fly into your turbo and destroy it.
-GDO
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02-23-2005, 03:17 PM
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Originally Posted by Onizuka
Are you running a stock cat in the up pipe? I highly recommend you change that out fast. If the up pipe cat ever decides to go, chunks will fly into your turbo and destroy it.
-GDO
-GDO
GDO,
yes, Chris is running the stock uppipe with cat. I took that into consideration by setting his a/f fairly rich to keep EGT's down and keep that cat intact. I agree with you, however, that a catless uppipe is deffinately one of the more important mods.
-- Ed
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02-23-2005, 08:38 PM
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Originally Posted by Onizuka
Are you running a stock cat in the up pipe? I highly recommend you change that out fast. If the up pipe cat ever decides to go, chunks will fly into your turbo and destroy it.
-GDO
-GDO
Sorry Ed, not trying to hyjack your thread or anything, I just had to say something cause I've heard this going around before and thought this kind of thinking was gone by now.
Who knows, maybe I'm wrong and just haven't witnessed it yet
Anyways, just my $.01
-Adam
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02-23-2005, 10:33 PM
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Originally Posted by LIC Motorsports
Really? I haven't seen that before. If this truelly was a problem, I think we would have seen this happen. Have you gutted a stock uppipe before? I assume Not, because it literally takes heavy duty tools and about an hour to do it. The pre-cat is Not like the normal cats (honeycomb type) which can melt or break into pieces. If it was like them, then your theory would be true.
Sorry Ed, not trying to hyjack your thread or anything, I just had to say something cause I've heard this going around before and thought this kind of thinking was gone by now.
Who knows, maybe I'm wrong and just haven't witnessed it yet
Anyways, just my $.01
-Adam
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Sorry Ed, not trying to hyjack your thread or anything, I just had to say something cause I've heard this going around before and thought this kind of thinking was gone by now.
Who knows, maybe I'm wrong and just haven't witnessed it yet
Anyways, just my $.01
-Adam
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No worries about hyjacking the thread... although its not even mine
.I've deffinately heard about this many times but also have never seen it first person or talked to anyone who actually had it happen to their car... who knows though, crazy stuff does happen once in a while.
-- Ed
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02-23-2005, 10:57 PM
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I've seen a bunch of EGT probes that have helped modify turbo's as well as a couple of cat fragments go into a turbo back in the very early days and if I recall they were both covered under warranty.
Haven't seen to many catted uppipes in while though and thankfully like Adam said they are fairly robust.
Haven't seen to many catted uppipes in while though and thankfully like Adam said they are fairly robust.
02-24-2005, 09:41 AM
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I'll take $.005 Thanks 
Like Mike said, EGT probes for sure can break. I have an old turbo around here somewhere that has bent fins from a probe going through it.
Perhaps the post just rang a chord with me, I don't know. Yes it's a good idea to change out the uppipe if you are modifying the rest of the exhaust, there's gains to be had. I just don't think it needs to be done because it may 'let go and destroy the turbo'.
Anyways, I'm done. Going back to chain myself to the lift, where I can't reach the computer
-Adam
ps: can I have my change now?
Like Mike said, EGT probes for sure can break. I have an old turbo around here somewhere that has bent fins from a probe going through it.
Perhaps the post just rang a chord with me, I don't know. Yes it's a good idea to change out the uppipe if you are modifying the rest of the exhaust, there's gains to be had. I just don't think it needs to be done because it may 'let go and destroy the turbo'.
Anyways, I'm done. Going back to chain myself to the lift, where I can't reach the computer
-Adam
ps: can I have my change now?
02-25-2005, 03:59 AM
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Originally Posted by mcdrama
let me know once you get your wideband as well. 
Well as requested, my wideband and labjack came in the mail today, so after this weekend I'll be fully set up to road tune with it!
Chris, we should set up a time to check out your car out and make any necessary changes to your tune. Since you're local, that shouldn't be much of a problem
.-- Ed
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03-13-2005, 11:50 PM
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I also want to thank Ed of Equilibrium Tuning for my tune Yesterday.. The numbers were just what I was looking for.. But you have to drive it to believe the difference.. 1st and 2nd pulls like crazy now.. My car has a helix uppipe, hks catback, stock DP, stock intake box with k&n drop in minus the silencer..
Ed is very dedicated in his work.. I think he has spent about 5 hours on my car so far..
In Green is my numbers before the tune with my bolt ons..
In Red and Yellow are after the after numbers..
:banana:
Ed is very dedicated in his work.. I think he has spent about 5 hours on my car so far..
In Green is my numbers before the tune with my bolt ons..
In Red and Yellow are after the after numbers..
:banana: