yup you need nothing but a reflash. Believe me I had all kinds of stuff, turbo, injectors, loud exhaust. I got rid of everything and only have an ECUTEC reflash.
254whp/275 torque at 16 psi (this is on a dyno dynamics dyno). Stock it did 219whp on the same dyno.

Now I can gun the car without being afraid that everyone within two blocks knows I have an aftermarket exhaust.

cheers

Nick

 

Ok well that sounds great and only seems to build up the accessport. So are their maps just bad? If so in a month they will have street tuner software so I could tune it myself. Is there any downside?

-joe

 

Wow, I looked at the pictures and all I could think was "That's it? That little damage and they totalled it?" Am I not seeing something? Which insurance company do you have?

jason

 

Yeah it was crazy. I went through the guy who hit me's insurance... 'Unitrin' I had never heard of it be they were quite nice and didn't give me a hard time. They said that the massive number of body panels (full front and back ends) were a large portion of the cost. And all the accessories were supposedly damaged. AKA alternator, AC so on. I looked and nothing was touching them. Suspension wasn't harmed as far as I could tell. But u never know about the frame. Any way they said it was 16k to fix so they gave me 21k+tax/reg.

Not bad in my eyes.

-Joe

 

I never said accessport is bad or good. I have no experience with it. But on the other hand I am a bit sceptical to install an out of the box engine management solution when there are like 3-4 options within driving distance in the Bay Area than custom tune the STi. Again I personally have no interest to tune my own car but I would rather have a prodesionally custom tuned map for my car.

Cheers

Nick

 

Any more pics of the damage on the Volvo SUV? It seems next to no damage on it.
Anyways 21k payout is a good deal. As long as you did not hurt yourself.

Cheers

Nick