MEET UP: North Bay, lets get it going!
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I dont know whats good up there, so I am game or anything drive wise.
Spoke to Cobb about my AP. Turns out if you have an older AP the firmware wont update easily and will freeze. Thats what happened to mine. Gonna send it in for a free update.
Also, Chris I spoke to them about the ACN 91 Stage 2 map being for Catted vs Catless. they said it IS geared towards catted however will work just fine with catless. Only thing is I have to watch for potential overbooost since its catless. But since its the ACN 91 Octane map, its a lower boost target than 93 Octane so I should be good regardless.
Plus, yesterday with a quick road test and drive to work this morning I noticed that the boost climbs to 16psi with a quickness and holds steady as a rock.
Spoke to Cobb about my AP. Turns out if you have an older AP the firmware wont update easily and will freeze. Thats what happened to mine. Gonna send it in for a free update.
Also, Chris I spoke to them about the ACN 91 Stage 2 map being for Catted vs Catless. they said it IS geared towards catted however will work just fine with catless. Only thing is I have to watch for potential overbooost since its catless. But since its the ACN 91 Octane map, its a lower boost target than 93 Octane so I should be good regardless.
Plus, yesterday with a quick road test and drive to work this morning I noticed that the boost climbs to 16psi with a quickness and holds steady as a rock.
If you ever encounter boost creep/overboost issues, let me know and I can adjust your wastegate duty cycle. Or you can switch to the Cobb Stage 2 Low WGDC map. And, as a head's up, Cobb's AFR numbers under stage 2 are conservative so they can run the map on most cars and be safe. I have adjusted my AFR's and noticed a difference. I'm still making tweaks to the map, but overall I have made great gains. I'll let you test it out!
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Want to know the ultimately irony of all this? My 92x Sti just took a sh¡t on me today. 
I haven't had much time to thoroughly investigate the malfunction since it happened about 2 hours before I started work today, but my preliminary findings lean towards a loss of compression on (hopefully) one cylinder. I'm praying nothing is warped, but the radiator is fücked (but covered with a lifetime warranty), and there is a good 5-7psi of lost oil pressure (read via DEFI gauges).
With that said, I hope to get my baby up and running soon, but I may need a new longblock (fml). If anyone has an extra EJ25 block lying around, please let me know.
I haven't had much time to thoroughly investigate the malfunction since it happened about 2 hours before I started work today, but my preliminary findings lean towards a loss of compression on (hopefully) one cylinder. I'm praying nothing is warped, but the radiator is fücked (but covered with a lifetime warranty), and there is a good 5-7psi of lost oil pressure (read via DEFI gauges). With that said, I hope to get my baby up and running soon, but I may need a new longblock (fml). If anyone has an extra EJ25 block lying around, please let me know.
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I dont know whats good up there, so I am game or anything drive wise.
Spoke to Cobb about my AP. Turns out if you have an older AP the firmware wont update easily and will freeze. Thats what happened to mine. Gonna send it in for a free update.
Also, Chris I spoke to them about the ACN 91 Stage 2 map being for Catted vs Catless. they said it IS geared towards catted however will work just fine with catless. Only thing is I have to watch for potential overbooost since its catless. But since its the ACN 91 Octane map, its a lower boost target than 93 Octane so I should be good regardless.
Plus, yesterday with a quick road test and drive to work this morning I noticed that the boost climbs to 16psi with a quickness and holds steady as a rock.
Spoke to Cobb about my AP. Turns out if you have an older AP the firmware wont update easily and will freeze. Thats what happened to mine. Gonna send it in for a free update.
Also, Chris I spoke to them about the ACN 91 Stage 2 map being for Catted vs Catless. they said it IS geared towards catted however will work just fine with catless. Only thing is I have to watch for potential overbooost since its catless. But since its the ACN 91 Octane map, its a lower boost target than 93 Octane so I should be good regardless.
Plus, yesterday with a quick road test and drive to work this morning I noticed that the boost climbs to 16psi with a quickness and holds steady as a rock.
The above replies had me worried for a minute
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Also, my wheels came a few days ago! I'm about a week away from step one in my functional forester to impractical show car project 
hope to see everyone soon!
hope to see everyone soon!
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Im not against it! I do want to hear this 500hp beast man. This is ur friend u were telling us(Chris A and I) about over dinner a few weeks ago ya? I hope your friend does come this Sunday.
As far as the drive goes, wich direction u guys wanna go too? We need to start throwing udeas out there before sunday! Haha Sorry to hear bout ur car Alex, hope its something easy and cheap to fix. Nice Ferrari next ya 
As far as the drive goes, wich direction u guys wanna go too? We need to start throwing udeas out there before sunday! Haha Sorry to hear bout ur car Alex, hope its something easy and cheap to fix. Nice Ferrari next ya 
Chris I will cetainly keep that in mind. Cobb mentoined the LWG map as well if I need it.
They also provide the Race Tuner software that allows me (or more qualified tweakers) to modify maps to suit driving/engine needs individually. I think we should certainly entertain that idea, once I get some data logging done to see what I am working with.
They also provide the Race Tuner software that allows me (or more qualified tweakers) to modify maps to suit driving/engine needs individually. I think we should certainly entertain that idea, once I get some data logging done to see what I am working with.
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Chris I will cetainly keep that in mind. Cobb mentoined the LWG map as well if I need it.
They also provide the Race Tuner software that allows me (or more qualified tweakers) to modify maps to suit driving/engine needs individually. I think we should certainly entertain that idea, once I get some data logging done to see what I am working with.
They also provide the Race Tuner software that allows me (or more qualified tweakers) to modify maps to suit driving/engine needs individually. I think we should certainly entertain that idea, once I get some data logging done to see what I am working with.
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Just let me know if you have any questions on what you're looking for as far as data logging or anything else. The AccessTuner software is very easy to navigate when modifying values so I don't think you should have any problems there. I also have some tuning guides for you if you really want to get hard core into tuning.
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Sounds like you did your homework. Good job!!
If you ever encounter boost creep/overboost issues, let me know and I can adjust your wastegate duty cycle. Or you can switch to the Cobb Stage 2 Low WGDC map. And, as a head's up, Cobb's AFR numbers under stage 2 are conservative so they can run the map on most cars and be safe. I have adjusted my AFR's and noticed a difference. I'm still making tweaks to the map, but overall I have made great gains. I'll let you test it out!
If you ever encounter boost creep/overboost issues, let me know and I can adjust your wastegate duty cycle. Or you can switch to the Cobb Stage 2 Low WGDC map. And, as a head's up, Cobb's AFR numbers under stage 2 are conservative so they can run the map on most cars and be safe. I have adjusted my AFR's and noticed a difference. I'm still making tweaks to the map, but overall I have made great gains. I'll let you test it out!
Once I got the pro tuned, it worked itself out. Ive heard the 08 and up have these issues with stage 2 OTS maps since its designed for catted. In the earlier models I havent seen it be an issue with over boosting or creep.