So I took my car in today to have Nate have a look at what was going on with the open/closed loop delay that was causing a 1200rpm flat spot (actually turned out to be a 10 whp loss rather than flat spot) between 4k and 5200rpms. The dip came out in the dyno graph but the afr, boost, timing and everything else stayed the same during the dip.

For a moment, maybe, Nate was a little stumped but after the hour he spent diagnosing the issue which led him to wipe everything out and start from scratch he came up with what so far seems like an amazing solution to the dreaded open/closed loop delay the 04+ ECUs have.

Nate was able to keep the AFRs, timing, and boost exactly the same in the original safe range he tuned but was able to tune 10 more whp and 5 wtq to give me 212 whp and 185 wtq. On top of that he made about 10 dyno pulls back to back with no cool down and the numbers stayed the same.

Nate gave me a quick explanation of what he did and so far it seems to be holding. He told me my car was the first 05 he has completely wiped out the delays and started from scratch with. The car pulls so much harder and smoother than it did before. The delay is completely gone which makes the car so easy to drive. I am very happy with what Nate was able to do.

If you read this Nate, thanks again for spending the time you did today to get things working right (and better than before!) I will let you know if anything changes and how it runs. You da man!

 

Nate rocks! I've been loving my car since he did the VF34 and other goodies

 

Hey man glad I could get it taken care of for you, the 05's seem to have some quirkyness about them, thanks for letting us test a little w your car


Have a good one man,

 

cant wait to have you tune my car, itll be a few months yet though.

 

ooooo.. I can't wait to take mine in

hehe

Oh and what mods do you have again Killian

 

Isnt yours an 04 or 05? If so and if whatever Nate figured out is applicabale to all of the ECUS with that delay then maybe you too have some more power waiting to be extracted.

My mods, turbo inlet, I/C hoses, crank pulley, uppipe, TBE.

 

Mine is an 05 and yea the OL/CL is bad in these cars

 

or it was

 

I just wanted to bump this thread for any of you potential Subaru Specialist customers so you could see how they take care of their customers.

That "other" thread is in no way a representaion of how S-S operates, please apply your B.S filters accordingly.

 

if i dont like the tune i get, im gonna blame it on you.

 

Thanks for the support, Jason. I'm glad you're happy with the new tune, glad we could give a performance boost as well

 

ummm.... I am in no way affiliated with S-S so please direct all blame towards lets see, how about Aaron.

You'll be happy with it and there are plenty of others who can validate that.

Git er dun!

 

so when is the VF34 coming along

 

Hey!

 

I hate you.....

I took a ride in BlackVenom96's VF34 equipped ride the other day and it was so nice, I couldnt even tell a difference in spool time between his and mine but the top end, wow!

I'd love to but for now I'm really happy with my new power and secondly I need to ditch the stock wheels and tires before anything else.

I have the RE92 blues.