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Good to know, and yeah my expectations aren't too high, I mainly wanted it to sound good with an exhaust and intake and it does so I'm happy, not doing much more than that other than wheels tires breaks suspension and a few bits and pieces here and there which I'm working towards now

Appreciate that a ton, I'm here to learn what I can Good to know it wont be hurting the car though, I've put around 500 miles on it now and its still running just as smooth as normal!

It wasn't my choice as to what car I bought for my first car sadly, it was based on what I could insure and what parents would let me get as I'm an 18-year-old college student, I will be getting another project car soon but I love my legacy and I know it'll never make much power, I do plan to eventually do a GT swap but am nowhere near able to afford that yet, so in the meantime, I'm putting what I can into the car and building it to be more of a pretty daily, I hope to eventually make right about 200bhp and that's about all I would want from it for the time being. The intake was again primarily for the looks and sound, I knew when I bought it I wasn't going to make any meaningful power with it I just wanted to know if it would hurt the car or my reliability and if I would need a tune and if so how to go about getting one

It wasn't my first mod, but what other expensive mods would you recommend to get more out of the intake? It's a N/A CVT, I'm not really sure what else I could do, I'm still very new to the car scene and trying to learn more, and I would love to know what to do next! And I bought it primarily because I like the noise it makes and it looks good in my engine bay and was fun to install

Good to know, exactly what I was looking for, thank you!

Hello fellow 5th gen owners, I wanted to get some input on what you all think about the HPS intake for the N/A 5th gen legacy. I personally bought one a couple weeks ago, mainly for the sound, looks, and mild fuel economy/power boost. I know the gains in power are negligible at best but it was worth it for me in other ways, mainly having something to look at when I pop the hood and a fun install. I was wondering if anyone has had this product installed in the long term and if so what have you noticed? I have been told directly from HPS that their intake is perfectly safe to run and should cause no problems or long term damage, however, I have also heard from a local tuning shop and some friends that there is a potential for running lean and causing heat damage over time due to not enough fuel to cool things down. Has anyone experienced any such damage or anything else in the long term as I have only had mine on for a couple of hundred miles and all I notice is a slight boost to fuel economy and a little bonus on the butt dyno. As an additional note, the same tuning shop that told me it could cause damage also has told me it isn't possible to tune my car due to the CVT, though I am unsure about this as I figured it could be tuned to at least inject more fuel to balance out any lean conditions, does anyone have any thoughts on the possibility of tuning a CVT? Once again I know this would not result in meaningful power gains and if I am to tune it that's not really what I'm after, as I mainly just want the intake and exhaust I have to function reliably and for the car to take into account these modifications. Thanks for any feedback you can provide!

Update: After getting the airbox fixed everything seems normal! back to 18mpg city and hit 25 on the highway today

Thanks all for the replies, I haven't got to put the intermediate pipe back yet as it's currently back in the shop, I was in an accident a bit ago and the airbox may be an issue currently as there is a big hole in it they never noticed lol but once that's fixed I'll test with the pipe again. Also, 18 is definitely bad to begin with so I'm going to take it to a local dean team I think and get it checked out further because I definitely should be getting better mileage. The air/fuel has also been off normal numbers so hopefully this is the main issue, will post more as I work out the problem. Appreciate all your help

I'm relatively new to the car scene as well as this forum and honestly just wanted to make my 2014 legacy sound a little more like a subie, so I bought the nameless performance axleback exhaust but still wanted more sound. I've got a good 112k miles on the car and have been getting around 18mpg city 20+ highway, but I just recently removed my resonator/intermediate pipe with the intent to weld flanges and make it swappable, and I wanted to test the sound so have been driving it without the intermediate pipe. It hasn't thrown any codes, my air fuel is fine and MAP and whatnot which I can check with an OBD2 scanner, but for some reason I dropped to 8mpg and its a lil scary, I can't find any info on why this may be happening, does anyone have some insight? Sorry if this is a stupid question or stupid thing to do, again I'm kinda a newbie and just trying to get into the car scene