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  1. I have never had an issue with his communication. I do know that he's not taking on any new customers for 1-2 months while he catches up on correspondence and retunes required. So does the new built box you have spoken about work with a post-facelift with no other modification or ECU reprogramming etc. required? What makes you say this
  2. Yeh but you had an issue with using a post facelift box in your pre, why won't I have the same issue with using the pre facelift in the post? And yes both of us have had our cars tuned by throttlehappy
  3. That option isn't available for post 07 models is it?
  4. A few guys have mentioned the issues of not being able to shift between gears. I have a 5EAT that is equivalent to an 08+ in the states, dr20t has a 5EAT equivalent to your 03-07 models. Both of us have an issue of boost/fuel cut when going from 1st to 2nd on high boost, afaik dr20t has the issue sometimes from 3rd to 4th as well occasionally. Both our cars are at around 340-350 whp, and both of our cars have set 12 second quarter mile times, his best being 12.21, my best being 12.55 but my time was set with this issue occurring between 1st and 2nd gear. This issue does not happen when I run my low boost setting of 18psi, unless it is a really cold night, our high boost settings are similar at 20-21 psi. This has been attributed (rightly or wrongly) to the HKS EVC that we use holding boost to redline, the car revving out too fast for the TCU to recognise it needs to shift, then the car hitting the boost/fuel cut limit and cutting power for that split second. The tuner is not able to taper boost with this boost controller. However, the perceived fix is that we use the HKS Ezy Writer which is software and a hardware unit that connects into the boost controller. It can be used to give the tuner flexibility to taper boost. I'm hoping that once these changes have been made the issue will be alleviated and I can finally get the low 12 second pass I've been wanting! In other news, I launched my car fairly hard the other night, but failed to hold onto the brake hard enough as my car crept forward while stalling up. This is very very bad and I now have what sounds to be a bearing noise upon light throttle in certain situations. Fairly certain I have done some damage to the centre diff. After countless launches at the drags and otherwise, I can't believe I was stupid enough not to press the brake pedal hard enough! Lax moment of concentration but the good news is nothing has broken, but it sounds to be on the way out! That is all, sorry for the wall of text!
  5. Yeh mine's been at least at stage 2 since May 2011! So that's over a year and a half and about 35,000kms (not sure how many miles that is). But yeh point taken, I just don't like to wait for things
  6. Really? You have waited this long to upgrade your car just because of this? Why not just save ~$30-40 per week to go towards a new tranny and upgrade your car now. My car is running ~330hp at the wheels (probably more now) on E85 and tranny has held up fine for a couple of months, was running close to 300 before that for a couple of months. Basically I've been running close to a 20G turbo for 4 months and tranny is still fine, this has included a track day and about 20 runs at the drags. I've got money set aside so if anything goes boom I can afford to fix it. This is the risk we run when modifying cars. There is a risk my tranny might go, but there is also a risk my engine might go eventually as well. For now I have bought frank_ster's bronze bushings, might look at doing valve body mods in the future but next I want to upgrade the stall converter
  7. Wow that was quick! I like PS you could probably remove my old time of 12.76 so that someone isn't bumped out?
  8. Took it for another run after switching to ethanol. I use E-flex which is available at the bowser and is about E71. Ran 12.53 @ 112.95 mph last night. Timeslip: http://s11.postimage.org/wyy9xy2sj/12_and_a_half_pass.jpg Dyno graph: http://i.imgur.com/Uk83K.jpg More Porn: http://i.imgur.com/o1J8e.jpg Event: Hi-Tech Oils Race 4 Real Wednesday Location: Sydney Dragway Date: 12/12/2012 Ambient Temp: 21C (70F) Elevation: 70m above sea level (230ft) Weather: Clear sky Car: 2007 Subary Liberty GT-B STi Tuner: Matt (throttlehappy) from KiDo Tuning Track info: 1/4 mile drag strip: http://sydneydragway.com.au/ Transmission: 5EAT Peak Horse Power at RPM: 237kw (322hp) Peak Torque at RPM: Unknown Fuel: E-flex (E71) Engine/Power Modifications: Tomei ARMS M7960, Plasmaman FMIC, APEXI CAI, Greddy Trust RZ BOV, HKS EVC5, SARD Fuel pump + reg, ID1000 injectors, Custom 3" dump pipe into K2 Gear Spec-neo Ti dual catback exhaust. Driveline Modifications: None Suspension Modifications: Cusco Zero 2-E coilovers, STi front strut brace, STi front lower arm bar, cusco front swaybar and endlinks, cusco front h-brace, cusco transmission tunnel support, cusco floor braces, cusco rear swaybar and heavy duty sway bar mounts, cusco 4 piece rear under brace set, cusco rear strut brace, cusco brake stopper, cusco radiator brace, j-speed front lower arm bushes. Other Modifications: Prova air guide, cusco oil catch-can Had an issue shifting it into 2nd, 1st gear over-revs and even if I try to manually shift the auto it still hits the rev limiter and cuts power for a split second. I think this is costing me some good time as my half track time is similar to previously, but it is putting on an extra 10mph in the second half of the track compared to previously!
  9. All I needed was a retune you just need bigger injectors, larger fuel pump and preferably a fuel regulator, all of which I had installed before my initial pump fuel tune. I got 237kw atw (320ish hp) but that was on pump E-flex which is only E70 and still had a quarter of a tank of regular fuel in it so I recon true figure is now somewhere around 250 kw or 330ish hp...as I said tuner has the car shifting quicker so really excited to see what I can manage at the strip now! Will be going this Wednesday if the weather holds up!
  10. Timeslip: http://i.imgur.com/0SYoy.jpg Dyno graph: http://i.imgur.com/Qqtng.jpg Porn: http://i.imgur.com/y7UrK.jpg Event: Hi-Tech Oils Race 4 Real Wednesday Location: Sydney Dragway Date: 03/10/2012 Ambient Temp: 18C (64F) Elevation: 70m above sea level (230ft) Weather: Clear sky Car: 2007 Subary Liberty GT-B STi Tuner: Insight Motorsports Track info: 1/4 mile drag strip: http://sydneydragway.com.au/ Transmission: 5EAT Peak Horse Power at RPM: 208.9kw @ 5700rpm (280hp) Peak Torque at RPM: Unknown Fuel: 98RON Engine/Power Modifications: Tomei ARMS M7960, Plasmaman FMIC, APEXI CAI, Greddy Trust RZ BOV, HKS EVC5, SARD Fuel pump + reg, ID1000 injectors, Custom 3" dump pipe into K2 Gear Spec-neo Ti dual catback exhaust. Driveline Modifications: None Suspension Modifications: Cusco Zero 2-E coilovers, STi front strut brace, STi front lower arm bar, cusco front swaybar and endlinks, cusco front h-brace, cusco transmission tunnel support, cusco floor braces, cusco rear swaybar and heavy duty sway bar mounts, cusco 4 piece rear under brace set, cusco rear strut brace, cusco brake stopper, cusco radiator brace, j-speed front lower arm bushes. Other Modifications: Prova air guide, cusco oil catch-can, defi cr oil pressure and boost gauges, innovate wideband o2 sensor, various cosmetic upgrades Recently retuned on E-85 and netted a substantial power increase and tuner made it shift a lot quicker...heading back to the drags to see what it can get
  11. Just to be clear, I wouldn't be getting a transmission cooler for the purpose of normal driving, it would be there to help cooling when I take my car to the drags and track days
  12. My car's performance is more important than my fuel efficiency lol! Basically once the fluid and torque converter has warmed up it won't be an issue at all? PS looking at mounting the tranny cooler up in the top part of the engine bay where the top mount used to be as all that is up there now is an oil catch can!
  13. In terms of the comments on here that a transmission cooler will sometimes overcool which could be a bad thing... I have a Zero/sports transmission cooler yet to be installed. Given that Australia doesn't really get as cold days as you do in the States (the coldest nights in my area in winter would be around 5-15 degrees Celsius, or 41-59 degrees Fahrenheit), would I really experience much of this problem? I would say the temperature I would be driving around in would typically be from around 15C-30C, sometimes getting up to 40C in the summer (59F-86F, up to 104F). Thoughts would be appreciated
  14. So the stock 5EAT can handle 300whp? The 08+ 5EAT?
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