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  • Birthday 02/04/1976

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    Sterling, MA
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    05 LGT Wagon

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  1. Holy crap, this is awesome! I never missed my cruise control over the past few years but the odometer error was irritating. So, TCM unplugged and auto ecu with manual rom installed. Still using the auto bcm, auto cluster, auto abs module etc. correct?
  2. Update! There is new legislature in the works on this! SEMA has issued a link that allows you to send an email to support legislature to protect auto racing in the US. Here is more info. If anyone has a minute, just fill out the form and click send. It automatically selects your local rep and does all the work for you Congress Introduces Bill to Ensure that Motor Vehicles May Be Modified Into Racecars U.S. Reps. Patrick McHenry (R-NC), Henry Cuellar (D-TX), Richard Hudson (R-NC), Bill Posey (R-FL) and Lee Zeldin (R-NY) have introduced the bipartisan “Recognizing the Protection of Motorsports Act of 2016” (RPM Act), which makes clear that it has always been legal to modify a street vehicle into a racecar used exclusively at the track. The practice was unquestioned until last year when the EPA proposed a new regulation which would make this activity illegal. SEMA supports the RPM Act and urges you to do so as well. Ask Your Local Member of Congress to Support the RPM Act Click on the link below to write your local member of Congress asking for their support of the RPM Act! SUPPORT RPM
  3. Some progress on this one... https://www.sema.org/sema-enews/2016/08/progress-update-opposing-epa-proposal-to-prohibit-race-car-conversions?utm_source=ET&utm_medium=email&utm_content=50800723&utm_campaign=eNews
  4. Bump for signing a petition for a good cause to keep motorsports going. Better than sitting around HOPING it will work out once passed.
  5. Here is a really good interpretation of the law from SEMA: https://www.sema.org/sema-enews/2016/06/debunking-the-myths-epa-proposal-to-prohibit-conversion-of-vehicles-into-racecars?utm_source=ET&utm_medium=email&utm_content=50765031&utm_campaign=eNews
  6. You got it. No more aftermarket mods. So if you don't want to sell a part for race use, you go through the wonderful process of CARB approval. The CARB board would essentially control ALL what is released out there for cars (probably the entire point of this proposal by the EPA). Prices would go up as CARB approval costs $$$ and takes a lot of time. In an effort to clean up the air for a tiny percentage of vehicles on the road, they would put an entire industry of aftermarket part manufacturers, installers, etc. out of business. Real economic stimulation here.... I try to avoid anything political on our facebook page, but this one was just too ridiculous
  7. Bumping...Everyone who has an interest in modifying cars should be signing this petition. This does NOT only apply to heavy duty trucks... Every part you purchase without CARB compliance would essentially go away as these are designed for "offroad use only". This is the real purpose of this EPA proposal as it has been a loop hole they are trying to close for some time.
  8. Good luck. If you (or anyone else) end up with an auto and are interested in seeing the conversion, just let me know and you are welcome to stop by the shop to see it.
  9. When I was selling my other car a month ago, I started finding a bunch of manual wagons listed for sale which was a bit surprising. But here is what I found local to MA/CT/RI: http://southcoast.craigslist.org/cto/5418908531.html Or, if you really want to take on a project: http://boston.craigslist.org/gbs/pts/5402470839.html I couldn't find a manual at the time so had to go this route. Looked for about 6 months. But it nice to have something different. Last thing anyone expects to be fast is a Subaru station wagon. Stock mufflers really throw people off, well at least until the external dump opens up Max Capacity, appreciate the reference.
  10. I am pretty sure you a not going to find any additional info on this one. Cheapest option: find a manual wagon Next least expensive option: Swap in to 6 MT or 5MT and loose cruise and get a CAN error on the odometer Most expensive option: Buy the auto, find a wrecked manual wagon or complete part-out, and then you will have the additional parts you need to swap in the car to do it 100% correctly, including the ECU, cluster and immobilizer, ABS unit, BCM, factory harnesses and whatever other little differences you find when doing the swap. Honestly, it seems like paying a little more and sourcing a MT wagon is WAY better of an option if you do not own the car as of yet
  11. Mike has done all of my personal Subaru tuning over the past decade. I love the way the car drives and most importantly...THE CAR HAS STAYED TOGETHER FOR ALMOST 100K. Anyone can claim to get the most power out of a car, but what good is it if it made 5 more HP and has a broken motor and is sitting in the garage... Mike has done an excellent job on the non cookie cutter tunes like speed density and hybrid maf/speed density tunes like I run on mine. He does not just load in a tune that is 90% there do 2 pulls and call it good enough. He will spend a lot of time to get it correct without cleaning out your wallet. When comparing most of his dyno numbers under most have been on our stingy-reading Mustang dyno that read approximately 10% lower than competitor dynos in our area. I would absolutely recommend Mike (Tuning Alliance) based on the years of seeing his work at our shop, as well as my personal vehicles.
  12. Yeah, when I unplugged that it made most of those go away. Nothing in the ecu will make a difference in the can bus error however you will need to turn p700 codes off related to the tranny. From what I can remember, when I compares the wiring diagrams of the manual and auto lgt, there were quite a few differences, especially when it came to the cruise control. The tcm seemed to play a big part in the cruise control on the automatic. Even the abs units were different from one to the other. Hence why I stopped the install where I did, instead of replacing half the car.
  13. Running the original auto ECU, original cluster. Once the TCM is unplugged, all the tranny related lights in the cluster go away, as does the lighting around the P R N D 2 1 on the cluster. Wiring is very simple doing it this way. You will lose cruise control and get an ERR that displays on the odometer. This goes away when you toggle through the trip logs on the odometer but pops back up when you are done. The cluster is identical other than the PRND21 on there. Nobody every notices it. Most people can't believe the car is not a manual from the factory. 70K miles running the car this way and it has been great.
  14. Black LGT, Hella Horns, blacked out front grill, behind me "merging" onto I190 in Sterling.
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