winmoz

Some tp tips I picked up from the Castle Combe ARDS instructors who ran 3 MY08 STis (and blew the egines on them all)

1) Check the oil levels - very prone to oil surge on track
2) Never run with less than 1/3 full tank. High speed left had bends cause a fuel pressure drop and at full boost the engine runs dangerously lean (I experienced this as a loss of power!)
3) Lose the dust shileds on the front brakes. very prone to over heating
4) hope you have the revised map and pistons

hmmmm

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mc auley

what up grade

winmoz

A few reports of early cars having "relatively" poor quality cast pistons and or poorly defined map that failed to adequately prevent detonation in certain circumstances.

I can find no evidence that the piston spwec has changed, however there is a ground swell around the map eveolving over time.

Am hoping that having the PPP map will offer some protection from the original UK map issues.

mc auley

i hope to have afp to map it by ecu tec to 360- 390 as i have had evo with this power. wou think it will be safe

scooby L

Some are running 380 but have re-builds planned for the future...(we will see how the stock pistons have stood up to the test then).

In the mean time I'd not push it past 350-360

mc auley

bought a evo x instead and just spent 1600 and that left me with 440bhp/425ft and got sat nev. subaru really needs to put a normal engine in. every other part of sud's are great apart from a supit flat 4

jho!

Castle Coombe allways ran thier cars on normal umleaded. I'm sure this was also a contributing factor.