Hey guys and girls. is there any simple way of telling if the turbo on my bugeye wrx is a vf34 by just looking from under the hood?

 

It will have a stamp on it with the turbo number

 

It should be clearly visible from looking down on it from engine bay.

 

Thanks ill check that out

 

Ive had a look and cant seem to see a stamp, ive took a couple of photos but i think im needing so many posts to put the pics up?

 

Have a look at FAQ section to see how to post pics
Or go premium and then you can copy and paste em

 

Then it may still be on the standard TD04

 

No you just need to upload the pictures to photobucket, once done copy the [img] code [\img] into this thread. It's free to do

 

Yeah looks just like that, were that had the 7e tp mine has 2d tp? Also i spot a light blue injector he said they were pink, so makes sense if hes lied about the injectors then points towards the turbo to.

 

Standard wrx injectors are blue...

 

As are 550cc Hawkeye ones too Banny I think

 

Yeah he sed they were pink sti ones, i should of done my home work i admit, i swapped for my Leon cupra so thought it was worth the swap.

 

What is the spec of the car claimed in the advert? Or a link to the advert?

 

It was on swaps website, its been taking down now, was sti ecu, pink injectors,vf34 turbo, walbro fuel pump, turbo back exhaust, sti tmic k&n pannel filter. He said the boost had been manually turned down to 0.7bar using a manual boost controller, mods i know for sure are true is the sti tmic and full exhaust.

 

I know this sounds harsh, but I need to be frank about your situation.

You've been diddled and I don't think there is a great deal you can do about it as you swapped a car for a car, ie there is little "documentation" to peruse a claim against the other party, so your likely now stuck with the deal, unless you fancy going to visit the other chap to have it out man to man ?

So the situation is now, is you have a car that is probably running either lean or rich and needs addressing, a MBC in my opinion is a no,no unless it's mapped with it accordingly. I could go to town to explain the what-ifs, but a quick search on here would tell all you need to know.

Rob

 

Very true, in going to see evotune tomorrow there going to look over the car. Ive also got it booked in for mapping on the 17th

 

Surely mapping it the way it is will still see more power than the Leon 180 i swapped??

 

I'm not saying don't, but I'd save cash on the mapping unless you have all the parts offered to make decent power.

sti ecu - doubt it
pink injectors - probably WRX in
vf34 turbo - probably TD04
walbro fuel pump - how would you know without checking?
turbo back exhaust - all tweaked Subarus are pretty much fitted with SS exhaust to get that burble
sti tmic - your sure it is a STI one and not a WRX with the logo stencilled?
k&n pannel filter - so you've checked?.

He said the boost had been manually turned down to 0.7bar using a manual boost controller - is that not lower than standard boost as standard?

All this reads very wrong, forget the remap for now, get it looked at as you have said with evotune and let's see what is said.

At the end of the day we are assuming it's got a TD04, this is rated to around 275-300bhp if your lucky, but at 0.7bar I'd imagine it would be lucky to be 200bhp

Rob

 

Thanks for all the input pal, ill start by taking it to evotune get it checked over. Ill let yous know what he says. I received the stock wrx cooler with the car to, the down pipe has toyosport on it. Ill know alot more after tomoz

 

couple of pics ive took anyway...







also injectors (i think)

 

Any ideas?

 

Mate evo tune will lift you all of your worries don't worry

Might set you back a few quid in the short term, but that leon will be a thing of the past once you get the car set up properly

Sounds like the guy tried to do everything on the cheap and forgot the most important part of subaru mods... The remap

Also for your turbo you need to look at that plate, look at the one bannysti posted, there should be a plate around the same location

Even if it's the standard one as in bannys picture it should still say it

 

Also just read on another thread you can't get mapped untill September

Give Duncan a call from racedynamix http://www.racedynamix.co.uk/remap/

He comes to your place or you can meet on a rolling road

Cheaper than most places too and honestly a really good guy

Where abouts are you? I think Duncan may have done mine on the rolling road at evo tune

DLM in darlington is also a really good garage, Darren who owns it - lives and breathes subarus, if he doesn't know it, then it's not worth knowing

 

Thank you for the reply, yeah his reason to swap was his wife wouldn't let him put cash into it and she couldn't stand the Scooby and told him to get rid, i took the swap taking the risk as i never thought id own a Scooby, he originally wanted the Leon cupra r but settled for mine as it was set up for stage 2..... The Scooby drives great with no clunks or bangs, it has done 70k millage with past mot certificates, and has loads of reciepts of work carried out so i took his word.

 

Im in Co Durham mate.

 

Well the manual boost controller was prob put on there as the 'cheap' alternative to remap, but I'm guessing with it turned up he was overboosting and hitting a lot of boost spikes, Hense the reason he turned it down for you.

Don't worry though mate sounds like all is needed is removing that nasty manual boost controller and a remap and fingers crossed all will be well

 

Ah right, I'm in darlington, and im correct in saying Duncan from racedynamix has remapped my car twice and one of them was at evotune

Give Duncan a call if you do arrange can you do me a favour and let me know if you book him anytime after the 22nd as I'm getting some work done on mine and prob will need a tweak

 

Yeah hopefully. I plan on taking it to evotune tmoz for him to check over it, just feels as tho i cant enjoy it as ive read stories of the engine blown when there not mapped. So in using the wife's sport ka haha.

 

I will speak to Duncan and get some info pal. Need all the help i can at the minute. Are you booked in with him?

 

Lol lets put it this way 2 years ago I bought my blob eye with full decat, a VF22 stuck on and a sti intercooler stuck on and god knows how long it had been running like that for without a remap, got it remapped about a month after I realised of owning it after my waste gate popped off and it overboosted, so I was like I want that power full time! (Didn't know at the time it never had been remapped)

2 years later that car is still ticking away

Don't worry if the engine was knackard you would know!