Yesterday I fitted a boost gauge and after driving it around a bit I was going to ask if sitting at exactly 1bar boost when under load was about right for a standard (apart from filter and exhaust) Bugeye WRX?

Then this afternoon I fitted 2nd decat and decat uppipe (what a complete b@st@rd of a job ) and now the turbo does seem to spin up faster but boost pressure holds at 0.8 bar of boost and only comes close to 1bar at high revs

Does this sound right?

 

std boost is 14.5 psi, so yep a bar on a non calibrated gauge sounds spot on, a re map will be required to set the boost now you have changed the exhaust as it is ecu controlled

 

cheers Boosted, thanks for the quick reply, just what I wanted to here

255L pump going in tomorrow and remap on Tuesday, cant wait!

 

no worries, the tuner should be able to up the boost to 1.3 bar or 20 ish psi, and you will be looking at around 270 bhp at that

 

Now that I will be very happy with!

 

its good mate, then you will want a bigger turbo for more power, that will need bigger injectors and another remap lol

 

Well I have promised myself that the engine mods stop here as its a daily driver



but we all know how that goes....

 

sounds like a good combo for a daily mate, good luck with the remap

 

Cheers and thanks again for your answers

 

Sounding good Make sure you have a good panel filter and plugs as well What did you do with the EGT sensor ?

Shaun

 

have a K&N panel in there, plugs arent old but will be looking at new ones.

The sensor from the up pipe is sat in the boot and the sensor on the 2nd cat is still plugged in. So far no issues, no EML

 

Would have been good to swap the up-pipe for a de-cat'd one, but that's quite a pain to do...

dunx

 

That's what I did

 

..........then get the mapper to get rid of the CEL which will come as you have removed the EGT sensor

Who's mapping the car


Shaun

 

No CEL yet but it will be getting mapped out. Map is being done by Pye Motorsport, they have their own subaru rally team and act as service team to another

 

John Pye Motorsport

Is that Pat Herbourne who maps their cars........it's late and a Saturday night LOL

Shaun

 

Yeah John Pyes, its Tristan, Johns son, who does the maps under the brand P-Tune

 

Looking at an average Bug WRX re-map at 274 BHP on a good day Are you a TTS member ??

Alyn at www.asperformance.com can help you stop LOL

Shaun

 

No, not a member on TTS, I do know Alyn though, he supplied the K&N and is my first stop for all my service stuff

 

Sorted then


Shaun