stew911

and you lads don't want to see a lady stranded now do you?

will my car really go bang when i get it derestricted this morning?

sam

wah

No get a Knock link fitted use Optimax and booster and you will be fine ( I hope ) lol.

stew911

what are these when they are at home and why?

watto52

some electrical thingy thats is connected to the engine. ask pslewis he know about about them.

stew911

but we are getting car done this morning at api impreza and haven't got time to get what you said cause we've got to be there for 9.30!!

its a 30 mile drive too through loads of traffic, og what joy!

watto52

ask the garage when you get there. thats what id do tbh.

DannyBoy007

iTrader: (7)

Have a chat with David when your there, He'll explain all and sort you out

stew911

do you think so?

and at what cost?

cw42

iTrader: (1)

Shouldn't you have researched all this before you booked in? Probably at API now getting David to explain why the car wont go bang as soon as you start up

stew911

i didn't find out till the other day that this could happen and did do some research but couldn't find anything. thats why i was asking here on behalf of bf.

Ray_li

money saved on a import you should have got a UK car.

you now need to derestricted and put Optimax petrol + booster (increase RON)

Jap cars are mapped for 100RON where UK Optimax petrol is 97 RON

MickWrx

Not unless your simply unlucky,

I would simply recommend optimax or tesco 99 when you fill up. And regular oil changes

No knocklink necassary seriously its not!! I can only see the point of these if highly modded, and even then, they still go bang.

The only banging you will here, is the knocklink guys banging on about how brillaint they are, and how you can hide the leds in the dash, so it looks real spacey

6 years trouble free enthusiasticly driven JDM WRX ownership

Red rag to the knocklink brigade here kitty kitty

flame suit at the ready

gingerboy

As per Mickwrx

Don't listen to all the hype.

You are going to API a very well respected subaru specialist - if you want advice ask David, I'm sure he will point you in the right direction and advise you of what is necessary and what isn't.

Some on here would have you believe that the interior of your car must resemble the control panel of the star ship enterprise with more gauges, buttons and read outs that you can shake a stick at.

Unless you are thinking of running big BHP you will be fine and API know what they are doing.

Good luck

Paul

GC8

'Derestricting' the car will entail nothing more than fitting a small 1.6:1 drop gear into the speedo cable (actually; to the transmission and the cable end is connected to the output).....this itself can not cause the vehicle to fail. If someone then drives it like a **** itll run number three big-end bearing; and possibly hole a piston too, but this will be caused by driving like a ****, not by the drop gear!


Simon

stew911

thanks for that guys we go back just over an hour ago and it is fine

gingerboy

Good stuff.

Your thoughts on API , I have never visited myself but everybody that does or has used them raves on about how good they are.

Glad all went well

Paul

Ray_li

bloody hard to find

stew911

yes that is true ray, easy enough going through warwick but once we got towards ufton, we were like now where. it was by chance that we came across the b4425 which it is on and then the name of the industrial estate ws different to the one we had????
anyway, from what i saw they seem to know their stuff and i even got to meet david! he seems a very nice man and definitely knows his stuff so we'll be returning there in the near future.
the only thing that did tick me off was that we were told it'd only take half an hour which turned into an hour!!!!

Ray_li

and there's nothing to do or go whilst you wait

WRX Blues

...nothing a decent paperback can't cure...

stew911

got told we could help ourselves to the coffee, but refused as seeing as where it is in the middle of nowhere neither of us wanted to get caught short if you know what i mean????

5cby

lol theres no pleasing you is there ray
take a book or psp or something like that to while away a bit of time


steve

The Rig

iTrader: (13)

why would de-restricting it blow it up ?

granted if it ran at, if it could touch 145/150 then it may go pop,but if its capable of that, like my bike is and that doesnt go bang after a spirited ride, why would the scoob ?!?!?!

if the wrx is standard, why cant it be run on super unleaded ?? others do so why cant you ?
i know jap cars are run higher, but older jap cars canrun on super.as has been discussed on here......

http://bbs.scoobynet.co.uk/showthrea...28#post5773528

misty

Optimax is a minimum of 98ron. Most Jap petrol contrary to popular scoobynet belief is in fact 98/99 ron. Why oh why do people on here give so much credance to our petrol being so inferior to jap fuel? probably the same reason that people on here insist you need to fill the oil filter with oil prior to fitting!!! It's all tosh! I have been a mechanic for over 30 years and have never once filled an oil filter prior to fitting......Want to know how many of those engines have gone bang? Not a single one. Subaru engines are not made of paper mache !
dave

Ray_li

Well. its not really a garage full of sexy female mechanics

scoobyimp

hi just out of interest how much did it cost as i am looking at getting mine done

APIDavid

iTrader: (4)

£100.00 + VAT - If you want the speedo correcting plus a ' certificate ' warranting the mileage then another £50.00 + VAT.

By correcting I mean convert the odo reading to the miles equivalent of the Km's. And NO we will not change it to a lesser number.

All up should take about 1.5 hours. Sometimes though we have a fight with the intercooler when fitting the speedo converter in the cable - you need to be a little patient as it can be tricky.

Good Luck

David APi

stew911

hi rig

i was told by several members on here that it would go bang, but as i am starting to discover about this site, there are a lot of bull****ters on here.
bf is running it on super unleaded and can't understand why he needs to change to optimax if it appears to be running on?

sam

stew911

no but there are a few dishy male mechanics there

stew911

it cost £117.50 all together mate, but definitely worth it, got up to 140 last night, beats 112, woohoo and felt like it could do more but too much traffic to try.