Sean_wrx

I bought my 1995 Scooby Wrx 2 weeks ago now

I have spoken to a few people and they keep telling me its going to blow up blah blah its realy starting to **** me off!

I have been told a few times about it being mapped to run on a higher octane fuel than we have in this country i have been putting Tesco 99 octane and V Power in when possible. I am still worried tho i want to get it mapped to run on lower octane fuel but wont have the money for a few months should i be worried?

Thanks Sean

CharlieP1

The cars managed 12 years without blowing up, i don`t see why it should just because some tosser say`s it will, look after it and it should keep going on for a few more years.

TonyBurns

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It will run nicely in standard form, start decatting and the likes and the chances of problems go up, now there are scoobyecu that cost about 200 quid and are just a piggyback chip which maps your car to uk fuel which might be an option for you, but as long as the car is religiously kept to its 6 month/7.5k (whichever is first) services (and id advise a cambelt change if you dont know when it was done last) the engine should last years

Tony

myblackwrx

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I've run my 93 wrx on optimax ,v power and tescos 99 ron for the last 4 years (decat and ik).
The people who say it's going to blow up are talking bollox and imo don't know ****, as Tony said service it properly it will last a long time.
PolarPerformance does the chips that Tony mentions.

totalllama

You will hear about the **** oil change too. The list goes on. Dont worry about it as long as you fill it up with petrol and oil its fine. I use 95 ron petrol and she pulls like a train. UK car mapped for uk 95 petrol.

Sean_wrx

Thanks im starting to feel better already

Is it the Option 1 : Pre-Programmed 27C1028 Chip ur on about?

girl-in-a-scoob

Like they said... keep an eye on the oil.. never let it get dry... Make sure its serviced by somebody who knows what they are doing with a Sub oil Filter so that it never gets starved of oil

totalllama

Agreed frequent oil changes, ive never found fuel to make any difference on a uk car. Enjoy your car and dont worry about it.

Sean_wrx

Does anyone else know of a place that sells a chip or does a remap to sort the fuel out?

dpb

People above have mentioned this i imagine getting it fitted could be the problem. I had sti 1 and all was fine including decatting - which incidentally is pointless unless your going to remap ( This is what i did and wouldnt bother if id had my time over)

dan83590

All options will do it. Option 1 is the most simple one, it just plugs in. As well as being mapped for UK fuel you'll be close to 280bhp too.

richie001

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try Zen Performance - ECU Mapping

myblackwrx

iTrader: (1)

As dan said in post 11 option is the easy one, solder the daughter board onto the spare slot (or i think they will do it for you) it is mapped for 97ron (it mentions the Prodrive pack and i'm sure they recommended 97ron although i may be wrong).