Used a wire brush, fine wet & dry paper and "alloy metal paint" from B&Q, on the case.
Straightend any bent fins with a small knife and picked out small stones and dead flies with a toothpick, then cleaned with autoglym engine degreaser.
Bobby spend a wee bit of time tidying up the intercooler, if your not too happy with it.
mine arrived like this
and after a wee bit of work
I also noticed some oil in the y-pipe so flushed out the intercooler with petrol.
The VF34 spools up slightly later, but that noticeable(on the 2.5). The car is still very good to drive normally.
Before the power band was very smooth but now I feel more of a kick when the turbo spools up.
The car had the ppp fitted before, it feels alot quicker now.
I bought my VF34 custom ported from Andy F, £625 + vat, it makes more power than Andy's modified TD04.
For 01-05wrx
http://www.andyforrestperformance.co.uk/58901.html
A big thanks to Duncan at Hypertech and Andy F for a top job.
Huge difference, well happy with it.
Average of the 2 dyno runs was 345Bhp/379LbFt. (good guess Grant)
Dropped the GB270 off at hypertech the day for some mods before i go to see Andy f on the 18th.
Vf34 ported turbo
3" milltek full decat
STI TMIC and undertray
Walbro fuel pump
Green panel filter
GP moto resonater delete elbow
NGK plugs
will post up results