stealth69

Agree with the above.... the cables are good, you can use it as just diagnostics or to give yourself some cool looking dashboard on a touch screen but I wouldn't go tinkering without knowing exactly what you are up to. You will need Det cans and a Wide band to map properly, anything less and you are asking for a ££££ bill!

Nice power mate what torque did it pull ?

STI's always hold their money better than WRX's because of what they are...... I shouldn't expect to buy the car, mod it and then expect to sell it for the same money, mods count for nothing ! Change the Exhaust on the Blob STI, panel filter and fuel pump n remap and you will see 320 at the very least and could go up to 340bhp depending how agressive the map is

supposed to be 280bhp ut will be more like 290ish

Do the swap if his car is clear of everything

STI top mounts are great bits of kit but a second hand one could set you back more than a new front mount so look around. If you change the Top mount you will need to change the splitter and the scoop to get best results.

The cost all depends on the car he currently has i.e. low mileage very clean example v's a battered STI.... The WRX's hold zero money so the mods he has bought probably cost i nthe region of £1500 quid, that is a lesser amount of money than the gap between an STI and a WRX. Granted the STI is a MUCH better car in terms of starting points to mod and I would never dispute that You also have the insurance aspect of things, insurers don't really seem that bothered about mods anymore so long as you declare them to cover your own a***, they cover theirs by saying "thank you, we don't cover like for like but we have made a note of your modifications" Agreed the brakes on the WRX are toilet but again this is an easy and cheap mod

The STI pinks are 565CC not 550's and are good for 370bhp so I don't think you are going to have any issues with them!!! Yup remap is the last thing to do and I don't think you will be disappointed with the figures..... I think 320bhp is well within the limits of what you have fitted...... although the WRX top mount might hinder you slightly especially now the weather is warming up!

Yup, get all the mods together, get them fitted and then get it mapped or you will be constantly forking out to have it remapped everytime you change something substantial to the car...... Cost a fortun i nthe long run. Do it properly the first time and you'll only have to do it once

As BMWhere pointed out, it's the car telling you that there is an imob at work and that only the correctly encoded key will work in the car.

basically if an ECU is mapped with an ECUTek license on it the mapper will lock his map so you can't make any changes to it etc etc. Tehre are a million tools around now that can rip the ECUTek map off of a car and be re-applied as an open source map thus giving your mapper a good base from which to start

Yes they can be remapped, it is the same ECU that came in the car mate, a PPP doesn't result in a different ECU, just a different Flash.

As FMJ says, what sort of figures are you looking to produce ? You can bolt damn enar anything on to these cars to make power, it just depends on how much power you want and how deep your wallet is as to what you purchase