Big 'D'

Great news mate, lets hope it stays that way Cheers Iain

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Happy New Year guys!!!!!! Hope you enjoy the autoshow, we should be attending a few shows of our own this year Man flu, thats nasty way worse than normal flu but not quite as bad as bird flu Hope to see you both soon Cheers Iain

Oh stop it guys I do appreciate the thanks Cheers Iain

I would recommend leaving having the standard air filter fitted until the fault is resolved mate, have you checked the ecu for fault codes yet mate? Does the car idle smoothly @ just over 1000k Cheers Iain

You are welcome too mate Cheers Iain

You are welcome mate, let me know how you get on with the other bits mate. Cheers Iain

Congratulations you guys, what a great way to start the year. Looking forward to meeting our 'newest' member LOL All the best for now Cheers Iain

Hi all, Hope the hangovers are gone now, mine was a stonker!!!!! I hope you can all make it to our first meet in 2009 Cheers Iain

Welcome and Happy New Year mate Hope you can make it to our meet on the 11th, will be keeping an eye out for the Type 'R' you dont see to many of them these days. Cheers Iain

Hi all Just a quick one to wish you all the best for 2009. Cheers Iain

I would hope that all the club meets were open to all subaru owners not just members how else would we get new people interested in joining up, you are more than welcome to come along Cheers Iain

High idle can also be caused by an air leak, have a good look at all the small pipes off of your intake manifold and ensure they are fitted securely at both ends and are not damaged. Cheers Iain

The only thing I can think of is that by fitting the slightly more restrictive airbox and filter the amount of air brought into the engine even at idle is reduced so the mixture would get richer, the ecu wil compensate for this by trying to indroduce more air, hence the higher idle, you could try an ECU reset (if the car has been mapped for the induction kit this may not work), if it does not work remove the airbox and you will see a pipe coming out of the wing, this is your resinator box ( air intake silencer ) if you remove that from the wing then open up the hole on your airbox so that it is roughly the same size as the hole in the wing ( you will see a rubber skirt on the airbox that would have fitted round the pipe coming from the wing, cut the rubber portion away and the hole should be big enough ) you now have a cold air induction kit using the OEM airbox and the idle should be normal. I run this on one of my scoobs with a Pipercross panel filter and have had no issues. Cheers Iain

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Hi guys, It will be nice to see some new faces The food at this place is fantastic and pretty cheap, they can usually sit us all together too. Cheers Iain

Hopefully a few others will be coming along too Cheers Iain

I hope you get it sorted mate Cheers Iain

When the clutch starts slipping the load is removed from the engine, this would be like you going for a full boost run in 4th / 5th gear and pressing the clutch in, the engine needs to be working under load to generate the exhaust gas flow to drive the turbo, the harder you work the engine the more exhaust gas you get the better your boost/turbo responce is, that is why in 3rd,4th and 5th gear you will see much better boost responce than in 1st and 2nd, when the clutch slips the load is removed from the engine and the exhaust gas volume is lowered reducing turbo output. Out of interest is your clutch slipping in the higher gears only? (3rd, 4th + 5th), the only reason I ask this is because a while back I had simmilar symptoms on one of my scoobs but in any gear, I found a shaft had popped out of the rear diff and it felt like the clutch was slipping and the engine was very unhappy, popped the shaft back in and all is well now. Cheers Iain

Hi all I would like to invite you to our first meet of 2009 at the 'Kings Arms' Harvester pub in Kidlington on Sunday the 11th at 11:30am. Link to Map Hope you all have a good New Year Cheers Iain

Good plan mate Yes mate no problem, I have a bit to do for another member first though but I could take a look no worries. Cheers Iain

It would be possible to swap everything (by everything I mean everything apart from the interior)over, but the cost of insurance for your 'modified' car compared to a 'std' Turbo would be massive, personally I would look for a UK Turbo 2000 and buy that instead, the amount of work and cost you would have to put into the project would be much higher than just buying a Turbo scoob, I dont want to put you off doing it, its just not practical. Would it not be possible to use your car to repair the turbo? how badly smashed is it? Cheers Iain

If by all the stuff you mean, EJ20 quad cam engine, gearbox + rear diff + shafts. Turbo ecu + full loom. Full exhaust system inc manifold, Turbo + intercooler + oilcooler. Boost solenoid Engine sensors various Turbo intake pipework The list goes on................................ It is not an easy job making a non turbo scoob a turbo one and would be more cost effective in the long run just to buy a turbo car. Out of interest, what exactly have you been offered mate? Cheers Iain

Hi Karl Happy Christmas It would be very hard for me to say without seeing the exhaust system if it will fit or not, but as your car is a non turbo with a de-cat your exhaust will sound much louder than a straight through turbo exhaust as the turbo itself acts like a silencer reducing exhaust noise, you will see what I mean if you get it fitted Cheers Iain

Hi all just a quick message to pass on some seasons greetings, I hope you all have a very good Christmas (cars included LOL) and a Happy New Year . Cheers and all the best for 2009 Iain ps next meet will be at the Harvester in Kidlington, Sunday 11th Jan 11:30am >, I will post this up in full later