andrew_forrest

Hi Ian Thanks for the feedback, much appreciated Andy.

All emails should have a reply now, If not, please resend just incase they got junk filtered. cheers Andy

No problem Phil, glad it was all good in the end, they can be frustrating things these scoobs ! cheers Andy

Car was going really well Chris, it wouldn't have been out of place on the Sunday at T/A for sure Andy

Today I do believe that happened Andy.

Got brave with the N2O ??

Apparently Car seems to be getting looked after just fine in its new home in Poland. A £22,000 gearbox was its last treat !!! http://eng.kaps-transmissions.com/news-kap...ubaru-1145.html Not sure what its reving to in the video but the gear ratios allow the following mph @ 7500rpm, max safe rpm 9500 1st 50.6 2nd 70.7 3rd 97.4 4th 126.4 5th 162.0 6th 200.1

Only if it had not previously been mapped by me. Ecutek custom remap including licence for MY99- MY09 is £470+v (GB > £430+v) To supply, fit and map a new Apexi PFC and Commander is £895+v (GB > £855+v) To supply, fit and map a new 93-00 Simtek is £895+v (GB > £855+v) To supply, fit and map a new 01-05 Simtek is £1095+v (GB > £1055+v) To map customers own supply Power FC/Simtek/Autronic/Hydra is £280+v (GB > £240+v) ESl custom mapping 93-96 cars £560+v (GB > £520+v) Remap of one of my previous Apexi/Ecutek/ESL/Autronic/Simtek maps is £195+v (GB > £170+v) Ideally between 24th May and the 6th of July if possible for these Group buy rates. Discount including vat works out at £47.00 for all new maps. cheers Andy

Nice one Archie Maybe you should take up drag racing, no corners, what could possibly go wrong cheers Andy

Oh, I might get one back on there now Welding by AFP

My new 888's came with a warning not to store or use then below 0 deg C as the compound may crack and damage the tyre ! I had used them on the Spec c all winter before I read that ! Andy

Yes, from memory it was 485bhp at 1.2bar, 604bhp at 1.6 bar and 644bhp with a misfire limiting rpm to 6500 at 1.75 bar but then John made some adjustment to the rundown losses on the graph as they were adding a false amount to the flywheel power so it corrected to 'only' 619bhp. I think Chris took some pics/video so may have some more detail Andy

Nobody here old enough to remember when we done the 0-60 shootout at Star Performance rolling road about ooooh, 9 years ago !! I think a white RA won it Andy

Someone did say some time ago that V-power was being reformulated with 5% Ethanol, not sure if this is the reason for running down the stocks..... or even if its true !! Andy

Good to hear you found the issue Steve, tricky one when it was intermittent and only at high boost 6000+ rpm ! Yes it was good power for the boost (1.75bar) I think once its wound up to 7000rpm and also boosting to the full potential of the turbo it may well increase by a further 30-40 bhp......then add the 75 shot !! Andy.

Well I can't possibly say but it did begin with a 6

Don't knock it Frank, that silicone spray on the tyres is the business for drifting

Haha, I can tell that's obviously photoshopped as the car appears clean

Steve, you sniff it not drink it ya numpty May take a wander over to Crail on Sunday out of interest !

A little birdie tells me its looking "quite cool" Chris ! Looking forward to mapping later in the week Andy

The twin boost map set up is included in the remap on all 01-06 WRX and Sti. Nice to meet Leslie and Stuart today, that's a cracking car you have there cheers Andy

I have only ever had 1 request to open an ECU for the owner to tweek the map himself and that was Paul. I agree you shouldn't be 'locked out' of your own ECU however Ecutek have to protect their investment in man hours, developing this software, which has been to the benefit of the whole Subaru community for many years. Ecutek have now been supplying a professional, fully tested product for around 10 years and as I mentioned previously, have produced many performance cars direct from the factory, complete with full Subaru warranty. Gaining this level of manufacturer and consumer confidence and respect has taken quite some investment, so to have someone come and "copy" "paste" a Prodrive PPP map for example is surely not what they would like to see happen. This will have involved Prodrive staff in hundreds of hours of development work in a number of countrys, under different climate conditions, using different grades of fuel. I think that trying to protect their work from plaigiarism or piracy is quite understandable. cheers Andy

lol, couldn't help but notice this one on the same page How inconvenient, the public using your dedicated drag strip !!!

The Ecutek licence remains with the ECU. Any Ecutek tuner can then gain free access to that ECU although they can only write to it with their own work, this simply protects the original tuners work from copying (or used to). There was a facility to 'lock' the ECU to one tuner but nobody does that as far as I'm aware. Ecutek dealers can also put the ECU back to standard free of charge should someone wish to start tuning it themselves. Recent 'pirate' software now allows free copying of Ecutek maps, there are now some OS guys out there collecting a nice portfolio of other tuners hard work ! The Ecutek tuning licences can now be bought in 'bulk' for purposes such as group buys etc, this way it adds only £125 to the initial mapping costs with no future licence fees applying. cheers Andy

Just a point, Ecutek doesn't lock you out of your ECU, nor does it mean you have to go back to the same tuner. I use Ecutek as it is a professional product with full support available to only professional tuners. It is the best product on the market. Prodrive share that view as they use Ecutek software to remap the International rally cars, the PPP cars, the WR1, RB320, 330S... Litchfields also use Ecutek for the type 25 and now for the new GTR If these guys thought they could offer the same quality mapping at lower cost, I'm sure they would. cheers Andy