Who has them locally and who is also running them stock? I am looking to stay stock with the exception of the tuner for now. Then adding a downpipe. What are the success stories and/or problems? Also, who is good at tuning this thing. I don't have a Wide Band A/F gauge. Also, what is the best place to order from?
Lots of guys here are running them... Me being one of them. I love it, especially after Russ played around with it. I'd actually say get the exhaust before the UTEC. Anyways, Several guys on this board can answer your UTEC questions. Umm.. the tuner is a WB02... But I still say get the exhaust before the computer. Steve
I am also curious about the UTEC. I was set on getting the Cobb AccessPort, but I don't like how limited the maps are. Here are my questions: 1. How easy is it to tune, for a non-tuner? 2. Are there shops around here that will do tunes, and how much do they charge? 3. Where is the closest dyno, for doing custom tunes? Thanks, and I hope these questions help others as well. If anyone else would like to chime in about a different EM, I'm all ears if you can answer the questions. Darrick
<blockquote id="quote"><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by rmrf 1. How easy is it to tune, for a non-tuner? 2. Are there shops around here that will do tunes, and how much do they charge? 3. Where is the closest dyno, for doing custom tunes? <hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote"></font id="quote"> 1. Well's it's easy in terms of understanding and working with the interface, but not so easy if you consider the knowledge of tuning required to optimize things and not blow the car up. Don't even consider doing anything more than minor tweaking without a WBO2 sensor. 2. Probably...but I would be cautious, because there is a steep dropoff from a super-experienced tuner (Jorge from Chicago) to someone only mildly familiar with Subaru engines (anyone from a local shop). At this point if I had all the tools available to me I'd trust myself or Russ to tune my own car (not to the bleeding edge though), but no one else locally. 3. RS Motors in St Paul, I'm sure if you are willing to pay for the dyno time and wanted to bring along your own tuner, they'd be down for that.
First off, a couple of things. do you want something you will have to mess with, or do you want something that is more set it and forget it? If you don't mind messing around a bit, the utec is the way to go. If you want to set it and forget it, go with the ap or a reflash. I can help ya tune your car, that isn't the problem. I can get ya a good safe reliable map, if you are going to chase hp, you will need a dyno. Tuning the utec is actually fairly simple, you just need to understand a couple of the concepts and everything will kinda just click. I guess the biggest thing is what do you want to acomplish? Some kinda of EM is needed to get good power, but on the wrx's you can throw on a tbe and not run into any problems. Russ
