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sperry · 2003-03-01, 06:57 PM

Well, I finally got around to installing my Stage 1 exhaust that showed up last Thursday. HOLY CRAP does it sound cool!! It's a little louder than I was expecting, but there's ZERO "fart-can" whine to it. Pure rumble and growl (gotta love that boxer motor)! At idle it sounds very much like LabMonkey's mustang :shock:! I need to back off the boost setting on my MBC, the lower back-pressure lets that turbo spool up much faster, and it likes to park up at 1.2bar (it was set for 1.1bar before)!

All that's left is to send my UniChip off to Shiv to be remapped. Then I think I'll be pretty much done with power mods! I've decided not to step up to the ECUTek just yet. With the UniChip I still have the option of removing my MBC and running STX this season, where I'll be much more competative... especially since I can't afford rims and tires before the season starts. Plus, I wanna see from Kev how easy that UTec is... if you really can easily and safely tune that thing, I might want to try one of those... that way I can leave the car with the stock boost map for autocross, and still tune it.

So if you see a blue rex with a 4" pipe, throw a peace sign and say "hey pimp-daddy"! Cuz I would neva front on my folks... I slow down and let the gold-diggers count my spokes!

2003-03-01, 06:57 PM	#1
sperry The Doink Real Name: Scott Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Portland, OR Posts: 20,335 Car: '09 OBXT, '02 WRX, '96 Miata Class: PDX/TT-6 The way out is through	Vishnu Stage 1... Muhahahahaha! Well, I finally got around to installing my Stage 1 exhaust that showed up last Thursday. HOLY CRAP does it sound cool!! It's a little louder than I was expecting, but there's ZERO "fart-can" whine to it. Pure rumble and growl (gotta love that boxer motor)! At idle it sounds very much like LabMonkey's mustang :shock:! I need to back off the boost setting on my MBC, the lower back-pressure lets that turbo spool up much faster, and it likes to park up at 1.2bar (it was set for 1.1bar before)! All that's left is to send my UniChip off to Shiv to be remapped. Then I think I'll be pretty much done with power mods! I've decided not to step up to the ECUTek just yet. With the UniChip I still have the option of removing my MBC and running STX this season, where I'll be much more competative... especially since I can't afford rims and tires before the season starts. Plus, I wanna see from Kev how easy that UTec is... if you really can easily and safely tune that thing, I might want to try one of those... that way I can leave the car with the stock boost map for autocross, and still tune it. So if you see a blue rex with a 4" pipe, throw a peace sign and say "hey pimp-daddy"! Cuz I would neva front on my folks... I slow down and let the gold-diggers count my spokes! __________________ Is you is, or is you ain't, my con-stit-u-ints?