thanks All very much for the help / advice.
By reflash you mean a proper EM and Tune ? (then no i did not, i did reset the ecu after install, and after my remod)
as advised I'll put my stock breather box back in. (will just the breather box be okay? i've removed the silencer chamber, and i cut my snorkel (now thinking that was a dumb idea)
(i will reset the ecu after going back to stock)
I'm tempted to take up Cory on a spark plug switch (Esp if i can do that before going into subaru) as south shore said spark plugs are wear and tear items / no coverage for that