Have you checked the sensor voltage output at the ecu end whilst the car is running to ensure normal parameters are been seen by the ecu. If everything checks out there i would see if you can find somebody capable of testing the circuitry of the ecu.

As i have been unfortunate enough to find out myself, it only takes a bad earth or bad connection after fitting new parts and disturbing something to fry stuff.

 

Which one in picture is Bob? lol

 

I've been banging on about this for sometime, trying to get answers in the UK, as I have something very similar on my jdm hatch ; the fpr and dampers cause a stutter which Subaru attempted to compensate for by fiddling with the fuel tables?

 

sorry I had meant to post that in the other thread i think your on it there anyway, not sure it's applicable here hence I binned the post.

 

the one with hair

 

Really feel for you raggy but on the flip side of it, so glad I got out subaru ownership and did not start another project!

 

gary I have not said the lambda takes an hour to work on a JDM I suggested you drive the car and monitor it for up to an hour to see if it would enable .. there is a difference.

Done a bit of digging .....

Regarding the second map session gary I apologise you did indeed pay £250 for a map tweak and associated travel. On arrival the car was smoke tested and your intercooler pipework was found to be leaking. The problem area had been highlighted to you as a risk at the first session and you had said that Rolly (your mechanic) would sort it out. There was no leak from the map sensor

Given it was impossible to determine when the condition developed a tweak session was necessary to go over it all again and ensure that the car would not be running lean on boost due to improved air flow after the leak was fixed. The risk was that it developed progressively as the figures of 431 bhp and 376 ft lb for the car being a 2 litre were very respectable and not indicative of any thing significant

So you are right about the cost .. but the necessity to do it was due to a car fault as it transpired and nothing to do with anything mapping related.

You are asking for a refund, I have no problem with refunding my mapping costs, just bring the car and I will revert the ecu to the condition it was in beforehand which would be putting the stock Subaru maps back into the car. You will gain from the EcuTek licence as that would stay in the ecu even so. You will have a free choice thereafter.

It seems that the car may still be going into limp mode though so it does have a problem and mapping won’t solve it .. if thats the case the ecu throws fuel in for safety and with your injectors being 1000 cc thats a lot, the limp settings are not mappable so it would be very excessive

You said that a smoke test has been done, might be worth doing again, also, I have found notes that you use NF octane booster as the 95 ron is all thats available in the South to you, if you have not been that consistent in maintaining the proportions of that used at mapping time then you could have problems, too much is as bad as too little, too little could cause the ecu to react enough and send it into limp mode.

have you checked that the connecting pipe between fuel pressure regulator is secure and intact, if not that will cause aver fueling on start and idle plus very lean running on boost

Just some suggestions as always .. you could have sent me another email and asked for further help ...

I am not taking what you have said about me personally as yet Gary, but it is uncalled for and I am allowing for the frustration you are feeling, as has been pointed out its not helping.

 

Lol thanks

 

Again, get it checked out and find the fault ans fix wether it be by bob/mm or another garage/mapper and find out whos liable with written detailed invoice etc and either pass that onto bob/mm or pay yourself depending on the findings

 

In percentage terms, how often are mapping sessions cut short by a car fault?

 

Is that really your 1st post.

Wonder why anyone would create an account just to say that.......

 

lack of hairy conkers to say it in real life.

 

Yea i have to agree there.

Little mouse *****.

Pull his knuckles off ground to use keyboard.

 

Appreciate it banny you always been very helpful to me on here thank you mate

 

Beggars belief

 

Why aren't you taking up Bobs offer (20hrs ago) to put the car back to pre map status???

At least then, you will know for definite if the issue is map related.

 

That’s impossible the way the car currently is running unless bob is willing to travel to me like I asked in the first post we can remove maps I’d be delighted

 

The car is heavily modified is it not....??? Having it put back to a standard map wouldn't solve anything.

 

I have witnessed his work in a friends STI The car currently resides in a garage with cracked heads and ring lands.

 

+1

Sitting pretty in a Golf Mk1 1.6TD totally refirbed almost everything inside and out bumper to bumper... only got the rear brakes to look at now and get a set of Bilstiens fitted and it'll be like a new car at a fraction of the cost of a Subaru... spent around £500 on it.

Done all the work myself including fueling... got to love a Bosch fuel pump... none of this mapping nonsense required.... ish 110bhp 800kg and more smiles than I've had in 13yrs of Subaru ownership.

Retro is the way forward.

Raggy give up and move on mate... life's too short for all this hassle... My advice to anyone re Subarus... buy it, leave it standard and enjoy it for what it is.

Simple.

 

Bit late for leaving it standard ditch lad

 

Yeah only slightly...

Mind you it's never to late to cash it in and buy something else less frustrating.

 

Seen many posts along these lines. With the greatest of respect (genuinely as you clearly still have a lot of knowledge of Scoobs)...why are you still on this forum?

 

Sell us yer AP'S if you're breaking Raggy..... Oh, and the Ohlins 😉

 

Temping mate I have had the notion of tearing it into a million pieces

 

Like many ex owners that are still around... the marque has been part of my life for 13yrs so I still have a soft spot for them... I just don't want to own one anymore... rather spend my money on other things... I don't ride horses anymore either but it doesn't stop me liking them along with many other things I now no longer do... life moves on, but it doesn't mean I have to stop looking in here and posting my thoughts and musings.

P.S No one is forcing you to read them.

 

Of course and no question you continue to make worthwhile contributions, but I just find it odd that someone would regularly post on a Subaru enthusiasts' forum that they are much happier without a Subaru.

Anyhow let's live and let live, we're all free to express our views here.

 

I have a smile on my face when sitting on the sofa,the buzz of driving a high powered Impreza is in a different league
Especially when mapped right

 

After 13yrs of ownership I kind of had enough... don't get me wrong I loved all my Subarus but once one lets go on you and you shell out a small fortune... then it lets go again, you're always left with that constant niggling feeling in the back of your mind... is it going to happen again... which then sours the ownership experience.

There's also a lot of sharks around the Subaru scene raping enthusiasts... with little to no comeback when things go wrong.

All of that coupled with the expense of ownership just made me decide it was time to call it quits and go in another direction.

As they say "A change is as good as a rest" ultimately I'm very pleased I did.

Have a look at my Golf MK1 project thread which I'll be up dating and you'll either get it or you won't.

 

Very well said ditch a lot of robbers and deceitful people around this game