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Hahaha. They are a curse and a blessing.

Easiest way to secure the planter is to drive a few screws from underneath the railing into the planter, or if you don’t want to run a screw through the railing. You could add a skirt down the side to keep it in place.

You can Jack the car up using the rear differential. Once up, I put Jack stands in the standard placement and take the load off the differential. The dealership techs were the ones that told me it was ok to Jack the car up there. I use a rubber compression puck between the Jack and the diff though.

So the unit I purchased back when this was shot was a turbo XS kit (www.importimageracing.com/products/ws-fmic-turboxs-front-mount-intercooler-subaru-wrx-sti-2002-2007); however, the kit has changed a little bit since. It’s very similar to the Process West kit (www.importimageracing.com/products/prw-pwfmic02b-process-west-front-mount-intercooler-black-subaru-wrx-sti-2002-2007)

Downpipe was on there as well. Turbo XS with the test pipe installed (no cat). The amount of time was due to several things. 1). My tuner hadn’t tuned a VF chassis subaru yet, so he had no baseline tune. Wasn’t that hard, but needed to do that first. 2) We also ran into some technical issues with the dyno. The AFR readout wouldn’t connect at first. We had to pinch the wire a specific way. At the end of the day, yes it was a long time, but that is partly because my tuner is incredibly meticulous and with each pull he would see somewhere something else could be corrected. While I’m sure it could have been done in two hours and far less pulls, with him, I just let him get in the zone and do his thing.

If you can adjust the valve, typically no. Just adjust the valve so that when the car is at idle, the valve is not venting at all.

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Pump - 93 octane

Hello there. With the weight of the soil and plants, where I live, it was able to just sit there. An alternative option is to use 1” stainless steel corner brackets like these (www.homedepot.com/p/Everbilt-1-in-Stainless-Steel-Corner-Brace-4-Pack-13541/202950156). The stainless steel doesn’t rust. You could also spray paint them to match your railing.

Thank you for the comment. It was noted in an earlier comment as well and will be revised on the next one.

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How are you venting your boost when the throttle closes?

@@DIYFabrications If it's blocked off, it doesn't vent at all and will pass back through the turbo as you mentioned in the video. However, you said that it will "counter spin the turbo and cause bog like crazy", not sure where you got that from as that's not true at all. A turbo typically spins at over 100,000rpm and the air that sits in between the throttle body and turbo is nowhere near enough to cause the turbo to counter spin. All it does is merely slow the turbo slightly as the air rushes back through to the air intake. This will slightly reduce turbo spool time once going back into boost, however, I have never been able to tell the difference in spool time when driving. It does not cause the car to bog-like crazy at all. Sure it might reduce the life in the turbo slightly, however, most modern turbos are very strong and are able to handle the 20psi of pressure coming back on them, as that's really not a lot of force. Running an atmospheric BOV is going to be way worse for the car compared to blocking off the BPV.

No need to respond, just read your reply to another eager subie owner lol

Ultimately, your tuner will design to tune based on the items on the car. If we want to take the car any further, a fuel system upgrade will be needed. For us, the fueling and boost were the limiting factors. My tuner built in some safe margins with the fueling (capping it around 84%) to ensure that if colder weather was there, they could still supply enough fuel and not lean out the car. If you want to maximize the cars potential, I would recommend doing a fuel system upgrade. The reason I held off is because I plan to go E85 and wanted to wait until I was ready to commit to it.

Friction fit. The board is 3/4” thick, so there is plenty to hold it in place

And yes plenty of going back n forth with the customer service in regards of shipping

I sprayed it with satin polyurethane. To be honest, I would have been better doing the final sanding prior to final assembly. Just an oversights my end. The pieces were technically sanded prior to the glue up, but I had additional clean up.

@@DIYFabrications Good stuff! thanks for the response

Thanks correct! Stock piling now for the next round of upgrades, but it’s going to be a little while.

Jose Hernandez - for this tune, we did not upgrade any of the fuel system. When doing a protune, the tuner will take into account all components that are installed on the vehicle. In this case, fueling was a limiting factor in why we couldn’t go any further. For the car to go to the next level, a fuel system upgrade will be needed. My tuner built in some safety margin on the fueling map to ensure it never goes lean under load.

DIY Fabrications right on that’s awesome I’ve been wanting to go stage 2 for some time now but I’m just trying to do my best research so I can safely build my STI and see what the cost will be thanks for the reply!

Jose Hernandez glad to hear it man. If I can be of any help, just let me know. My next upgrade will be flex fuel, injectors, fuel pump, external waste gate, probably a front mount to keep the intake temps down (I live in the south, so it’s hot!), and some other little items.

DIY Fabrications very nice, that’ll definitely add more power and keep the IAT down for sure. So you don’t always need upgraded fuel system for an intake and down pipe?

Jose Hernandez not if you are getting a protune. A protune will tune the car based on the items installed. One of those items is the fueling system. They will adjust the fueling map based on the factory injectors. In other words, the tune is done specifically for your car and only your car. Even if you had the exact same car as mine with the exact same mods, my tune would be close but not perfect for yours. The tuner will do the dyno pulls to get the map as close and smooth as possible, and will then take the car on the road and road tune to fine tune the final map to perfection.

Landon Giles correct. Fueling was one of my limiting factors on the tune. I plan to do a full upgrade in the coming months.

@@DIYFabrications holy shit wtf. I thought they could barley handle a intake or a downpipe with stock fuel system. No shit you can go fbo basically on stock!?!?!? What the hell im ordering some shit now. I have a 2018 sti Cobb stage 1+ :/ rn.

Just make sure you get a protune for it!