A polar bear fighting a helicopter.

Okay, I am going to probably update this later when I take more pictures, but let’s cut to the chase:

I had my exhaust + uppipe done at DSG with a dyno tune after. I have been jaded after doing my own car work for so long, so it was nice to drop it off. They ended up having to weld, and torch, and cut just to make it all work so it worked out well for me in the end. The exhaust I ended up going with, as I believeI have mentioned before was the Buschur Racing turboback. It has a highflow catalytic converter, and I picked the quiet muffler based on this video:

YouTube exhaust note

However, after it was installed it sounded a lot closer to this video:

Real exhaust note

Anyways, my idea of “quiet” and Buschur Racing’s idea are world’s apart. Don’t get me wrong, the car sounds *great* and I gained power, but it’s loud. I’ll set off car alarms easily once more. This just goes to show you, DON’T LOOK UP EXHAUST VIDEOS ON YOUTUBE. All you get is the tone, but not the sense of noise.

Okay, so now on my way up this morning I got a check engine light. After some driving around looking for free WiFi I looked the code up. I have my resident P1446 hanging around as usual because the WRX emissions expects a WRX gas tank and I don’t have one, so it throws a code. That was turned off by ECS. Theother code I have is P0546 which is related to the EGT sensor in the uppipe. A resistor fixes it, so it’s minor, and I can clear it in the ECU as well with OpenECU, so I will be doing that soon. I need a tactrix cable to perform the latter.

Now, to present the picture I do have and stop my incessant rambling:

Remember, the stock car made:

The graph for the new curve starts a bit later, but you get the idea. A stock 2.5 liter WRX put down 198 wheel horsepower, and I’ve seen a stock STi put down 220. So I am not doing too badly. I need to rebuild my transmission still, that is next on my list. After that it will be freshened suspension and paint. I also need to fix those CE lights permanently this week.

More pictures should follow soon.