Late reply, I know. By vta, I meant strictly post turbo boost pressure. On a MAF system, if that air is vta, that’s metered air lost, causing a detrimental rich condition. PCV is an entirely different concern. Just wanted to clarify. I was probably slightly intoxicated typing my original post, as that’s usually when I…

It’s going to be a subaru, but it will 100% be the 2004 STI. Clean examples are already fetching mid teens, and low mile stock ones even more so. Best year of the sti in the US by far. Can’t beat a fully controllable center diff and the last sti to truly be tuned for gravel and not the street. They changed the…

Awesome, I was hoping someone would come along and make my commute thru boston that much worse. That area in particular too, not nearly a big enough cluster fuck already.

Which is detrimental unless tuned using speed density vs MAF. The stock intake system on a subi can easily handle 400whp,and even after that an aftermarket recirc bpv will handle the increase in boost required to get more power.

In and around Boston we say 93, 95, rt 3, 128, 495 with no “the” before it. The only highway I can think of that is preceded by a “the” is the pike

I have a similar alcohol story. I had just gotten my brand new 17 GTI, had it for less than a week and took it up to Maine for a little weekend camping trip with wifey. We live going to breweries and I absolutely love Seadog. We stopped and got two growlers of Seadog blueberry and raspberry. Left em in the car over…

Came here to say this, the 3inch cutout right after the turbo on my subi shoots flames and makes it so no conversation can be had in the cabin at any time, and it is the most relaxing thing I can think of

To be fair, it’s the n/a Subaru’s that have headgasket issues. The 2.0l turbos have bearing issues when people don’t pay attention to oil, and the 2.5l turbos have ringland issues.

Came to post this, posted, scrolled thru the comments and saw your post. You beat me, good sir.

Subaru did this years ago. And that sti can be picked up for about $75k less.

As someone that has had a few over powered 5 speed wrx’s and loves to drive em hard while hauling an absolutely ridiculous amount of furniture, I can tell you that my DD ‘17 GTI is amazing, and the dual clutch really is near psychic, as stated. I find driving in, well, drive, to be sluggish and the shift points…

Maybe it’s just me, but it seems like here in New England drivers are less likely to lose control like that. Now I am in NO WAY saying we are better drivers (but we all know us massholes are the best), but I remember reading somewhere that in states that don’t get seasonal climate changes drivers often end up riding…

I agree here. This is one thing subaru did well. The stock airbox (on the gd platform, this I know) can easily handle up to 400whp.

To be honest here, the issue is you have a MY08. Not a great year for Subaru.

Dblock’s joke went right over your head.

I also require 93, because that is what I personally tuned the timing in my car for and I don’t want anything less in the tank. Admittedly, I do pump that shit out onto the ground pretty much every time. If you give the handle a quick few taps, gas will pump out without ringing up and in my mind that clears the line…

Because they go the extra mile to make my life unpleasant, regardless of my actions. So now I have a 3 inch cutout welded into my exhaust, right after the turbo.

I know it’s not v12, but dodge viper. I read somewhere that if a car doesn’t try to kill you every time you drive it it’s not worth driving. So viper, or my subaru (not because of power tho)

My 04 wrx, (now 2002), has kept up with every new wrx I’ve come across, paved or not. May or may not be because the owners of new ones had their parents buy the cars and don’t know how to drive and my very amateur ass can somehow out drive them

It would be closer to an afterfire that happens pre turbo than a backfire (which happens in the intake tract iirc)