Originally Posted by UK n00b

Typically you have to use the pill supplied in the T line with the turbo and not the one that is on the car from the factory, maintaining 17-18psi levels with low (40-60%) duty cycles should not be a problem.

And yes I have controlled boost on a STI with the EcuTek on a ported and polished VF34 it worked as expected.

Mike

Originally Posted by xicema17x

I was doing some research on buying my mods for my STI, and i kinda thought of instead of paying all that money to buy a full turboback w/o cats and header, why dont i buy a new turbo instead. I just wanted an idea if i did change the turbo.

Originally Posted by mw1029h

ok lets say you have, Who provided you with the correct pill size ?ans was" Still Will" Matt running a Ecutek when he made those numbers.

Originally Posted by UK n00b

I have no idea who Still Will (Matt) is so I would have no idea.

IHI Japan provided me with the pill size.

Mike

Originally Posted by Krinkov

hoo boy,
Your new here so I guess you dont know who your trying to flame, but Mike is the in house dyno tuner for Gruppe-s and has more experience making power out of Subys with every combination of turbos and mods than 99.9% of the other talking heads on this forum. So um, yes he does know a bit more about what hes talking about than you or I and does not pass on any info that he has heard and not experienced.

And as for searching NASIOC, you might just run across my post in the 2.5 forum where I put down 276whp/307wtq on a tuned P+Pd VF34, and Matt (Still Will) put down 279whp/323wtq on a tuned P+Pd VF34. So yes, you can make a bit of power with a properly tuned P+Pd VF34

cheers

Originally Posted by mw1029h

Ok Well that explains it but let me ask you this have you been able to use that pill on every VF34 for VF39 in a Sti you have done? and how many have you done. I purchased my Sti in 02/04 the swap was done 4/04 when was your first one done ? There was away around my situation but I didn't want a boost controller. So I changed back and sold the 34 because this is what you do someone researched the problem and solved it with the help of Japan techs. that's great!!! but is it worth doing No

Originally Posted by UK n00b

I think the first VF34 on a STI we tuned was in October, we used the same pill we always use on VF34 installs and tunes. When I said IHI Japan I was refer to the fact that the pill comes with the turbo.

Again as I mentioned earlier I would not personally put a VF34 on a STI unless I had one of the first batch as it would seem of late that there is little difference in the turbo's (As per the information in BAN SUVS post above).

Like I mentioned earlier, get a decent exhaust system and fuel pump. If you still want to upgrade your turbo I would probably ignore the entire IHI/VF line up.

Mike

Originally Posted by mw1029h

Anyway its usually pretty quite around here so its good to get something good going, but I will standby my statements and Just because someone is new around here that doesn't necessarily mean they haven't had any experience with the Subaru.

Originally Posted by UK n00b

Yep I know plenty of folks concidered new around here that know more than most, I think very little of post counts to be honest but some folks may take a low one as new and limited knowledge, sad but true.

Nice to meet you too Marc, how was the end results of your tune with what you have now?

Mike

Originally Posted by mw1029h

is Still Will using a Ecutek??? No he is not

Originally Posted by UK n00b

we have one making 340whp or so that we are still working on (in fact I still have it strapped to the dyno right now ).

Mike