davcivic

It took me about 14 hours total, it was a total bitch, but it was worth it.
Here's a few pictures of the install.
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the new on the left, the old on the right, not a big size difference, but the new one is a ball bearing turbo and the hot side is bigger.

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you see the greenish bracket under the radiator canister, vaccum, coolant and fuel hoses, and all the other crap, are the injectors. The green bracket is a bitch to take out and the injectors are a bitch to change.

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turbo and a shot of the downpipe.

Now for the dyno. The car of course would not run with the bigger injectors, about 300cc more than stock, so I needed to tow the car. I got AAA so no problems right? They sent a tow truck, the guy said my car was too lowered to be towed, I got springs with a 1.5" drop and still have about 4" of clearance. He made me take out the front lip, and after all that he would not tow the car. I call AAA they say they do not cover modified cars, I'm like bullshit, let me speak to a manager, the bitch told me the same, I was like, I cannot believe that of the millions of your customers no one drives a viper, bmw, porsche or any import or modified car, and that if they didn't send someone to tow my car I woul cancel my membership. She shut up and sent me another guy, who did the job.

On the dyno I went to Central Florida Turbo. They have a mustang dyno, which gives you a more real world power figure, better I guess than the dynojets. For some reason the car was on lymp mode to begin the tuning. The car would not rev pass 4k. They messed up with the ECU connections and found a lose connector, that only took like 2 hours .

Here are the facilities
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the car with no front is a toyota tercel, with an mr2 dohc engine, and a big *** tutbo

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the car rolling in.

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Anyhow they got it fixed and started tuning, the first run was 162whp. Lame. Then they started tuning and got better and better and better. Numbers topped at 272whp and 263lb/tq. That's around 300whp on a dynojet. The battery was going out, and the car was still acting up, at high rpms the voltage would drop to 11v and the Utec actually could shut down with low voltage and stop the injectors and gas to the engine. Also the wastegate was opening at high rpms, it would start at 17psi and go down to 13-14psi.

I was recommended to get a new battery, which I did, and get a spring to hold the wastegate close a little longer, they said I could boost up to 19 psi safely, so I will go back soon for more dyno time.

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300whp on the mustang dyno are very real, and I hope to get there the next time.
Can't wait to take it to the track.

kain

all that work for 270 sum hp when you could have simply done a flash change with the access port.

im tellin ya bro, the utec is gonna cause nothing but nightmares.

hotrex

nice .. i dont like subies but i like yours.

FooK

i like the pink strut bar....

hotrex

kain, for a big know it all, you sure have a ------ piece of ---- car....

maybe you should use your knowledge to build a 500hp rx-7 rather than bag on a nice setup.

oh, and i bet he gets laid also

kain

its funny because my brother has a wrx just like his. so infact i do know what im talking about.

SpankedYA!

Pink is the offical STI color. Any Subby guy knows if it pink its good ----. Sounds funny but its true.

BTW if you battery voltage is 11 when its running the issue is in the charging system and not the battery. Sounds like an alternator or at least the regulator.

davcivic

like I told you before, there are thousands of people using the utec and are happy, but I'm sure there's some that don't like it, but I'm happy with it.

272 is not a bad number for what I did or spent, less than 1500. I doubt the accessport can give you this much on a mustang dyno with the stock turbo setup.

Either way I'm happy.

Yeah STi's official color is pink, so if you want official STi merchandise like I have it will be pink.

I know it sounds weird about the battery, but everytime we had to start the car again, they had to plug in a charger. I took the car to Advanced auto parts, they did a battery test and found it deffective, I got a new one and the car is running better, sound system is better, no dimming of the lights or anything. But I do want to test the electrical system also.

accordepicenter

nice up pipes, what kind are they?

kain

yeah i can understand what your saying.

i dont know. i called up cob tuning and they said that what they get it as the wheels. so in teory if we uploaded the 285 with 93 octane map, we should be getting around that amount.

also the nice thing with utec you tell them what you have done to your car and they will custome make a map for you.

good job mang. my brother is putting in an act clutch.
the stock one slipps like a mother lover. lol.