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is an 8 sec car "high horsepower" enough?

http://shepracing.com/videos/935pass.wmv

where the flames at?

You guys can keep flaming all you want....I'm done here

teach a man to fish...... http://www.msefi.com/

If you want to start talking fabrication, you have come to the wrong place. Exactly none of my aftermarket mods are designed for the Legacy. I made my own shifter bushings.

Want a cookie? Try putting one of your motors in a Beetle, putting a dsm motor and awd setup in a crx, or making your own ...

as for maf after the bov at least on my car wont fit but eiter way i think your confused as to where the maf is located on this car. dsms have been heard to do what you sugest but it has been discussed here before and its just not logical.

I know exactly where the MAF in your car is. Are you suby ...

azn2nr wrote:yeah but the rich condition causes the fireball. the car can be tuned all you want and it will still spit fire at an aptmo vent.

YES.....unless you have the MAF after the BOV. Even then you still have to tune the car to get it to run right. The point is his car is running like crap!!!

I have fireballs from having no cats and running lots of boost.


No, you have fireballs because your car isn't tuned properly... not having cats, and running lots of boost are not reasons to be shooting flames. If you are still running on the stock MAF system you are loosing metered air every ...

thought i would revive an old thread.

would water injection help w/this problem?

No, basically all water injection does is acts as another form of intercooler, it will cool the charged air, but will not help the lean condition THAT YOU WILL HAVE if you are running 20 psi. Assuming 280 crank hp ...

It sounds to me like you hooked the relay up as if it were switched on the hot side.

That is exactly what I did (using a generic 4 pin relay, not the suby one). Does the radiator fan relay work the same way? figured I would ask now before I realize that it doesn't work later. Thanks for the ...

Does all the neutral switch do is change the idle speed when in gear, or are there other changes. I'm using a VW transmission and am having trouble thinking of a way to hook up a switch as described (other than a toggle switch on the dash).

I'm a little confused on the fuel pump wiring. Is the ECU ...

the motor is in my 1973 Super Beetle, and yes the ecu and wiring are from the same automatic car the motor came from. If the clutch switch is realy all that important I could always make something, but since the motor is out of an automatic, I'm assuming it isn't.

~Josh

My motor came out of an automatic transmition car; does this affect what the neutral ecu pinout does? Also, the car my motor is in does not have a clutch switch (it is a '73). Am I correct in assuming that the inhibitor switch only affects the starter relay? When I tried to start the car today the ...

I was under the inpression that the park and neutral switches only effected the inhibiter switch (which does not let the car start). In my swap I did not use the inhibiter switch, my starter is wired right to the ignition switch. With that in mind, should either the park or neutral swtich effect ...

OK, I think I figured it out....please correct me if I'm wrong. The Subaru pressure exchange solenoid does the same thing that the Baro-Read solenoid on the chrysler MAP does. Basically all it does is switch between which pressure the MAP sensor is reading (MAP or Barometric). This still leaves me ...

I realize this is probably a stupid question, but what exactly does the The pressure exchange solenoid do? Also, my motor is a '93 and does not have the barametric pressure sensor ecu pinout, does this mean there is a sensor in the ecu? Thanks for all the help.

~Josh

I have wired several cars from scratch before, but they have all been carbed, so definatly not as complex. I was not planning on using identical Subaru set up, I am trying to understand what everything is before I start cutting stuff. Thanks for all the help.

~Josh

wow...I must be slightly retarted, ignition relay does not equal ignitor :oops: . I still wish there was a good way to figure out what certain wires do rather than just what the plug into. Such as what are the two yellow wires comming out of the ignition relay (are they just ignition swtiches that ...

For the record, the 6th wire going to the ignitor is an ignition switch. I've been trying to sort through this wiring mess for the a couple of days now and and still pretty confused. Vikash's ecu pin out digram has been very usefull as well as Josh's (Legacy777) scanned factory manual, but is the ...

Here is one for you. '97 outback sport wagon (impreza based) with the n/a 2.2 has a map with a baramotric sensor. I was looking at a friends over break and it looks the same as the legacy turbo one. Is this really the same part?

~Josh

To be honest, I have no idea what year it was (late 80's-early90's) I was just looking to see that it had the barometric sensor dellie, which it did, and even still had the foam filter on it. I also know nothing about Chrysler products (I have never been a fan).

What I thought was wierd about the ...

I hit up the junkyard for some parts for my '93 turbo motor over the weekend. One of the things I was missing was the ignitor. I assumed that the N/A and turbo ignitors would be the same, so I grabbed the one that looked in the best shape. When I got it home I realized that the one I grabbed only ...

BTW, do you know of any stock turbo cars that just use a MAF sensor? You mentioned DSMs, however, there are still fuel cut defencer applications for DSMs, which would automatically point to a MAP sensor being used.

Stock DSM definatly do not have a MAP. The overboost protection is contorled by a ...

Thanks for the info. That is inteseting that it uses both MAP and MAF for fuel, all cars that I have delt with in the past uses one or the other. I do plan on going with a stand alone in the future (along with bigger turbo, intercooler, injectors, etc.), but I don't have the money for that right now ...

Thawa,
I guess I didn't read you post correctly, and yes I know that the MAP or MAF isn't dirrectly controlling fuel or spark. It is just one of the variables (TPS, RPM, etc.) that the ecu uses to control both fuel and igniton timing. If the MAP is only used to control boost, then why can't you just ...

didn't look a the link before I posted.....thanks, that was very helpfull. vrg3, you are definatly the most usefull person ever!!!

~Josh

I can understand you not likeing the engine swap, but you can't argue with me wanting a better engine for my beetle (aircooled + carbs = serious suckness). I thought that I had everything that is bolted to the engine (nothing that was connected to the firewall or the sides), the entire wiring ...