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IHI Turbo America is located at Route 16 West RR3 Box 36 Shelbyville,IL
phone is (217) 774-9571. If that fails you could try Turbo Engineering Co in Golden, Colorado.
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I will agree with Josh, using anything other than a OEM t-stat will cause problems It has been tried many times with poor results. A colder engine also will not be lubricated as well and the colder temp will pull the timing back. Even with a FPR what happens is that the O2 sensor will quickly sense ...

I wouldn't say that the gear boxes are weak I think some of the failures that have occurred have been due to missed shifts etc. and some are due to added power. We have seen some gearbox failures with engines developing 350+hp and think what has happened is that the power applied to the spiral cut g...

Will do but it will take a while I first have to get the EJ25 aftermarket turbo cars that will want this done that we have out. The first one is a car that has lost three engines in as many years. Seems that nobody can resist turning up the boost on them with the usuall bad results. Also with a litt...

There are a few ECU's with different rev limits for some strange reason. I found one in a pile of ECU's that I was looking through to possibly buy. It is for a '98 EJ25 with a rev limit of 6700, just the thing to sell the Impreza crowd. This all started out trying to protect the EJ25 from blowing up...

It is the speed limiter that the Torque Chip removes but I am just finishing the assembly of a plug and play ECU that has the original ECU in a case with an additional board that removes the rev limiter, adds fuel in relation to boost, controls timing, torque chip, probably will end up controlling b...

Maybe you should bury the hatchet where it belongs! in this idiots skull where he will not experiance any pain or sensation whatsoever. I recently was going to park at a business where the parking lot was shared with the I.B.E.W International Brotherhood of Electrical workers that I once was a membe...

I know I have had a few start to melt on me. We have a custom built multi channel unit with thermocouples. It looks like thermocouples are the way to go but they are more difficult to use and more expensive.
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It's not really my company I work with them on product development and electronics. The kit they sell was rated #1 by Turbo Magazine because it was the only one tested that would fit properly, had heavy laser cut flanges, high temp coating, etc. The name is Performance Development and Manufacturing ...

The VF 11 is most common on US legacys and I think the VF10 was used on both US and the EJ20t. There isn't very much difference in them.
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We have a base kit for $2600 includes VF11, all pipes, fuel pump, spark plugs, lines etc. but what will you do for an intercooler? $600 air to air no scoop air to water $1300.
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There is no way that I am aware of. The MAF on the turbo Legacy is a sealed unit. I did take one apart that was defective on a long shot that it might be repairable and after removing the top found that it is built using surface mount technology that is buried in a silicon like substance. Also I thi...

Don't hook it to the red and white wires! you could very possibly damage an expensive MAF sensor. The red wire is power and the white is signal black and black/ blue are grounds of two different types and the blue is a ID wire. There is a internal intake air temp sensor but it is used in trying to d...

I wouldn't mind knowing the source on the intake temp sensor myself if it will withstand the higher temps that we have seen. One of the problems we have seen on the WRX and it's air to air is that after sitting at a stop intake temps can go to 350F+. I have a lot of info on our turbo's and we have s...

I think so pulling the dash and all of the heater, AC, and part of the wiring is a real nightmare it's all entangled with the frame behind the dash. We have one sitting around where they tried to change to a later model dash and it has been sitting for almost a year. What I did was make a small hole...

Our heads are not the greatest but I don't think that they are real bad. I am rebuilding some with mechanical adjustable roller rockers and hope to get past the point where the 15lbs of boost was holding the valves open at about 73-7400rpm.
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The first problem with swapping the harness is that the harness on the turbo Legacy takes two routes back to the ECU that also is mounted in a different location. I pulled one of these one time and it was about three times as long as needed and had what the factory called a "super Monster Junct...

It can be done and it is not as hard as you would first think. The Turbo Legacy front crossmember must be used it will bolt right in. The exhaust is close to bolt in. I installed a '99 GT transmission but the turbo Legacy will bolt in and you will have to add a clutch master cyl and probably a pedal...

I saw one of those on one of our customers Impreza yesterday and was not terribly impressed and have an idea for something that could be better. This Impreza is something to see it has a EJ22t block and is around 500-550hp. I will try and get a picture of it to post. Counting the three built EJ25 en...

Sounds like you might be on to something I wonder if the engine could have moved enough for some part of the motor or the mounts to hit something? How about the hesitation that some people have found at about 5300- 5500 rpm I have a theory on that one ( and a cheap fix if I am right)but haven't had ...

Someone was asking about the LSD rear diffs and I tried to log in to the USMB to get an article on how to build a 3.9 0r 4.11 from a old 3.7 RX diff that I wrote some time ago but it seems that the USMB has tightened security and I can not log in. They said the article would be saved in the USRM and...

I have had good luck with the following solution. Drain the transmission and refill with ATF and a bottle of Rislone drive for 2-500 miles drain and refill with a product from BG called Synchro Shift. This stuff is a bit pricy but it has worked and it is cheaper than a tranny rebuild. I have 35k on ...

I thought that was about the time Mark (see above post) I can remember people doing this and have wondered just how this cleaning works. I have heard several explanations and they were all different. I may want to try this if my plans to move to Europe work out. I was there a long time ago and hope ...

Most of the ones that I have seen have a small nozzel that give a spray a tank and some sort control solenoid that starts the spray after the engine gets up to speed. supposedly this will even give a little better gas milage kind of a poor mans hydrogen powered car :D ? I bet that some of the afterm...

Water injection will keep the combustion chamber remarkably clean of carbon and other deposits. It will also lower the charge temperature through evaporation and a mist or spray is prefered. You should be sure to make sure that the system you make or buy has safeguards to prevent water from being du...