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Subject: RE: review 2
Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2014 20:29:39 -0500
From: RichardZ
To: XRT
Update: took my car to my local mechanic and had the spark plugs changed, vacuum leak test, o2 sensor and pcv valve checked out. Plugs don’t look like they’ve been changed, everything checked out good.
I had to load stock rom back on the car for a few days so I could do a stock 2nd gear pull for the log and also so my mechanic wont freak out when he hits the gas and realizes this is not a stock car. I’m still getting used to the changes to the drive by wire, my mpg has gone down but that’s due to me flooring the pedal in 1st gear just to feel the power I never had in this car before. People must think I’m trying to race them off the light when my car launches forward when just touching the gas, lol. So far Ed has done an amazing job!!! I’m very happy with the way the car is performing. Just waiting for raptor to get their new set of headers in stock so I can get them and have Ed retune them. The car feels better than ever! The power is great over hills, doesn’t have to shift down to get power, the gear changes are smooth and the sound of the engine now is unreal. I just need to do one more log and gear pull for final results. I can’t believe how fast and fun tuning really is when you have a great tuner that really knows what he’s doing and when he does it he does it right! I can now see why XRT is known as “vicious tuned, driven hard” stay tuned for more updates on my car.
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Subject: more logs
Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2014 10:56:22 -0700
From: RichL
To: Xtreme Racing Tuning
Hey ,
So far The DBW is huge improvement and the torque through the first few gears is good. Since I do a lot highway
driving and encounter cars doing under the speed limit I appreciate a good quick lane change and pass. You have
done allot with what little I have given you it's know wonder that you are the 3.0 guru, I am glad I found you.
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Subject: RE: v3
Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2014 14:24:14 -0700
From: RichL
To: Xtreme Racing Tuning
Here's a couple of logs from coming home last night.
First one is standing start getting on the highway, the 2nd is going up and over a small Mt. pass.
Kind of a large file but it was from 2100 ft. to 3300 ft. and down the other side.
On the highway it seems to cruise a lot better and when climbing the torque converter doesn't
seem to kick in as much. I really like the DBW now it feels much more like a cabled throttle.
I know I haven't given a lot of feed back but what you have done is awesome .
RichL
http://www.subaruoutback.org/forums/new ... &p=1117377cracklincrotch wrote:So for the last few days I've been working with Ed @ Xtreme Racing Tuning. Got a engine log sent off to him and he asks me,"When was the last time I had the engine serviced?" So I listed off what I've done and when since getting the car. When I woke up this morning I'm thinking to myself that Ed is going to tell me I need new spark plugs.
I came close to changing them a bit more than a month ago. The car had 138,000km on it when I bought it so they should have been changed at 100,000km/60,000mi. So I bought plugs just in case mine appeared as if they hadn't been changed. I took one plug out and I thought it was fine. I showed it to a couple of mechanic friends and they both said it was fine and to put it back in. I returned the new plugs - they were $18.50 plus tax at the dealer. They were going back at that price if I didn't need them.
So back to the engine log. Ed tells me my 3.0R is running between 190-200HP and I'm no more than 175ft-lbs at the wheels. I'm using ethanol-free 91 AKI Esso gasoline. I went over some of the log yesterday afternoon and I half looked at the IAM and thought that at .4 it was a little low. Anyway, here's the link to the engine graphs:
Dealer has the best price around on the NGK ILFR6B plugs. $18.50ish plus tax = $21.28 each times six = $127.68.
No wonder the gas use is nasty. Sure the car wants to take off when I floor it. But apparently I've yet to feel it "take off!" And it's -10C and I have no garage to work in. At least there's no snow on the ground here and the engine will be warm after buying plugscracklincrotch wrote:I'm still giggling when I punch the gas either way!cardoc wrote:Makes you wonder why Subaru didn't just make it that way from the factory, eh?cracklincrotch wrote:It's been a week and I'm about to flash v6 from Edward this morning.
When you figure that the car I drive (and every other ECU controlled car) went through 1000s of hours of development, what's another week?
This far into the tune I swear the car is telling me "C'mon! C'mon! Let's go let's go let's go! I wanna RUN!!" like a dog that just brought me a stick.
http://www.subaruoutback.org/forums/109 ... ost1512898I'm still learning how little gas I have to give my car to start moving in a parking lot or drive-thru. All the car wants to do when I touch the gas is drop it's ass and throw itself forwards!
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Subject: Re: ROM file Legacy Spec B EDM 2007
Date: Sat, 5 Apr 2014 14:14:27 +0100 (BST)
From: NicolasD
To: XtremeRacingTuning
Hi Edward,
The car seems to be more responsive in the low rpm! I have tried only the SI-mode S#. I need to drive it more and test the other SI-mode.
Thx.
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Subject: Re: v1
Date: Sun, 6 Apr 2014 15:41:55 +0100 (BST)
From: NicolasD
To: XtremeRacingTuning
Hi Edward,
I have not yet test drive the v1a (just written it to ECU 10 min ago), but with the v0, there are already huge improvement over stock!
I drove 10 min with SI-mode I, the car seems to be driveable now in this mode, before it was just a nightmare and never selected this mode. The car is smoother and more reactive, also less shaking at low RPM, sounds promising!
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Subject: Re: v1
Date: Sun, 6 Apr 2014 22:20:10 +0100 (BST)
From: NicolasD
To: XtremeRacingTuning
Hi Edward,
The car now has more responsive acceleration, even with I mode! Great mod!
When cruising at a constant speed, is it doable to optimize a bit the fuel consumption with the I-mode?
I can try to reload the stock ROM and do some 3rd gear pull again for comparison.
Thanks a lot!
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Subject: Re: v1c
Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2014 10:32:54 +0100 (BST)
From: NicolasD
To: Xtreme Racing Tuning
Hi Edward,
In I mode the car seems to have a slightly improved fuel efficiency. Comparison was done on a typical trip I often do (250 km), same conditions, avg 8.2l/100 km (tuned) vs 8.6l/100 km (stock, I have done this trip 10 times, it was always 8.6l / 100 km).
Next week, I will do an other trip where I have some references for the fuel consumption. Let's see.
So far the improvement over stock is amazing in term of driving pleasure, the car is much more reactive, I and S mode are now useable, great work Edward!
Cheers,
Nicolas
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Subject: Feedback
Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2014 09:40:57 +1000
From: RobertF
To: XRT
Hey Ed,
I will mirror what others have said, I was wary of getting the car tuned by an international tuner, but I talked to friends who have had it done to their XT Foresters etc. They assured me it wasn't as big a deal as I was worried about. I contacted Ed, he got back to me straight away, seemed very nice to deal with so that was it, bought the tactrix cable, downloaded the software, logged some driving and away we went.
I am going for economy primarily, however the car is much more responsive, the adjustments made to the drive by wire made the most noticeable difference in my car. Transmission shifts quicker into the next gear, we had a little play around with this as it was slightly clunking into gears with the initial change. It also shifts down quicker when booted. The power has changed too, there is a spike of power at 3000rpm which wasn't there before, really feels like the cams come on and car pulls really hard from 3k onward.
I have also noticed the cruise control works much better with the tune, it doesn't struggle in hilly terrain. When cruising in drive in the hills it doesn't shuffle for gears anymore either, which is a huge plus.
So how did we go with economy? I did a round trip to the coast from Canberra (included spirited run from Tathra up Brown mountain) and managed 10km/L, average pre-tune was 9km/L at best. So highway driving will net even better. Around town the wife has been getting 8.3 to 8.5km/L about 50km more between fills.
Was it worth it? Yes in short it is more economical, more responsive, it feels like a younger less tired car.
Will it pay itself off? in the long run probably but for now the fun factor is high and the wife loves it.
If I had my time again I would get a CAI and Headers from Raptor before tuning. Would see much more power gain from the tune.
Cheers
Rob
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Subject: RE: Feedback
Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2014 15:16:02 -0400
From: OutL4w
To: XRT>
Like many people before me, I was a bit wary about having my OB ECU tuned by XRT. After reading the many feedback associated with Edward's work, I decided to hop on the train and get it done. After getting around setting my laptop to speak to my car through the Tactrix cable, me and Edward realized that my ROM was not supported. I thought this was the premature end to my OB tuning but Edward reassured me that he could build the definition and work with it. After he sent me the definition for my ROM, I started logging information and sent him the base logs. Nearly an hour after I was done, I was surprised with the v0 of my new ECU. At the end of our first day of work, we were already at v2 with already so many major changes to the car. The throttle has so much response now that I am actually saving gas in the city. The transmission shifting is much smoother and is also much quicker to drop in lower gears when you floor for a quick overtake. I feel now that I have a much better control over my car. We are not done yet with our tuning, but we are getting there (currently still on v2).
Edward is a pleasure to work with and as others previously stated, the guy never sleep! Wether you're a knowledgable mechanic or a newbie like me, Edward easily adapts to its clients and can answer your every concern. I'd really wish I could exchange a good handshake with him once we're done tuning my OB.
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