Today we got a chance to finish up Chris’s 05 lgt tune. This car came to us with a tune already done by someone else and we did not think we would be able to make much more power, Guess we were wrong. After changing EVERYTHING in the old tune and turning up the boost 1.5lbs, this is what we ended up with.
You’ve just shown what a stage 2 Subaru does when the stock top mount intercooler and manifold are hot on one pull and not the next, plus extra torque in the low/mid range from running more boost. One is jagged with lower power and the other is smooth with higher power. When I’m doing rough tuning and don’t leave a lot of time between pulls I see the same thing. The dead giveaway that the car was fiery hot on the baseline pull is how much better spoolup is because the turbo and everything are so hot. Then up top the power is similar because you can’t force it to run more boost at higher RPMs than on the baseline pull on the stock turbo…you just heat soaked it so the graph looks jagged.
This car was baselined first thing in the morning by me before anyone else was here. It had more than enough time to cool down between the time it drove in and the time I had it all set up and ready to make a pull. Notice the filter value…
Again there was nothing wrong with the tune, it came in fairly decent. o2’s were pretty good and it didn’t seem as though it knocked, but I wasn’t logging for this pull.