JoeA

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I installed FP Red and switched to E-85 with DW1300 and went to get tuned yesterday and after a few pulls we could not get car to break 300whp when the car came in tuned previously by him and made 300whp. We stared at 21 psi and went to 25psi and car never made any additional power, in some cases it lost power. We did boost leak test and it helb up to 30psi so im not thinking thats an issue. Now I know these X tunes have a lot of stuff to adjust and losts of variables and this tuner is mostly a subaru tuner.

So is there anything that we may be missing?

Could it be the maf issues out there?

Any other guru tuners up in Northern California?

Any help would be great

Thanks

aronjaskim

Are you getting a check engine light?

The MAF is good for mare than 300 so I say no on the maf.

What were your AFRs?

JoeA

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No check engine light and he did a few different pulls with AFRs from the 11s to the 12s I think.

Im going to do compression check next to juist be sure. He keeps going back to the turbo being the problem but am not looking forward to taking off the turbo again.

GST Motorsports

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I'd probably take my Mitsubishi to a Mitsubishi tuner, but that's just silly ol' me.

- bryan

aronjaskim

I just saw that you are on e85, not sure what afrs should be.

The turbo should be fine unless it is making bad noises like metal on metal sounds, otherwise should be fine.

Even with stock mivec and timing tables you should be at more than that. Maybe your timing is too retarded.

Put in your stock injectors (takes 30 mins) re flash your stock map and go to a diff tuner. This guys sounds like bad news.

JoeA

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He tuned my car the first time and I have never really had any issues with it and it has always made good power. He has tuned Evos before and I really dont want to try another tuner but if I cant figure something out I may have to. Is there any good Evo tuners in Northern California?

Clipse3GT

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GST, HBspeed, etc...

stokEd

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This guy:

stokEd

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HBSpeed is in Southern California--OP is about 7 hours north of them.

JoeA

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Called GST and they don't know when or if Bryan will be back lol, but I did send him a pm. HB is now Cobb I believe and dont think they are back open yet, or at least I couldn't find a phone number.

gsrboi80

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E85, Red, and adequate injectors.

Any other mods? Tuner should have have been able conclude why the car isn't making power.

You state the 4 psi boost increase added no gain even a loss in power. Do you have copys of your maps and logs?? Did load increase with added boost

Boost leak test as you said showed no leaks. Is the car pulling timing during the pull, The AFR's spot on through the pull??

fostytou

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I would assume the tuner would understand this, but are the target load tables set appropriately or is the boost just falling right back to the same level?

You should still make more power with the added timing....

JoeA

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qsrboi80-car is catless with AMS intake and TBE. We did do a boost leak test to 30psi. Ill try and get copies of my logs and maps and see what is going on.
Red Dragons!!

fostytou-I would assume he knows this also it just seems weird we cant get the car to make power, he thinks its the turbo but I just dont see it being that.

Thanks for input

jojobanks

some suggestions of things I would look at that could have possibly been overlooked:

Is the stock boost pill still in the system?

is the wastegate that came with the red operating properly?

If everything's hooked up right and operating correctly and you're not leaking any boost, it's probably as gsrboi says and you're timing is getting pulled.

The fact that your "tuner" is just looking at this and saying "dunno man " seems pretty shady to me. I may be wrong and it could be some off the wall problem, but chances are your tuner's just not up to par. I would at least take it somewhere reputable for a second opinion before you take this much further.
You would know if it were a bad turbo by now. you've already done a leak test and if there were anything broken in the turbo, you'd definitely hear it.

4xforce

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Call Jay at Boosted Tuning. He's in Chico. Had my IX tuned by him and he does a great job. You really need somebody that knows your car specifically when it comes to tuning the stock ecu. Check out his website