API exhaust and remap - will it be a decent job?
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Looking at a used blobeye wrx wagon that has had a 'full 2.5" decat exhaust system, sport panel air filter and a remap'. It was fitted in 2014.
Some brief research concludes that an exhaust, air filter and remap are indeed lauded as the standard 'stage 1' performance modification for the wrx and that back in 2014, API was a well respected subaru tuning company.
It also looks as though some weirdness happened and they have since split/gone out of business. There are polarising reviews on various forums about their work and looks as though they did the remaps on the road, which in my limited experience is inferior to a rolling road/dyno.
Do any of your know (having had it done) what brand of exhaust/filter they likely put on there, how many cats they may have decatted and the likelyhood that the remap is actually any good? (potential power?)
I mean, it's lasted 4 years so I have every reason to believe it's a good job, but not having the ability to call up and check the history and specifics from the horses mouth gives me some concern.
There are a stack of receipts and a full service history with the car which is lovely, but I'm always a bit sceptical buying a modified car unless I can verify with the person who did it what they actually did.
I dont ask much
Cheers.
Some brief research concludes that an exhaust, air filter and remap are indeed lauded as the standard 'stage 1' performance modification for the wrx and that back in 2014, API was a well respected subaru tuning company.
It also looks as though some weirdness happened and they have since split/gone out of business. There are polarising reviews on various forums about their work and looks as though they did the remaps on the road, which in my limited experience is inferior to a rolling road/dyno.
Do any of your know (having had it done) what brand of exhaust/filter they likely put on there, how many cats they may have decatted and the likelyhood that the remap is actually any good? (potential power?)
I mean, it's lasted 4 years so I have every reason to believe it's a good job, but not having the ability to call up and check the history and specifics from the horses mouth gives me some concern.
There are a stack of receipts and a full service history with the car which is lovely, but I'm always a bit sceptical buying a modified car unless I can verify with the person who did it what they actually did.
I dont ask much
Cheers.
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