Building power with Subaru’s newest motor design, the FA series. This is found in all of the turbo models except the STi.
Vehicles with this motor appeared in 2014 in the Forester and in 2015 with the WRX.
Waiting too long to repair your firewall will lead to replacing the pedal assembly as well as many other components.
The reality is that if you wait too long, more parts wear out, costing time and money.
Colorado Dyno Shop | With the recent changes here at 5250, we're going to need extra help.
Things at 5250performance have been a blur the last few weeks.
All cleaned up and caught up from the Rocky Mountain Subaru Festival. We had a great showing with some beautiful cars we've built for our customers. It was great to put some faces to names and really reach out to the community.
Turbo Performance | What makes a vehicle successful in the world of building more power and increasing the fun factor?
When it comes to tuning your car, you have three options. Dyno tunes, road tunes, and e-tunes.
Most people are familiar with dyno and road tuning, but e-tuning is fairly new to the scene. Here we dig deeper for you on e-tuning
The battery is the heart of your vehicle. A car is not much better than a rock with a door and windows if the battery is dead.
It's important to maintain the health of your battery, especially if you've purchased an expensive Optima or lightweight racing battery.
The number one important thing you can do to keep your battery healthy is... Don't kill it.
Letting a battery drain below its minimum power level permanently damages a battery. Even if you put the most expensive, bestest battery charger in the world on a over depleted battery, it will never regain 100% of it's original capacity.
The first step to keeping a battery healthy is to keep it fully charged. Many cars are equipped with voltage meters on the dash or in the driver information display.
If one isn't built into your car, most radar detectors can display vehicle voltage on their idle screen. Normal operating voltage should be between 13.5 and 14.8 volts (unless you have one of todays smart variable alternators like GM cars and trucks, they will run down the highway at lower output based on demand to maximize mpg and ramp up when needed).
If you see the voltage drop below 12 volts while the vehicle is running, you may have too many electrical devices turned on, or your alternator could be failing.
Horsepower Gains | Heat is our friend. Heat is our enemy.
In a turbocharged car, heat is what drives the turbo. The hotter you can keep the exhaust gases, the higher the pressure and faster it flows, the more power we make. "But wait!", you say. "I always heard colder is better for power."
It is! On the other side of the engine. A motor wants really cold intake air so it can make the most power.
So there is our problem. We need to keep the exhaust as hot as possible without melting anything and we need to keep the intake as cold as possible. All the heat comes from the exhaust, so we can't let any of it get to the intake. Our answer is to insulate the exhaust.
There are many ways to keep the heat in. The factory exhausts are covered in metal heat shielding and utilize air gaps to prevent heat transfer to other parts of the motor. These air gaps also allow airflow to keep overall temperatures under control.
Turbo Heat Wraps | One of the first things we do to modify a car is put larger exhaust piping on it. When we install a 3" pipe in place of a factory 2" pipe, we lose a lot of space. This means no more air gaps. A metal heat shield won't be very affective without the air gap to act as an insulator.
We have two solutions to addressing heat and keeping temperatures in check so you can get back to performance driving.
Everyone is always looking for a quick project they can do themselves, at home, without blowing up their car. The Intercooler sprayer is one of those mods.
High Performance Subaru Turbocharged engine | YOu decided that you want one, now what?
The reality is that there are many options to choose from, but first it all depends on what you want. There are so many who just want to talk about their dream car with the mega horsepower, that is ok, go ahead and dream. We want to talk to the people who make that their reality, the ones who dedicate effort / action to a car that performs well, is reliable, and exceeds expectations. Here is our subaru engine packages short list: