Subaru Forester 2.5 Turbo (2008 Model)

Subaru Forester 2.5 Turbo

Nowadays, everything also like going to go bankrupt. Things we normally dun think twice about buying, now, think and think until the white hair come out then buy.

No choice la, so, what does car enthus. do to keep their passion of modifying car alive? Modifying it on a budget. This post, I write on how to cheaply modify a stock forester and make it feel much more livelier and free up that stuck stock exhaust for a really low budget.

The 2.5 frosty boasts a huge chasis with a wide sun roof. Very nice interiors, very very smooth engine, very comfy interior, it gives the passengers they are sitting in a lexus or something. Powerwise, no doubt. With AVCS cams controls, a 2.5L powerplant and excellent AWD handling. Subaru sure knows how to pamper their fans. Power delivery is flawless. We're going to work a tight budget, and demo how to make this even better, the objective is to fully utilise the exising hardware.

The most basic modification starts from the intake. Well, since we're on a tight budget, fark it. Keep the stock airbox. Anyway, forester is a part-time family car, so no point making sound like a lorry all the time, so, we leave the farking air box alone this time, and allow the car to smell through a rubber box on stock filter element. This also helps to retain the part-time family car comfort level good.

Then we look at the exhaust. Fark the extractors and muffler also. Thats staying too. mid-pipe? down pipe? up pipe ? Stay! So far, nothing spent yet. Good. What we do to the exhaust is a simple de-cat. Inspection? Pass, no doubt. Sam say "money back garuantee". What we want to do here is to free up the gas flow at the asshole a little. Coz, we dun want no tissue paper stuck up those holes and worse, melting down during those tracking days. Ok, De-cat it. How much? Let budget a 180 agar-agar la... Ok, so we decatted the exhaust.

Then we wanna put in a boost controller la, simple simple, the stock forester will hit a 0.8 bar of boost at around 3000 rpm and then boost will start to fall to 0.7 bars as you reach 5000 rpm. This aint gonna work brudder... so, what we need to do here is to add in a boost controller and bring up the boost to about 1.2 bars. How much for that thing? I think about 70 bucks... agar agar. Manual boost controller of course. Cheap cheap... and can use again when economic turn better, then just turn up the knob to increase the boost level. Thats next time... kekeke... also can lower if you find the FC damn killer when the fuel price go up again... so, I'm gonna spend a 70 buck to give myself an option to adjust the boost level. I know some people rather use the stock boost solenoid to control. But, in that case, your tuner will be knn bo-eng lor... everytime just flash in the new boost level... knn... siao man... so, for me, in the morning, just pop that boonet, and tweak tweak a bit here and there can liaoz... kekekek... no need computer also can do.

Ok, shopping cart shows 250 bucks.

Next, we want to do a basic reflash to remove the cel light that comes with the decat, then remove the rev cut so that the boxer engine can scream and scream like no tomorrow and then remap the ecu to allow higher boost, remove the boost cut also, then make sure no speed cut for that NSHW run kekeke... How much? let say 200 bucks to do this flashing.

Net is 450. Good. maybe labour charges is 50 bucks? Then put in 30 buck buffer,... so we net net 530 bucks everything in.

For 530 bucks, the stock forester now boost 1.2 bars at 3000 rpm and scream all the way to 8000 rpm. Car got the head slamming effect because of the greatly increased torque from that de-cat. Overall, this car feels very light on the throttle and for the amount of money spent, this kind of effect is damn good already. Basic basic tuning... nothing too drastic. The objective is to safely max out whatever hardware we have.

To bring this budget plan futher, we take installment plan of 36 months. So, we have 530 plus 5% divided by 36 months. = 15.4583 / mth

$15.46 per mth kekeke.... omg... cartel sirlion steak already 18++ liaoz...hahahahaha, So, cut down on that monthly family lunch, you dun eat steak liaoz... just eat cartel free Roti... kekekeke... with that extra savings, you can enjoy everyday an extra 20~30% more bhp ... wait, once i get the dyno chart from dyno machine.... i tell you how much bhp gained. Yah yah, i got g-tech pro version etc etc... wait... chasis dyno more accurate... i post post the findings... kekeke

Fellow car enthus... i present to you a $16 buck budget modification that will definately make you smile and laugh till you drop. Can still mod car during bad time? Yes. why not... hahahaha...

Verdict:
Strictly to fully utilise the existing hardware safely.

Of course, if you ask me, the potential on this ride is tremendous. You can upgrade the top mount intercooler to go for a front mount intercooler. This will help reduce the charged air temp from the turbo, then go for a powervalve or a HKS muffler or Fuji exhaust. Then, opt for a electronic boost controller and drop in a VF37 twin scroll turbo while you're at it. Then, enlarge the injectors to run 1000cc injectors, with walboro pumps, and sard fuel regulator. Then you wanna upgrade the fuel rails also, and those spark plugs, we can go for a colder plugs. Ai yoh... there i go again... kekekeke...

ps: Coming soon... MX-5 intercooler upgrades and used 2.5L wrx engine for sale or rebuilt

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One of the questions we often get from people who are interested in installing turbo in their car is what to do when they finally decide to sell ofh their cars when their cars breakeven. Simple...

Sam is already handling this portion of transfer and taking over very well and he knows exactly what to do. He believes in a one-stop workshop that handles everything from installing turbo to selling turbos... blah blah... you ask him yourself lah... he super excited to tell you one...

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