Here is my Blaze
Yellow MY02 WRX. So far the modifications include
- Turbo back 3" mandrel bent exhaust. For details and sound see exhaust
- Boost/vacuum gauge.
- Built-in A/F ratio meter.
- K&N drop-in filter.
- OZ Proline P1 wheels 17" x 7" with
Toyo T1S 225/45-17 tires
For pictures of my car next to Joel's Blue WRX with his 18" OZ Superleggeras with 245/35-18 Toyo T1s, see 2wrxs
The next
modification was the TurboXs SatageII UNICHIP upgrade. I was first thinking of
going with Cobb tuning so it could be tuned with the car, but Cobb tuning was
swamped and could not schedule the installation.
The installation of
the Unichip and ABC was very straightforward and very easy. Right after the
installation I was completely pumped up as the car felt much faster and held
boost longer, etc. However, it was not long before I began to experience some
problems. First, the car’s ECU appears to “learn” the changes made by the
Unichip. Very soon, the car runs crappy. It appears that the ECU will sense the
extra boost or whatever map changes the UNICHIP does, and it pulls timing like
crazy so you end up without much power increase. Another problem was the
hesitation or misfiring that the engine began to do. This was very annoying and
proved impossible to correct. I spoke later with one of the guys from TurboXs
at the NOPI show in Atlanta and he basically told me that the UNICHIPs were not
any good and could not be made to work as advertised!! Too bad he did not offer
me any kind of refund….
Anyway, The UNICHIP
appears to be problematic and I removed it from the car as the misfiring and hesitation
were intolerable, the power gains were nil and the car began to throw CELs.
Back to stock I went and the problems went away…….
