[perryair]

Originally Posted by keithr

I would say it's more of a linear pull than a turbo, but the idiosyncrasies of this particular engine mean you need to have some rpm going if you want the pull to be there. I don't drive around the city in traffic at 3500-4000. For those that do, the power is more immediate. For me, I have to accept that it's gonna dog a little bit or I get Popeye leg on the left from shifting 700 times per 1\4 mile in a typical Phoenix commute.

This is a daily driver for me, so these are the conditions. It would be a different ball game if I lived on the track with it.

I have a friend with a stock WRX. It FEELS faster, because the factory turbo has that almost logrythmic pull. It's certainly a little smoother at the bottom. It FEELS faster. It isn't. But it feels that way.

I'm no expert but from what I've heard the edelbrock is a trade-off.

I'm sure I could tune and re tune and re re tune every little nib and get it "there" -- but I liked that the JR tune is carb compliant since I'm near CA. I could sell the car to someone in CA or I could move there etc. The "premier" local shop f'd my car up once and were a bunch of smug jagoffs -- very dismissive of me. I suppose had I been spending 10k or driving a European car I would have been treated better since that's exactly what I observed there.

I don't want to spend every waking minute wrenching and messing with tunes. I went for the JR because of its advertised basically "plug and play" nature.

I don't want to hijack this thread any worse so we can take this to private chat or a different thread if you want more info on my impressions. 😀

*edit:. Hah! I didn't realize you were the OP. Hijack away!



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are you on the c38 rotor or the c30 one? does the sub 3500rpm feel at least smooth if not powerful? or is the power delivery lumpy down there? this is my weekend warrior car so im typically driving in the city a gear different than what would be 'normal' but i still want the accelerating experience to feel as linear as possible.

even though you had it installed, was it a fairly painless process for them? did you do any other work - replacing injectors or anything or was it straight plug and play?