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Old 04-09-2013, 04:39 PM   #393
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king tut i have watched all the vids or your car and read all forms posted about fbm turbo so a couple of question if you dont mind
are you ever worried about it blowing the engine do you thinks its reliable.
is it hard to put the power down .
and do you regret doing this install
and if you dont mind could you post a smal write up of the tuning side of things i know you have before but dumb it down a bit if you could thank you
I am not worried about blowing the engine. I feel I have a reliable tune right now. With that being said, I am definitely aware that it is a possibility, and I am prepared to pay for a new block/pistons/rods should that occur.

I don't regret doing the install. It took me a long weekend, but I know how everything was installed. I tend not to trust other people working on my car. About the only time I let someone work on my car is to get it tinted or detailed as I find the professionals are MUCH better at that than I will ever be.

There is no tuning side per say. The kit uses EcuTek which does not allow the end user to tune their own car. That means you are left with either running the basemap that Full Blown supplied with the turbo kit or you find an EcuTek tuner. I was able to get John Visconti to street tune my kit, but now I would like to fine tune the car on the dyno, but I have to wait on John to e-mail me ROMs because the closest EcuTek tuner to me is 6 hours away.

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Old 04-09-2013, 04:39 PM   #394
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Hello everyone, thought I would make an intro post. I bought my wife a Limited WRB BRZ a couple months back and have been using this site for our upgrade questions and what not. So far we've done 18x8.5 Rota MXR's/245/40/18 Hankook Ventus V12 and H&R lowering springs. And I drive the 2011 STi on the right..

That is a good looking BRZ and STi. Maybe I will get to see them one day.
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Old 04-09-2013, 05:42 PM   #395
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Picked up a WRBP Premium on Saturday and love it. I had concerns going from a 2011 M3 to something with half the power but the car more than makes up for it in the handling department. Can't wait for the next AutoX and track day! I'm signed up for Laguna in August but may need to find something sooner.
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Old 04-09-2013, 06:46 PM   #396
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Picked up a WRBP Premium on Saturday and love it. I had concerns going from a 2011 M3 to something with half the power but the car more than makes up for it in the handling department. Can't wait for the next AutoX and track day! I'm signed up for Laguna in August but may need to find something sooner.
M3 to a BRZ? Wow... Do you miss the power at all?
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Old 04-09-2013, 06:56 PM   #397
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Hello everyone! Proud to say I'm a new owner of an FRS for one week now and I'm loving every bit of it. I work for PTUNING and I can't wait to slap on our turbo kit to give this car some balls lol. Anyway thought I'd stop by and say hi. Pm me if any of you are in northern va and wanna stop by to take a look at the shop/kick it.
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Old 04-09-2013, 08:22 PM   #398
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Howdy folks. New here as well. No pictures yet but I just purchased a black 6sp manual BRZ in Cincinnati. Hoping to pick it up in 3 weeks.
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Old 04-10-2013, 02:10 AM   #399
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Picked up a WRBP Premium on Saturday and love it. I had concerns going from a 2011 M3 to something with half the power but the car more than makes up for it in the handling department. Can't wait for the next AutoX and track day! I'm signed up for Laguna in August but may need to find something sooner.
Hey... I know you How many miles have you put on it these last few days?

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Old 04-10-2013, 01:09 PM   #400
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Finally decided to post.

Hey guys. I've been lurking for a while and decided I should finally post. I have a LR Subaru BRZ Limited that I bought back in Oct. 2012 in Cincinnati. Loving every minute of it.
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Old 04-10-2013, 02:24 PM   #401
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Hi everyone!

I just picked up my WRB Limited MT last night.

Those of you in the Mid-Atlantic area know this is actually my second 86. I had a Firestorm FR-S, but sadly she was taken from me far too young


The BRZ Limited is what I really wanted from the start, so that's the silver lining
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Old 04-10-2013, 06:09 PM   #402
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Hi all,

I got my BRZ Limited on April 1st. Really, I did. At first my friends all thought I was pulling a joke on them. That one is on them, of course
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Old 04-11-2013, 01:07 PM   #403
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Hello everyone,

I just figured I would sign up, as our shop got an FR-S a few months back and I have had the pleasure of driving it around a good amount. I'm looking forward to seeing what everyone is doing to their FR-S's and hopefully get ours up to spec!
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Old 04-12-2013, 05:18 AM   #404
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Hello guys!
I'm Jack from Italy! I finally bought at the end of march a new BRZ Limited Satin white Pearl! Very happy!!

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Old 04-13-2013, 02:18 PM   #405
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Had the BRZ about a month. Thought I'd finally post on the forum. Dark Gray 6 spd limited in upstate NY.
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Old 04-13-2013, 10:17 PM   #406
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Hey guys, just picked mines up yesterday!


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