Okay, so I went w/the second setup minus the BOV: Downpipe-Catback Exhaust-Cobb CAI/Airbox and GrimmSpeed EBCS and pro-tune.
During the tune I get a call from the place, the tuner asks if I did anything to the fuel system, he's got it on the dyno and it's "running dead lean." He says he's going to have a look in the fuel system and get back to me. An hour later he calls back again and says that the turbo's blown? WTF? They said it was blown before they got to it. I asked how is that, it was never smoking before. He mentioned that as soon as they got it on the dyno, it started smoking because of the catless downpipe.
The guy tuning it says it was because you had a catalytic converter on it, the cat took all the excess oil and crystallized it and that's why I hadn't seen any smoke from it. I mentioned that the car is still under warranty and they wanted more time to talk and they'd have me call later. I called later and told them I'm taking the car to a Subaru Dealer. They wanted me to contact my warranty company and they could do the work, but.. They're not an accredited repair shop.
I was afraid my warranty would get voided if I call the company and tell them, my car is a XYZ Racing and the turbo's blown, is this covered. In the print of the warranty it says if racing the car it won't be covered. I didn't want to have XYZ Racing in my story to the dealership in any kind of way. They wanted me to do it w/them but I'm like no way am I going to get stuck having to pay this. They were hesitant but I told them to take the downpipe off and put the catalytic converter back on.
It was like they were hemming and hawing about it and it took them 2 days to get back to me to tell me they would do that. Then it took them 3 days to do the work. I told them the day the turbo went, I'll come and pay, I just want to get the car to Subaru. When I came to get the car, they said I'd tow it, I wouldn't drive it. I was communicating w/the shop assistant all day via FB and never once did he tell me don't come get the car, it needs to be towed. He chose to call my wife, I left my number w/them, but had been communicating w/the assistant through FB for days. When I get home, so my wife can bring me to the car she says they called her and told her to tell me not to drive it, it needs to be towed.
Once I got to the shop the guy that tuned it was no where to be found, neither was the shop owner. When we were on the phone for the blown turbo call, all three of them were on. So I ask the assistant, what if I limp home, don't go over 40 mph, he said yeah you'll be fine just don't hit boost at all or even get close, so of course I did that all the way home. I had the car towed to Subaru, I told them that I was merging into traffic. I was doing 35-40 mph and where I was merging into, they were running 55-65mph, so I got on it to merge and I felt it stumble and I didn't' have the power and I could see a big cloud of smoke out the back. I limped home and had it towed here, but while at home I checked the oil and it was down 2 qts and I had an oil change only 600 miles ago.
They took the car for three days and found nothing to be wrong w/the car. Now.....Who do I believe? I told the Subaru Dealership that it was definitely a power loss and smoke out the back and i'm 2 qts low on oil. Subaru said "TECH AND SHOP FOREMAN ROAD TESTED 20 MILES-NO FAULT AT THIS TIME". I'm planning on getting a street tune as I took the downpipe off and the Airbox and CAI from Cobb and the EBCS on the car.
I did flash to Stage 1+, I did a data log this morning but I didn't bring the connector cable to transfer the files to my work PC. Oddly enough we had 81 MPH winds and our power was out until 3am this morning. I'm going to have a street tune because really w/the Stage 1+ tune, the only thing not accounted for is the EBCS. I'm not driving it hard or playing until I can get some clarity out of this mess. Man, my heart dropped when the guy said the turbo died. I thought I was sold a lemon, actually it's still pending, i could have a lemon but the performance doesn't seem to be an issue?
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