Spec-Ops Motorsports
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Igotasti members,
I just wanted to say hello and say we are privelaged to be part of the igotasti community. As of 1 year ago, we primarily specialized in Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution performance. Our local Subaru community had came to us asking us to get into Subaru's. To be honest, I heard Subaru's were nightmares to work on and I always thought before that the motor was a terrible design. Just never made sense to me that the pistons went side to side.....wth? :lol:
I knew back in March of last year that for us to get into the Subaru STI platform, we would have to find the right technicians that were knowledgeable on the platform to get us jump started and on the right path. We built, assembled and tuned our first STI(2010) in the fall/winter of 2010 before we ever decided to do them. I forced myself to tune the 2010 STI late one night after work. Myself and the owner grabbed 2 Monster energy drinks and started tuning on a Saturday night at 10:30pm and finished at 5:30am Sunday morning. From that point, we consistantly kept improving the tune. One night, the owner was out at the track and I was at the shop working late on an Evo till he texted me at 10pm at night and said he was at the track. I asked him what his times were and he said best time was a 13.1 in the 1/4 mile. I thought to myself "thats garbage :lol:". So, I packed up my laptop, hopped in the hoopty shop truck we just snagged up for free (long story) and drove to the track. When I got there I asked what tire pressure was, rpm he was launching at, etc. After we got just the tire pressure adjusted and I advised on how to launch and shift properly, the car went straight to 12.89 in the 1/4. Thats better.
Next was on to logging and tuning the 2010 STI. Keep in mind, this car was on 93oct. I threw the laptop in and logged for the 2nd run I was there for. I noticed we needed an afr adjustment and timing adjust for the loads the car was hitting in between shifts. After the adjustment, car jumps to a 12.71 in the 1/4 mile. I'm taking baby steps as this is my first time tuning for the track. Next adjustment, 12.63, next adjustment 12.54 in the 1/4. Owner is very happy and asked if we should stop? I said no and to give it one more good run. The car was not knocking a bit at this point and I wanted to throw a lil bit bigger adjustment and see what it would do. Next run, owner misshifted. We let the car cool a bit and then gave it another go. Last run....12.3@109 in the 1/4! It was a hell of a run and the owner was very excited. He did great driving the car and had a flawless run. Mods in the car were:
2010 STI w/stock vf48:
-Sleeved shortblock
-CAI intake
-AMR inlet pipe
-Walbro 255 FP
-DW 650cc
-Hallman MBC
-3" TBE
-ACT 6 puck
Since then, we have over 10 Subaru motor builds, lots of tunes and now have a HUGE selection of parts to offer to the Subaru community. Also, we have been testing one off turbo setups, now offer our own Spec-Ops EJ25 Blocks and have installed 4 of our motors with 2 more of our blocks being done as we speak. In our motors we offer different options such as Element tuning H beam rods, Different Piston/compression selection, sleeved or unsleeved and also offer other companies blocks who have allowed us to be a dealer. Those other companies include AMS(from Illinois), Element tuning, Crawford and Modern Automotive Performance (MAP). We also offer those companies built head packages as well.
Why the story? To let anyone who cares to know when or why we got into Subaru's officially, now you know. I truely believe that with proper parts selection and proper tuning, these Subaru's have ALOT of potential. I'm now a believer and have been tuning these since the 2010 STI. I believe in our mechanics/technicians to build assemble and my tuning ability now for the Subaru community. We haven't had one Subie burn up from our tunes/builds and firmly believe we are becoming a premier Subaru Shop for the community to come too. Once you see our parking lot, our results posted on our facebook and customer reviews, you kinda become a believer as well ;-) Our customer service is second to none and we truely value every customer/friend that comes to our shop.
Thank you for reading this and if you have any questions, feel free to shoot me a PM or an email!
-Matt
I just wanted to say hello and say we are privelaged to be part of the igotasti community. As of 1 year ago, we primarily specialized in Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution performance. Our local Subaru community had came to us asking us to get into Subaru's. To be honest, I heard Subaru's were nightmares to work on and I always thought before that the motor was a terrible design. Just never made sense to me that the pistons went side to side.....wth? :lol:
I knew back in March of last year that for us to get into the Subaru STI platform, we would have to find the right technicians that were knowledgeable on the platform to get us jump started and on the right path. We built, assembled and tuned our first STI(2010) in the fall/winter of 2010 before we ever decided to do them. I forced myself to tune the 2010 STI late one night after work. Myself and the owner grabbed 2 Monster energy drinks and started tuning on a Saturday night at 10:30pm and finished at 5:30am Sunday morning. From that point, we consistantly kept improving the tune. One night, the owner was out at the track and I was at the shop working late on an Evo till he texted me at 10pm at night and said he was at the track. I asked him what his times were and he said best time was a 13.1 in the 1/4 mile. I thought to myself "thats garbage :lol:". So, I packed up my laptop, hopped in the hoopty shop truck we just snagged up for free (long story) and drove to the track. When I got there I asked what tire pressure was, rpm he was launching at, etc. After we got just the tire pressure adjusted and I advised on how to launch and shift properly, the car went straight to 12.89 in the 1/4. Thats better.
Next was on to logging and tuning the 2010 STI. Keep in mind, this car was on 93oct. I threw the laptop in and logged for the 2nd run I was there for. I noticed we needed an afr adjustment and timing adjust for the loads the car was hitting in between shifts. After the adjustment, car jumps to a 12.71 in the 1/4 mile. I'm taking baby steps as this is my first time tuning for the track. Next adjustment, 12.63, next adjustment 12.54 in the 1/4. Owner is very happy and asked if we should stop? I said no and to give it one more good run. The car was not knocking a bit at this point and I wanted to throw a lil bit bigger adjustment and see what it would do. Next run, owner misshifted. We let the car cool a bit and then gave it another go. Last run....12.3@109 in the 1/4! It was a hell of a run and the owner was very excited. He did great driving the car and had a flawless run. Mods in the car were:
2010 STI w/stock vf48:
-Sleeved shortblock
-CAI intake
-AMR inlet pipe
-Walbro 255 FP
-DW 650cc
-Hallman MBC
-3" TBE
-ACT 6 puck
Since then, we have over 10 Subaru motor builds, lots of tunes and now have a HUGE selection of parts to offer to the Subaru community. Also, we have been testing one off turbo setups, now offer our own Spec-Ops EJ25 Blocks and have installed 4 of our motors with 2 more of our blocks being done as we speak. In our motors we offer different options such as Element tuning H beam rods, Different Piston/compression selection, sleeved or unsleeved and also offer other companies blocks who have allowed us to be a dealer. Those other companies include AMS(from Illinois), Element tuning, Crawford and Modern Automotive Performance (MAP). We also offer those companies built head packages as well.
Why the story? To let anyone who cares to know when or why we got into Subaru's officially, now you know. I truely believe that with proper parts selection and proper tuning, these Subaru's have ALOT of potential. I'm now a believer and have been tuning these since the 2010 STI. I believe in our mechanics/technicians to build assemble and my tuning ability now for the Subaru community. We haven't had one Subie burn up from our tunes/builds and firmly believe we are becoming a premier Subaru Shop for the community to come too. Once you see our parking lot, our results posted on our facebook and customer reviews, you kinda become a believer as well ;-) Our customer service is second to none and we truely value every customer/friend that comes to our shop.
Thank you for reading this and if you have any questions, feel free to shoot me a PM or an email!
-Matt
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I watched you and Justin, and the most I understood was "smooth curves are good, bumpy curves are bad" hehe
