It is so wierd to hear such mixed reviews about this Cobb. Not that people haven't liked it, cause everyone has loved it. But most people are saying the power is hardly anything from what I remember. Either way, I'm ordering mine at the end of March.
your car was probably running really rich and the cobb leaned it out just enough to feel good gains. congrats.
Thanks! Wish I would have dynoed mine stock so that I could have done a follow up dyno with the intake.. Oh well
I'm so scared to dyno my car. I don't want to see the actual WHP of my car .. with the cobb it will go from like 225whp to 230whp.. But yea, anytime now i'll be ordering my baby!
did you reset your ECU when you did the swap? wait until the ECU learns your driving habits before you decide for sure if it's ALL due to the SRI... i love my cobb, but i've had it on for so long that i honestly can't remember what it was like without it anymore...
I just disconnected the negative battery terminal. How do you reset the ECU
ya, when you do that, it resets the ECU. initially, you will feel a bit more power, but it will tone down a little after the ECU learns your driving habits.
i'm not saying the sri didn't give you gains, but your initial impressions were probably amplified by the extra little bump that an unlearned ECU gave you.
Negative. The ECU will learn your driving style and make more power. Wayyy back when (haha) Sport Compact Car had a 2002 WRX that they had about 12K miles on. They dynoed it and got like 190 at the wheels (high for a 220HP car w/ AWD). They blanked out the ECU and re-dynoed and lost several HP. Take it FWIW, but IMHO a blank ECU will make less power than a learned ECU.
the WRX and the MS3 are two different cars, though. from what i've observed, the results are as i stated in my post above: peakier and more spikey performance on an unlearned ECU...but with (what FEELS like) a higher peak than a learned ECU. regardless, it's better to have an ECU that's had time to learn the car's behavior, since it makes for smoother performance overall!