Well, honestly got the front mount bug to swap out to an 18g/VF48 down the road.. It's actually working quite well with minimum lag but the top end makes for it in my opinion.
Unfortunately the tuner I had out here gave me a re-tune that I ended up having some issues with. Car just wasn't feeling right compared to a guy I met here with a 98 RS w/wrx swap. I ended up working with the guy who tuned his car and it turned out much better. The second guy that helped with my tune actually does rally down here in the SW area and has two sweet RS's with JDM everywhere. Anyways, apparently he was talking with some of the Prodrive guys who came out here for a rally a while ago, and they were talking about when they were tuning the 2.0l's on their cars that they found timing was a much better HP increase over boost. So got everything worked out now with this guys help on my timing map and the car is running quite well now with the front mount.
Lets just say the previous tune was pulling anywhere from 2 to 6 degrees of timing from 2000 to redline on a third gear pull
Oh, on a side note, the FMIC is the Perrin Signature Series. Still running that 40T turbo which is working quite well with it I think. Changed the height as well with some STi pink wagon springs. Seriously contemplating putting WRX fenders and a bumper on to complete the STi front look.
<----- Seriously..... wow I hate my state sometimes.
...but they are going to be a @#$#% to keep clean.
