Need help!! Hood feels hot

I hope you tuned it.

They just reset my ecu since the tuner wasn't at the shop and I'm bringing into the shop to get it tuned tomorrow. I know it's bad not getting a tune with those kind of mods. Even the tuner person at the shop said it was okay without a tune and the ECU will adjust automatically with new mods. But that was shit and I'm honestly pist that they said it. I only drove the car for two days and not really for long periods, and I'm getting it tuned as soon as I can. I know that now but is my motor going to be in bad shape just for driving for maybe 2 days? Shit I'm really scared now knowing I did a bad thing, but regardless the shop I went to was unknowledgeable but due to my circumstances I really have no other choice. please help as I'm really scared that my car will have problems

Where are you located? Perhaps you should find another shop if you aren't happy with it.

Now regarding your car with no tune, is is okay to drive the car for a short period of time but DO NOT go into BOOST.

I'm living in Beijing right now and I've spoke to a few shops, and it really seems nobody really knows their stuff. I'm getting the car protuned and some of the other shops I've spoke to either charge you a lot for a protune or tell you that you don't need a protune. This one I'm working right now seems to know their stuff fairly well and have built and tuned several race cars, so I'm assuming they can handle a easy task like protuning my STi.
But with that being said, my resources are really limited, and given I have a Europe spec STi I couldn't even reflash my ECU with my Cobb AP all I could do the other day was to reset the ECU.


Thanks for the help

Resetting the ECU didn't do anything to help you.

The hood feeling hot is not an indication that anything is wrong, or right. Having the car tuned is what you should be concerned about. Pro tuning is not cheap by the way.

jdblock said:

Resetting the ECU didn't do anything to help you.

The hood feeling hot is not an indication that anything is wrong, or right. Having the car tuned is what you should be concerned about. Pro tuning is not cheap by the way.

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I'm aware that getting a protune is not something cheap to do, I know the prices in the States are around 300 to 600 dollars, which I'm okay with and is cheap by my standard. But prices where I'm at are 1200 to 2500 USD, and some of the shops that I'm working with have never even tuned a STi in the past and are charging me 2500 USD. Trust me prices are cheap back home but not where I'm at right now

lnsaneM said:

I'm aware that getting a protune is not something cheap to do, I know the prices in the States are around 300 to 600 dollars, which I'm okay with and is cheap by my standard. But prices where I'm at are 1200 to 2500 USD, and some of the shops that I'm working with have never even tuned a STi in the past and are charging me 2500 USD. Trust me prices are cheap back home but not where I'm at right now

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Do an e-tune (datalogging and e-mailing) from one of the trusted tuners stateside or elsewhere. In most cases I would say you are much better off with an in person dyno tune, but with the relative inexperience of the tuners available to you and that massive cost, an e-tune sounds like a better option.

I'm getting it tuned tomorrow, I spoke with the tuner and they're going to dyno tune it. The tuner said the safest and the most I can get out of my car which is a stage 2 is about 18 psi, anything over and I'm putting too much pressure on the piston and the engine might blow. So he's going to tune somewhere around 17 to 18 psi. Can someone please verify on this?

It depends on what fuel you are using

Actually I just had the car tuned, the tuner seemed more like a backyard tuner but he seemed to know what he was talking about. The funmy thing is that he said he could only tune the boost to 1.1 bar to be safe, which turns out to be 16 psi. He said some cars here in China blow up even with a stock tune with no mods if you drive them hard. But the shop said he was being way too conservative. Can people please chime in on this...
The biggest issue I have is that the car is 2013 STi, it is a Euro version, and I'm driving the car in China. The gas they use here (specifically in Beijing) is 95 RON, with no additive (ethanol and others) which is pure gas. So besides the gas what other factors would affect this car from tuned to 18 psi like other stage 2s? Please chime in experts as I need more help.
Would it be safe for me to go to 18 psi without damaging anything?