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Awesome thanks for all your work and linking the thread! I priced a GT500 front left caliper alone and its $700. This option will add up super fast to be the price of the Superforged front BBK at this rate. I suppose the cost savings is if I can find some used GT500 front brake sets.

I had a 15' Forester XT that was cobb tuned. Loved that little SUV, definately a little sleeper with that WRX engine under the hood (albiet a bit de-tuned more for low end torque). Still was a fun vehicle and surprised every passenger with how she moved. I moved into the ST when checking out the...

You may need to adjust all the clamps evenly to get to the desired tip position , just keep that in mind. Better to adjust a few a little then try to make up all the room with just one set of clamps leaving not much between pipe ends. Oh I know NJ cold. I grew up in Woodbridge not far from you.

Oh you have my attention I was unaware of this option. I really want to do the GT500 swap. I read (https://www.explorerst.org/threads/explorer-st-modding-101-guide.7324/) here about it but have no idea on what to purchase and where the best places is to go to for this stuff and not having luck...

Not talking about clearing to "fix" anything, just to read the specific code to understand more accurately what is going on. In my example case clearing the code was fine because I know what happened and it wasn't due to something broken.

Would just getting the front Superforged BBK be OK. I'm not racing, just want better braking performance for "spirited" street driving. Does the rear really need an upgrade being most of the stopping is done at the front?

Curious did you use stock pads or went with an "upgrade" , if so what did you use and how do you like them?

ZFG told me that there is more performance left on the table with stock versus with a CAI using their Race drive mode which is mapped to the Sport drive mode. I didn't ask how much but I'm guessing it's not a ton.

I put the steeda tower brace on mostly for cosmetics. I'm sure it will help in super aggressive turns but I also wasn't expecting to feel a real difference. The stock brace is hardly that, while it will offer some support it is just a flimsy piece of stamped steel.

They should have ample room to adjust with the nice clamps that Thermal provides, plenty of wiggle room to adjust. Reminds me I need to get back under and re-adjust mine. Had to take one muffler off to do the Steeda diff brace and I was in a rush to put it back on not lining it up perfectly...

Welcome from Charlotte!

People please get a OBD code reader like OBDlink. I keep the ZFG tune device that also reads and can reset codes in my ST for just in case I get wrenched. Used it once when i got on her and forgot to take off traction control resulting in the vehicle dropping power at WOT causing an overboost...

I've been noticing many rear diff issues for these vehicles. It seems like a pretty beefy unit but looks can be deceiving I guess. Could be a design, quality, or maintenance issue. With the myriad of rear diff stabilization products on the market, I believe that points to a major design issue...

If you aren't modding and hard launches, you should be pretty ok to drive it "spirited" , i mean that is one of the reasons you paid extra for an ST right? Just keep a half quart overfill on the oil for extra insurance.

Yea reading over in the oil pressure / pan upgrade thread and testing that ZFG is doing, it is obvious that there's oiling problems with the 3L ecoboost under hard launches with severe drops in pressure, especially if the oil gets below even a half qt overfill level. We're throwing an...

Just wow, with the not crazy intervals using the Ford recommended oil thats pretty nuts if the oil broke down to a point where it destroyed the engine. Would love to see an oil analysis done to see if the oil really failed, or there was some other oil system related issue like the pump breaking...

Still no other details on specifically what happened?

Yep you bought it already, their effort to please and wow you ends there except when they are forced to do something from the govt or it results in saving them $$ somehow.

This is the biggest complaint I have with the user experience of the ST so far. Terrible gauge options and customization. I mean put a LCD screen there, make it freaking able to be customized, its one of the big pluses of a digital dash (well Ford missed that part of the memo). How the heck can...

Could be the starter solenoid / relay. Also get one of the supercapacitor based jump start bricks. Using that with the worst of batteries will tell you if it’s a battery problem or not. You mentioned burning electric smell when this started sounds like something fried like the solenoid.