2023 Subaru WRX Goes Full Cobb! Completely Changed my opinion on the New WRX. 

By the way your installing these parts on this video is shows that Subaru tried they’re best to make this car a a easy to work on. Props to Subaru for this.

We not mad at Cobb we mad at the EPA, they should be focusing on corporate pollution not the little guys, car guys make up prbly less than 1% emissions they should get off our back

I enjoy my warranty for now. So I'm waiting, watching and learning with what everyone does with they're VB's. Great videos that I'm definitely gonna watch to install this stuff!!

Baby blu looking mean congrats man..Also thanks for the old ss brake line install vid you did on the brz. I watched this am and then sucessfully upgraded my lines on my wrx today with no issues ! Huge upgrade thanks for your help man trulyappreciate you

Finally able to catch up on the tubes. Very solid install video! And you are so right on the EPA front. They started with diesel emissions defeat devices, and took those wins to go for the modding community at large. PFI Speed is still fighting their $180k fine for selling Hondata flashed ECUs.

Love your videos! You make installations look so simple!

I did the full Cobb nextgen stage 2+ for my VAB this summer inspired by these vids and love how clean it looks after.

Absolutely love my almost stock VB WRX… just did 140 miles on slimy NE back roads (it’s that time of year) on some Yokie 3 seasons and the old girl absolutely ripped… but seeing your “not pulls” was eye watering… what an improvement over stock tune!! Love the videos! Keep up the good work!

Thank you so much for this vid! Just used it in conjunction with the Cobb instructions. Cobb has neglected to share instructions for charge pipe install. So I used this video to fill in the blanks.

Excellent quality video Tanner. A lot of good information here. Much appreciated.

Appreciate the straight-forward facts about tuning and warranty, as well as Cobb's choice to comply with EPA standards to stay in business. I installed a Big SF intake and accessport 2 months into ownership of a new '21 limited. Catalytic converter took a dump at about 6k, and was denied warranty coverage due to the altered ECU code. I'm glad you confirmed reflashing to factory before bringing it to the dealer wouldn't have made any difference. Now the vin has been flagged by Subaru, so I doubt any dealer would be reimbursed by SOA if they submit a claim. I brought the car to Stage 2+ (all Cobb, + Nameless bpv) this summer, and it ran really well on the Cobb Stage 2+ map until I could get it in for dyno tune. The power/torque gains are impressive, but was so unimpressed with the factory headers that I went and ordered/installed a Grimmspeed equal length headers, and found the remnants of burned out cat fragments in the mid-pipe. Ordering a new cat in a few weeks, and then re-tune for that and the headers, which I'm told isn't necessary, but figure why not? Headers are what I'd be looking at next on your build path, maybe ETS, but not seeing a ton of options for the FA24 currently. The power/torque gains for my FA20 are almost as significant as the move to Stage 2, and doing both at the same time plus turbo blanket while it's all apart, probably not a bad idea depending on budget. I guess I understand Subaru's position on modding, but as you mention, anyone who drives a stock VA or VB, and then tries one at Stage 2 is going to see way more of the car's potential unlocked, and for me it's been worth the gamble on voiding the warranty (even with having to eat a $1700 replacement cat).

🎉 thanks for all the updates. I’m definitely going to mod it when the warranty is up ( also it gives time to get an emergency slush fund for accidental blow up lol )

Heck the video that I been waiting for

I tried telling so many people about this new w r x they laugh at me until they cannot catch me... i love mine ..love what you did to yours... bc of you i got a wrx and love it.

The amount of potential in the FA24 and the stock turbo combination is wild. People pulling crazy stuff out of it.

Great video and content. Enjoyed it. And yes, I did my homework gave it a thumbs up and hit the subscribe. If this kit was warranty safe would buy it tomorrow. For now, it's on the to do list in 7 years or 70,000 when my warranty runs out LOL. Massive props to Cobb for developing the best out of the box kit/tune for the VB. They will get my business for sure.

Hell yea love the content tanner keep it up man

I hadn't watched this yet but just did. Thank you very much for your clear knowledgeable explanation of how an accessport uninstall doesn't get rid of any sign of the device should have warranty claim be made. I've only got 1000 Miles on my 2023 and it's my daily driver. I think I will wait for the warranty to expire prior to buying an access port since I don't plan on doing anyting more than stage one. Thanks again, really enjoying your videos

Simply surprising that you don’t have more subscribers - keep up the very good work!

That's a pretty slick way to connect the charge pipe together

Great comment on the OTS tune. They're fine as LONG AS YOU USE EXACTLY WHAT IT TELLS YOU TO.

Thank you! 👏 Great videos man 👍

On my 22 just an Etune from drunkmann and intake and exhaust made the car feel wayyy different! Best of luck with it bro! I daily mine and nothing but smiles over the past year I’ve had it!

My wrx is mostly cobb, not bad for a fun drivers car build. Tho I did sell the top mount intercooler (cobbs) for the ETS front mount. Awesome quality stuff Tanner👍🏼!

Please keep this VB WRX. Amazing. The FA 24 motor is awesome. I am still rocking with my 2020 STI. 😊

CongratS. You finally cracked it.

This was the first video YT suggested to me of yours. Watched the install and as soon as you took it out driving, I was like, "Damn, that looks awfully like Washington." Scene cut, I notice it's Canyon you're flying up 🤣😂 Awesome, dude! I'm sure I'll see ya around the area! Would love to pick your brain about my car. Grown bored of my car after 5 years and was thinking about Cobb stages, which is why I'm assuming YT recommended me your channel. Keep up the content, really enjoyed it!

Thank you for the best treadmill videos 👌

You sold me on the stage 2 from Cobb for my white VB! Great video!

I agree with you Tanner, I wasn't really a believer at first but this car has been growing on me watching your videos and others. You perfected the OEM+ look, wheels look good. Once you get the paint matched wheel arches (whatever they're called) thing will be minty. Stock rear end is super ugly but yours is super clean without doing too much

Good stuff buddy the car is looking great.

The good stuff! Very cool!

Eventually trading in my tuned passat, I know laugh at me. Looking to get a 23 wrx limited and do this exact build up. Thanks for the vid and throwing you a follow!

New garage lights working good. Videos bright and clear. Pretty sure I just watched your beard grow a 1/4” in 26 minutes. And you might have a modifying problem. ✌️

Awesome man! I used OTS maps for years until I upgraded the turbo and I was pleasantly surprised as well by how much they actually improve things. Belated congrats on your 120k bro! Ya gotta love seeing the success of people deserving of it! Keep it up bro

Oh heck yeah! Your car is mint! My accessport, ets intake + dman ots tune is coming next week. Stoke. Will be getting an etune as well.

That's a pretty slick way to connect the charge pipe together. Next best thing to a wiggins style clamp Also some manufacturers, like the Focus ST have counter for the number of times the car has been cranked, and they can use that to identify whether it's been flashed or not because it will reset that counter.

Great vid. I miss sunny days there 😢

I have mine running on Drunkmans e85 tune. It’s another level. Absolutely love my VB.

I’m planning on getting a 2023 wrx in Nov once I get my quarterly bonus, but watching your videos I want to just go to my dealership now and pick one up. 😂 Great content as always!

Great editing im so tempted to pick up the wrx soon!! How much whp do you think it gained? Thanks

Thank you so much for the video! This upgrade is very tempting! The engine is definitely very under stressed, my wife’s Ascent has more torque. Do you think the transmission is going to handle well the extra torque? When you were pulling, the engine seemed more smooth than stock. Does it really feel like that, or you just shift super smoothly?

Id like to mention PID numbers are not what is changed when ecm tuning the CID number is what is changed, PIDs are things like coolant temp, map pressure readings etc

I know most of the chatter is about stage 2, but l’ll vouch for the stage 1 as well (AP tune + Cobb filter). I’ve been running my ‘23 for about a week and the difference is night and day. It’s a completely different car. I can’t imagine what the stage 2 is like.

Only 1500 miles on my VB so I'll be waiting to do this upgrade. But, boy howdy does this look like all I was hoping it would be. Making the VB into a fun daily driver. The piping for the air box was the part that had me the most worried. I got meaty hands so they don't like small places. But it doesn't look like it was all that bad.

*_Another dope build by a OG brand. Seeing a full Cobb Subi build is like looking at a Spoon Civic 🥹_*

Good Sheeeit! Thanks Tanner.

I can't wait for the proper tuning on this thing :) I was very surprised even in stock form how much smoother the engine was, and how refined compared to the STI and VA WRX.

AWESOME! and just this week the haters were ripping on Cobbs dyno numbers as "inflated" because the FA24 is full of fail 😆I think Smeedia has had enough Subarus to make an educated evaluation.

I was corresponding with a well know tuner a month or so ago about some moderate mods for my 2021. Also mentioned I was thinking about trading up to a 2023 and just doing basic OTS tune instead. He told me that the 2023 was the way to go as with even a basic tune it would make more power than my 2021 with extensive bolt ons.

I’ve worked for the same company for 22 years and we build ambulances. There was a incident a few years back where a glue booth wasn’t properly ventilated to a ridiculously obvious degree. The fine was over $75000.

I’m really thinking of getting a 2024 WRX GT but I’m also looking at the Golf R. I want to be sold on the Subie and this video helped.

Our boy said it. He may break the internet🤯🤯🤯

Tanner can you go over your thoughts on the WRX GT? Mods, suspension? For those of us with injuries who cant drive manual anymore. Thanks in advance

beats slappin throughout the video

thank you for mentioning magnuson moss. I have to deal with that all the time as a subaru technician.

There goes the warranty for 1/2 of the VBs in the US 😂😂😂. Fantastic video Tanner !!!

Currently watching the video and at the same time I can see the comment section blowing up

I can't take it anymore. I'm going to trade in my Mazda 3 for a WRX tomorrow morning. Thanks a lot! lol

Found a local guy making content that’s great once I saw canyon rd,22nd and mountain highway lol

With a turboback and illegal for some states intake, e30 blend, this thing is a monster for a flat 4

That’s me weekend driver! 🤙

It looks amazing definitely! What do you think, can I have a gain in HP by changing just the intercooler in a STI? At least for the increased efficiency by this change only.

Dang your Rex looks amazing!

I'm driving my first STI. I've had three wrx's before. One being a FA20 and I hated that one. Even sinking almost 8k into it. The new wrx is growing on me everyday. I keep watching youtube videos about the new platform and the crazy numbers they are putting out with basic mods. I keep watching yours to learn. Might have to bite the bullet and get one.

Careful running down Canyon like that, there's some crazy drivers on that road. Any local places to get good coilovers?

I’m still hoping they drop stuff for the 2022 outback wilderness I emailed them a while ago they said they were working on it but so far no release for what I see. But definitely gotta get a Dino to get numbers to see the difference

I think Subaru stepped up their game with this one just wish there was a sti

Yeah you can do all of these mods if you don’t mind losing your warranty. With this being my daily driver I don’t have that option. Either way very cool!😎

People love to shit on Cobb and the OTS tunes, but I think when done right (e.g. when paired with the rest of the Cobb kit, stages, whatever you want to call them), these tunes are reliable, and Cobb has obviously optimized their tune to their parts. If you're mixing parts from Perrin, ETS, Cobb, etc. then you probably want to have a custom tune done, but I think for $2k, you can't really do a whole lot better than this. Love what you're doing with the build, man. Let us know how it goes with long-term reliability on the kit.

How does a stock exhaust affect the performance of this stage 2 kit? In other words, will similar performance gains be seen if I keep a stock exhaust? Thanks

This is amazing, I need to do this ! how much HP ?

😎👍🏻👍🏻 Still on the fence about another banner🤣🤣🤣 I dunno yet😂😂

Sick AF paint those flairs and rear bumper!!!

It’s a huge difference because Subaru severely detuned the fa24 to meet EPA standards, The car should have had 300-310 stock with the displacement increase from the 2 liter engine

Yes that happend to me I own a 2018 sti n all I had was an access port n an intake n my engine blew

As an Alabamian, I’m glad we don’t have to deal with omissions here!

Nice car .I still love my old subaru

I’m excited to see what this can take! Truly take day after day. Love your builds but do know of any content of a daily driver that’s built up? 20-30 k miles? I don’t know if I’ll ever sell my STI

Bought a 19 WRX premium in April with 23k miles on it - I know the dealership isn't specialized in Subi's and can't really tell, but I did buy a warranty from them. Is there any way I can go about finding out the ID to see if it was tuned in the past at all? I know when I bought it I noticed cosmetics taken off but the engine bay looks stock. Just curious

Could you install all the hardware, omit the access port and keep your warranty?

I think the reason were seeing such good numbers, is because this engine was built "upgraded" with an STI version in mind...before they killed it off. Realistically, the Cobb Stage 2 with an aftermarket exhaust, is putting down the numbers on an OTS tune, that the STI probably would have been putting down stock from the factory. I think the only thing that would be different, is the upgraded STI Drivetrain. Only the Engineers in Japan that worked on it, really know the answer though.

All you need is a secondary ECU that you do your tunes on.

It sounds good.

Every damn dayyyy i see u modd it.... i get a adrenaline rush that tellls me to justttttt say F@$% my warranty🤣

Aye we running the exact same she is a beast

Here in Aus, independent motorsport did a process west intake and intercooler =233rwkw

Did you have a protune completed on this stage 2? Who tuned it and how much HP/TQ? Just bought all this

This car is detuned from the factory quit a bit just like the Golf R so it makes sense. I noticed a huge difference just from adding the AP and nothing else yet.

Do you have the blinking cruise control light? Or is that battery related

Lovely jubbly! Unfortunately we're very restricted here in Japan. COBB have no plans on making their AP work on JDM models. The JB4 will work but it can't remove the 112mph speed restrictor in the ECU. Which is all moot for me anyway as my car is the CVT model (the top-trim model here comes only in that version), so WHP/torque can't really go higher than 300 and even with that I'd be a bit nervous. Having said all that, more power here (given the types of road we have in abundance, cornering paradise) would be superfluous. I've optioned all the handling goodies and have a set of Rays on order too, I think it's all going to be a lot more fun than the Honda CRV I currently have. Maybe even as much fun as my KTM SDR Evo. :D

super lube, great stuff for anything rubber or poly. only thing to use on poly bushings.

Motec did actually just recently release an ecu for the VB WRX

Never hated the car, just did not like the rear end but I knew the FA24 had big potential when I saw Bader’s numbers.

Bruuuuuh, literally just finished an 08 STI wagon build...now you git me wanting to go see the bank about a new Scooby 😅

Drunkmanns custom E-tune is fantastic

I daily a 19 sti and my buddy has a new wrx and I must say looks wise it’s grown the only thing I don’t like is how the clutch feels but I know that can be changed

I would do this but all I have available to me is 91 octane gas so I'm not so sure I'd get the full benefit possible. I also think I'd have to get rid of the front strut brace as that IC looks like it takes up every possible mm of space to the firewall.

you need to upgrade to the 8mm nut driver for the worm clamps. Screwdrivers are only good for stabbing things.

Waiting for you to figure out the turn signals. Gonna order me some. Need tutorial. 😂