Thanks LukeB
You've answered my question and reconfirmed my thoughts of winding down boost for safety. Awesome! Thanks mate.
Also thanks for telling me about the ecu reset.
I'll defiantly look into that. Cheers mate.
Just wanted to go 'a bit faster than stock', but Lo oks like I'll just wait till I get the pay out then have a new STI worked and tuned to a 12sec scoobie (only after I buy a house says the Mrs lol) Haha (waiting sucks)

Nauli, so you're saying the STIs and the foresters run the same boost and air/fuel ratio standard? Interesting. Don't the standard bpv's leak under higher boost? And how do you wind up 'boost' without a 'boost controller'? (I'm no mechanic, just a noobie to the mod game. So be gentle lol)
The mechanics you sudgessed must be good to get more boost inexpensively without a boost controller, ecu or a dyno tune. I'll have to look them up. Cheers