Back from knee surgery and got a semi-new car over the weekend.
 

'sup everyone. back to work today after having knee surgery last Tues. That sucked. I'm now wearing a massive leg brace that prevents me from driving anything. And I have to wear it for another 5 weeks. :3

Although on a positive note, we finally got rid of my wife's ridiculous subaru wagon with 150k miles on it. and got a car I can actually respect.

don't have any pictures of the car we actually got, but it's bone stock so it looks just like this one:
http://f10.putfile.com/thumb/8/23212455319.jpg
http://f10.putfile.com/thumb/8/23212453920.jpg
http://f10.putfile.com/thumb/8/23212452269.jpg

It's a pretty nice car, it's only got 61k miles on it, an '03. Kinda slow stock, I'm definitely going to have to do some things to it.

I'd like to get it somewhere around 250-275 whp.

lemme know whatcha think.

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Pics not working :(

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yes they are.....looking good, of course I like it. Too bad I'm selling mine, you should have purchased mine with all the parts on it already >:( :-*.

Maybe you want some parts.... :y :y...

Anyhow looks good, first of all do your exhaust, Up-pipe- downpipe and catback, then do your ECU. You will be happy, for little money. You can be putting down aroun 230whp with those things.

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What kinda car? You know subaru is the lesbians car of choice right?

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Well that could be good or could be bad I guess....

It's an 03 WRX....

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I was hoping you'd reply to this thread, What are your recommendations as far as who to go to for parts? I've never actually looked into stuff for wrx's before so I don't know who's the best price for performance.

as far as those mods you mentioned- about how much total would I be looking at to get those done?

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Check your wifes fingers.

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My bad the work computer blocks pics from personal storage sites :(. Hope your knee feels better so you can get back out there on the road.

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I paid $350 plus shipping for my exhaust..brand new ebay special, but it was a brand name, Top Speed Performance based in texas. Looks and sounds like the HKS Hi-power exhaust. An Up-Pipe is around $150, I think I have my old one, Helix brand, in the house. I went with a full turbo manifold.

The tricky part is the Engine Management, you can go the cheap route, COBB accesport, but it is not tuneable. It's a base map. Or you can go with their streettuner, I think it's the name, and that you can change. You are looking at around $1000 here. Or go with Turbo XS' UTEC. That's what I have. it's a piggyback to the factory ECU but completely tuneable. I got mine used for $700. I like it, can't see anything wrong with it, but some people have different ideas.

There's a few other options with the Subaru, AEM, Greddy, ECUTek, etc, etc. But the cheaper ones are COBB and UTEC.

Go to http://www.wrxfanatics.com/ good simple site with tons of help and writeups. Be warned though, a lot of those kids are rich highschool white boys that don't know a wrench from a hammer. They pay for everything and have that I better take it to a shop than DIY it mentallity. I had a few discussions with some of them. They are always like "you better take it to a shop" attitude.

Looks good

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also, if you ever happen to do anything, please change out your fuel rails, and get a bigger fuel pump. cyl#3 goes lean even from factory.

my bro has an 02 wrx. he has a front mount, a cobb tuning access port with the street tuner ( just a usb dongle and software ). modified wrx injectors ( pm me if you ever want to know how they are done. very easy modification. ) upgraded fuel rails and lines. new flyweheel, and a pe1818 turbo charger.

neted us 320 whp on the dyno. daily driven. o btw, the tranbsmition is starting to get noisy. lol.

http://img97.exs.cx/img97/5104/kif00349ox.jpg
http://img201.imageshack.us/img201/5...9scaledog2.jpg

all work was done by me. including engine installs and tuning. also the access port is dyno proven to make horsepower. if you dont wanna mess with tuning, it allows you to upload maps to your ecu from cobb, or someone else who has made maps.

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I was wainting for you to chime in too.....

Tell your brother i'll sell him my old blown transmission. He can then get new gears in there, RA spec or better, and swap it before the old one goes.....No down time..... ;) ;)

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Thanks for the info man.

about how much $ wise would this setup be?

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Good luck those trannies are absolute ----. My friend is heading up a national class action lawsuit against Subaru.

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I heard that if you keep it under 300whp then the tranny and pistons can handle it.

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You got the knee surgery ehh...

What did they end up doing again? I was walking in about 2 weeks, had a full out brace on.
after the first week take the brace off and slowly keep adding pillows under your knee and let gravity pull your leg down. It will hurt like a bitch but you gottta start stretching it....---- it makes me cringe thinking about it.

(unless you had some sort of cartlige repair)

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Yep, that's what they did. Repaired the interior meniscus in my left knee. Hurts a lot, but the percoset they prescribed for me is too dang strong. I can't work while using it, and I don't like the way it makes me feel.

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pop 2 of those bitches and drink some beer. 8)

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hah, I've never slept so much in my life. The first two days I was taking two at a time every four hours or so. I slept 20hrs both days :S

I stand up and everything is all dizzy and whatnot, can't read anything to save my life. can't focus. sucks...

tylenol it is....

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The engine can handle 350 and 22psi fine, the tranny....nope....I made mine last about 2 years, maybe 1 year with the mods, I poped 2nd and 3rd. Replaced it with a 2005 Forester 2.5turbo one. These are stronger and can handle 350 fine.

Your tranny will blow up...specially if you don't know how to drive AWD cars. If you think you can pop the clutch and go, you are in trouble. I still have my old one, want it?I'll sell it cheap, then you can buy a set of STi RA-spec gears for around $1500 that will fit on this tranny. Then you can sell you good stock tranny before blowing it up for $2g's.

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How's that hatch of yours coming along?

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yeah, i remeber sleeping LOTS. My wife thought something was wrong with me accually. Thought I OD'd or something.
When the doc tells you to start stretching it and stuff.....start. I gaffed off my doc because I thought I was going to hurt it again, its now almost Sept and I still am having problems. :-\

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i dont know. i b\never asked him. hes spent tons of money on it though. to me, the access port is the eaisest. hell with the stock ntercooler you can make around 250 whp easy. just plug it in, and upload the map. you still have to have exhaust work to it. up tipe, and turbo back are important. headers are fine. subaru actually designed them soo well that aftermarket ones dont do ----. also, taking off the intake manifold is a tricky job. it takes a long time, and if you onbolt some things, you have to retorque them down to spec or else youll fudge up the install. lol.

250 whp is good enough to spank allot of things and hang with stock sti's.


me and dav civic know our ---- when it comes to this actual model.

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glad you have it done but could have been better to show some bloody pic LOL

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You are such a dumbass. Go get laid and quit pretending that you know ---- about cars.

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I got it one day, parked it ouside, and has been sitting there ever since.....

I've been busy, working, driving to work takes almost 2 hours now, and in the process of buying a house, I'm supposed to close on it tomorrow....let's see....It's been off and on now a few times.Once I move in I'll start playing with it. I'm also doing the ebay store with the decals, which is going pretty good, so that keeps me busy, plus the meetings in the afternoon, gotta keep going to those.

I'm a busy Mofo....

Well like Kain said, Cobb is the easiest and it is cheap, you can download maps, plug it in and go. Anything else will require tuning. If you only have a set goal in performance, that will get you there. If you want endless tuning capability, look into something a little better, more standalone.

I did notice a big difference with my manifold, it not only changed the sound of the classic boxter engine, to a deeper muscle tone, but it also decreased spool up time by a good 500rpms, and the power delivery is a lot smoother. Now the factory one can give you those numbers too, no problem.

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yeah, but in my opinion, a header isnt worth it. the biggest gains arent from a header. a header is a mute point. people have been getting around 500 whp woth the stock header lol.

just get the cobb tuning ecu. also a nice cheap turbo back is the tanabe. its a great design but we busted up ours and decided to get a greddy. same sound slightly louder. also, perrin makes exillent products. i dont know what downpipe we have on his, but its half cast, half pipe contraption welded togeather.

also, get ready to deal with the fucken top o2 sensor and ----.

jago your funny.

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I know that's why I said

We are talking about numbers here, It will net you the same 350whp, but the power might come in faster a good 500-750rpms faster than with the stock manifold. Is that worth the $1000 price on some....hellllll No...I got mine for $300 as a package deal with the Utec and he threw in a bunch of other misc parts. That's why I did it.

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Hey guys, I'm thinking it probably is, but is this exhaust total crap?

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/02-06...20149080QQrdZ1

if so, what are some better choices that are still cost effective?

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That looks pretty good. I'm not a fan of big brand names, when it comes to pipes, it's just a tube, as long as you are getting those gases away from the turbo as quick as possible it will work.

I had a table before comparing a bunch of different exhausts on the WRX, power out put and db levels. The difference between all where +/- 5hp. The big difference is in the sound.

I would buy it, it will be better than stock, and will save you a lot of money. If you go brand name, you would end up paying over $1200 for everything. I'm not a hardcore racer :1, I want the car to be better for myself, a system like this will achieve that. Unless you like to brag about what parts and how much is into your car.

If I was you, I would go ahead and purchase an o2 sensor fix and do it right away. There is also a fix for the EGT probe that goes in the Up-pipe. Take it out, I made the mistake of putting it back in, but when you remove the cat the temps are so hot that it melted the little wire, which probably isn't too good for the turbo. I used the fix, a 10cent resistor, and got a bolt to plug the hole, It is metric of course, I think it is 12 x 1.25.
The O2 sensor fix, well they sell two, one is an extension to put the sensor away from the exhaust gases, the other is a resistor to solder in the line.

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get it from where i work ;) don`t bid on it but call so i can give u some discount ^-^
it might coz a little more but u know it go throught the hand of this OG here :-*
They fit good and everything, whole bunch of ppl are using it
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/02-06...0302QQtcZphoto

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^^

you've got a PM sir :)