carfreak85

Holy cow, that would be terrifying!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbXeZtyYMZg

Have you tried using the search function? :cool:

Don't forget guys, he offered me first crack at the bumper in Subaruguru's thread.

How hard is it to just drop an EA81 in there?

Tell me more please!

I printed off a copy of your manual on 3/28/2007 and have reached as far as harvesting parts off a 5 speed car with a black ECU. Please hurry with those updates! Actually, any insight you can provide would be great. At this point my guide is a year old and probably could be amended.

Am I ever!

If you're going to lift it, sell us other old gen'ers your nice factory parts, like stock bumpers, etc.

No, obviously Russ did that. You must have very low standards for tires then. I daily drove and raced RE92s and along with every other WRX owner I've talked to, they were one of the first items to be changed. The difference between 92s and any performance tire is night and day. EVEN IN THE WET. Straight garbage man.

Love it! More please!

Modded Legacy plate, or a bespoke EA82 piece? Looks sick either way!

My brother has a nice old CA born wagon that needs to be moble at some point. We have the original 1400(?) that came in it, toasted I think, and a JDM imported 1400. Should we put this back in or go with an EA71, or maybe even make it a Yenko by stuffing a big block, big valve EA81 in it with a Weber. What do you guys think? What are the advantages to keeping it stock, or going to newer parts? Also, how difficult is it to put the entire EA81 front suspension under the front of one of these? Will a later R160 Subaru LSD fit in the rear?

I've got one of those, hehe! The '76 grill and headlight trim looks way better in my opinion. Subaruguru, I think we have twins seperated at birth in Japan, reunited by the efforts of the USMB!!

I have the parts, and the tools to do this, but have yet to make it happen. From what I understand, you must weld new anti-roll bar mounts to the rear semi-trailing arms. Your other option is to modify EA82 rear trailing arms to fit the EA81. In any case, the bar must be narrowed some how. Weather this means bending or trimming the ends, I'm not sure yet. I haven't actually put the bar up there when the car is on stands. The mounts are pretty simple. Get some square tubing one inch wide, cut it in half and then put a groove..... Pictures are worth 1,000 words. Check my photos.

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I have a set of pre-drilled chevy LUV wheels if you'd like them. Low offset and 15" I believe.

Dude, just rent a tow dolly. When you told me what you guys were thinking of getting, I pictured something else... LIKE A TOW DOLLY! BOOM! http://reservations.uhaul.com/ReservationsWeb/Quote.aspx?rateID=479179050 Show that to your old man. Thats for a 24 hour, "In Town" rental. Its the same price as that tow bar you are looking at. (Which could be attached, but not without drilling/bolting or welding it on.) **EDIT** This is my 4,000th post, WOO HOO!!!

Give me a break. We dropped those as soon as we could and put on summer tires. RE92s = worst part of a WRX.

What are you even talking about? Cars with front LSD that come to mind: DC2 integra type r Mazdaspeed protoge mazdaspeed 3 Subaru STI Dodge Neon SRT-4 '05-on True, they are all specialized sports cars, but that was kind of a blanket statement anyway.

My favorite car zine.

Mods, move this if needed. http://youtube.com/watch?v=JaP7L7h9OGE Pretty cool. But very ugly and out of proprotion at the same time. Like most subarus, come to think of it.

When I installed the temporary OEM downpipe on my wagon a few years ago, the intake was really loud. The cat was fully plugged, but I don't recall clearly if there was any turbo noise. Might find a take-off OEM WRX downpipe off NASIOC or Craig's List and toss it on. Heck, find a WRX owner who will let you borrow theirs and do it all for free!

Thaaaats riiiight! Lets keep this thread on topic guys and gals! I've been watching and reading a lot of video reviews and comparisons of the 2008 STI lately that claim it is impossible to miss, and is visually very stunning with its fender flairs and "oversize roof spoiler". I'm sorry, but it just isn't. In fact is that I have nearly missed seeing a ton of them, just catching one out of the corner of my eye, and only becuase I already knew what they looked like. You can see an 04 or an 06 coming from a long ways off in the right colors. THAT is visually stunning. Having visual cache is something the GD series cars had in spades. Compaired to the standard car, yea, the new body does look pretty intimidating. Once you seperate it from its lesser stablemate, however, the new car blends in VERY quickly, and easily. This is not actually all that bad (One always likes to be able to slip into the crowd without too much effort) but at least the original STis (1993-4) at least had wings, vents and scoops. The first ones we legally got had big rump roast wings and "breaking wave" hood scoops. This thing looks like your average minivan or even a Jelly-Belly when compaired to it's older brother. Subaru, it seems, has had the unfortunate luck of bringing out-dated styles into production after they have reached their Zenith (Mazda 3, Carolla, etc. Didn't clear tail lamps fall out of trend almost as soon as it was hip? Toyota was the only one to really nail a "tuner fad" at it's peak with the Altezza). Don't get me wrong, it should have been this way from 2001 on. STi gets the rally jump suit while base models are dressed very plainly. Subaru did the right thing by visually driving a wedge between the top of the range and the rest can eat cake, as it were. I will say that the wing on the WRC test car is MUCH more like it!

I don't think that a 13 second quarter mile is out of the question with enough HP and a hard enough launch. I saw a video of a 285 HP Justy STI run a 12.97 last night. Might have been a little faster, I don't recall.