UglyShoes

Haha! The kid told me he planned on selling it. I wonder why he'd want to put a body kit on it to sell it... but I guess it does appeal to a certain group.

You mean the blue ones? Yea I like them a lot. Hope to buy the missing one asap. Until then the black ones are cool, though. And yea, I don't know what the previous owner was thinking but it worked in my favor, financially. I really want stock tail lights but in the mean time I'll probably strip off that flat tint (my friend's "experiment") and put gloss tint on em. The red is a good idea though- hmmmm...

Yea, that's pretty much how my story went- haha! Hi! *wave*

Sad part is, someone spent a looot of money on that paint job. And now it's been graffiti'd, painted over and any day now we're gonna start sanding. So I'm glad whoever had it done isn't around to see it. ...unless he's here.

Powerbait! That's a new one. I've gotten disco ball, bass boat and bad spacey sci-fi movie prop...

I didn't have a car there, I had a vendor spot.

And here's my car... http://www.ultimatesubaru.org/forum/showthread.php?t=133221 It's my second WRX, third Subaru. I had a GL10 years ago. Complete rust bucket but the thing refused to die and never let us down. Since then I've had an '84 300ZX, a couple Sentras (old ones) and an Integra which I drove the bejeezus out of for years before getting my first WRX.

Bugeye love!

My agenda from here: Grill and a paint job, Mud flaps (to help protect the paint), Upgrade injectors, Replace intake (leaning toward Cobb), Upgrade intercooler, Tuning, Upgrade brakes (when I'm due), Cosmetic details along the way, Hopefully replace broken wheel and have it painted to match the other blue ones and put them on (though I do love the BBS wheels that are on it), And then see where time and money (but mostly money) take me... ...Oh yea, I'll probably need a clutch at some point in there too.

Now for the outside... I knew I'd be repainting it immediately so I let my coworkers have at it with spray cans. They're all artists with backgrounds in graffiti so I figured they'd do something stupid, but creative and artsy too. No. They just went for stupid... ...I rocked this for about a week then just flat-blacked over the whole thing with a rattlecan. I'd expected it would be faster/easier to swap out that body kit than it turned out to be. And obviously I can't have it painted until I do that. BUT at long last, this weekend at Carlisle I met up with someone who traded out the kit for stock bumpers and skirts. So now here's where I am, cosmetically...

...and this brings me to my current Subie. I got a good deal on it because the looks were, um... "distinctive". I made some changes right off the bat. For instance the second day I had it a friend and I swapped out the split-pipe homemade exhaust for the 3" Invidia I had on the old car (which I bought back from insurance). OLD... NEW... Besides exhaust, the car came with a dual-stage boost controller (max was set at 16 pounds), headers and a cold air intake. The guy I bought it from kept saying it was "tuned" and was calling the Defi boost controller a "tuner" and said it would be compatible with the Cobb tuning/access port I had from my old car... HOWEVER, with a little research right after buying the car I learned it in fact had NO tune. So it was running all these mods and potentially high boost with stock maps. Also I discovered the injectors are still stock as well. Soooo... I took the intake OFF and replaced it with the stock air box from old Subie. (Besides worry about pushing the boundaries of those injectors, the bottom-mount intake had NO splash/rain guard so this was a definite concern). And I turned the second stage boost setting from 16 to 10, just in case the switch gets bumped or something. Also I swapped out the ECU. When I discovered the lack of tuning I didn't have my access port with me. (In fact, I don't know where it is... I'm in the process of moving, etc and I KNOW I have it I just have to find it). Anyway, I didn't wanna run this car with these mods on stock maps so my friend suggested I take the stage 2 computer out of the old car and put it in this one. So that's what I did.

So this was my first bugeye. Stage 2. Few cosmetics except that I had the wheels painted deep blue with a super-fine flake. I was going to have the body painted iridescent white but I didn't get that far... ...because then THIS happened when I let a friend take another friend to the airport on one of the TWO days it snowed all year. Lost it on the ice. (I didn't have snow tires on it... because it wasn't snowing)

How far are you from Harry's, Pennsburg? Lots of my friends go there at least once a week believe it or not. I'm there semi-often, myself. Plus we know a guy who works there who keeps us posted. I could put the word out but I dunno how far you wanna travel.

Met Nipper at Carlisle and figured I'd check ya's out. Always into meeting Subie people, exchanging ideas (or parts-haha!) and learning new stuff. I'm on my second WRX. She's a work in progress. In fact I'd like to thank this Nipper character for not writing me off as a lost cause after seeing the thing!