[wdb]

I love pictures of dirty cars, they assuage my guilt Congrats on picking the best year and color.

I live near Allentown and have spring compressors. You can borrow them, but I won't be home until Thursday.

If you want to meet more members, check out this thread in the Northeast Regional forum for a Berks County PA meet in March:
The Berks County PA meet WAS A HIT! Pics Start at Post #165

[AndrewSS]

mmmm dirty

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Originally Posted by wdb

I love pictures of dirty cars, they assuage my guilt Congrats on picking the best year and color.

thanks i agree, i saw the 06 and rushed to buy an 05!

I live near Allentown and have spring compressors. You can borrow them, but I won't be home until Thursday.

that would be very appreciated. Its the only thing I'm missing to do the install.

If you want to meet more members, check out this thread in the Northeast Regional forum for a Berks County PA meet in March:
The Berks County PA meet WAS A HIT! Pics Start at Post #165

thanks, but I'm scheduled to get my car dynoed that weekend. Definitely have to come to a few meets though, lots of subaru owners up here.

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Originally Posted by AndrewSS

mmmm dirty

yes! haha

how do you like your Borla? I really want to get one because of the stock appearance, but i don't want anything too loud inside the car. how loud does it get inside the car? can the stock radio drown it out, and if so, at what volume setting?

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bump:

Had the car dynotuned by TopSpeed two weeks ago:


My car was on the stock fuel pump and ran lean up top on the stock cobb stage 2 map. Had a walbro 255 installed. After Doug worked some magic, I came away with:


I'm done with power for awhile now, or at least until I decide on a 20g setup(although I may have my stock headers ported).

Suspension-wise, I have the Tanabe GF210's (05 spec) in my garage. I'm very tempted to sell them along with my Cusco swaybars and get the RCE camber plates/Group N Rear Tophats/Pink springs combo from RCE with some 27-29mm FR/24-26mm R Whiteline swaybars. I'm also tempted to just skip to coilovers like the Megans, Tein SS-P's, Helix DNAs, etc. The problem is this is my daily driver too, so I don't want to feel every pothole in the road on the way to work (and there are many).

It'd be nice to not have as many options with this car, haha.

Interior-wise I'm looking to get an '07 stereo and STI Limited center dash section with the JDM red hazard button. I like the stock appearance because I won't have to worry about car stereo thieves with it.

About to install the subframe outrigger bushings to complete the Klunk Killer set. The Rear Dif Bushings are awesome and I highly recommend them.




ebay catback that did pretty damn well on the dyno compared to more expensive catbacks.

and props to the best STi tuner:

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It's almost been a month so here's a new update:

Installed ebay H brace, took off ebay catback (now for sale), replaced it with a Borla XR-1. Compared to the ebay N1 style catback, the Borla is MUCH quieter. It sounds almost stock inside the car except you can hear a louder burble at idle. At WOT the turbo is louder than the exhaust. Very happy with it.

Sold the GF210s and bought Swift springs, Group N front tophats, Whiteline camber bolts, and Whiteline 27-29mm Fr/24-26mm R swaybars. Those will be replacing my Cusco swaybars as soon as they come in the mail.

Pics will be up of the Borla and car tomorrow.

[reeksti]

nice!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Originally Posted by reeksti

nice!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thanks man I'm loving this Borla! Trip to work was so quiet. Maybe its the layer of ensolite in my trunk, but the exhaust note is much deeper now so I can't hear it inside the car. I was told its about as loud outside the car as the other exhaust, but it has a deep growl and rumble to it instead. That's exactly what I wanted.

[Chris05STi]

Very nice, I can't wait till my car is tuned.....awesome, your car is coming along very nicely.