A little about me, I have wanted an STI ever since I heard that boxer rumble at the age of 11. I joined the Navy to make it a career as well as save money for my dream car. With 2 years of penny pinching I was ready to search for one. Problem was an 8 month deployment closing in. I took leave in Washington prior of deployment with several STI’s in mind. Come to find out all of them had major problems and I gave up the search after the last STI had an air bag fault.
There was a last glimmer of hope when I went down to Oregon for a family reunion with my father and he said to look. There was one that caught my eye, a salvaged crystal metallic grey 07 STI Limited. Salvage title was due to theft and flooding. It looked brand new inside and out with 42,000 miles and bone stock. I couldn’t sleep that night I had to see it. We went to Silverline Automotive and were blown away by the warehouse jam packed with subies. I was at half chub the whole time no joke. Seeing the car in person blew me away it looked just as good as it sounded. My dad approved of the car and believed it to be in great shape. With that I bought and was on my way! It was the best feeling to drive out in a STI. Even though it was my first time driving a manual haha
Thought it stopped there? Wrong.
I drove Jennay around for 4 days before prepping her for an 8 month hiatus. BIG step up from a 95’ GMC Sonoma I must say but nothing compared to what I had in store.
I chose Perrin performance for my build because it was a one stop shop and tax free and I chose Cosworth for my internals because its Cosworth.
6 months into deployment I bought everything at once and for a flat shipping rate of $70, it was at my dad’s house the next day.
Who was going to tear apart and rebuild my car?? My dad has been a master mechanic for over 20 years and he has been looking forward to this build. $2400, a case of beer and 6 full days of work later he was done. Cobb wanted over $11,000 in labor and a months time to build.
After deployment I took leave immediately and drove it to Cobb to have it tuned. They inspected my dads work and they saw hoses hooked up incorrectly or not at all and saw the oil pressure sensor leaking (it was loose come to find out) and refused to tune even after correcting all the issues. I was a very unhappy person because I had no time for a reschedule and I needed to drive that car to San Diego. Luckily Pacific Import Auto was more than happy to tune my subie
Now this isn’t a hate crime against Cobb, they are just picky on what they touch to protect their image of tuning. If I wasn’t in the military and 1300 miles away I’d have no problem scheduling another tune with them.
So all in all, I saved $8,000 in buying a salvaged title, $2000 in car sales tax (WA military are exempt), $2000 in sales tax for Perrin’s products (based in Oregon where there is no sales tax), over $500 for a flat rate shipping and $11000 in labor by having my dad build the car. A total of over $22,000 in savings… that’s pretty damn good for planning ahead and jumping on a great buy!
HISTORY:
7AUG12:
Stumbled upon my car at Silverline Automotive
1SEP12:
Deployment
15SEP12:
Contact Perrin and bought 1st wave of parts (Internals and exhaust)
12DEC12:
Bought 2nd wave of parts! (everything else)
22DEC12:
Sound system upgrade
28JAN13:
The rebuild begins!
29APR13:
Back from deployment
14MAY13:
I'm home b!tch3s!
22MAY13:
PIA tuning
---------- TABLE OF CONTENTS ----------
Page 3 is where the rebuild begins
Page 3 rebuild pictures!
---------- MOD LIST ----------
ENGINE INTERNALS:
VIDEO OF TUNE: 07 STI LIMITED DYNO TUNE - YouTube
I am also on www.socalsubies.com and www.nasioc.com with similar built threads!
There was a last glimmer of hope when I went down to Oregon for a family reunion with my father and he said to look. There was one that caught my eye, a salvaged crystal metallic grey 07 STI Limited. Salvage title was due to theft and flooding. It looked brand new inside and out with 42,000 miles and bone stock. I couldn’t sleep that night I had to see it. We went to Silverline Automotive and were blown away by the warehouse jam packed with subies. I was at half chub the whole time no joke. Seeing the car in person blew me away it looked just as good as it sounded. My dad approved of the car and believed it to be in great shape. With that I bought and was on my way! It was the best feeling to drive out in a STI. Even though it was my first time driving a manual haha
Thought it stopped there? Wrong.
I drove Jennay around for 4 days before prepping her for an 8 month hiatus. BIG step up from a 95’ GMC Sonoma I must say but nothing compared to what I had in store.
I chose Perrin performance for my build because it was a one stop shop and tax free and I chose Cosworth for my internals because its Cosworth.
6 months into deployment I bought everything at once and for a flat shipping rate of $70, it was at my dad’s house the next day.
Who was going to tear apart and rebuild my car?? My dad has been a master mechanic for over 20 years and he has been looking forward to this build. $2400, a case of beer and 6 full days of work later he was done. Cobb wanted over $11,000 in labor and a months time to build.
After deployment I took leave immediately and drove it to Cobb to have it tuned. They inspected my dads work and they saw hoses hooked up incorrectly or not at all and saw the oil pressure sensor leaking (it was loose come to find out) and refused to tune even after correcting all the issues. I was a very unhappy person because I had no time for a reschedule and I needed to drive that car to San Diego. Luckily Pacific Import Auto was more than happy to tune my subie
Now this isn’t a hate crime against Cobb, they are just picky on what they touch to protect their image of tuning. If I wasn’t in the military and 1300 miles away I’d have no problem scheduling another tune with them.
So all in all, I saved $8,000 in buying a salvaged title, $2000 in car sales tax (WA military are exempt), $2000 in sales tax for Perrin’s products (based in Oregon where there is no sales tax), over $500 for a flat rate shipping and $11000 in labor by having my dad build the car. A total of over $22,000 in savings… that’s pretty damn good for planning ahead and jumping on a great buy!
HISTORY:
7AUG12:
Stumbled upon my car at Silverline Automotive
1SEP12:
Deployment
15SEP12:
Contact Perrin and bought 1st wave of parts (Internals and exhaust)
12DEC12:
Bought 2nd wave of parts! (everything else)
22DEC12:
Sound system upgrade
28JAN13:
The rebuild begins!
29APR13:
Back from deployment
14MAY13:
I'm home b!tch3s!
22MAY13:
PIA tuning
---------- TABLE OF CONTENTS ----------
Page 3 is where the rebuild begins
Page 3 rebuild pictures!
---------- MOD LIST ----------
ENGINE INTERNALS:
- Cosworth Forged Pistons
- Cosworth Forged Rods
- Cosworth Rings
- Cosworth Tri metal Main/Rod Bearings
- Cosworth Head stud kit
- Cosworth Kevlar belt
- Perrin GTX3076R.63AR turbo kit ( Tial 46mm Wastegate, large 3" Intake system with MAF, 3" downpipe with built-in wastegate recirc tube, 2" Rotated Up-pipe)
- Perrin FMIC
- Perrin Crank pulley
- Perrin BOV
- Perrin Boost Controller
- Perrin radiator shroud
- Perrin Belt cover
- Perrin boost controller cover
- Grimmspeed TGV delete
- Fuel rail top feed
- Injector Dynamics 1000cc kit
- Fuel Pump Walbro 255Lph
- 91 Unleaded
- Cobb access port
- Perrin 4 bar map sensor
- COBB EBCS
- Perrin Equal length header big tube
- Perrin Cat-back exhaust
- None at this time
- Perrin 25mm sway bar kit w/ spherical end links
- Perrin Strut and stiffi kit
- Perrin engine mount kit
- Perrin transmission mount
- Perrin pitch stop mount
- Sub frame lock down kit
- Stock STI rims painted flat black
- Lotek Dual A-pod pillar gauge mount
- Zero sports triple dash mount
- Prosport 60mm Boost gauge
- Prosport 60mm AFR gauge
- Prosport 60mm Oil pressure gauge
- Prosport 60mm Oil temp gauge
- Custom built sub woofer enclosure: 2-10" with 2 round straight ports centered
- Infinity kappa 100.9w subs
- Infinity Kappa 800W mono amp
- Infinity reference 475a 4 channel amp
- Infinity Kappa 60.11cs component set
- Infinity Kappa 52.11i coaxial speakers
- Infinity kappa 800W mono amp
- Infinity Reference 475A 4 way channel amp
- 4 speaker adapters made out of PVC
- OEM stereo
- Tinted windows
- Standard front lip
- de-badge coming soon
- Black headlight and taillight housing coming soon
VIDEO OF TUNE: 07 STI LIMITED DYNO TUNE - YouTube
I am also on www.socalsubies.com and www.nasioc.com with similar built threads!