I bet that runs strong. Did you do all the work yourself or did you pay a shop labor for all those modifications?
Yeah I’m very happy with the cosmetics, wheels/tires, and suspension the way it comes from the factory. Window tint @ 50% will be the only change.
it does run strong. i do local trackcross events (think road course but not using the back straight and using an autocross timer) and i do autocross locally. i'm very outclassed because of the turbo, and part of me wishes i would have stayed stock turbo. I typically land middle of the pack in SM locally for autocross, and for trackcross i'm in a competeion class. so my opponets have gutted cars with cages and 500+whp seems to be the average. they also run r comp tires. meanwhile i'm in a full street car, the turbo put me in comp class, and people are in street class with bolt on gtr's making more power than me lol. oh well. i got into racing after doing the turbo so i didnt really think about class rules. i'd like to get into time attack, specifically nasa tt is local to me. but i need more hpde days to qualify for that. it's a blast for the street though.
i did a good amount myself. IAG did the engine, and the rest of the car was a combo of myself and mach v motorsports aka fastwrx dot com. I used to work for mach v and would work on the car with the techs there, sometimes i'd do it all myself, sometimes i'd pay one of the techs, sometimes it would be half and half, regardless they do awesome work and at this point in my life i just let them do it about 95% of the time. i may do more when i get a house with a garage. as for tuning one of my best friends has been tuning it for the past 8 years. he is the owner/operator of speedytuned. typically works out of va/westva/md area.
and hey if you are happy with the cosmetics that's awesome. for mine i had to run wheel spacers and a wider tire, but i love the oem wheels. the spacers really made them sit just perfect. i did add a front lip and will be doing a chassis mounted splitter at some point, but that's also function. i think the splitters just look wonderful and they arent too wild for me. so subtle but functional is where i'm headed for most of it (will likely run a big chassis mounted rear wing Similar to the kognition one at some point).
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