If you're looking at the 04-07 STi's.....
The first thing you should do before any mods is change the oil pickup tube. I recommend the Killer B, $170. That will save you a lot of heartache down the road, and it's cheap and not too tough to do.
From personal experience...the VF-39 ('06) has a tendency to crack in the housing, so i'd look into a turbo upgrade. Wish I would have known that before mine went out, but after looking online after it happened I wasn't the only one by far. There's a thousand different options... then you're looking at a fuel pump ~$100, injectors ~$630, I/C, exhaust and a tune. You can get a pretty nice complete set up for 3-4K.
Just my own opinion for the engine stuff....i like the way the car handles stock, but to each their own on upgrades there.
This is why you cant ask what the best is without specifying what you want to do with the car, besides being "badass"; that comes equipped stock, it is an STi after all.these cars are pretty fast out of the box. Personally I think anything beyond intake/exhaust with a protune is beyond what most need power-wise. Im a big fan of suspension/handling mods, anyone can go fast in a straight line.
Id start with springs, swaybars, endlinks, bushings, "anti-lift-kit", bump-steer/roll-center adjuster kit, good alignment, and an aggressive wheel/tire combo. Thats the direction my car is going and so far it handles pretty well.
i agree.step 1 - acquire an STi
... step 2 - if step 1 ever happens.. why don't you drive it and see what you'd like to improve, and research it once you know what you want to accomplish? would you really spend a bunch of your money from a bunch of random ass suggestions?
I was waiting for someone to point this out; please give this person a medal. :tup:I looked at OP's previous posts. He's been asking sellers for videos of their cars all over the place, and started another thread about how he has 10,000$ to build a rally car daily driver race car .. errrrrrr....
