ditchmyster

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Good memory, also been a waiter, worked as a bar man and drove a taxi at weekends, all at the same time, fitted a few suspended ceilings and now I help a mate out here sometimes with concrete floors, did a 130m2 driveway on friday, 2 cement trucks worth 13 cubic metres.

I'm just a handy kind of guy.

fat-thomas

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Personally I think you're full of **** but you do provide some laughs with your tall tales.

Anyway I've sold my crap and my subscription has run out so I'll bid you a farewell,I know you missed me last time xx

Nearly got ten pages

ditchmyster

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Not just alarms, central locking, electric windows, stereos, car phones and trackers.

Similar money to lift engineering tbh but the heaviest thing I picked up was my tool box, which was a lot nicer than humping guides into a lift shaft or the hand balling all the lift parts off a wagon, then everything you touch is dirty and cold, working on muddy building sites in winter in buildings with no doors or windows and it's not dangerous, oh yeah you know what it's like, and that's before you go and rip an old one out and put a new one in, what a great job lift engineering is.

I did actually quite like it though.

neil-h

But this is the busiest this place has been in months.

jayallen

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Very true........The people who are moaning about this thread should get their *** in NSR if they really want to see bitching!

Peedee

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So ditchy, you're basically a handyman? It would have been easier to say that than listing all the things you've had a go at.

Norman Dog

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Just had another little chuckle at that one.

Have to agree there too, the look on some peoples faces, who think it's a boggo WRX, when you leave them like they're going backwards..

ditchmyster

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Kind of I suppose, I just did what ever came my way to earn a crust, I'm not too proud to take any job, better than being on the dole, begging for hand outs is not my style, I can turn my hand to pretty much anything if I put my mind to it, it's called having a work ethic, with a bit of practice anyone can do anything if they have the will to learn and work.

Zuber

You should turn your hand to fictional writing, you would sell millions of copies!

ditchmyster

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Another quality post from, oh just remind me who you are don't bother I already know, you're just another no mark.

RS_Matt

Well I didn't say "my" I said "a" ...if that half answers your question.

Ergo a STI driver might launch next to a WRX with external mods but will feel he can smoke what he thinks is a relatively stock WRX with a casual take off when sat next to a WRX with no obvious external modifications.

Is Andy F's record breaking Impreza a WRX RA or a 1994 STI?

RS_Matt

311 lbft Spec C, professional driver, 1/4 mile: 12.86


I wonder if my 307 lbft WRX can beat a Spec C with a *babied launch (*SN's members comments) not to mention the track was damp and my budget tyres full of mud!

Right, this is a biggy, let's watch the comparison test to see if a WRX with less torque and inferior box/driver/track conditions can beat the "greatest Newage of all time."


Ladies and gentleman, behold the greatest Newage of all time:

neil-h

Ummmmm yeah you did and no it's not. No body expects an Impreza to be slow, even in standard form the Wrx is still a quick car.

neil-h

Says the internet greatest handyman.

RS_Matt

I've made it look like an STI was the joke. TBH the WRX is bloody awful with 225bhp, unless you launch it at red line everywhere you go.

I used to leave STI's in the twisties by dropping my car into 1st around sharpish bends! Not good for any of the components but it worked. That's the beauty of the WRX though, warped disks or shagged transmission parts and it's twice as cheap to fix or less than the STI. So far in 7 years of WRX ownership I've only suffered 1 flat battery, 2 sticky brake piston cylinders, 5 shock absorbers and 18 split CV's boots

ditchmyster

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Nowt wrong with being handy or a man.

ditchmyster

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How the hell do you split 18 cv boots mine has 120k and still on the original ones.

RS_Matt

Not sure, seems to be just me. My local garage says the rubber they use for the Impreza boots is too hard. He bought a softer rubber one but it still split.

I don't tend to corner hard or anything. Car ride height is pretty conservative, apart from the week Tweaks fitted coilovers.

TonyBurns

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LOL, modified wrx v standard Spec C, oh and btw the spec c had a faster terminal time than your car, which makes it quicker

Lillyart14

What was this thread originally about? I've seriously forgotten what with all the WRX v STi bashing, Ditchy's 'I can do all the things' posts and the 'my car is a sleeper with a big-*** bonnet scoop' mentions...

neil-h

Up until the point you start fitting decent parts The standard WRX brakes are shocking.

As much as my initial post was in jest, I've gotta agree with you there. This countries lost site of the value of someone who's good with their hands and can get things done.

ditchmyster

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Well for my part, it's the WRX bashers that can't or don't seem to want to accept that a PPP or re-mapped WRX could be equally as quick as an STI or dare I suggest leave one behind.

Then they start with all the attacking, personal insults and attempt to dis-credit via calling BS on other things I have said over the years, like having been a lift engineer for a short spell, which is what Jayallen does for a living, you'll notice how he shuts up about it now because he knows from the things I say that I have done it, simple things that most wouldn't know unless they'd been in the business, like putting it into test mode and operating it from a car top control box, checking the safety gear, ropes etc when servicing one.

Point being, everything I say I have done, I have and for some reason it erks them, maybe they're missing something in there lives, who knows.

Thing is people you can do it too, anything is possible, you just need the right frame of mind and to be open to a challenge, willing to learn and not be afraid to ask questions that may make you look stupid.

I have only ever been out of work for very short spells at a time because I get off my **** and go look for something, anything, consequently I have walked out on a few jobs, been sacked a couple of times and told the boss to stick it where the sun don't shine once or twice, so that's why I have had quite a few different jobs and been self employed 3 times over 30yrs of working, I'm a grafter but I take no **** from people either, life's too short and the working week too long to take crap from people everyday.

Blue by You

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Well as another who has owned both a MY02 WRX and 05 STi here's my take on it.
I'm not into bashing WRX's as I was happy with mine and it suited what I wanted from it at the time.
In stock form there's not much in a straightforward 0-60 between the two cars. Depending on the driver the WRX may even shade the STi to 60mph. That's where the similarities end.
The WRX may be a tad more comfortable, slightly more economical, and generally cheaper to run.
The STi has a few refinements that the WRX doesn't have (shift light, coolant spray etc). It has more engine power, a stronger gearbox, better suspension, better brakes, higher top speed (if that's your thing), and so on.
None of this is a surprise to anyone with their eyes open.

However where things start to get heated is when folk start confusing standard cars with cars that have any kind of performance enhancement over a standard basic model. Things like PPP and remaps have bu99er all to do with like-for-like comparisons unless they are equally applied to both models.
A WRX with PPP or a re-map will probably be as quick as a standard STi.
However once you apply those same criteria to the STi you're going to be back where you started.
A decat/remap on a WRX will get you around 280bhp.
Do the same to an STi and you get anything between 340 and 350bhp.

If you're going to say that a remapped/PPP WRX is as quick as an STI, you may as well say you can strip 100 kilos of weight out of the STi and the standard WRX will never get near it.

You have to compare apples with apples.

RS_Matt

They are dangerous, but a good upgrade for the classic.

TBH just 5.1 fluid and braided hoses got rid of the (3 minutes of fast driving) brake fade.

Pad and disk upgrade doesn't cost the earth. I think both the STI and WRX benefit from a change in suspension too.

hedgecutter

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Back on topic, I got 355 miles red light to red light, on a long run to france, mostly around 70mph. BTW, it`s all about wagons vs saloons, not wrx vs sti !!

ditchmyster

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I agree to a point, but the points that I have always tried to make from my perspective at least, the WRX is a better day to day car, it's also around half the price and cheaper to run, now days you can get PPP for £200 some small handling mods for around £300 and you'll have a car that in the real world performs equally as well if not better than an STI as a DAILY driver and driven properly CAN take one out.

That said I don't have a problem admitting that the STI is a stronger base for modding and makes a better track car if that's your thing, because it's obviously true, personally I don't like the ride, styling, gearing or turbo characteristics, which are it's achilles heel, add to that knocking suspension seized caliper bolts, dodgy syncro's and they're not such a great prospect as they once were, basically they're not quite as mighty as some would bang on to all newbs and insulting the WRX and not even taking an OP's, budget or requirements into account, it's always buy the STI or you'll regret it.

I have had 2 WRX's a Forester and an STI and tbh the one that broke and probably only one I regret (a little bit) is the STI.

jayallen

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OK Ditch, please tell me again about the time you spent as a Lift engineers mate...

Oh, I'm not just nvq level 3 lift installation engineer I'm also level 4 tester...

ScottyPPP

My WRX is faster than yours Matt, which means it's the greatest ever, and a Wagon.

ditchmyster

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Engineer improver by the time I finished actually.

RS_Matt

If it's faster with less power you are God.