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Old Jan 8, 2016 | 07:25 PM
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Old Jan 8, 2016 | 08:00 PM
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Owned both so can speak from experience
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Old Jan 8, 2016 | 08:02 PM
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No tyre is as bad as my Suntek sports!!

I did always think less grippy tyres were better for lower powered 4x4's drag racing so I kinda stuck with them :/
Cheap assed pikey.

You gonna take Jamie up on his offer, then?
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Old Jan 8, 2016 | 09:33 PM
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Old Jan 8, 2016 | 10:11 PM
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Originally Posted by mickywrx
Cheap assed pikey.

You gonna take Jamie up on his offer, then?
TBH I'm mainly motivated by getting 11.9 with less than 310lbft. It's not to prove the WRX is better than whatever but I think it'll just be some achievement for a 4x4 saloon. I'm 50-50 whether it can be done. :/

What do you think Mick? Can I shave half a second running on a dryer/hotter day, circa 15kg lighter, with lightweight crank pulley and thinner Millers low friction oils?
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Old Jan 8, 2016 | 11:17 PM
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Who the F cares any more?
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Old Jan 9, 2016 | 12:01 AM
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What I find amusing is that we are talking about 11 to 15 yr old cars, very few of which are standard anymore and then we start splitting hairs about which modified Impreza is better.

Let's face it guys, these cars are dinosaurs, the only reason they are still alive is a bunch of mugs keep giving tuners a shed load of their hard earned, fact is most of us would be better off financially getting a much newer car on tick than we are driving these tractors.

All we are doing is holding on to past glory, that ultimately wasn't that great at the time anyway, so which pile of crap has been is better is immaterial.
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Old Jan 9, 2016 | 12:15 PM
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Original engine still. And this is my original profile. RE Motorsport compression tested it and told me the cylinder walls were shot after using a bore scope. So basically my shagged 300lbft WRX would waste any production STI and it's compression is so low across all 4 cylinders that I might aswell be running on 3 healthy ones! 1500cc STI destroyer.

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Old Jan 9, 2016 | 07:37 PM
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Originally Posted by RS_Matt
TBH I'm mainly motivated by getting 11.9 with less than 310lbft. It's not to prove the WRX is better than whatever but I think it'll just be some achievement for a 4x4 saloon. I'm 50-50 whether it can be done. :/

What do you think Mick? Can I shave half a second running on a dryer/hotter day, circa 15kg lighter, with lightweight crank pulley and thinner Millers low friction oils?
Bob Dha ran 11.?s with around 340bhp IIRC, in a classic. Not sure if it was full weight.

When did you do a 12.4?
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Old Jan 9, 2016 | 07:44 PM
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i can only imagine our wrx was in a1 condition as the sti was far faster.
i should have ran it on 3 cylinders to get the extra bhp.
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