i've been told that 17 steelies from VW's fit...so will have to have a look at thier range

 

£3k is a good start...Ian where are you, this man needs help spending

 

also depends on what you want out of the car, are you going for all out speed or a combo of looks and speed, or handling and speed, or looks and handling.

On my blob I have done the following

Performance

P pack back box,
Full decat (except up pipe which will be remedied soon)
RCM induction kit
Larger alloy TMIC
Samco hoses
Prodrive brake conversion with grooved disks
Powerstation Ecutek remap
Prodrive lowering springs

Looks
Mid height rear spoiler
STI front side pods
Scott Lowe front splitter
Detango and colour code internals of headlights to match Dark grey metallic accesories.
18" anthracite WRC wheels
Tints
Full blue and black Leather
Carbon fibre STI8 bonnet scoop
Scott lowe bonnet struts
STI fog lamp covers with STI decal removed
Anthracite lower grill insert
Smaller front plate


Next on the shopping list
Equal length headers
2.5 Turbo
Decat Up pipe
Another remap
Suspension of some description
Defi gauges
Ice upgrade

Like I said it all depends on what you want to spend and what its for. The wife drives mine quite happily.

 

Yeah, seemed a bit steep. but may have found a potential winner, see what you think.

Westlands - Car Showroom

How much would it cost to bring a standard car up to ppp spec through a specialist? I'm not after crazy power figures just real world poke for the road not tracks,so is this the best way forward? Sorry to keep bugging with questions that must get asked all the time!

 

you would be better off getting either a MY99\00 then all you need is full de-cat, Green panel filter and TEK3 remap which should see around 270\270 with the turbo spinning up around 3k rpm. It transforms the standard car and even (slightly), improves fuel economy

The PPP option uses a Prodrive fettled ECU with a generic map to suit the PPP components (different exhaust and intercooler pipe work). A TEK3 adds to your OEM ECU’s maps and will be specific to your car and makes the most of the mods you have made.

PPP's biggest advantage is it doesn’t void the Subaru warranty which will obviously not be applicable in your case...I'd go for the TEK3 over PPP any day

Ian

PS the silver wagon looks good and you would be able to TEK3 it...my only caveat would be the leather interior; leather is slippy and you tend to slid around a lot more than the cloth option

 

Agreed, leather is slippy but I have one of those clamp things and even though I'm a skinny runt (yes I did say runt) I seldom slide about. Plus baby and dog vomit and all other nasties generally wipe clean away!!!

 

Oh and sort the brakes. They are rubbish on a standard car and rubbisher on a ppack IMO.

 

agreed standard four pots are pants; horrid feel to them and prone to fading after a few big stops

 

Am I looking at big bucks for all the tek3 kit and brakes as well as fitting? Sounds expensive to me! Leather is good for me too Mangel, as dog grot seems to get everywhere. Thank the maker for wipe clean seats!

 

have a search in the technical section and you should find all the up to date price information you need...stick to one of the well known mappers and you can't go wrong (PatH, BobR, AndyF, Simon [Jolly Green Monster], Richard Bulmer, Pavlo @ Zen)...always go on recommendation

 

nice! i didn't know that, i will have to check it out as well i'm sure i could find a vw in a junk yard around here and yank the wheels and put nice winter tires on it you rock thanks for that info!

 

coolio, let us know how you get on...no worries

 

3K sounds like a nice about well heres what i would do (sorry i mean i have done)

Full decat exhaust (H&S, scoobysport etc) £700
STi intercooler - S/H £250/£300
STi injectors - £400/£500
VF34 or VF35 turbo - S/H £300/£400
Uprated fuel pump - £100
Remap - £600/£700

With that little lot you should have about 320-330bhp & about the same amount of torque, you should also think about uprating your brakes as the standard WRX brakes ain't much use after a few heavy uses

Ian

 

Cheers for that lads, I am very impressed with the chioce of mods Will my suspension cope with the power as it is used mainly as the family car and I dont want the ride to be too hard and chopy. I have already noticed that the brakes are crap and I am in the process of saving some more money, to buy a set of 18's to fit in the porsche brake kit I have just seen on the new T25. Tese mods need to do done soon as I was recently embarassed by a 2.5 V6 calibra from 60 upto 120mph, saying that the car looked mod'd. Cheers again lads hope to hear more from u all SYD

 

Suspension wise i would (i have) fit eibach (or prodrive) lowering springs, mines a everyday car and it is firm but not so much that it makes it a pain to drive, also i would change the rear drop links as they are plastic and can flex

 

Group buy on suspension bits here zen-performance-whiteline-group-buy

 

don't bother with the Porsche kit, get yourself some AP's; four pots for functionality and six pots for bling factor...drive a car with 18's before you buy new wheels they WILL impact ride and comfort

Ian

 

SYD, Granby still runs 17's with a Godspeed big brake conversion and they out perform the standard brakes by a huge margin...good taste these Ian's

 

[QUOTE=Granby]Suspension wise i would (i have) fit eibach (or prodrive) lowering springs, mines a everyday car and it is firm but not so much that it makes it a pain to drive, also i would change the rear drop links as they are plastic and can flex [/QUOTE
Cheers for the info Granby all this sounds like I'll be driving a top car soon and scaring the kids aswell as her indoors. Does your car have sti fog covers on and if so where can I get my hands on some.

 

wheres Krud, his wagon sticks like $hit to a blanket...not sure what suspension mods he is running

 

Bi bear & Syd, Looks like you got all the advice you need, I can only echo what granby and others have said and this is the best way to go. De-cat exhaust, filter and map is by far the easiest and asfest route to more power and better then PPP IMO, would go this route over PPP any day.

Next things on list could be headers, bigger injectors, uprated fuel pump, improved charge cooling with STI TMIC or FMIC. But you start the slipp slope then as you need an uprated clutch, gearbox starts to starin and you put stess on other components like your bottom end etc.

My Sti ver 5 wagon has the following and makes 315/300 .. correction 'Past Tense' Made

Full H&S decat
polished ported headers
Apexi induction kit
uprated fuel pump
HKS Dump Valve
Ecutek remap.
standard STI Internals/ turbo/cams/injector/tmic.


....CORNER!!!!

 

Never seen these before. I'll take a look and if they are as good as they sound i'll bin the porsche conversion for these and any other good gen you can send my way would be much appreciated

 

My 04 WRX had prodrive springs and transformed the car, they get my vote but eibach may be just as good. maybe a bit stiffer

 

This shows you how much I take notice of her car, one of the lads has just pointed out that the car has a WRS exhust system from new and a K&N panel filter. Are these any good or should i just get rid as soon as?

 

I would echo Granbys comments and agree with his setup

on my 04 WRX I had:

Full Ninja BB & center section, Prodrive De-cat Pipe
STi Filter

And that was it, but going further i would recommend Granbys mods

 

Just got back in from the first day on the rebuild project

Engines out and stripped, pics posted later

The verdict is that there isnt much we took of that didn't have something wrong with it, Cambelt was as best as it got so far and that needs replacing

The bottom end bearings have collapsed

And lucky it came out anyway as the clutch is so Fubar'd its unreal so that would have needed chnaging at some point anyway.

 

Here you go Welcome To Godspeed Motorsport

 

Forgot to add that mine also has a set of Harvey Smiths ported & wrapped headers portedheaders great for making your turbo spool up a bit quicker

 

is the WRS a de-cat? I'd go Hayward & Scott full system (both Granby and I run them), and Harvey Smith's ported headers and slip jointed up pipe; good gains and good quality kit

K&N's are OK, just make sure its a low oil content else it will kill your MAF...Ian what you running filter wise; sti or Green?

 

steve post some pics and have you decided which bottom end to run yet?