Hi all,

A bit late to the show. I’m a car enthusiast based in South Wales with a passion for Subaru's. The passion stemmed from watching Colin Mcrae through the Welsh forestry stages as a kid. I have owned this low milage example now since 2nd April 2022.

It was bought from Dorset Sportscars at 29k miles with great spec, I knew this was the perfect foundation for my ultimate fast road subaru build. Being a big Subaru enthusiast, I know this car would be the perfect car to compliment my subaru collection sitting next to my sonic blue Type R. Owning these cars has been a life long dream, owning the first shape impreza to what arguably could be the last of it’s kind.

The car was bought with the following mods:

- HT autos splitter kit
- Milltek Resonated catback
- Milltek Sports cat
- Tein lowering springs
- Team dynamics wheels
- ECUTEK

I have big plans for this car, I want to build the car I think subaru should have built out the factory and to enjoy every minute of it.

 

Photos of the cars together the following weekend up the black mountains, one of the best driving roads in Wales👌🏻

 

Around 16/07 I decided I wanted more from the exhaust. The milltek was too tame for my liking and wanted a bit more grunt. We went with the AWE track exhaust supplied by Neil at VIP motorsport. What a difference, giving that group A rally vibes😎 Slipped on my private plate and a few debadges here and there and the rear end was looking cleaner than ever.

 

Next on the list was new wheels and rubber. Wanting to retain some rally heritage I decided to go with speedline turini’s wrapped in goodyear eagle f1’s. Sitting a lot wider and being lighter than the team dynamics, I feel this was a massive difference to the aesthetics of the car as well as drivability with the stickier rubber.

 

Looks the business mate 👌

 

Thanks mate, lots more to come😎

 

Nice to see you on here mate, car looks great 👍🏻

 

Thanks you mate! It’s still half the car yours is, what an epic build you have there!👌🏻

 

We then moved on to the engine. I decided to stick with the 2.5 and get it forged rather than go down the 2.35 route as it will be used mainly as a road car and to retain some originality. Going for a solid 500bhp build, the spec will be as follows:

Block bored and skimmed
Cdb conversion
Acl race bearings
H beam rods
Wiseco pistons
11mm oil pump
New oil pickup tube
14mm headstud conversion
RCM/Cosworth headgaskets
RCM TGV delete
EGR delete
PCV delete
Secondary air pump delete
Fuelab FPR
Perrin AOS
GSC titanium valve springs and retainers
Ported engine heads
Competition stage 3 clutch new OEM flywheel
Heads fully rebuilt and skimmed
All new subaru seals and gaskets as required

Below to be phase 2 of the build April 2023:

1000cc injectors
Precision 5530 turbo
Process west front mount
RCM UEL headers (Can’t part with the rumble!)
Harvery trick up pipe
RCM catless downpipe

 

Nice