My Blobeye 03 project
 

Hi all thought i would put a few pictures up of my car as its a work in progress and get some thoughts and ideas. this car is my daily car for work and is my first turbo car and is my dream car since i was like 12 years old.

Looks awesome mate I see you have had it painted in invisibility paint lmao oj mate look fwd to seeing sum picys what are your plans ???

Hello mate it's good to get your dream car but as you said it's your first turbocharged car so take your time getting used to it and the way the AWD handles.most of all enjoy it:)and try to get some pictures up when you have worked it out;)SJ.

i spent two hours the other night writing up what i had done with the car like the life story and included pictures and then went to upload and it wiped it all and it was about 1am in morning and needed to get some sleep so sorry for the fail at my post.

im going to writing it up in stages so hopefully it will upload this time

so here is a picture of my car after i picked it up already having to fill it up, the lift of a turbo :)

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so when i picked the car up it was on 49,000 with just a turbo back exhaust

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picture of mine and my friends car

so the first change/mod i did was to change the exhaust to a jap style one, this is just because i think it looks a lot nicer. got a bargin on a 3 inch decat turbo up pipe and turbo back exhaust so couldnt really say no

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didnt stay that shinney for long haha

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took a little road trip so had to take some more pictures, the car is a bit of a photo whore haha just looks so nice :)

so after having the car just a few month, some idiot thought that he had the right of way at a t-junction and went straight into the side of me was so scary seeing the car drving straight at you
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luckly know one was hurt, he admitted it was his fault and the insurance took the car in for repairs total cost = £4000 and i got made to drive around in this for 3 weeks
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i did miss boost but the 65 MPG was nice

so when i got the car back after 3 weeks i treated to a present, got this bargin of ebay and think it just adds something to the front of the car
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£4000 for repairs :eek: it doesn't look that bad in the photos!

the next item on my shopping list saw a FMIC but due to funds ect i knew i would have to get rid of the airbox so purchased this induction kit loved the colour as it goes with the car and it sounds amazing and got a bit of turbo flutter aswell
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so i finally got the funds together and after searching for ages i got my FMIC and the sun was out and had the day off work so got found to fitting it to the car

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After getting the FMIC fitted the Clutch started to slip and went out and brought a stage 1 racing clutch
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After some reading and looking at reviews i got in contact with Duncan and got my self booked in with him at Surrey RR to get my Car Remapped and to find out what kind of power she was putting out

Was a very enjoyable day and a bit addictive seeing the BHP come up on the screen

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Your really getting into this modifying,Good stuff:thumb:SJ.

So it came to that time of year when the car has to go in for an Mot so i had to go out and get a sports Cat for the car so picked upa japspeed 100 cell sports cat, but had to cut up the down pipe to get it to fit so after getting the car through the Mot i looked to get some more sound from the car.

had seen the scoobyworld xtreme exhaust and thought id give it ago, so after the xmas period it arrive
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Its not to loud on tick over but as soon as it hits boost it sounds like thunder i love it, not sure about my neighbours though at 7 am in the morning

i know this should have been one of the first things i should have got but i got around to getting a boost gauge for christmas and got around to fitting it to the car, car is currently putting out 1.3 bar which i dont think is to bad but not to sure
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so this brings us to today, i have had this car over a year and it still puts a smile on my face even with everyone telling me i should have got an evo boo to them i say.

so over the year the car has gone from this:-
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to this....
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the next thing on my list to do is the suspension and wheels but unsure on what colour either black or white what are peoples views?

also thinking about carbon wrapping the bonnet and leaving the scoope blue

what other things have people done or would think i should do always like people opinions

that how much the insurance company told me it was, they had to replace the door and paint and fix the pilar aswell as this had some damage i honestly did think that it was going to be a write off

yeah its like a bug once you been bit its hard to stop, but the only thing stopping me is money and unsure on what things to do

Yeah, money is always a massive factor. Have you thought about changing the wheels? The rest of the car looks mint but personally I think the old Sti rims look a bit dated! Just a thought :thumb:

Better brakes maybe?uprated disc and pads and braided brake lines,suspension mods anti lift drop links,anti roll bars etc....wheels colour White is nice but hard work to keep clean all the time:brickwall I prefer darker wheel colours gun metal grey black etc....but it's a personal choice as you have to live with the decision.SJ.

i did notice when the car was up on the ramp that one of the old owners has put braided brake lines on the rear but not the front for some reason but the are HKS so must be a decent set.

and i do want to change the wheels was thinking some rota grids 17s or 18s in gum grey or black

18 inch wheels is where you want to be with a newage impreza grid drifts are nice but have been done to death now.SJ.

Just seen some alloys on ebay but they are off a classic anyone got idea if they will fit my car?

Very nice mate some good mods there should fit ok of they are 5x100 but depends whether they clear your brembos or not u may need spacers of they don't clear

mint

nice work