i own a 98 wrx and on my way home from work i had a s reg wrx sti race me and there was nothing in it at all,i really thought it would be alot quicker than mine!
so what is the difference between my wrx and the sti?
any info would be great!

 

about 30bhp+

 

oh quite abit then! i took it up to about 100 mph and it certainly wasn't any quicker than mine (looked lovely though),i have a blitz airfilter and ninja back box but i don't think there'd make any difference!

 

I thought WRX had 240 and STI 280 ??

Anyways all down to tune of car and if the driver was just mucking around..

I fell in behind a beatiful 911 Turbo (new shape) today on the M1 - waited until a clear stretch and he/she hoofed it big time... I was way way surprised when I was able to keep pace - I didn't fall behind but there was no way I would have got passed - we both hit more traffic @ 160 MPH (that's Metres Per Hour folks)

 

lol @ what_would_scooby_do. Must get mine de-restricted !!

 

what bhp are you running?

 

it must be hard owning a scooby that hasn't been de-restricted that must put a right downer on all the fun.....but then again iv'e had speedo readings that would get me locked up for a very long time!

 

Jjones - just shy of 300BHP with 280 Llb/foot of torque - but I'm in need of a remap at the moment to fix a few problems...

p.s. I spend more money on reducing weight rather than increasing BHP -shhh keep that quiet



Oh and sub 5 sec 0-60's - hard to achieve on the road - took me about three launches to do it at santa pod (my that clutch smells bad)

 

Peachy

Wouldn't expect you to have any trouble keeping up with an unmodded STi - your WRX officially has the same power, and the ninja back box will give you a few more horses.

By the way you might be interested to know that you've bought my brothers old car

I've got a pretty much standard 99UK Scoob and whenever we took both cars out for a 'play' he was always able to pull out a decent gap on me.

Recently came up against a Y reg 911 (300bhp) and up to about 80mph he pulled out about the same lead as my brother used to!!

 

Peachy, my restrictor cuts in at 112mph which, as far as I know, is the same as all jap imports that haven't been de-restricted. As a general rule, I never go over the magic licence-losing 100mph but, yeah you're right, I've hit the limiter and been a little disappointed a couple of times !

 

These cars do 0-100 in something like 9.2 secs, and top out over 180. Kinda think he wasn't trying

 

Agree with Juan

Trust me on this one... he wasn't trying

I tried this trick last year and he disappeared into the distance......








......big gap