Evo Article - New Direction for Jap STI
03 July 2004, 12:26 PM
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Evo Article - New Direction for Jap STI
Fantastic article in this months Evo.
Seems the direction of the STI is shifting towards the Spec C. The new Jap STI (new interior and slightly wider rear due to wider tyres 235/45) is quoted as usual 276bhp but torque up to 304 ft/lbs....
Subaru has taken the knocks about dull steering and understeer and made 3 additions:
1) Inherits Spec C Geom + aluminium lat links and wider steering rack
2) Yaw rate feedback sensor to DCCD
3) Helical limited slip diff to replace Suretrac
The review goes on to give the car 5 stars !!!
No news of plans to bring the car to the UK as yet - so get your orders over to your friendly importer
Oh.. and it lapped the ring in 7 mins 59 secs
Seems the direction of the STI is shifting towards the Spec C. The new Jap STI (new interior and slightly wider rear due to wider tyres 235/45) is quoted as usual 276bhp but torque up to 304 ft/lbs....
Subaru has taken the knocks about dull steering and understeer and made 3 additions:
1) Inherits Spec C Geom + aluminium lat links and wider steering rack
2) Yaw rate feedback sensor to DCCD
3) Helical limited slip diff to replace Suretrac
The review goes on to give the car 5 stars !!!
No news of plans to bring the car to the UK as yet - so get your orders over to your friendly importer
Oh.. and it lapped the ring in 7 mins 59 secs
03 July 2004, 12:38 PM
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I think it was the Spec C that managed 7:59 - still a deeply impressive car though. Nice to see them making some real changes to the car to improve handling and steering feel (which has always been a weakness)
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03 July 2004, 02:01 PM
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In my experience, the Japanese will ALWAYS respond to feedback, negative or otherwise.
They don't subscribe to the British, (English??) idea of telling the customer what he, or she wants, should have, should like etc etc.
Are you listening IM?????
Alcazar
They don't subscribe to the British, (English??) idea of telling the customer what he, or she wants, should have, should like etc etc.
Are you listening IM?????
Alcazar
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(new interior and slightly wider rear due to wider tyres 235/45)
forgive me for such a stupid question but can you fit wider tyres to the 17s at the moment ??
forgive me for such a stupid question but can you fit wider tyres to the 17s at the moment ??
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Originally Posted by AndyC_772
sammyh: You don't fancy doing a swap so I can have mine in time for the SIDC Manx trip then?
If its red, blue, black, white or silver then no because i wanted something different
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It's black. I thought long and hard about the grey - I agree it would be nice to have something that's obviously different - but couldn't convince myself it would look right without seeing one close up. Also I figured that having a readily available colour wouldn't do any harm in the event of a ding...
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Originally Posted by alcazar
In my experience, the Japanese will ALWAYS respond to feedback, negative or otherwise.
They don't subscribe to the British, (English??) idea of telling the customer what he, or she wants, should have, should like etc etc.
Are you listening IM?????
Alcazar
They don't subscribe to the British, (English??) idea of telling the customer what he, or she wants, should have, should like etc etc.
Are you listening IM?????
Alcazar
05 July 2004, 09:11 AM
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Originally Posted by sti-04!!
(new interior and slightly wider rear due to wider tyres 235/45)
forgive me for such a stupid question but can you fit wider tyres to the 17s at the moment ??
forgive me for such a stupid question but can you fit wider tyres to the 17s at the moment ??
I think you are getting confused with the diameter?
maybe for the US market 
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