borat52

I never knew how good the ver.1 sti's were out of the factory.
I have a ver.1 WRX wagon, TD05 at 1.1bar, 440cc injectors, FMIC, sports cat and stainless exhaust with an ESL map.

My brother has just bought a sti ver.1 wagon with nothing but a stainless exhaust and decat with panel filter. Boosts to 0.9bar.

We just went for a little burn off from 20mph in second on the dual carriageway and the sti actually had 1.5car lengths at about 80-90mph.

My WRX must be pushing about 280+BHP so to think his sti has slightly more than that from the factory is remarkable. Hopefully he'll do the sensible thing and get it into bob rawle for a remap and it will be a real animal. Never knew quite how good these sti's were!

StickyMicky

IIRC the sti was taken from the production line and fettled by sti themselves to make the v1 cars?

Minitrue

Correct Mick. 250PS and a standard transmission.

borat52

Given the mods on my WRX I'd be very suprised if the sti had just 250ps. I'd be expecting somewhee around 280 bhp from my WRX.