Osimabu

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Having recently bought a number of books about Imprezas, I thought I'd post up a list to let others know what I've found and also for people to add to if they know of further ones that might be worth buying.

Here goes:

The Rallying Imprezas. David Williams. Haynes. 2004. ISBN 1 84425 093 8

WRX Imprezive - Subaru's Turbo Legend. Gavin Farmer. Bookworks Pub. 2002. ISBN 187-69530-9-8

Subaru Impreza - The Road Car and WRC Story. Brian Long. Veloce. 2006. ISBN 978-1-84584-033-4 (Reprint of 2002 book)

Subaru Impreza Turbo. Autocar Collection. Haynes. 2008. ISBN 978-1-84425-497-2

Subaru Impreza Turbo Limited Edition Extra, 1994 - 2000. R M Clarke. Brooklands Books. 2001(?). ISBN 978-1-8552-0705-9

Subaru Impreza Turbo Performance Portfolio 2001 - 2005. R M Clarke. Brooklands Books. 2006(?). ISBN 978-1-8552-0706-6

Subaru Impreza Turbo - Haynes Enthusiast Guide. Chris Rees. Haynes. 2010 (Reprint of 2001 book). ISBN 978-1-84425-956-4
(There is also an earlier version called 'You and Your Subaru Impreza Turbo').

Subaru Impreza Turbo Ultimate Buyers' Guide. Andy Butler. PMM Books. 2006. ISBN 978-0954-557980

Subaru Impreza - The Essential Buyer's Guide 1997 - 2007. David Hobbs. Veloce. 2008. ISBN 978-1-84584-163-8

Subaru Impreza - Rally Giants. Graham Robson. Veloce. 2006. ISBN 978-1-84584-042-9

High Performance Subaru Builder's Guide. Jeff Zurschmeide. S-A Design. 2007. ISBN 978-1-932494-51-8

Subaru Impreza WRX and WRX STi - The Complete Story. James Taylor. Crowood Press. 2012. ISBN 978-1-84797-422-8

WRX vs EVO The Complete History. Huw Evans. 671 Press. c2008. ISBN 978-0-98217-334-3


Subaru Performance Handbook - Training WRX Edition 3. Steve Bijok. Bookworks Pty Ltd. 2005. ISBN 978-1-87-69533-1-4
(This may still be available from here: http://www.mocomracing.com/product_d...9&cat=20&sub=0 )

Beasts from the East. Paul Guinness. Haynes. 2005 ISBN 978-1-84425-222-1 (Includes other makes too. There is also a paperback version from 2010 but other than the front cover photos, they appear to be completely identical.)

A - Z Japanese Performance Cars. Chris Rees. Herridge & Sons. 2005. ISBN 978-0-9541063-7-7 (Covers other makes too.)

Driven Man - David Richards, Prodrive & the Race to Win. Alan Henry. Motorbooks. 2005. ISBN 978-0-7603-2175-2

STi International - 20 Years of Progress. Izumi Hiromoto. Miki Press. 2010. ISBN 978-4-89522-541-0

Subaru Rally Team USA - 2006: A Retrospective In Photos. Edited by James Han. Subaru of America, Inc. 2007. No ISBN.

Subaru WRX. Marque Classic Series. Ewan Kennedy. Marque Publishing Company Pty Ltd. 2001. ISBN 094-70797-0-X

Subaru Impreza - La Vague Bleu. Annick Bouchot & Vincent Roussel. E-T-A-I. 2013. ISBN 978-2-7268-9742-3

That's all I have so far. If you can add anything to the list, please do so.

I hope this is of interest and thanks for any help as always.

Osimabu

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Any more books to add please folks?

type-ra

Training WRX by Nick Warne - several versions out there with input from MRT in Australia.

The Hyper Rev books are good for the JDM stuff, but much of the books are taken up with ads for JDM tuning houses.

The best one I found for the GC8s was .

Price has gone a bit daft since I bought mine

There was a bit of a debate on the Type RA site a few weeks ago: Impreza books

HTH

Dean

Osimabu

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Hi Dean, once again that's very useful information, thank you. Looks like I'd better start saving up though.

Osimabu

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If anyone is interested, I've just found that the Training WRX book is apparently still available from here for £35.00:

http://www.mocomracing.com/product_d...9&cat=20&sub=0

Osimabu

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Just to confirm the above, it is available from Mocom (and my copy is on its way).

Thanks again Dean.

Osimabu

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The book has now arrived. And it looks very good, too.

DantheMan2605

Hi mate what sort of things does it cover? I saw it on mocoms website a while back, was a bit weary of parting that much for a 'book'

thenewgalaxy

I've got a book called Beasts from the East which has a large section on Imprezas and isn't a bad read.

Osimabu

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Having had a better look through the Training WRX book this afternoon, it covers pretty much everything related to improving the cars, with good sections on engines, gearboxes and diffs, suspension, brakes, electronics, some race preparation, etc, etc.

However, it was published in late 2005 and although there's a Hawk on the cover, it consequently doesn't have much on them at all. What was state of the art then is probably fairly old hat now with the benefit of eight years of progress. There's nothing about the 2.5 engine problems for example, although it does cover the likely engine failures various problems (eg detonation) can cause.

It also seems to be biased towards the WRX, with ideas about to improve them to STi specification. No bad thing, but worth noting. And it's Australian, so some of the stuff is less applicable to the UK market cars.

It's probably the best book of its type, but I've a feeling more useful information could be found on here nowadays. I'm glad I didn't pay the daft eBay prices for a copy.

'Beasts From The East' I came across in W H Smith in the Isle of Man last week. They only had a rather dog-eared copy which I didn't buy and I'd forgotten to check if it was still available here, so thanks for the reminder.

type-ra

Glad to help

I have a few other Japanese books which I'll list for you when I dig them out.

Dean

Osimabu

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I've just updated the list at the top to include all the books others have kindly told me about, and a couple more that I've found recently.

Any others please?

Osimabu

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Another new one from Japan:

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=121155028513
It looks very interesting from what's shown on there.

Edit - If the link is broken, this is the 'STi International - 20 Years of Progress' book in post one.

Osimabu

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A couple more books added today (see Post 1, above) and one more to come from Australia shortly I hope.

Can anyone else add any to this please?

Thanks folks.

Osimabu

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The Australian one is now added ('Subaru WRX' by Ewan Kennedy).

Osimabu

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Another book to add, but only to read if you parlons Francais, of course (which I don't):

http://www.leslisieres.com/livre/439...t-roussel-etai

I've just ordered one from Amazon.fr for about £34.50 delivered. I'll report back when it arrives.

Osimabu

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This book has now been published.

It's in French and as mentioned above, I got mine from Amazon.fr (dead easy, it's the same as the UK site but in French) for just over £35 delivered. In summary, it's a history of the road cars and the rally cars with hundreds of superb colour photos, albeit some are quite familiar from other books.

A very large hardback with 194 pages, it's beautifully produced and I'm pleased with it, but sadly Je ne parle pas très bien Français, so I've no idea if it's a good read or not.

Osimabu

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As we've a lot of new folks on here at the moment, I thought I'd give this a bounce back up as it might be of interest.

Has anyone any further books to add please?

type-ra

There's a pretty fine collection of Impreza related rally books here one of the guys from down under has a fantastic collection

AWG

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Great to see some positive input to the forum nice one sir