Good news today the bushes in my previous post have cured the clonking noise from the front end, so now to wait for my delivery from japanparts.com.

Once the upgraded parts have been fitted then I can get the geometry alignment redone.

A couple of other nice shiny STi parts now have my attention, I'm just waiting to see how much they'll cost me and if I can justify the further expenditure to myself.

 

Don't worry TY it's only money.

 

It's like water passing through my hands at the moment, although not as much as you've spent recently.

 

hahahaha! I think we are all a victim of that boys!

 

 

I stopped counting a long time ago, I'd be very cheesed off if I ever added it all up.

 

Wouldn't the eccentric bushes make more impact ( more caster ) ? Or it's really all that pink , looks over function for you these days?

 

No, because I needed to get them changed so I opted for the uprated version, the bushes are more robust and will hopefully never need to be changed again.

They aren't more eccentric than what the standard items I believe, just a case of replacing the bushes with better quality alternatives.

 

They're quality of course , what i'm saying is you could get the bushes that actually make a difference in steering department . Eccentric ones would give you over 1 degree of more caster . It's an anti lift + caster kit . It's a tad different of whiteline ones and i assume are the better ones too . Check this out.
http://www.iagperformance.com/SuperP...aloy1388ak.htm

 

I get what you're saying but I want to keep the car as it left the factory, and if I do swop out the original parts then I'll only fit original or uprated STi parts.

I like how the car performs in factory form and don't want to change it too much.

 

Fair enough , It's worth keeping it like that too

 

Ty, I'd go to Simon up at chevron Motorsport, he'll transform the handling on it

 

The steering weight is just about right as is, I know from experience that a full day behind the wheel can get pretty tiring to say the least.

I'll have to get some geometry settings from you Stu, I've no doubt you've found a pretty good balance with your cars.

I'm only really looking for a good setup for road use, Stafford and back is one hell of a long trek from West Wales.

I know they are without a doubt the best at what they do but a 9-10 hour return journey might be be too far when I do know of a few places I'd trust far closer to home.

 

Hey there, man i love the look of these RA Blobs.
You do right only to change a few things for uprated OEM parts. These cars perform very well from factory and are the perfect balance between fast road and track use. I also like what you do at the suspension. I am very interessted about Your thoughts when you get the parts on, because I want to do the same on my Hawk Spec C.


Thumbs up !

 

Thanks, I don't want to change the car too much and only with genuine STi parts where I do change something to keep the originality of the car intact.


I had a notification this morning that the parts will be with me on the 6th of March if not sooner, so hopefully these can be installed next week and once a geometry alignment is done I will post up my thoughts on how the car performs.

 

Can't wait to see them parts land mate I'm just as excited as you are

 

They might even be with me tomorrow, I'd definitely recommend FedEx to send items globally as they don't have shift the goods quickly. If this was being handled in any way by Parcelfarce then I'd be lucky to get the parts by the end of March.

 

Car looks stunning in blue, just got one of these myself, cracking cars few mods on it though but as you say should be left as is.

 

That looks great in white, very nice indeed.

 

Love this

Is the Spec C engine any different to a Standard 2004 STI Jap import ?

Just my friend had his Spec c recently mapped with just a decat system, fuel pump, basically same mods as me, and he got 20bhp , and 35 ft/lb more.

Mine was mapped to 1.3 bar, but he was getting less knock so was able to stretch to 1.45bar.. our fuel here sucks so he was running NF race octane booster but im curious is the cams valves etc all the same ?

 

Thanks.


I believe that the cylinder heads (including the camshafts, valves etc) are different, plus of course so is the inlet manifold so that is probably the cause of the increased BHP.

 

Just found this

 

[QUOTE=Cannon Fodder;11923400]They might even be with me tomorrow, I'd definitely recommend FedEx to send items globally as they don't have shift the goods quickly. If this was being handled in any way by Parcelfarce then I'd be lucky to get the parts by the end of March.

That was going to be my next question
thanks I'll be doing my japanparts order with FedEx aswell there are a lot of options though on that site I was alittle confused never ordered directly off japanparts before..

 

I received 1 of my 3 parcels today, not bad less than 2 days after despatch and in my hands, the other 2 will be with me on Monday.

Even buying in the UK you'd struggle to beat that, quicker from Japan than UK suppliers can get your items to you.

 

Are you going to open all three packages together or have you allready opened this one

 

I've opened the first one but didn't take any pics, it had the rear anti roll bar and the trailing arms in there. Of course they are the requisite STi pink and look great, it's almost a crime to fit them to a car.

 

oooh this is gonna look great , I'm partial to a little bit of pink and all
sink the pink baby lol

 

They are so quick that if you order on the Wednesday before a bank holiday, you will sometimes avoid the duty; I lucked out on an sti flexible strut brace, no vat or duty!

 

looks like the presli mountains in background nice motor

 

Yes it is the Preseli Mountains, I love that road from Haverfordwest to Eglwyswrw it's a really nice stretch of road.