I'm bored, here are some pics of my WRX, showing off 1.5yrs of progress. 56k warning Options

[97sccelica]

like the title of the topic says, im bored.

so here goes,

this is the oldest pic i have of my WRX. it was taken by the dealer and used for their online ad, which is how i found the car. she had 2700 miles on her.



and this is what she looks like now



















i am thinking about painting the side skirts. i also plan on getting HID for all my lights(hi, low and fog ) as well as getting black housing headlights from an 05 wrx. a blue STI scoop is also in the plans

other than that, the car is done on the outside.

the wheels are BBS wheels that subaru offers for the WRX. they are normally the same color as the stock WRX wheels but when i got them there were chipped up because they were used on one of ESX's cars. i had them sandblasted and powdercoated a semi glossy black to keep with the whole black and blue theme

mods that u cant see:

FMIC
full exhuast
water injection
UTEC
STI 6spd
one piece driveshaft
hks bov

comming soon
gt35r
engine swap(jdm 2.0 or usdm 2.5)

[vangSTa_celica]

Great work!!! The car looks great. How's your Celica doing? Does your sister still have it?

[Cutrara]

Sexy. What kind of numbers are you putting down?

[Jdog1385]

i love it. wish i had one myself

[97sccelica]

Great work!!! The car looks great. How's your Celica doing? Does your sister still have it?

yes... she has dented and curb rashed all four wheels, sometimes she had hit a curb so hard that it ripped a chuck of tire out of the sidewall forcing me to go buy her new tires. how the wheels are still straight and balanced amazes me! also there are scratches, door dings, and scrapes all over the body. then her friends used that car safe marker crap to say happy B day on the car or something like that, and well, my sister left it on for a little bit. lets just say its not that car safe.

mechanically she is perfect. in a few years when my sister gets another car, i would like to convert the celica to 5spd and turbo it to make it a peppy daily driver.

Sexy. What kind of numbers are you putting down?

~260whp on a dynojet awd dyno. the car beats stock sti's and evo's even when i have a couple of passengers. it still feels very slow to me

still have the stock turbo. its pretty good considering how much power is lost going from the flywheel to the wheels

i plan to have ~400whp on pump gas once i swap in a JDM motor and get the gt35r turbo. then when i dont need to have the car as my daily driver, i will build a nice 2.5l motor and go for some big power

[BLINKYxMUNKEY]

Seet. That color with the Carbon Fiber is my kind of car.

[lagos]

awesome car man

what camera you using ? i like those pics

[97sccelica]

awesome car man

what camera you using ? i like those pics

its some high end canon. not sure which model, but i kno its a digital SLR and it cost him a pretty penny

[gt_driFFter]

One of the nicest/cleanest suby's I've seen! I personally love the blue/gold rally theme but everyone and their brother has that look nowadays. Nice job man.

-Josh

[Akimbo]

Carbon fiber! A man after my own heart. Looks good. I really like the vented hood.

[97sccelica]

One of the nicest/cleanest suby's I've seen! I personally love the blue/gold rally theme but everyone and their brother has that look nowadays. Nice job man.

-Josh

yea, i figured i would defy convention. i honestly have never seen another wrx with my wheels in person, especially powdercoated black(probably because subaru charges ~$750 a piece for them).

Carbon fiber! A man after my own heart. Looks good. I really like the vented hood.

thanks, i was kinda iffy about the vented look but it was in better shape than the plain hoods that CF1 had in their warehouse sale

This post has been edited by 97sccelica: Dec 31, 2005 - 9:55 PM

[dustin15brown]

looks good

[95CelicaST]

I wouldnt swap an EJ25 into that. the 2.0 was put there for a reason, its lighter and faster. I have two subarus at my house, EJ22 and EJ25, both slow and crappy.. but when I drove a WRX, it was like sex. They have a squishy, truck-like shifter, but if you get a Kartboy it gets better.

[doGGy]

There are few things you WRX is still in need But it looks awesome....

As for the first thing i would do - is get lose of the orange lenses in your headlights......

[97sccelica]

I wouldnt swap an EJ25 into that. the 2.0 was put there for a reason, its lighter and faster. I have two subarus at my house, EJ22 and EJ25, both slow and crappy.. but when I drove a WRX, it was like sex. They have a squishy, truck-like shifter, but if you get a Kartboy it gets better.

i have a perrin short shifter, going to get bushings for it eventually. as for the 2.0 being better than a 2.5, the STI 2.0 from japan is better, but the usdm STI 2.5 is a much better engine than the 2.0 that wrx's were given in the US. it has a stronger block, better cams, better heads, bigger valves and several have gotten to 500whp on a completely stock STI motor. the 2.0 in my car cant come close to that, and even if i build it, the block is still the weak point being that its open deck design

go drive an STI, im sure it will change your opinions on the EJ25 engine

There are few things you WRX is still in need But it looks awesome....

As for the first thing i would do - is get lose of the orange lenses in your headlights......

im working on that

[Consynx]

do that old legacy turbo closed block w/ the 20j head(or however it goes)

those guys are nuts...was it around 600hp???

anyways, nice lookin car. Love the way it looks at night.

[legacysti]

I wouldnt swap an EJ25 into that. the 2.0 was put there for a reason, its lighter and faster. I have two subarus at my house, EJ22 and EJ25, both slow and crappy.. but when I drove a WRX, it was like sex. They have a squishy, truck-like shifter, but if you get a Kartboy it gets better.

If you were going to swap and engine into that would would want the JDM 2.0 or the USDM closed deck 2.2, thats the very best engine subaru made, no subaru sedan/coupe with a 2.2 is slow. The 2.5 is a bigger engine so you can get the most power out of it but you give up gas mileage add more weight and the engine just isn't very good. You've never driven a WRX... they dont shift like trucks at all... Kartboy shifters suck, perrin, AVO, STI or Zerosports are the best subaru shifters

This post has been edited by legacysti: Jan 5, 2006 - 8:15 PM