Hi all I'm new to the club just joined tonight I'm going to upload my pictures of my project and let you guys tell me what you think and maybe you guys can give me some ideas I'm half way through a respray which me and my mate will be doing ourselves all the prep work is being done in my garage but respray is being done in a propper spray booth this first photo is how I purchased the car with Matt black alloys

I had alloys powder coated in the original subaru gold and fitted 4 pot brakes

I fitted a slightly larger and newer TMIC, HKS dump valve, k&n filter couple chrome pipes etc

I fitted the new age coil pack conversion

Fitted decat pipe

Complete cambelt change

Started rubbing back rust bubbles in the rear arches 2 discover previous owner had just fillered the holes and painted over them

Pulled the dent out of the door due to leaving it outside my house and someone decided to do a hit and run lovely people

Slight crack in the roof so started to rub it back to discover another dent in the roof along with a load of filler from previous owner

Pulled dent out of the roof and then rust cured the roof

Started putting filler on the roof

This is were I'm currently at with the roof still needs more work but the shape is getting there

Cut the old rust out up to where the decent metal was then Welded 2 skins of sheet metal in the rear arch and then small skim of filler just needs shaping

2nd skim of filler in the rear arch and slight shaping

This is current stage I'm at with 1 of the rear arches it's coming together nicely

Iv got the boot rubbed down ready for primer and the drivers front wing rubbed down ready for primer, iv got a front mount intercooler I need to install and cut the front bumper to suit

Also when I bought the vehicle I had no 2nd gear so I fitted a new gearbox and new clutch and I made sure I used castrol syntrax oil and changed spark plugs to I think the platinum iridium plugs and changed oil, oil filter, fuel filter etc

This is about as far as I can tell you about the car at the moment any questions or suggestions please feel free to comment and I will post up daily updates of the respray as I go along, car is currently running 276.8bhp from last dyno taking running td04 turbo with a piggy back ecu and switchable map I would like to hit around the 350 bhp mark by upgrading the turbo any suggestions will be great and I would like to fit a vf34 turbo but my turbo I got currently Is top entry turbo and I believe vf34 is front entry can this still be done easy enough if so what will I need to do to make this fit?

Always nice to see a early impreza getting some tlc [emoji41]

As for turbo upgrade you can fit a front entry turbo to a phase 1 by using a silicone elbow but the easiest and cheapest option would be a top entry tdo5 16g .

With the right supporting mods they will hit 350hp which is about the limit for the gearbox and classic tmic .

What colour are your injectors?

Grey 380's are good for 300hp

Yellow 440's are good for 350hp

Thanks for the reply and I need to check what injectors I currently have installed I also need to check what fuel pump is in the tank as I'd like a walboro 255 pump I'm going to be running a front mount intercooler and I'm going to have a look into a td05 16g reason for vf34 was I heard it spools up quicker and less lag is there a big difference in spool up and does price justify it If not td05 maybe way forward

Tdo5 16g will spool a bit later (500 rpm ish) and they are getting on a bit but they take more abuse ,easier to rebuild ,hold the boost higher in the Rev range, will bolt straight on and cost about £150 instead of £350 + custom silicone elbow .

Here's a graph up of my 94 sti with the standard engine running a tdo5 16g, tubular headers ,autobahn fmic ,decat and apexi intake

This was at 1.2 bar it's now forged and running 1.5 bar but I haven't got a graph

Thanks again definitely considering the td05 now

So we decided to fix my bottom part of the rotten arch tonight it came out really well just need to carry on with it tomorrow to shape it up a little more but now very happy knowing it's solid again and welded

Got some primer on the rear quarter today come out looking great well chuffed

Starting to take shape now bud [emoji106]