BoozyDave

one of my nephews had a KA, he said he turned right at a local roundabout and was doing 120mph around it. I took him out in my scooby on a private road and he was sh1tting himself when I was taking a corner at 80mph

very nice B)

it looks in reasonable condition, if the engine sounds and pulls ok and the rear arches are ok, it's got to be worth it

hi mate welcome to the club 3D is a work of art and very time consuming, but when it's done right it's wow. I have done programming on CNC machines and PLC programming. The PLC is like a work of art and some people just have the ability to read it easily. I was working in a factory (new machine install) and was looking through a program that wasn't performing correctly, me and their maintenance sparky had a couple of hours looking and couldn't sort it. They got a bloke in from down south and he charges £1k per day. He had a full day at it and couldn't sort it. so they had to pay a bloke to come over from Germany (paid traveling time/expenses) and he sorted it out within 4 hours. The cost of the bloke is.........£5k per day :o

hi mate welcome to the club

yeah, they are around the 300 mark. But there isn't much more to get out of the turbo. The clinic did a custom remap and gained 12bhp, then a remap with cat back and made another 8bhp. They then tried it with a sports cat and added another 10. making it 330bhp Mangoletsi subaru claim 350bhp from just a remap, but no graphs to prove. on the blob sti, the engine components/turbo were over engineered, so a remap could take it from 265bhp to 340bhp, a massive increase. some people expect the new model to be just as tuneable, but I don't think it is

very nice, some great parts B)

350bhp, good luck the standard turbo is running nearly at max on the standard map at 290bhp. If one of the best mappers in the country (Pat Herborn) can't get those sort of figures, don't think anyone else can. Have a look through the UKscoobies thread, you will get better gains with a sports cat as well. Should get 330ish

very nice B) it's only when you see a pic like that you can understand why closed deck can run bigger power than open deck blocks

Troy, I see what you mean now. The tyres should be either in stock with subaru dealers or widely available through any tyre dealer. There is no way a brand new car should have to wait weeks to have a tyre shipped half way around the world :( I would be at the dealers demanding a full set of UK available tyres to be fitted and demanding compo for 3 weeks 'car hire'

you are thinking about the cost of new tyres the wrong way think of it this way - you pay £440 for a full new set, you will have 3 nearly new jap spec tyres spare. put them on ebay/subaru forums/pistonheads for £160 each. To anyone in your position, they will be a bargain and get them out of a hole. Sell all 3 and you get £480 back. So the full new set of tyres will have cost nothing ;)

can't remember for certain, I think TD06, VF37 or VF39 IIRC

hi mate welcome to the club sorry to hear about the tyre problem. If you can only buy them by special order and they cost a fortune each, why not pay out and buy a full set of uk tyres (will cost a bit, but you won't have the same problem again) and then sell the 3 tyres for a premium (due to availability) to recoup the cost of the new tyres ;) as long as all tryes match (brand and size) you shouldn't have a problem with warranty :)

I think it will struggle to make 370bhp with just a filter, exhaust and a remap. There must be some mods missing off the list for that power. It looks like the previous owners have looked after it and spent money on it :)

I don't brew my own, I just drink lot's of kestrel super or orangiboom super every night

not sure if I'm going to be able to make this now, I'm working in Withern, so it's a 2 hour drive home, probably won't get home until 7 :(

hi mate welcome to the club

mine went last year, I bought a pair of these http://www.camskill.co.uk/m10b912s2713p30223/KAYABA_ULTRA_SR_SERIES_KYB_ULTRA_SR_SHOCK_ABSORBER_-_Ultra_SR_Rear_Shock_Absorbers_-_Pair_-_GDA_GGA_Chassis_Code_00_to_06_WRX Tein usually get good reviews http://shop.scoobyclinic.com/index.php?route=product/product&path=63_163&product_id=603

I've heard a few stories about it and non said they noticed a difference in fuel economy or performance IMO save your cash

the 05 wrx can get between 260 - 280 bhp from a remap (mine only made 263bhp with remap and exhaust). Depending on supporting mods, some can get 290-300bhp, but not often. The main increase from a remap is midrange power and torque, the car is more drivable lowdown. the peak figure is just for bragging with. the midrange is what really matters :)

OR, get a mate to go and pick the car up and say he is the legal owner. The costs will have been with the driver that brought the car in, not the owner (name on logbook doesn't prove ownership). Say you owned him money and gave him the car 2 months ago. good luck ;)

they are the professional workmen, they should be able to diagnose problems. I'm a sparky and if I diagnosed a problem and quoted £xxx to replace a certain part or do certain work, then after I had replaced said part/work, the problem was still there. Do you think they would be happy to pay me? or would I carry on until I sorted the problem? why should it cost you money because they are incompetent and can't diagnose a problem could you pay on credit card and then dispute the payment? or issue a CCJ? it's surprising how fast hire car costs can rack up.

the rear won't fit what about these http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Subaru-Impreza-Turbo-Saloon-Face-Lift-Interior-Seats-Door-Cards-Front-And-Rear/111709263363?_trksid=p2047675.c100005.m1851&_trkparms=aid%3D222007%26algo%3DSIC.MBE%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D32767%26meid%3Defb7a83ee29f4495a0e9fd6adee64679%26pid%3D100005%26rk%3D1%26rkt%3D6%26sd%3D151756777314

ask them what damage could be caused by running lean?

if they said it was a clutch issue and you asked them to change it, it's not your fault that they misdiagnosed what was wrong. They are professional tradesmen, you didn't ask them to guess and just swap good working parts for new ones. They have fitted unnecessary parts and charged you. Have they even changed them? Did they save the old parts? If you get advice over a forum (someone that can't see/hear/touch your car) and you swap parts yourself, you can accept someones advice might be wrong, but you didn't guess yourself so that you didn't waste time and money.