TheDon427
03-02-2011, 03:14 PM
I bought my car new in November 2005 and after joining the site and reading up for a while, I eventually put a turboback exhaust and COBB stage 2 flash on it early on. The car was driven ~100 miles per day for school and work. It stayed that way for years with suspension mods (coilovers, swaybars, endlinks) being the only addition.
Fast forward to this past summer. I was talking to some friends about the upcoming Wicked Big Meet and said that I've never gone to one. My girlfriend, being the awesome person that she is, decided that she would convince me to go and see what it was all about. So, since it was my first time ever going and with only 2 months before WBM... I started buying parts to transform the car into something I always wanted. Well, I got everything done in time for WBM... except for my tires. Due to a another user trying to scam me with damaged parts, I had to rush to get my Chargespeed carbon fiber spats painted and ended up installing them the morning of WBM... in the rain. :unamused:
It's nothing amazing, it doesn't have 1200 hp, and it's a work in progress... but it's about 95% done and I'm proud of what it is today. Not to mention that it has 115k miles on it and now makes about 400hp that I get to use on my 75 mile daily commute! :banana:
Brakes:
Hawk HPS pads
DBA 4000 slotted rotors
Stoptech steel brake lines
Motul brake fluid
Suspension:
Helix DNA coilovers for summer
Stock struts with Tein H-tech springs for winter
Front and rear Hotchkis Competition sway bars (25.6mm)
Front and rear Kartboy endlinks
Power & Drivetrain:
Exedy Stage 1 clutch
Exedy Stage 1 flywheel
Kartboy short shifter with Kartboy front bushings
VF39 turbo
STi top mount intercooler with Perrin y-pipe
Walbro fuel pump
Hallman manual boost controller
Gimmick Motorsports turbo inlet (biggest piece of s**t ever)
Agency Power short ram with K&N intake filter
Megan 3" downpipe
Borla XR-1 3" catback exhaust
Samco ancillary hoses
Interior:
Sony headunit with aux and usb ports
Pioneer door speakers
Factory subwoofer
Innovate wideband and boost guage in Autometer dual cluster bezel
Exterior:
STi v-limited replica front lip
Hella Supertones painted black
6000k HID bulbs & balasts (hi and low beam, white not blue)
STi sideskirts
Chargespeed Bottomline sideskirts
Chargespeed Bottomline spats
Mines replica rear trunk lip
Rainguards
Rota Gforce wheels in gold 18x9 +35 offset with custom centercaps
BFGoodrich Gforce KDWII in 245/35/18
5Zigen lug nuts in graphite
Stock wheels with snow tires
I did most of this in under 2 months. I had to get it out of my system once and for all and transform the car into something I'm happy with. I never had a "show" car or a nice car for that matter so I wanted to give it a shot without going overboard since it's still a daily driver and I can't afford to have it sit in the shop for weeks at a time.
How it looked before WBM... front lip and Grillcraft grill.
http://img254.imageshack.us/img254/14/wrx1.jpg
http://img823.imageshack.us/img823/4574/wrx2.jpg
http://img255.imageshack.us/img255/1530/wrx3.jpg
http://img593.imageshack.us/img593/5776/wrx4.jpg
Fast forward to this past summer. I was talking to some friends about the upcoming Wicked Big Meet and said that I've never gone to one. My girlfriend, being the awesome person that she is, decided that she would convince me to go and see what it was all about. So, since it was my first time ever going and with only 2 months before WBM... I started buying parts to transform the car into something I always wanted. Well, I got everything done in time for WBM... except for my tires. Due to a another user trying to scam me with damaged parts, I had to rush to get my Chargespeed carbon fiber spats painted and ended up installing them the morning of WBM... in the rain. :unamused:
It's nothing amazing, it doesn't have 1200 hp, and it's a work in progress... but it's about 95% done and I'm proud of what it is today. Not to mention that it has 115k miles on it and now makes about 400hp that I get to use on my 75 mile daily commute! :banana:
Brakes:
Hawk HPS pads
DBA 4000 slotted rotors
Stoptech steel brake lines
Motul brake fluid
Suspension:
Helix DNA coilovers for summer
Stock struts with Tein H-tech springs for winter
Front and rear Hotchkis Competition sway bars (25.6mm)
Front and rear Kartboy endlinks
Power & Drivetrain:
Exedy Stage 1 clutch
Exedy Stage 1 flywheel
Kartboy short shifter with Kartboy front bushings
VF39 turbo
STi top mount intercooler with Perrin y-pipe
Walbro fuel pump
Hallman manual boost controller
Gimmick Motorsports turbo inlet (biggest piece of s**t ever)
Agency Power short ram with K&N intake filter
Megan 3" downpipe
Borla XR-1 3" catback exhaust
Samco ancillary hoses
Interior:
Sony headunit with aux and usb ports
Pioneer door speakers
Factory subwoofer
Innovate wideband and boost guage in Autometer dual cluster bezel
Exterior:
STi v-limited replica front lip
Hella Supertones painted black
6000k HID bulbs & balasts (hi and low beam, white not blue)
STi sideskirts
Chargespeed Bottomline sideskirts
Chargespeed Bottomline spats
Mines replica rear trunk lip
Rainguards
Rota Gforce wheels in gold 18x9 +35 offset with custom centercaps
BFGoodrich Gforce KDWII in 245/35/18
5Zigen lug nuts in graphite
Stock wheels with snow tires
I did most of this in under 2 months. I had to get it out of my system once and for all and transform the car into something I'm happy with. I never had a "show" car or a nice car for that matter so I wanted to give it a shot without going overboard since it's still a daily driver and I can't afford to have it sit in the shop for weeks at a time.
How it looked before WBM... front lip and Grillcraft grill.
http://img254.imageshack.us/img254/14/wrx1.jpg
http://img823.imageshack.us/img823/4574/wrx2.jpg
http://img255.imageshack.us/img255/1530/wrx3.jpg
http://img593.imageshack.us/img593/5776/wrx4.jpg