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012.5RS · 05-09-2007, 11:27 AM

Updated: 09/09/08 NEW PICS POST SWAP!
A couple pics of my baby's progression from the beginning.

Current Mods:
Engine
ej205
cxracing fmic
perrin turbo inlet hose
spt intake
modded wrx injectors 840cc
p&p vf39
cosworth oil pan baffle
mfactory oil cooler

Brakes
4 Pots w/ hawk hps pads
lgt rears w/ stock pads
goodridge ss lines

Steering & Suspension
cusco front/rear strut bars
cusco 21mm fsb
kartboy front endlinks
cusco 21-23mm adj rsb @23
cobb tuning rear endlinks
cusco rear lower arm bar
gt spec alk
kyb agx's with kg/mm springs
group n strut mounts
whiteline steering rack bushings

Drivetrain
jdm v2 sti trans
spec stage 1 clutch
act streetlite flywheel
sti ss clutch line
group n engine mounts
kartboy short shifter with harndend bushings
group n trans mount
group n pitch stop mount

Exhaust
perrin catless up pipe(modded for ewg)/perrin catted down pipe(to keep it as quiet as possible)
borla hush catback
tial 38mm ewg

Exterior
jdm clear corners
bugeye wrx front spats
jdm cf rabbit badge
hella supertones
rally armor mudflaps
painted skirts

Electronics
utec delta
autometer phantom boost/oil press/egt in center dash housing

Wheels & Tires
16X7 98 Goldies
225/50R16 Blizzak LM22's
16x7 V6 STI Volk TE37's
225/50R16 Falken Azenis RT615's

Next Stop....

Engine
Nothing planned right now...

Exterior
v6 spats
cwest lip

Figured I'd give a little written history too. I bought the car from my older brother in August of 2005. He is a big initial d fan. He drove from philly to New Hampshire to buy this car. When he bought it, it had about 70k on the clock. After just purchasing a condo he needed money so he was going to sell it. At the time I was driving an 87 Trans Am, and all I knew of imports was his old 97 civic that looked like it came straight from the fast and the furious. He later finally got a jdm gsr swap. I took the gc to my work the have the rear wheel bearings replaced. After one day of driving it I told him I was going to buy it from him. I couldn’t describe it. It wasn’t fast, but it was fairly sporty. It was just fun to drive around. So in August 05 it became mine. After purchasing the car I joined this fabulous site along with tst. They had local meets and one night at the fresh works meet in Richboro Ryan from Area1320 came down with his GC. drools not even the word... I started talking to him and finally had a goal in mind. I was going to have a wrx swapped gc. Unfortunately I wasn’t making much money at my job and was trying to go to school full time and with all that and a gf I didn’t have much money left for my car. So I started off with a few mods in early 2006, silverstar head/fog light bulbs, hella super tones, kartboy short shifter with hardened bushings.

Next I bought the clear corners, blue star badge, and got some fog covers as a bday present to myself in April 06.

Then finally in July 06 I broke up with my gf(best thing ever, she was a leech). My first major purchase was in August 06 with my rota formels. Drove around like that for quite some time. Finally the real modding began, around Oct 06 I bought a obx cbe from ebay. Loved the sound, but wasn’t quite enough. I then purchased a borla header and installed that too. Now my car sounded like an apache helicopter at idle.

I wanted my car to stand out from the rest(everyone had either v5/6 or P1 lips), so I bought the wrx 3 piece lip, but didnt like the center diffuser so I put on just the spats. That was fine for a while, but I wanted so more handling. I purchased front/rear cusco strut bars and 21-23mm cusco rsb in Nov 06. Then the car was running great. Around late Nov though my clutch started slipping after making the mistake of trying to teach my new gf to drive stick. So I bought a spec stage 2 clutch and act streetlite flywheel, ss clutch line with group n trans and pitch stop mounts and headed up to Nazerath to see Ryan. Finally it was running good, but stopped like a semi. So I purchased a set of front 4 pots and rear lgt brakes with goodridge lines. It was great, car looked good, went ok, handled well, and stopped great.... Should have known something bad would happen.

Driving home from work one night I started hearing the loud clunking sound when I would go over bumps. Luckily I already had a set of jdm kg/mm springs my bro bought, so I ordered up a set of agx struts and group n top hats. Called up Ryan again around Nov 07 and made another trip north. Had a good laugh because after Ryan took off the ds rear strut and started walking twords the work bench the strut fell apart into 3 pieces, ala avatar pic.

Honest_Bob · 05-09-2007, 12:50 PM

Sexy! Your damn right its an addiction!

OutOfStock · 05-09-2007, 02:44 PM

makes me miss my Rs

dwl137 · 05-09-2007, 03:35 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by OutOfStock

makes me miss my Rs

Same here. I came across the clear corners & clear sides I took off when I sold it. Left the clear front parking lights in it though and found the yellow ones.

Someday I might pick one up again, who knows.

tjf · 05-09-2007, 03:49 PM

looks good

012.5RS · 05-09-2007, 05:01 PM

Finally had my suspension 90% complete, my brakes 90% complete. I was happy at where I was so far.
From then it was back to minor mods. Rally armor mudflaps here, gt spec alk there... Come Jan 07 it was coming along nicely(but I still wanted my swap). I drove the car like this for quite some time.

Feb 07 took out a loan to get my swap done. Bought my usdm wrx engine, got a v2 trans, and the major parts like the exhaust, silicone rad hoses, jdm sti rad, clutch/flywheel and so on. But as it was sitting waiting to acutally be put in I ended up spending more than expected saying, well if I do this I might as well do that while its out... You know how it goes.

012.5RS · 05-23-2007, 01:27 PM

Updated: New Pics
Took a drive around tinicum township, and decided to take some pics. Its a beautiful area up there with plenty of fun roads. If you dont know the area you can get lost pretty easily... well that is half the fun anyway.

Stymie87 · 05-23-2007, 01:41 PM

Very Nice... I have a soft spot for GC's
and lol @ puckfotholes

Renegade_ · 05-23-2007, 01:49 PM

Where'd you grab the v.5/6 front end? Looks real good so far.

012.5RS · 10-17-2007, 05:05 PM

Around early August I drove to York PA to buy my current 98 rs wheels. I wanted to wait till spring to put them on so they sat in my room. Around this time though I bought my jdm rabbit badge for my grille. So around Jan 08 I ordered my RT-615's and finally got them put on.

SUB2.5RS · 10-18-2007, 11:43 AM

Beautiful. I love the car. Keep up the good work...I miss mine. Your pics makes me jelous (sp?)

012.5RS · 10-18-2007, 05:41 PM

Late Jan 08 some q-tip decided it was a good idea to back into my ds fender. Well the body shop I took it too quoted me a price and that’s what I sent to her insurance company. I wanted to get my exterior finished so I bought a coupe spoiler off a member here. Early Feb we had a local cruise/meet. The spoiler came just in time for the meet. It came the morning of, so I quick grabbed my wrenches and threw it on. I finally got the check late Feb, and proceeded to take it to the body shop my buddy works at... One week later I had my fog covers, skirts, rear spats and wrx lip painted. The car is now sitting in Ryans new shop in Easton getting preped for the swap. In 3-4 weeks I will finally have my swapped GC. Now I only have a few tweaks that I want to do, but for now it will have to wait as I have to save money to buy a house.

Got JDM tails on it now, but no pics yet.

Next pics will be at Area1320 pre swap then post swap.

Signatus230 · 10-18-2007, 05:50 PM

Haha nice stuff, nice stuff. Good to see another GC getting swapped. Or will be anyway. =)

012.5RS · 10-31-2007, 01:10 PM

Before:

During:

After:

drdooker10 · 11-01-2007, 03:58 PM

wow beautiful rs! aspen white is zexy. Yeah Ryan will do you a flawless swap for sure, he swapped my L and he did an amazing job.

Uberu · 11-01-2007, 04:37 PM

pics look awesome and the car is going to be sick with the swap. Remember, once your old engine is out i have dibs on those headers

012.5RS · 11-01-2007, 06:36 PM

trust me dude, i think im more excited than you about that one.

BillFromTR · 11-10-2007, 05:20 PM

Subscribed for progress

Racersky · 11-10-2007, 06:10 PM

wait a minute......i see this car every single day on my way to work lol

012.5RS · 07-06-2008, 09:37 PM

MAJOR UPDATES: Currently being swapped

05-09-2007, 11:27 AM	#1
012.5RS Tri-State Post Whore Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Bucks County Member #1071 My Ride: 2001 Stage 4 2.0RS---RIP, 2002 WRX Wagon, 1995 Impreza L iTrader: (1)	012.5RS' Somewhat Sleeper GC Updated: 09/09/08 NEW PICS POST SWAP! A couple pics of my baby's progression from the beginning. Current Mods: Engine ej205 cxracing fmic perrin turbo inlet hose spt intake modded wrx injectors 840cc p&p vf39 cosworth oil pan baffle mfactory oil cooler Brakes 4 Pots w/ hawk hps pads lgt rears w/ stock pads goodridge ss lines Steering & Suspension cusco front/rear strut bars cusco 21mm fsb kartboy front endlinks cusco 21-23mm adj rsb @23 cobb tuning rear endlinks cusco rear lower arm bar gt spec alk kyb agx's with kg/mm springs group n strut mounts whiteline steering rack bushings Drivetrain jdm v2 sti trans spec stage 1 clutch act streetlite flywheel sti ss clutch line group n engine mounts kartboy short shifter with harndend bushings group n trans mount group n pitch stop mount Exhaust perrin catless up pipe(modded for ewg)/perrin catted down pipe(to keep it as quiet as possible) borla hush catback tial 38mm ewg Exterior jdm clear corners bugeye wrx front spats jdm cf rabbit badge hella supertones rally armor mudflaps painted skirts Electronics utec delta autometer phantom boost/oil press/egt in center dash housing Wheels & Tires 16X7 98 Goldies 225/50R16 Blizzak LM22's 16x7 V6 STI Volk TE37's 225/50R16 Falken Azenis RT615's Next Stop.... Engine Nothing planned right now... Exterior v6 spats cwest lip Figured I'd give a little written history too. I bought the car from my older brother in August of 2005. He is a big initial d fan. He drove from philly to New Hampshire to buy this car. When he bought it, it had about 70k on the clock. After just purchasing a condo he needed money so he was going to sell it. At the time I was driving an 87 Trans Am, and all I knew of imports was his old 97 civic that looked like it came straight from the fast and the furious. He later finally got a jdm gsr swap. I took the gc to my work the have the rear wheel bearings replaced. After one day of driving it I told him I was going to buy it from him. I couldn’t describe it. It wasn’t fast, but it was fairly sporty. It was just fun to drive around. So in August 05 it became mine. After purchasing the car I joined this fabulous site along with tst. They had local meets and one night at the fresh works meet in Richboro Ryan from Area1320 came down with his GC. drools not even the word... I started talking to him and finally had a goal in mind. I was going to have a wrx swapped gc. Unfortunately I wasn’t making much money at my job and was trying to go to school full time and with all that and a gf I didn’t have much money left for my car. So I started off with a few mods in early 2006, silverstar head/fog light bulbs, hella super tones, kartboy short shifter with hardened bushings. Next I bought the clear corners, blue star badge, and got some fog covers as a bday present to myself in April 06. Then finally in July 06 I broke up with my gf(best thing ever, she was a leech). My first major purchase was in August 06 with my rota formels. Drove around like that for quite some time. Finally the real modding began, around Oct 06 I bought a obx cbe from ebay. Loved the sound, but wasn’t quite enough. I then purchased a borla header and installed that too. Now my car sounded like an apache helicopter at idle. I wanted my car to stand out from the rest(everyone had either v5/6 or P1 lips), so I bought the wrx 3 piece lip, but didnt like the center diffuser so I put on just the spats. That was fine for a while, but I wanted so more handling. I purchased front/rear cusco strut bars and 21-23mm cusco rsb in Nov 06. Then the car was running great. Around late Nov though my clutch started slipping after making the mistake of trying to teach my new gf to drive stick. So I bought a spec stage 2 clutch and act streetlite flywheel, ss clutch line with group n trans and pitch stop mounts and headed up to Nazerath to see Ryan. Finally it was running good, but stopped like a semi. So I purchased a set of front 4 pots and rear lgt brakes with goodridge lines. It was great, car looked good, went ok, handled well, and stopped great.... Should have known something bad would happen. Driving home from work one night I started hearing the loud clunking sound when I would go over bumps. Luckily I already had a set of jdm kg/mm springs my bro bought, so I ordered up a set of agx struts and group n top hats. Called up Ryan again around Nov 07 and made another trip north. Had a good laugh because after Ryan took off the ds rear strut and started walking twords the work bench the strut fell apart into 3 pieces, ala avatar pic. __________________ Power is nothing without control Last edited by 012.5RS; 09-13-2008 at 08:17 AM.

05-09-2007, 12:50 PM	#2
Honest_Bob TST Ruined My Life! Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Easton, PA Member #1179 My Ride: 05 WRX Wagon iTrader: (2)	Sexy! Your damn right its an addiction! __________________ To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 10 or greater. You currently have 0 signatures.

05-09-2007, 02:44 PM	#3
OutOfStock Tri-State Post Whore Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Southampton/Shippensburg, Pa Member #25 My Ride: 1998 Acura Integra iTrader: (0)	makes me miss my Rs __________________ I hate my car

05-09-2007, 05:01 PM	#6
012.5RS Tri-State Post Whore Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Bucks County Member #1071 My Ride: 2001 Stage 4 2.0RS---RIP, 2002 WRX Wagon, 1995 Impreza L iTrader: (1)	Finally had my suspension 90% complete, my brakes 90% complete. I was happy at where I was so far. From then it was back to minor mods. Rally armor mudflaps here, gt spec alk there... Come Jan 07 it was coming along nicely(but I still wanted my swap). I drove the car like this for quite some time. Feb 07 took out a loan to get my swap done. Bought my usdm wrx engine, got a v2 trans, and the major parts like the exhaust, silicone rad hoses, jdm sti rad, clutch/flywheel and so on. But as it was sitting waiting to acutally be put in I ended up spending more than expected saying, well if I do this I might as well do that while its out... You know how it goes. __________________ Power is nothing without control Last edited by 012.5RS; 07-06-2008 at 09:34 PM.

05-23-2007, 01:27 PM	#7
012.5RS Tri-State Post Whore Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Bucks County Member #1071 My Ride: 2001 Stage 4 2.0RS---RIP, 2002 WRX Wagon, 1995 Impreza L iTrader: (1)	Updated: New Pics Took a drive around tinicum township, and decided to take some pics. Its a beautiful area up there with plenty of fun roads. If you dont know the area you can get lost pretty easily... well that is half the fun anyway. __________________ Power is nothing without control Last edited by 012.5RS; 07-06-2008 at 09:35 PM.

05-09-2007, 03:49 PM	#5
tjf Tri-State Addict Join Date: Oct 2006 Member #2754 iTrader: (1)	looks good

05-23-2007, 01:41 PM	#8
Stymie87 Tri-State Training Wheels Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Long Island, NY Member #4354 My Ride: 2006 Subaru WRX iTrader: (0)	Very Nice... I have a soft spot for GC's and lol @ puckfotholes __________________ ::MISS WRX:: Last edited by Stymie87; 05-23-2007 at 01:45 PM.

05-23-2007, 01:49 PM	#9
Renegade_ Tri-State Post Whore Join Date: May 2006 Location: NNJ/NYC Member #1912 My Ride: 1J Swaggon iTrader: (2)	Where'd you grab the v.5/6 front end? Looks real good so far. __________________ To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 10 or greater. You currently have 0 signatures.

10-17-2007, 05:05 PM	#10
012.5RS Tri-State Post Whore Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Bucks County Member #1071 My Ride: 2001 Stage 4 2.0RS---RIP, 2002 WRX Wagon, 1995 Impreza L iTrader: (1)	Around early August I drove to York PA to buy my current 98 rs wheels. I wanted to wait till spring to put them on so they sat in my room. Around this time though I bought my jdm rabbit badge for my grille. So around Jan 08 I ordered my RT-615's and finally got them put on. __________________ Power is nothing without control Last edited by 012.5RS; 09-13-2008 at 08:20 AM.

10-18-2007, 11:43 AM	#11
SUB2.5RS Tri-State Addict Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Philadephia Member #697 My Ride: 2.5RS , 89 Supra turbo , 93 240SX coupe (SOLD), 96 Legacy iTrader: (3)	Beautiful. I love the car. Keep up the good work...I miss mine. Your pics makes me jelous (sp?)

10-18-2007, 05:41 PM	#12
012.5RS Tri-State Post Whore Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Bucks County Member #1071 My Ride: 2001 Stage 4 2.0RS---RIP, 2002 WRX Wagon, 1995 Impreza L iTrader: (1)	Late Jan 08 some q-tip decided it was a good idea to back into my ds fender. Well the body shop I took it too quoted me a price and that’s what I sent to her insurance company. I wanted to get my exterior finished so I bought a coupe spoiler off a member here. Early Feb we had a local cruise/meet. The spoiler came just in time for the meet. It came the morning of, so I quick grabbed my wrenches and threw it on. I finally got the check late Feb, and proceeded to take it to the body shop my buddy works at... One week later I had my fog covers, skirts, rear spats and wrx lip painted. The car is now sitting in Ryans new shop in Easton getting preped for the swap. In 3-4 weeks I will finally have my swapped GC. Now I only have a few tweaks that I want to do, but for now it will have to wait as I have to save money to buy a house. Got JDM tails on it now, but no pics yet. Next pics will be at Area1320 pre swap then post swap. __________________ Power is nothing without control Last edited by 012.5RS; 09-13-2008 at 08:21 AM.

10-31-2007, 01:10 PM	#14
012.5RS Tri-State Post Whore Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Bucks County Member #1071 My Ride: 2001 Stage 4 2.0RS---RIP, 2002 WRX Wagon, 1995 Impreza L iTrader: (1)	Before: During: After: __________________ Power is nothing without control Last edited by 012.5RS; 09-09-2008 at 09:41 AM.

11-01-2007, 03:58 PM	#15
drdooker10 Tri-State Training Wheels Join Date: Oct 2007 Member #6157 iTrader: (0)	wow beautiful rs! aspen white is zexy. Yeah Ryan will do you a flawless swap for sure, he swapped my L and he did an amazing job.

11-01-2007, 04:37 PM	#16
Uberu Tri-State Addict Join Date: Jun 2006 Member #2064 My Ride: 2006 Impreza 2.5i iTrader: (0)	pics look awesome and the car is going to be sick with the swap. Remember, once your old engine is out i have dibs on those headers __________________ formerly SGMsubI Ha, is this possible, "And that's besides the fact that I'm lactose and tolerent lol..." -Willdue Wow

11-01-2007, 06:36 PM	#17
012.5RS Tri-State Post Whore Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Bucks County Member #1071 My Ride: 2001 Stage 4 2.0RS---RIP, 2002 WRX Wagon, 1995 Impreza L iTrader: (1)	trust me dude, i think im more excited than you about that one. __________________ Power is nothing without control

11-10-2007, 05:20 PM	#18
BillFromTR Tri-State Aficionado Join Date: Jan 2006 Member #1259 iTrader: (0)	Subscribed for progress __________________ To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 10 or greater. You currently have 0 signatures. To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 10 or greater. You currently have 0 signatures. To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 10 or greater. You currently have 0 signatures.

11-10-2007, 06:10 PM	#19
Racersky Tri-State Post Whore Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: North Wales, PA Member #1349 My Ride: Mr. Septa Bus iTrader: (2)	wait a minute......i see this car every single day on my way to work lol

07-06-2008, 09:37 PM	#20
012.5RS Tri-State Post Whore Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Bucks County Member #1071 My Ride: 2001 Stage 4 2.0RS---RIP, 2002 WRX Wagon, 1995 Impreza L iTrader: (1)	MAJOR UPDATES: Currently being swapped __________________ Power is nothing without control

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