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Ampliified · 04-09-2014, 11:29 AM

Hey all welcome and join me as I document the epic life of my car and photograph every moment... :woocow:

I purchased her Memorial Day Weekend 2012 or MDW12 Bro, with a mear 6 miles on the odometer and fell in love ever since!
27k miles

Exterior
-Dark Grey Metallic Paint
-20% Tints all around
-Red tails with/ smoked reverse
-Grimmspeed License plate relocater
-Gold and carbon fiber "I" badges
-Dual Color LED turn signals
-APR Carbon Fiber Front Wind Splitter
-STI JDM Black R205 Badges
-LED trunk, license plate, Reverse lights
-DGM Vortex Generator
-Rear STI fog light
-Gold Hella Horns
-Red Rally Armor Polyurethane Mudflaps (winter mode)
-Bayson R front lip (winter mode)

Interior
-2 12" Kicker subs (not installed)
-500ish Watt Eclipse Amp
-Whelen Slim lighter light bar (blue)
-5SPD STI Duracon Shift knob
-LED Dome, Overhead lights

Drivetrain
-Kartboy Short Shifter

Engine bay
-Turbosmart Recirculating Blow Off Valve
-Cobb Battery Tie Down
-Mishimoto Red Throttle body hose

Exhaust
-Invidia N1 Street
-Invidia Catless Downpipe

Tuning
-Accessport Stage 2 93 octane

Wheels/Tires/Suspension
-XXR 530 18x8.75 +33
-Hankook V12 Ventus Evo 245/35/18
-Eibach Pro-kit lowering springs
-Cusco Front Strut bar

Future Mod Path
-Dom 1.5XTR or 20G?
-DW65 Fuel Pump
-850cc or 1000cc injectors
-Process West Top Mount Intercooler
-STI Transmission Mount
-Rear shifter bushings
-SMY Dual Gauge pod cluster
(with gauges!!)
-Coils or different springs
-DGM headlights to match car paint
-HIDs
-Fog lights (OEM, Light bar or Large bug eye style?)

Definitely open to advice as to which route to take with the turbo heard plenty of advice so far the dom seems to be the best way to take as to building an awesome street wrx / future racecar

The day we met...

And from there we kicked it off!

Red mudflaps installed!

I totally fell for dat butt

Took a trip to Jersey City on 9/11

Scenic date

Our first valentines day together!!!!

Debaged

Is that you baby?

Purple Wheels and straight pipe and red tails!!! Erhmagherd

Emily and her old friend Sully bulking and looking pretty

Subie party!

Hot wet steamy nudez

Grimmspeed license plate went flawlessly no injuries obtained.

Got that down pipe on she sounds mean idling I haven't been able to rip it yet because its 100 degrees out and I have a boost leak

http://instagram.com/p/b7I4iOl3Z0/

Follow me on the gram!!

IG: Scoobysage

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddMavjqy1JU

Exhaust vid for the straight pipe I no longer own traded it for an invidia N1 street much quieter!

New exhaust + badge overlay + tail light overlay ^^^

DAT BUTT

Did a full detail on my car today looking like it came out of the dealer again I love it!!!

Turbosmart recirculating bov installed definitely enters boost much sooner than the stock plastic bov plus this one looks much nicer!

New wheels on their way to my house erhmegerd herrafrush stance to encourage her to dance! Gonna have to roll my rear fenders and hopefully thats it lol.

New wheels

XXR 530

18x8.75 +33

Hankook V12 Ventus Evo

245/35/18

Sitting pretty

Photo dump of her current status with a friend!

[/B]9/07[/B]

DSC_0419 by Ampliified, on Flickr

DSC_0420 by Ampliified, on Flickr

DSC_0415 by Ampliified, on Flickr

DSC_0397 by Ampliified, on Flickr

DSC_0388 by Ampliified, on Flickr

DSC_0382 by Ampliified, on Flickr

DSC_0380 by Ampliified, on Flickr

DSC_0374 by Ampliified, on Flickr

DSC_0363 by Ampliified, on Flickr

DSC_0352 by Ampliified, on Flickr

DSC_0345 by Ampliified, on Flickr

DSC_0341 by Ampliified, on Flickr

10/21
Had a little photo shoot with my friend not too long ago it got dark while we shot so most of the photos were no good

Possibly going full time at work soon which means more pay and hours = keeping emily!!!!!
Still not sure when thats gonna happen though hopefully soon!

11/19

Been a little while I'm definitely keeping my car put my mud flaps back on for winter mode. Looking to get new winter tires, stage 1 clutch, and other supporting winter mods depending on how well I do plowing this year. Going to be promoted to full time around March if I'm not already gone away to SOI / school of infantry and from there Scout Sniper course.

Moral of the story me and Emily are never breaking up!

12/09
Most recent mods I did were swap my summer floor mats for rubber winter ones and replace all interior and reverse lights with LEDs gives the car a classy look inside and out, Thanks Black Friday!

So Jersey got a taste of winter yesterday it took it's toll on many, but Emily had kept me safe driving home through the storm. I only have 4 weeks left with my baby before I go off to SOI / infantry training battalion

12/12
Emily is a dirty girl but I still love her 

No problems in the snow with Emily! Even with my summer tires  only a few weeks of driving until I go away to training gonna miss her!

12/20

New STI duration shift knob feels so much better than the stock knob a lot lighter and natural DGM painted vortex generator to be installed today!

Haha thanks this car means the world to me!
I just really hated the OEM shape and I love me some STI goodies so I had to scoop this at the right price!

note the new sticker and vortex generator should give me at least 20awhp and 5mpg increase!

Just got a $85 traffic ticket for going through a red light thats clearly still yellow while I'm in the intersection but I'll be away for the court date for training so I can't fight it

Like I promised changed out my intake today for the Cobb SF Intake and installed the kartboy SS which went pretty painlessly minus the snap ring but unfortunately once I went to reflash my car my Accessport kept telling me to cycle my key even though it was ON so after trying that a few times I disconnected my battery and tried again still told me to cycle my key so I pushed in the OBDII connection and the AP connection and it finally worked! Went for a test drive and not even 500M down the road and my car stalled out! I checked the code and it was P0102 low voltage from the MAF so I continued onto the Auto parts store hoping they were open and picked up a can of MAF cleaner because on the way home Emily hit 25,000 miles!!! Not the best start to a mini milestone in her life, but I cleaned the MAF checked the connection tightened the intake and what do you know Emily is back on her feet.

Cobb SF intake Black like everything else under the hood and car if you couldn't tell where I'm going with that color scheme…

Can't really tell the difference from this photo but new shift linkage and new knob feel fantastic together!

25,000 miles!!!! :drive2:

12/25
Merry Christmas or Mele Kalikimaka as my Hawaiian family says!

Little update on Emily I am back to the OEM air box and it definitely smoothed out my power band really wish I could keep the Cobb SF but Emily says no. I only have 10 days or so left with her and I'm definitely gonna miss her when I'm gone

I'm just happy she is running stronger than ever!

I'm looking to get coil overs and sway bars trans mount and bushings when I get back and turn her into a race car cause the biddies like it rough.

Found this old photo of her when she was new!

2014!!!!

1/06
Happy new year this is gonna be my last story post for awhile as I'm going away tomorrow, ENJOY!

Got the STI Rear Fog Light from Agron1979! But I won't have time to install that because I'm flying outta Jersey tomorrow morning and be gone until Mid-March down in North Carolina!

Also picked up a Cusco Front Strut bar my car is JDM yo

Gonna miss Emily a whole lot not being able to drive sucks

but I'll have some moneys for teh race car build so big things when I return!

Sorry to anyone who was interested in the Cobb AP, Invidia DP and Q300 I was selling I didn't have the time for that but anyone still interested can still snag it when I get back!

2/16
Even though I'm still in North Carolina the jersey winter wasn't too great to my sister who has been driving my car and a piece of ice took out my front lip and cracked my front bumper so I'm getting it replaced with a new Oem one looking to get a carbon fiber front lip possibly and the license plate piece on the front will be getting shaved before it goes to paint
so it works out for the best

**Big_Jim** · 04-09-2014, 12:12 PM

I've merged all of your posts into one. You can edit your post and add more to it.

Ampliified · 04-09-2014, 02:16 PM

Thank you Big Jim!

3/1
So my sister got me a new bumper and I've ordered a few goodies for my baby

To include red hella horns and bracket and the APR Carbon fiber front splitter so my car is gonna look awesome by the time I'm done with it because I still have to install my rear sti fog light I also plan on buying coils and sways before I get off active duty in less than a month!!! Miss driving my car it's been too long 

4/4
Did a little bit of work on my car yesterday but sadly didn't get around to doing any wiring yet but Emily is on a good track to being healthy again I fixed my boost leak, bent out my fender so it just needs to get some touch up paint and be alright.

BEEP BEEP! Going for gold!

Next to come will be my front splitter hopefully this weekend.

ambitiousCK · 04-09-2014, 05:05 PM

Looking good.

Shipman · 04-09-2014, 05:08 PM

nice.

Godofelru · 04-11-2014, 03:50 PM

Car looks clean, keep it that way sir.

Ampliified · 04-13-2014, 09:31 AM

Had a little photoshoot over by Rutgers University, probably the 1st time in awhile where I wasn't the photographer. Photo creds go to Kyle Petrick awesome photographer and sweet STi

Sadly after the shoot was over I had gotten a flat tire

the craters in NJ are wheel killers

Ty07allstar · 04-13-2014, 10:58 AM

Looks good man.

Shipman · 04-13-2014, 12:10 PM

Small world, I actually shot Kyles STi a little while back

Ampliified · 04-24-2014, 11:20 PM

So finally installed my APR Front Wind Splitter took a few hours to plan it out not so long to drill all the holes. I was a little nervous about making my own holes but I measured everything out and it looks great!

Started by drilling the first two holes while the splitter was jacked up on my bumper then took it off and used the preset holes on the bumper for the rest and drilled a few of my own for the extra bolts they supplied. As well as the front supports which really add to the appearance!

Stupid LED turn signal (Pass. side) won't change to orange have to buy two new ones, not even a year old!

I am even more in love with Emily she is almost two years old

I ordered a new TB-IC hose because the OEM one is garbage but it is on backorder so no boost until that comes in... hella horns and rear fog wiring on the to do list

Ampliified · 04-26-2014, 12:05 PM

I walked into the room dripping
in GOLD

Ampliified · 04-27-2014, 10:58 PM

Random meet ups are the best!
Subaru Family!

Really loving my hella horns happier than a schoolboy hitting them! :p

Ampliified · 05-06-2014, 09:56 PM

From a little meat up for some burrs and scoobies

The only two colors WRXs come in apparently WRB and DGM

Had a very small boost leak coming from my throttle body hose so I have been off my boost fix for quite some time finally after ordering the new hose from RSD weeks ago it finally shipped and I threw it on my car as well as two 5/16 bolts and nuts for the turbo/TMIC because I had snapped a bolt there once and wasn't gonna let that happen again not a chance of getting a leak from there!

Check out that tear in the hose after pulling it off! #boostproblems

new Mishimoto hose installed looking pretty and providing me a little piece of mind under load.

Installation is super simple just place the mishimoto labeled side on the TMIC facing up with the dimple underneath!

04-09-2014, 11:29 AM	#1
Ampliified Tri-State Training Wheels Join Date: Apr 2014 Location: CNJ Member #26564 My Ride: 2012 Subaru WRX iTrader: (0)	Ampliified's Epic life of Emily '12 WRX Hey all welcome and join me as I document the epic life of my car and photograph every moment... :woocow: I purchased her Memorial Day Weekend 2012 or MDW12 Bro, with a mear 6 miles on the odometer and fell in love ever since! 27k miles Exterior -Dark Grey Metallic Paint -20% Tints all around -Red tails with/ smoked reverse -Grimmspeed License plate relocater -Gold and carbon fiber "I" badges -Dual Color LED turn signals -APR Carbon Fiber Front Wind Splitter -STI JDM Black R205 Badges -LED trunk, license plate, Reverse lights -DGM Vortex Generator -Rear STI fog light -Gold Hella Horns -Red Rally Armor Polyurethane Mudflaps (winter mode) -Bayson R front lip (winter mode) Interior -2 12" Kicker subs (not installed) -500ish Watt Eclipse Amp -Whelen Slim lighter light bar (blue) -5SPD STI Duracon Shift knob -LED Dome, Overhead lights Drivetrain -Kartboy Short Shifter Engine bay -Turbosmart Recirculating Blow Off Valve -Cobb Battery Tie Down -Mishimoto Red Throttle body hose Exhaust -Invidia N1 Street -Invidia Catless Downpipe Tuning -Accessport Stage 2 93 octane Wheels/Tires/Suspension -XXR 530 18x8.75 +33 -Hankook V12 Ventus Evo 245/35/18 -Eibach Pro-kit lowering springs -Cusco Front Strut bar Future Mod Path -Dom 1.5XTR or 20G? -DW65 Fuel Pump -850cc or 1000cc injectors -Process West Top Mount Intercooler -STI Transmission Mount -Rear shifter bushings -SMY Dual Gauge pod cluster (with gauges!!) -Coils or different springs -DGM headlights to match car paint -HIDs -Fog lights (OEM, Light bar or Large bug eye style?) Definitely open to advice as to which route to take with the turbo heard plenty of advice so far the dom seems to be the best way to take as to building an awesome street wrx / future racecar The day we met... And from there we kicked it off! Red mudflaps installed! I totally fell for dat butt Took a trip to Jersey City on 9/11 Scenic date Our first valentines day together!!!! Debaged Is that you baby? Purple Wheels and straight pipe and red tails!!! Erhmagherd Emily and her old friend Sully bulking and looking pretty Subie party! Hot wet steamy nudez Grimmspeed license plate went flawlessly no injuries obtained. Got that down pipe on she sounds mean idling I haven't been able to rip it yet because its 100 degrees out and I have a boost leak http://instagram.com/p/b7I4iOl3Z0/ Follow me on the gram!! IG: Scoobysage http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddMavjqy1JU Exhaust vid for the straight pipe I no longer own traded it for an invidia N1 street much quieter! New exhaust + badge overlay + tail light overlay ^^^ DAT BUTT Did a full detail on my car today looking like it came out of the dealer again I love it!!! Turbosmart recirculating bov installed definitely enters boost much sooner than the stock plastic bov plus this one looks much nicer! New wheels on their way to my house erhmegerd herrafrush stance to encourage her to dance! Gonna have to roll my rear fenders and hopefully thats it lol. New wheels XXR 530 18x8.75 +33 Hankook V12 Ventus Evo 245/35/18 Sitting pretty Photo dump of her current status with a friend! [/B]9/07[/B] DSC_0419 by Ampliified, on Flickr DSC_0420 by Ampliified, on Flickr DSC_0415 by Ampliified, on Flickr DSC_0397 by Ampliified, on Flickr DSC_0388 by Ampliified, on Flickr DSC_0382 by Ampliified, on Flickr DSC_0380 by Ampliified, on Flickr DSC_0374 by Ampliified, on Flickr DSC_0363 by Ampliified, on Flickr DSC_0352 by Ampliified, on Flickr DSC_0345 by Ampliified, on Flickr DSC_0341 by Ampliified, on Flickr 10/21 Had a little photo shoot with my friend not too long ago it got dark while we shot so most of the photos were no good Possibly going full time at work soon which means more pay and hours = keeping emily!!!!! Still not sure when thats gonna happen though hopefully soon! 11/19 Been a little while I'm definitely keeping my car put my mud flaps back on for winter mode. Looking to get new winter tires, stage 1 clutch, and other supporting winter mods depending on how well I do plowing this year. Going to be promoted to full time around March if I'm not already gone away to SOI / school of infantry and from there Scout Sniper course. Moral of the story me and Emily are never breaking up! 12/09 Most recent mods I did were swap my summer floor mats for rubber winter ones and replace all interior and reverse lights with LEDs gives the car a classy look inside and out, Thanks Black Friday! So Jersey got a taste of winter yesterday it took it's toll on many, but Emily had kept me safe driving home through the storm. I only have 4 weeks left with my baby before I go off to SOI / infantry training battalion 12/12 Emily is a dirty girl but I still love her  No problems in the snow with Emily! Even with my summer tires  only a few weeks of driving until I go away to training gonna miss her! 12/20 New STI duration shift knob feels so much better than the stock knob a lot lighter and natural DGM painted vortex generator to be installed today! Haha thanks this car means the world to me! I just really hated the OEM shape and I love me some STI goodies so I had to scoop this at the right price! note the new sticker and vortex generator should give me at least 20awhp and 5mpg increase! Just got a $85 traffic ticket for going through a red light thats clearly still yellow while I'm in the intersection but I'll be away for the court date for training so I can't fight it Like I promised changed out my intake today for the Cobb SF Intake and installed the kartboy SS which went pretty painlessly minus the snap ring but unfortunately once I went to reflash my car my Accessport kept telling me to cycle my key even though it was ON so after trying that a few times I disconnected my battery and tried again still told me to cycle my key so I pushed in the OBDII connection and the AP connection and it finally worked! Went for a test drive and not even 500M down the road and my car stalled out! I checked the code and it was P0102 low voltage from the MAF so I continued onto the Auto parts store hoping they were open and picked up a can of MAF cleaner because on the way home Emily hit 25,000 miles!!! Not the best start to a mini milestone in her life, but I cleaned the MAF checked the connection tightened the intake and what do you know Emily is back on her feet. Cobb SF intake Black like everything else under the hood and car if you couldn't tell where I'm going with that color scheme… Can't really tell the difference from this photo but new shift linkage and new knob feel fantastic together! 25,000 miles!!!! :drive2: 12/25 Merry Christmas or Mele Kalikimaka as my Hawaiian family says! Little update on Emily I am back to the OEM air box and it definitely smoothed out my power band really wish I could keep the Cobb SF but Emily says no. I only have 10 days or so left with her and I'm definitely gonna miss her when I'm gone I'm just happy she is running stronger than ever! I'm looking to get coil overs and sway bars trans mount and bushings when I get back and turn her into a race car cause the biddies like it rough. Found this old photo of her when she was new! 2014!!!! 1/06 Happy new year this is gonna be my last story post for awhile as I'm going away tomorrow, ENJOY! Got the STI Rear Fog Light from Agron1979! But I won't have time to install that because I'm flying outta Jersey tomorrow morning and be gone until Mid-March down in North Carolina! Also picked up a Cusco Front Strut bar my car is JDM yo Gonna miss Emily a whole lot not being able to drive sucks but I'll have some moneys for teh race car build so big things when I return! Sorry to anyone who was interested in the Cobb AP, Invidia DP and Q300 I was selling I didn't have the time for that but anyone still interested can still snag it when I get back! 2/16 Even though I'm still in North Carolina the jersey winter wasn't too great to my sister who has been driving my car and a piece of ice took out my front lip and cracked my front bumper so I'm getting it replaced with a new Oem one looking to get a carbon fiber front lip possibly and the license plate piece on the front will be getting shaved before it goes to paint so it works out for the best Last edited by Ampliified; 05-06-2014 at 09:55 PM.

04-09-2014, 05:05 PM	#4
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04-11-2014, 03:50 PM	#6
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04-09-2014, 02:16 PM	#3
Ampliified Tri-State Training Wheels Join Date: Apr 2014 Location: CNJ Member #26564 My Ride: 2012 Subaru WRX iTrader: (0)	Thank you Big Jim! 3/1 So my sister got me a new bumper and I've ordered a few goodies for my baby To include red hella horns and bracket and the APR Carbon fiber front splitter so my car is gonna look awesome by the time I'm done with it because I still have to install my rear sti fog light I also plan on buying coils and sways before I get off active duty in less than a month!!! Miss driving my car it's been too long  4/4 Did a little bit of work on my car yesterday but sadly didn't get around to doing any wiring yet but Emily is on a good track to being healthy again I fixed my boost leak, bent out my fender so it just needs to get some touch up paint and be alright. BEEP BEEP! Going for gold! Next to come will be my front splitter hopefully this weekend.

04-13-2014, 09:31 AM	#7
Ampliified Tri-State Training Wheels Join Date: Apr 2014 Location: CNJ Member #26564 My Ride: 2012 Subaru WRX iTrader: (0)	Had a little photoshoot over by Rutgers University, probably the 1st time in awhile where I wasn't the photographer. Photo creds go to Kyle Petrick awesome photographer and sweet STi Sadly after the shoot was over I had gotten a flat tire the craters in NJ are wheel killers

04-13-2014, 10:58 AM	#8
Ty07allstar Noob-Jersey Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: Wilmington, DE Member #21515 My Ride: 2007 Infiniti G35x iTrader: (0)	Looks good man.

04-24-2014, 11:20 PM	#10
Ampliified Tri-State Training Wheels Join Date: Apr 2014 Location: CNJ Member #26564 My Ride: 2012 Subaru WRX iTrader: (0)	So finally installed my APR Front Wind Splitter took a few hours to plan it out not so long to drill all the holes. I was a little nervous about making my own holes but I measured everything out and it looks great! Started by drilling the first two holes while the splitter was jacked up on my bumper then took it off and used the preset holes on the bumper for the rest and drilled a few of my own for the extra bolts they supplied. As well as the front supports which really add to the appearance! Stupid LED turn signal (Pass. side) won't change to orange have to buy two new ones, not even a year old! I am even more in love with Emily she is almost two years old I ordered a new TB-IC hose because the OEM one is garbage but it is on backorder so no boost until that comes in... hella horns and rear fog wiring on the to do list

04-26-2014, 12:05 PM	#11
Ampliified Tri-State Training Wheels Join Date: Apr 2014 Location: CNJ Member #26564 My Ride: 2012 Subaru WRX iTrader: (0)	I walked into the room dripping in GOLD

04-27-2014, 10:58 PM	#12
Ampliified Tri-State Training Wheels Join Date: Apr 2014 Location: CNJ Member #26564 My Ride: 2012 Subaru WRX iTrader: (0)	Random meet ups are the best! Subaru Family! Really loving my hella horns happier than a schoolboy hitting them! :p

05-06-2014, 09:56 PM	#13
Ampliified Tri-State Training Wheels Join Date: Apr 2014 Location: CNJ Member #26564 My Ride: 2012 Subaru WRX iTrader: (0)	From a little meat up for some burrs and scoobies The only two colors WRXs come in apparently WRB and DGM Had a very small boost leak coming from my throttle body hose so I have been off my boost fix for quite some time finally after ordering the new hose from RSD weeks ago it finally shipped and I threw it on my car as well as two 5/16 bolts and nuts for the turbo/TMIC because I had snapped a bolt there once and wasn't gonna let that happen again not a chance of getting a leak from there! Check out that tear in the hose after pulling it off! #boostproblems new Mishimoto hose installed looking pretty and providing me a little piece of mind under load. Installation is super simple just place the mishimoto labeled side on the TMIC facing up with the dimple underneath!