Evening All...
Thought it was about time I put a thread up on my car. I’ll apologise now if it turns in to a bit of a ramble but hey...
J
I bought the car in Febuary 2004 after seeing an advert on the SIDC. It started life as an MY98 Subaru Impreza Turbo 2000. A UK car originally sold by Bell and Colvill.
The day I collected it it looked like this....
The car came with the PPP from Prodrive. Apart from a change of head unit that had come from my last car, a set of Crystal Indicators and matching side repeaters, that's how it stayed for nearly a year.
In early 2005, after alot of searching for something I liked, I finally sorted out a set of rims and a shiney new set of Ultralite ES941s (as they were known at the time!) were ordered. I think they really changed the look of the car.
Next up it was time for a new exhaust. I decided on a Turbo back Ninja System, at the time it was just what I was after with a nice increase in the flat four burble and a nice roar on hard accleration without being to loud or droany.
I fitted a Green Panel filter around about the same time. After that it was about time for the first trip to the rolling road. To cut a long story short I was very disappointed with the results...
Just 225bhp/223lbft left me feeling pretty crap and in search of the missing ponies. Fortunately another trip to see Dave and Mikey at Gatwick Subaru found a badly fitted pill in one of the boost pipes, a split vacum hose and a leaking induction pipe. Needless to say it felt like a different car after that with boost rising from 0.9 bar to just short of 1.2bar.
Next up was my first trip to see Charlie at SSR were the car made a slightly more respectable 238.5bhp/250lbft which wasn't bad for a UK car that started life with a 'quoted' 208bhp/215lbft.
With a change of Job came commuting by train. This meant the car could be come a bit more of a toy so obviously a new (louder [IMG]file:///C:/Users/sclarke/AppData/Local/Temp/msohtmlclip1/01/clip_image001.gif[/IMG]) exhaust was called for. When a mate was selling a TSL Typhoon the opportunity seemed to good to miss so the deal was done.
The next job on the list was tints closely followed by a modified P1 spoiler! I also found myself a nice set of 99 spec Crystal Headlights that matched the indicators and side repeaters nicely.
