SportShift WRX saloon
After a 4 year hunt, I found one already in the UK that was the right colour and not in Aberdeen.
These are unicorn rare, I'm not a fan of bugs but the only ever example I've seen in blob form was on
http://www.zerotohundred.com/newforu...tiptronic.html in KL
So, with this factory made SportShift JDM WRX saloon coming up for sale late last year (and only months after buying a
wagon variant to cannibalise) I decided that at £3500 the bought not built approach would be a better prospect.
It was originally listed for £4700 on Autotrader but kept getting reduced until it fell to the magic number whereby cannibalising the SportShift Wagon into a blob saloon shell would have cost more than owning both, so my brother-in-law kindly collected it for me on Nov 5th from Hertfordshire on his way home from work.
First mods were organised asap
Get my plate off retention and swap wheels over from the bug wagon...
Bought an STi rear bench and door cards for it off a breaker on s/net (need a hand to fit if anyone would be so kind)
Then bought a turbo-back exhaust system off StoneJedi for £300 and had Slowboy racing do an oil change and fit it ready for JGM to map it at SRR on Feb 5th, the oem pipe was so normal car sounding it could have been a mondeo firing up if you shut your eyes.
Certainly sounds more SUBARU now it has an Afterburner Vortex and Prodrive Performance cat fitted.
Remapping of my SportShift automatic Subaru Impreza, a 2001 JDM WRX remapped by JGM at Surrey Rolling Road on Feb 5th 2014 when it was still in Surrey.
Remap footage
Modifications:
Decat up-pipe
4" angled vortex afterburner tailpipe with 2.5" straight through centre and Prodrive performance cat
STi intercooler (Purchased from and fitted by Moley
)
The calculations for transmission loss are set up for manuals on the rollers and the transmission loss maths for autos are different, so although the graphs of truth show 265.3 hp both Charlie and Simon estimate it's actually putting out 280 since remap, maybe this is why the yanks favour whp readings?
JGM
http://www.jollygreenmonster.com/
SRR
http://www.surreyrollingroad.co.uk/