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Title: WRX Sti
Post by: GtoRA2 on July 21, 2003, 12:46:58 PM: Man! What a car lol

My buddy just got one and let me drive it! Nutty.

Talk about getting pinned to the seat!

32 grand out the door and no Radio, but it was nutty fast, would eat my current GTO for breakfast and come back for seconds hehe.
Title: WRX Sti
Post by: funkedup on July 21, 2003, 12:49:27 PM: I am so jealous. :)
Title: WRX Sti
Post by: GtoRA2 on July 21, 2003, 12:50:39 PM: So am I! After driving it, I want one... lol

I wish I where rich!
Title: WRX Sti
Post by: funkedup on July 21, 2003, 12:55:21 PM: Yeah I'm kinda stretching my budget with my current car and the STi is $10k more. I can mod my car to be about as fast as an STi for about $3k so I doubt I will ever own one, until I win the lottery. :)
Title: WRX Sti
Post by: LePaul on July 21, 2003, 01:28:48 PM: Ok, I'll bite...what's an STi ?
Title: WRX Sti
Post by: funkedup on July 21, 2003, 01:37:17 PM: It's the car that my car is a wannabe version of. It's the car that Subaru builds for homologation purposes for FIA rallying. Homologation is something they do to force race cars to be production based cars. If you want to race the car you have to build 5,000 of them or so which are almost identical to the race car. The rules have changed a bit but Subaru still builds the car.

It's an Impreza sedan with an aluminum hood, composite wing, 300 hp turbo engine with variable valve timing and water injection, limited slip front and rear differentials, active center diff, gigantic brakes, extremely stiff suspension, etc. 0-60 in about 4.5 and 1/4 mile in about 13 sec. No radio, no A/C, etc. Mitsubishi makes a similar car called the Lancer Evo.
Title: WRX Sti
Post by: nuchpatrick on July 21, 2003, 01:38:48 PM: That and he has the dinki 2.0L 4 instead of the massive 2.5L monster...hehehe
Title: WRX Sti
Post by: funkedup on July 21, 2003, 01:41:33 PM: Yeah the 2.0l engine is per FIA regulations. They actually had to sleeve the 2.5 down to 2.0. They already sell enough of the 2.0 version overseas to meet homologation requirements, so they put a 2.5 in the US version of the STi. They just introduced a detuned version of the 2.5 turbo in the Forester XT, and I think we'll see this engine in the standard WRX soon.
Title: WRX Sti
Post by: GtoRA2 on July 21, 2003, 01:42:23 PM: One mod on what Funked said.

This one had AC, I thought the was funny considering it was a radio delete car, like the radio saves more pounds then the AC system?

But still cars with no A/C suck.
Title: WRX Sti
Post by: gofaster on July 21, 2003, 01:57:09 PM: I can live without tunes - the engine should sound good enough for easy listening pleasure - but I need my A/C to defrost the windows for those 95-degree afternoon thunderstorms.
Title: WRX Sti
Post by: nuchpatrick on July 21, 2003, 03:03:40 PM: Yeah Go.. now that I have the intake and exhaust done.. I find I leave the radio off..but then at 80mph it's hard to hear over the wind...
Title: WRX Sti
Post by: funkedup on July 21, 2003, 03:05:17 PM: Yeah I've been driving around with the windows down ever since I got a Prodrive exhaust. :)
Title: WRX Sti
Post by: LePaul on July 21, 2003, 03:39:50 PM: http://www.subaru.com/servlet/showroom?track=topnav_s&command=overview&model=IMPREZA&trim=WRX_STI_SEDAN

Hubba hubba
Title: WRX Sti
Post by: Ripsnort on July 21, 2003, 03:56:02 PM: Quote
The center differential directs 35 percent of engine power to the front wheels and 65 percent to the rear when in Automatic mode, but a Driver Controlled Center Differential (DCCD) feature (not found on the European-sold STi models) allows drivers to vary that amount by turning a small "wheel" located on the center console.

Wow, isn't this a switch, something offered in the U.S. as an option but not in Europe!

4.8 sec. to 60mph is G-force factor fun. I'd hate to commute in this car though:eek:
Title: WRX Sti
Post by: narsus on July 21, 2003, 04:28:15 PM: STI is an awesome car, I have been debating about picking one up. Perhaps next year after the new engine has had a decent shakedown.

It eats pretty much everything for lunch I have seen quarter miles numbers under 12.5 secs (stock). To my knowledge that beats all Porsches except the Turbo, Mustangs, Vettes...you get the point. No radio, but it has AC (thank god), so I will wait and watch.
Title: WRX Sti
Post by: john9001 on July 21, 2003, 04:55:53 PM: one good thing about not being 20 yrs old anymore is you have no need to get to 60MPH in 4.5 sec.
Title: WRX Sti
Post by: funkedup on July 21, 2003, 05:11:53 PM: Quote
Originally posted by john9001
one good thing about not being 20 yrs old anymore is you have no need to get to 60MPH in 4.5 sec.

Speak for yourself gramps. :)
Title: No one has the need to go 0-60 that fast
Post by: GtoRA2 on July 21, 2003, 05:54:05 PM: But if you don't want to you are...

A: to old, go play golf or some other lame sport old people who need canes can do.(nothing wrong with old people)

B: Maybe thats a little to fast and you inner girl, can't take it?

C: You are a puter geek and have no clue what you are missing, but dis it cause thats what lifeless geeks do?

:D
Title: WRX Sti
Post by: Mitsu on July 21, 2003, 08:28:41 PM: I am jealous too...hehe. :) I want to drive it someday...

Funked, btw I have got this car recently.

Forester cross sports (Japanese edition, 2.0L turbo).
http://www.subaru.co.jp/forester/lineup/lineup_crosssports.html (Japanese page

Check it out. :D
Title: WRX Sti
Post by: funkedup on July 21, 2003, 08:31:48 PM: Nice one Mitsu!
Title: WRX Sti
Post by: SKurj on July 21, 2003, 08:45:31 PM: (off topic) hey Funked, notice netkar now has multiplayer

SKurj
Title: WRX Sti
Post by: Mitsu on July 21, 2003, 08:45:52 PM: Thanks, funked!

Here is My Forester. :cool:

(http://www.ah.wakwak.com/~mitsu/subaru/images/my_forester.jpg)
Title: WRX Sti
Post by: funkedup on July 21, 2003, 09:25:50 PM: Quote
Originally posted by SKurj
(off topic) hey Funked, notice netkar now has multiplayer

SKurj

I didn't know that, will try it out. I really liked the F3000 physics.
Title: WRX Sti
Post by: -tronski- on July 21, 2003, 09:26:21 PM: They're nice cars, but I could never own one....costs too much to insure (IF an insurance company would give me coverage), and I'd always be worried some salamander was stealing it!

Mind you, all those aside, it is a nice car...

Tronsky
Title: WRX Sti
Post by: Dinger on July 22, 2003, 12:26:56 AM: Nice car Mitsu. I remember a few years ago going 85 mph in downtown Nicosia in one of those. (Uh... that's the capital, urban terrain, and it was about 6pm. Impressed/scared the hell out of me.)
Title: WRX Sti
Post by: funkedup on July 22, 2003, 01:33:43 AM: Mitsu you should know they are now selling a version of your Forester in the US with the 2.5 liter engine from the US WRX STi. :D
Title: WRX Sti
Post by: Dowding on July 22, 2003, 03:32:19 AM: Me too Tronski - an Impreza Turbo 2000 is cheap enough to buy over here, there are loads of them for sale. But insurance costs for someone of my age are astronomical. I'll have to build a large no claims bonus before I get one. :)
Title: WRX Sti
Post by: fffreeze220 on July 22, 2003, 04:48:36 AM: thats my new car :)

200SX 1.8 liter engine 170hp Turbo. Its similiar to the 240 hatchback they sell in the states. Only we dont have the crappy 2.4 engine :)

(http://mitglied.lycos.de/fffreeze220/pics/200.jpg)

(http://mitglied.lycos.de/fffreeze220/pics/200_1.jpg)

(http://mitglied.lycos.de/fffreeze220/pics/200_2.jpg)

Still some Mods to do :) New weeeeeeeels, Cut the wing and the backwasher and the antenna. I gonna replace it with a litte black plastic or so.
Title: WRX Sti
Post by: -tronski- on July 22, 2003, 07:04:39 AM: Quote
Originally posted by Dowding
Me too Tronski - an Impreza Turbo 2000 is cheap enough to buy over here, there are loads of them for sale. But insurance costs for someone of my age are astronomical. I'll have to build a large no claims bonus before I get one. :)

People steal them for ram raiding here, so the insurance costs are astronomical. Subaru were offering to pay for a years worth of insurance for a new impreza not so long ago to boost sales...

Tronsky
Title: WRX Sti
Post by: lazs2 on July 22, 2003, 08:12:25 AM: Haven't seen a "radio delete" plate since my buddies '66 427 vette roadster.

I don't have a radio in either of my cars either tho. The elky is allmost quiet enough but I like the sound of the motor and tranny.
lazs
Title: Re: No one has the need to go 0-60 that fast
Post by: Sixpence on July 22, 2003, 08:18:17 AM: Quote
Originally posted by GtoRA2
But if you don't want to you are...

A: to old, go play golf or some other lame sport old people who need canes can do.(nothing wrong with old people)

B: Maybe thats a little to fast and you inner girl, can't take it?

C: You are a puter geek and have no clue what you are missing, but dis it cause thats what lifeless geeks do?

:D

That's what happens when circle jerking over fast cars just doesn't do anything for ya anymore;)
Title: WRX Sti
Post by: lazs2 on July 22, 2003, 08:20:11 AM: so what does do it for you these days?
lazs
Title: WRX Sti
Post by: Sixpence on July 22, 2003, 08:21:31 AM: Quote
Originally posted by lazs2
so what does do it for you these days?
lazs

Ask ur mom:eek:
Title: WRX Sti
Post by: Ripsnort on July 22, 2003, 08:25:16 AM: Quote
Originally posted by Sixpence
Ask ur mom:eek:

That wasn't very nice...everyone knows that Lazs mother was a Hemi and his father was a turbo!
Title: WRX Sti
Post by: Sixpence on July 22, 2003, 08:26:24 AM: Oh, Hemi, I thought you said semi
Title: WRX Sti
Post by: Sixpence on July 22, 2003, 08:28:09 AM: I'm a bad man, sorry lazs
Title: WRX Sti
Post by: lazs2 on July 22, 2003, 08:35:19 AM: so sixpence.... you hang out with 74 year old women? well.... I guess fast cars can't hold a candle to that eh?

Oh... boston? do you have that annoying accent that sounds like a love muffin braying to go along with your moronic posting style?
lazs