Flat4awd's EJ205 STM GC8

[flat4awd]

After much deliberation and procrastination, I present my Member's Journal for the 2001 RS:



Motor/Drivetrain:
02' EJ205 WRX motor
Stock TMIC with Samco Y pipe

Kartboy Pitch Stop Mount

SPT intake
Cobb Bellmouth Downpipe
Cobb 3" Stainless Steel Exhaust
Paranoid Fab Exhaust hangers
Walbro 255 LPH fuel pump
Group N Engine mounts
Stage 2 ACT HD clutch
ACT Streetlight flywheel
5MT

Handling Shiz:
Megan Street Coilovers
02' WRX front sway bar with Energy Suspension bushings, stock endlinks
02' WRX rear sway bar, stock bushings and endlinks
02' WRX Calipers front/rear

Grimmspeed Master Cylinder Brace
JDM carbon fiber front strut tower brace
eBay Rear strut tower brace (painted WRB)
EBS Redstuff pads
Brembo blank rotors
Hankook Ventus V12 Evo's
04' STi BBS wheels (painted black)

Exterior BS:
JDM front bumper and lip
JDM tails with tiny STi badge on trunk lid
Replica STi foglight covers
Truck bedlined side molding and sunroof
NASIOC front plate cover truck bedlined
Susquehanna Motorsports WRC urethane mud flaps (Only $80 something insted of $120 Rally Armour UR flaps)

Interior Crap:
04' STi seats, front/rear
Momo wheel
Kartboy short shifter
Kartboy shift knob
RS carbon fiber trim
Subaru all weather mats
Duramat trunk sound/vibration deadining
Red tape on wheel

***Still waiting to install/do...
Hella Supertones

Get all gauges working

Royal Purple gear oil change
Stage 2 tune @ Granite State Dyno
Group N STi Trans mount

Whiteline steering rack bushings

Kartboy Trans xmember bushings

Kartboy Differential xmember bushings

Kartboy Rear subframe bushings

Kartboy Rear subframe bolts
Kartboy Shifter linkage bushings F+R
JDM STi control arms

Paint BBS's yet again

GFB Respons blow off valve

Prodrive boost control solenoid

AEM Uego AFR meter

+more I'm forgetting

 

[Ray]

one of my favorite cars here! lookin good

 

[Maxxguy25RS]

I like this. very nice indeed.

 

[IBratmanI]

Nice cah Rick. After spun bearings, do not part out. Make it stronger!

 

[GClark]

Also one of my favorite RS's.

 

[flat4awd]

Thanks everyone. Yeah Jay I was just being ridiculous lol...I change the oil too frequently, and drive it too infrequently to ever spin anything. Maybe this summer I'll have a better shot at destroying it. I can't handle boost, people piss me off and I drive far too aggressive to daily that car.

 

[sooch]

Also one of my favorite RS's.

sick picture of some sweeet looking cars. About time rick! You need to throw in something about your L, and LGT.

 

[flat4awd]

 

[cwiggin]

Nice car and mod list!! Car looks sick, nice aggressive stance!! Good work man

 

[flat4awd]

Thanks also to Gabe, Mikey, Neil and anyone who's helped out in anyway to bring this car up to where it's at now. That includes the previous owner, Joey and Matt Supers from RS25.

 

[sooch]

 

[blmpkn]

Definitely awesome.

Your just on the stock tune? Hows it run?dl

 

[flat4awd]

Definitely awesome. Your just on the stock tune? Hows it run?dl

It runs great, never had a problem. Original owner ran it for 2 years, swapped, no problems. He and I both religiously change the oil every 2500 miles or sooner, and I don't drive it that often. Whenever I start it I allow the oil to run completely through the system before I drive it, (spun rod bearings are the main cause of failures in this motor, and they can develop if you don't allow the motor to fully warm up before pushing boost through it.) I always allow time for it to cool down after driving as well. Since I've blown a motor in my old Audi, I am extra paranoid of forced induction motors, but so far, so good. I'll compression test it when I get it tuned, but in reality it shows no symptoms of bad things any time soon. And to quote some real truth, "if it breaks, build it back stronger".

 

[flat4awd]

Update:

Rear strut tower bar installed, I'll be tuning it for stage 2 either this fall or next spring. She's also getting fresh paint (I'm thinking Urban Grey) next spring after taxes. Re-badged with Subaru Technica International decals to complement the modern paint. Keeping the wheels, keeping the seats, although I toyed with the idea of going to a period correct setup with Prodrive wheels/seats.

I'll take some pics this weekend, sorry their isn't any in this post,

 

[flat4awd]

As promised:

Front:

Rear (I censored this because of the family nature of this site, it's not the gangbang site that is RS25.com, if it's still too racy; in Larry The Cable Guys voice: "Lord I apologize..." ):

Interior:

Tach Advice:

Trunk (Ignore that nasty wiring mess LOL, this is meant to show the rear strut bar):

Engine bay (it's not MEYAGI build quality, but it's not the worst thing either.) Live and learn

:

What my lot looked like before I came to my financial senses (2001 RS Impreza, 1998 Legacy GT, 1995 Impreza L):

That's it for now!

-Rick

 

[flat4awd]

MAKE EM SAY UGHHHH NUW NAH NUW NAH!

-master p,

accomplished literary genius, thespian and poet of hip hop music

 

[sooch]

upload the pic with my car, dawg.

 

[flat4awd]

Ask and ye shall receive:

Do they make Subaru's past the year 2001?!

 

[flat4awd]

The JDM-ness of this thread is appalling...I'm gonna have to go back to stock.