Midlife Crisis Fix - 315hp Subaru WRX STI

Thats really cool... How does the car feel at that speed with AWD ?
The scariest car I have ever driven was a new Mustang(IIRC it was around 1990).. I got it up to about 125 and that was the must unstable car.
It was funny because our State Police used them and not long after I drove the new one, they quit using them.

You are right, technology is amazing.. All that power with a kiddie seat in the back. Ya gotta love it. :cool:
We have a guy in our neighborhood that has a 66 Chevy II. Its a beautiful car. I saw him the other day and he had 10.30 on his window. Every once in a while he will open up the headers and go out on the back road and have some fun.. I love that sound :D
 
I have taken my Lancer up to 130 and it craps out right there, not too bad for stability, but the breaks will send the car cartwheeling, any more than light pressure and she rocks.
 
SharpByCoop said:
I posted this on the Subaru forum, because they might understand, but to give you an idea of just how fast 400hp is on a top-end pass, I offer you this glimpse. Look closely.

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Late night, secret location, relatively safe. Yikes. It was scary.

Coop
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I'm guessing you had to get that specially modified? Or do they not have any type of limiter?

I've gotten an '03 540i up to 140-150, it starts cutting off gas to the engine. till it gets down to 120, then repeats. Those are litterally scary stable cars. You really have no clue how fast youre going sometimes... Much to the delight of the CHP. =( Great on the autbahn i'd imagine though!
 
Since you didn't ask. :)

Been through a LOT of modifications in the past year. I cracked the aluminum block due to an $8 meth T-fitting failure. So, we went in to make it stronger. Once it emerged here is my cast of characters:

  • Cast iron sleeves
  • O-ringed deck
  • Manley rods
  • Wiseco Pistons
  • Decked block and heads
  • Balanced rotating assy
  • Cosworth oil pump
  • ARP engine bolts
  • Hi-perf Kelford 272 cam and springs
  • Perrin Equal-length header
  • Rotated HTA35R turbo (Capable of 650+hp!)
  • External Tial Wastegate (Plumbed back in)
  • 1000cc injectors
  • AEM Standalone ECU computer
  • Clutchmaster Stage IV w/alum flywheel

It was a costly $8 fail. :p

I am NOT using meth injection, and we are making 460whp/460wtq at the wheels with 93 oct pump. I don't want to trust meth injection now. It proved to NOT be failsafe. :thumbdn:

We are only running waste gate spring pressure at 21 lbs of boost. This setup can support 30 lbs of boost when I am ready. (That will be soon.)

Drove it to the drag strip and back last sunday: 11.83 et @113 mph with a lousy pass. It's ready to click off an 11.4 with a good pass.

It's keeping me out of trouble and my nose to my work. An addict needs to support his habits....

Lastly, I make NO apologies that I am a 55-year-old driving a young man's car. :p Witness my stencil:

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Stay posted. We are going back to the track in two weeks. I'll dial it up again. :)

Coop
 
Congrats Coop on breaking into the 11's. Absolutely flying there bud:)
That is a big mod you have done...
Are you still running the standard ecu and gear box?
 
No, I listed the AEM ECU os one of my changes. It's needing a lot of tuning to get the low-speed performance up to the stock ECU standards. Midrange and up, it's incredible. :thumbup:

Funny, we will probably switch my gearbox to the '07 STI version. It has longer strides in 2nd-5th, and won't require a gearshift change in the lights.

Thanks!

Coop
 
Totally sick STi. You should be proud of that ride. You've really got it dialed in. Ever do any autocross with it? Turbocharged Subaru's are such fun cars. Great value for the money. My '05 turbocharged 2.5 Forester XT is still ripping along and it has 90,000 miles on it now. Still hitting around 13.8/13.9 in the 1/4 and it's bone stock. Great little sleeper.

It's a shame Subaru withdrew from the World Rally Championship. I miss seeing the old World Rally Blue Subarus e-braking through a turn sideways on a dirt trail at 80+ mph inches from big old oak trees. Heck of a rush watching those artists at work. :D
 
i've had my vette up to ~ 140 or 150 and let me tell ya thats fast, so fast ya only dare check the speedo with a quick glance, its an auto and has the hi-perf rear axle (which is IIRC 3.08's) and goes into overdrive drive at 140 lol, between 2 small towns near me ya go over a hill and the roads straight for 3 miles or so, no intersecting roads, all farmland so no livestock (hopefully anyway) and ya can see all the way to another hill ~ 3.5 miles away so imho its almost fairly safe, very little/no traffic on it, usually.

new cars are designed a lot better than older stuff, as far as stability at speed.
 
Thanks guys. Your cars are just as cool!

I'm about to take delivery of the car (again) after we've installed a second staged fuel pump (Buschur fabricated mounts). My IDC (Injector Duty Cycle) was near max at 95% with the single hi-perf pump, and the new additional pump drops it right down to 80%. Much safer and room to grow.

The Shop tells me it's making back-to-back 490hp pulls at 24lbs of boost. This week, Atco Dragway is advertising Black Friday for speed nuts: ALL DAY time trials while the missus is shopping.

I'm there!

Coop
 
Sweet ride! Just sent a buddy with a sti thats thinking of starting a build a link to the thread.

Didn't want a new Empacher single for a midlife crisis? ;)
 
Wow, what a monster! Enjoy your ride, Coop! Btw, age has nothing to do with it. As long as you are young at heart, you're good! I hope I'm still driving something like my WRX when I'm 55!
 
EricV said:
Sweet ride! Just sent a buddy with a sti thats thinking of starting a build a link to the thread.

Didn't want a new Empacher single for a midlife crisis? ;)
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Hi Eric,

Send him over to www.NASIOC.com. That's where all the action is.

Rowing: I own a 15-yr old Owen single. It is a lightweight single rowed by a now-heavyweight man who doesn't stress it enough to bend the parts. ;) I do row often, still! Thanks for the plug. :D

Coop
 
SharpByCoop said:
Hi Eric,

Send him over to www.NASIOC.com. That's where all the action is.

Rowing: I own a 15-yr old Owen single. It is a lightweight single rowed by a now-heavyweight man who doesn't stress it enough to bend the parts. ;) I do row often, still! Thanks for the plug. :D

Coop
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Thanks for the link!

My father has an old Owen he loves
I'm up at Riverfront Recapture, just closing up for the season. :)


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Sorry for the hijack Subie fans :D
 
^^ Now THAT'S the Owen shell I love and enjoy. :thumbup: :D

I've since sold it, but I owned your dad's replicate shell as a double! We named it "Blue by You" (that was when I was fast.)

Good hijack! :)

Coop (who rowed 6 miles in a quad yesterday...)
 
about the only pro to getting older is the cost of insurance for cool cars goes down, my son just turned 19 and my lord his is HIGH and he has exactly -0- tickets and an older car ('01 bonneville) with high deductible, it just about doubled what i was paying for just me and 2 cars lol.

i really like those subarus, they are a lotta car for the $$, i was thinking about getting either one of the STi turbos or a mitsubishi lancer evo turbo, but i might just wait and get a camaro Z/28 when they come out with one anyway, if i get a camaro its gotta be a Z, i used to have a '72 Z/28 silver/black stripes 4 spd with 4.11 gears, i had that thing for 21 yrs, my vette still has only 57K not bad for a 15+ yr old car, i guess i dont drive it much.
 
I took a ride in a Subbie recently at our rally. A 350 HP rally car driven along a single lane winding gravel road - at rally speed - up to 100 mph !! Not for the faint at heart !
 
This quick:

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Drove it there, drove it home on street tires, full weight. :thumbup:

Coop
 
I used to drive Suburus in the Hills of upstate NY, and that AWD is great. Quick cars, and they handle well on dirt and snow.

Drove a Legacy and an Impreza. WRX was a bit out of my price range at that time.
 
Hey Coop, do you go to any of the Subaru meets? We may or may not have met before at EFI, Wicked Big Meet, etc. if you go to any of them. I live near Danbury and hang out in CT occassionally so I bump into a lot of the CT guys.


Not sure if you posted it already but who tuned you? I was originally Jr tuned but am now Mikey tuned (STi Mikey aka PhatBotti Tuning).
 
Don't know if we met. I had my work done by Jimmy K. at The Shop in Norwalk. Junior tuned the mid-high range (and drove it to my 10.85" et. Me: 11.16" et. best), and Mark at Turbotrix tuned the low speed. ALL these guys gave me their best.

I know Mike personally. He's fantastic! I'd work with John Visconti (Visconti-Flash) as well.

We'll catch up. My new Infiniti loves to hang with you guys. :thumbup:

Coop
 
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