Its going to be longer on the RS, on the wrx the pipe will connect to the turbo while on our cars its actually to the engine.

From my understand to truelly get all the gain out of breathing mods you need to mod the ecu as well.

 

yea i plan on doing all the necessary mods but i gotta do them one at a time which sucks

right now im looking into intake and exhaust

 

ok so everybody wanting the avo turbo kit from rallitek...
the thing will work with a TON of elbow grease and $. it is more than just slapping it on, there is welding and that little bit with the intercooler and it not fitting at all, period. so go with an intercooler from a wrx or get their FMIC, i don't care but its all more $. i also want to do this some day but for now my 2.5i is going on a diet and working on handling.

btw i'm new to iclub, just been on nasioc and this place is definatly more on topic. for show.


the b.e.t. guy

 

jchow your car is lookin great.. keep it up!!

 

new update:
new rimmies:






What's it missing? I'm thinking some sort of spoiler, painted side mirrors?

 

get the stock spoiler and find a place to paint the mirror skins...that's what im in the process of doing (that and the headlights...i already have the spoiler)

 

The Injen short ram is not for the 2.5i and only for the WRX and STI. Just go cold air and pick up the Injen CAI unless you wanna go for the Secret Weapon ( supposedly a good intake, but the ****tiest install instructions ever).
You shouldn't be worried about the CAI sucking up water unless you're driving hard through puddles ( why would you do that? ), you need to suck up quite a bit of water into ur fender for it to reach the CAI.

Also, I've read in a lot of places that headers are pretty much useless to be buying for the 06+'s.
Reason being the 06+ models already have equal length headers which is the only reason a lot of people would buy aftermarket headers for performance anyways, to go equal length over unequal. ( Equal length headers are more free flowing and provide better performance gains then unequal. The unequal length headers however provide a MEAN MEAN exhaust sound with that boxer rumble everyone loves.)

As of right now, none of the equal length headers on the market have really been manufactured to better the stock headers of the 06 headers so it's not worth the money to invest in. My advice would be to get the rest of your mods done first and wait too see what hits the market later on in this year as our cars are still new.

You might also be interested in suspension mods along the way because well, power is nothing without control.

 

if you guys had been looking on nasioc, intakes actually lose power over doing the intake silencer delete with a k&n pannel filter. do not install an intake without full exhaust and tuning, otherwise do the silencer delete

 

Also, don't forget that thinner head gaskets can increase compression!

 

this silencer delete you speak of, how is it done

btw j-chow the car looks extra good

 

you do no lose power from changing the intake...you either gain nothing or you gain something...you can't lose power from adding something that is non restrictive

 

I'd figure anyone who was serious about tuning their car would end up getting their exhaust and a tune regardless, so wouldn't it make sense to go with an aftermarket intake for the long run?
Who the hell is going to buy an intake for their car and leave it as is..?

 

no i mean you need both, not jsut the exhaust

the silencer delete is done by using a 10mm socket, a phillips and a regular screw driver. Alls you do here is take out all of the pins/clips out of the passenger fender well lining, take it off, then remove the two screws that hold in a huge white blob and take it out. TADA takes like 20 minutes.

 

sounds good

 

this is true for weight reduction but not intakes, just like a 3 inch exhaust on a 2.5i reduces hp. Dyno it yourself i'll bet you my life savings,