Hey everyone, I sent my engine to a very good machine shop through lachute subaru www.lachutesubaru.com to have every part of it built up for as much N/A power as possible. I sent it in after damaging my engine with a nitrous dry kit when i had ported and polished heads and intake manifold and cobb's spicy cams along with all the other bolt ons. I broke a valve the first time and residual damage fromt the nitrous after it was fixed made me throw a connecting rod bearing so that was what made me decide to do this. Heres the mods:

Stromung cat back
Random tech hi flow cat
Borla headers
Cobb CAI
UD pulley
Ported and polished cylinder heads
Ported and polished intake manifold
Cobb Spicy cams
Cobb valve springs
Cobb titanium retainers
Custom stainless steel valves
Closed deck bock
11:1 compression pistons nitrous coated
custom connecting rods (length increased by 4mm)
knife edged crank shaft
balanced
blueprinted
Sleeved
ACT street clutch
9lb or 9.5lb flywheel
STi engine mounts
STi tranny mounts
Unichip engine management
NX 4 fogger nitrous kit 50 shot (used to have a zex dry)
Redline set at 8,000 rpm

I would like any input you guys have for me! The engine comes back to me before the end of the month. Im also working on a custom intake manifold with my brother which uses two throttle bodies. and I need to extrude hone my throttle body in the mean time. Thanks for any input guys!

Dan

 

I bet that set you back a pretty penny.

 

Yeah, it was pretty expensive, but I really prefer this route, its pretty uncommon with our cars, i have no idea how its gonna drive at all or what kind of low end torque Ill have. no one has any suggestions for the list? Anyone with experience on what to expect from most of this?

Yeah, my tranny is stock, and Im getting the popping out f reverse fixed on it also, I can barely parellel park without it comming out of gear!

Dan

 

Well, you could get a Link EMS

 

So you think thr borlas might not be right for the engine, do you think equal length headers might be better? All i can think of is syms...thanks for the info, ill look into that!
Dan

 

Yeah i hear good things about both companies, do you have any links or peoplw who sell their products?

Ive been a member on the old i-club for a long time, i just never posted here when it split, i stayed over a nasioc for some reason...anyway ill look into those, a link would be great! I just want to be sure that I will actually have gains from this.

Could soemone fill me in on the link EMS also? Thanks for all the replies guys!

Dan

 

No turbo for me! I wanted to be a little unique, the curiosity got to me, the only problem was that we really dont know what to expect when doing this, theres no one to ask for help or trouble shooting.

You wouldnt believe how often I get that "who dont you turbo it?" comment, I have my reasons . If I were at a meet, wouldnt you be curious to see how it drove ?? I really like my plan, i would love to have a turbo charged car (my brother has some fun ones), but this has more appeal to me for some reason, i really can t explain (which is obvious by this rambling post, Im going to bed now!)

Dan

 

How quick was your car when you have street cams? I wonder if I'll be happy with my Ganz and K&N, PROECM, Stromung Catback, plus Borla Headers, Cobb Cat, Cobb street cams, Fidenza 9 lb flywheel, N1 pulleys, ACT or Clutchmasters clutch, and STI mounts?