Boost Addict's 08 WRX Project - 233whp/334wtq - Pics, Vids, Dyno
01-26-2010, 10:20 PM
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I see you put much more wider tires than the original 225/45s. I can't see much difference in the pics; could you have a side pic, closer to the floor from the front in line with fenders?
I would like to see how much they stick out of the lower body. I'm planning on 235/45s and I saw one tire that size today, it seem a bit too wide...but I'm not sure.
I would like to see how much they stick out of the lower body. I'm planning on 235/45s and I saw one tire that size today, it seem a bit too wide...but I'm not sure.
01-27-2010, 10:54 PM
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Hey everyone. I've got a quick update that I thought was neat!
Anyone who's known my car intimately has known about my cloudy headlight issue. Basically, I tried some pre-production wet application tint that was supposed to give the headlamps a blue-ish hue. I did it simply for R&D purposes. Well it was supposed to cure in 2 hours, but instead took 3 days. With all the driving, dust and little bugs got stuck in my headlight lenses and the finish was simply disgusting.
So I used this solvent that was supposed to take it off. No dice. I went out a bought a headlight restoration kit that consisted of some polish and 3 levels of fine grit sand paper. That definitely took off the blue stuff but left my headlights micro-scratched and cloudy. For a while I tolerated it and didn't let it bother me. Just 2 weeks ago, I had my Ings+1 grille repainted a gloss black. Why? Because it was professionally done with PPG and cost me nothing.
The bad news upon re-installing the grille was that it's gorgeous luster immediately made my headlights look like absolute crap.
Well I finally decided to give another product a try. I found it on Pep Boys' Clearance bin for like $5 thinking 'oh, what the hell'. It's this stuff right here:
It's a simple kit that consists of 6 stick-back foam discs with a polish applied to one side. It also includes the plastic disc that goes on one end of your household drill that the foam pads adhere to. That's it. You mist water on the polish and go for it... if it gets dry, you re-mist and keep working it. If someone can do this in 5 minutes, I tip my hat off to you. It took me 20-30 to mask both lenses and polish them. But I must say, the result was STAGGERING! I did not expect a $5 headlight restoration kit to being my headlights back to crisp clarity. I even took some shots for you guys.
So if anyone's got some lens clarity issues. Give this stuff a try! I have no other updates aside from Motul becoming our newest sponsor. They will be supplying me with Motul 300V 5w-40 motor oil and 300 75w-90 gear oil. Both are pure ester! I will follow up with oil analysis as the time comes. I am anxiously waiting for the fluids to arrive.
Anyone who's known my car intimately has known about my cloudy headlight issue. Basically, I tried some pre-production wet application tint that was supposed to give the headlamps a blue-ish hue. I did it simply for R&D purposes. Well it was supposed to cure in 2 hours, but instead took 3 days. With all the driving, dust and little bugs got stuck in my headlight lenses and the finish was simply disgusting.
So I used this solvent that was supposed to take it off. No dice. I went out a bought a headlight restoration kit that consisted of some polish and 3 levels of fine grit sand paper. That definitely took off the blue stuff but left my headlights micro-scratched and cloudy. For a while I tolerated it and didn't let it bother me. Just 2 weeks ago, I had my Ings+1 grille repainted a gloss black. Why? Because it was professionally done with PPG and cost me nothing.
The bad news upon re-installing the grille was that it's gorgeous luster immediately made my headlights look like absolute crap.Well I finally decided to give another product a try. I found it on Pep Boys' Clearance bin for like $5 thinking 'oh, what the hell'. It's this stuff right here:
It's a simple kit that consists of 6 stick-back foam discs with a polish applied to one side. It also includes the plastic disc that goes on one end of your household drill that the foam pads adhere to. That's it. You mist water on the polish and go for it... if it gets dry, you re-mist and keep working it. If someone can do this in 5 minutes, I tip my hat off to you. It took me 20-30 to mask both lenses and polish them. But I must say, the result was STAGGERING! I did not expect a $5 headlight restoration kit to being my headlights back to crisp clarity. I even took some shots for you guys.
So if anyone's got some lens clarity issues. Give this stuff a try! I have no other updates aside from Motul becoming our newest sponsor. They will be supplying me with Motul 300V 5w-40 motor oil and 300 75w-90 gear oil. Both are pure ester! I will follow up with oil analysis as the time comes. I am anxiously waiting for the fluids to arrive.
01-31-2010, 11:54 AM
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Something about the OEM exhaust resonator, did you get a look inside? Is it straight flo-thru or something else? It looks like a glasspack from the outside.
Oh, some info for you. At the beggining I saw you used a K&N intake; apparently they found some improvement by moving the MAF farther from the filter and the new version put's it closer to the end of the tube. The site indicates more gains from that change, you might want to check it out.
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01-31-2010, 01:05 PM
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Mine is a 2009 WRX with the dark gray wheels, which are almost flush to the lower part of the fenders in line of sight, but there's some space to use. The OEM 225/45s leave a lot of space to the fenders edge. I'm staying with these wheesl and buying G-Force 235/45. From your pics I guess they won't stick out much and there should be no trouble with the fender's edge.
Something about the OEM exhaust resonator, did you get a look inside? Is it straight flo-thru or something else? It looks like a glasspack from the outside.
Oh, some info for you. At the beggining I saw you used a K&N intake; apparently they found some improvement by moving the MAF farther from the filter and the new version put's it closer to the end of the tube. The site indicates more gains from that change, you might want to check it out.
Something about the OEM exhaust resonator, did you get a look inside? Is it straight flo-thru or something else? It looks like a glasspack from the outside.
Oh, some info for you. At the beggining I saw you used a K&N intake; apparently they found some improvement by moving the MAF farther from the filter and the new version put's it closer to the end of the tube. The site indicates more gains from that change, you might want to check it out.
I do not recall what the oem exhaust looked like inside.
Thanks for the information on the K&N intake. Although, I no longer use the unit. With the Dom 3 XT-R, I stepped it up to a KS Tech 73mm MegaMAF Intake.
02-16-2010, 08:07 AM
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The front wheels are perpendicular to the floor, which gives a more flush look with the body. The rear camber makes more space between the fender and the top of the tire. The bottom of the tire/wheel looks better, more like the fronts.
Is this the OEM setup for the WRX or should I tell the tecs to fix it? Can it be adjusted only for the top?
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02-22-2010, 06:30 PM
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02-23-2010, 01:39 PM
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News:
I've been extremely busy recently and haven't had a chance to update the threads. The WRX is limping right now and we don't know the exact cause. I hate to do this to everyone, but it may be a little while before we find the opportunity to take everything apart.
It all started with a misfire on cylinder 2 and pulling off the road. We diagnosed it down to the spark plug. The following night, we changed all spark plugs to discover that the spark plug on 2 was toast! The insulator was shattered within.
On the following day, the car performed well. So we drove it to our tuner just to make sure the knock sensitivity and all are still in check. About 15 miles in, we felt hesitation at boost and again misfire! But this time, we heard something clattering around in the engine... We immediately pulled off the road and towed it home. There were no oil or coolant leaks, no thrown rods or pistons... None of the components in the short block have failed. So what keeps happening?
Some ideas are that the injector on that cylinder may be failing, and thus, causing a lean condition which results in detonation, blowing out the plug. The clattering we heard may have been pieces of the shattered insulator in the cylinder bank. So it is very possible that we may have some collateral damage aside from a simple injector failure.
Plan of Action:
We will pull the plugs and check the damage. We will perform a compression test. If cylinder 2 shows any issue, we will run a leak down test to try and pinpoint the problem.
We will also send out the injectors to Deatschwerks for testing to find the culprit.
If no collateral damage was caused, we will replace the injectors, spark plugs, and hit the road.
However, if any damage was caused that entails pulling the block, we will not simply repair and replace. We will send it out to be reconditioned and built with forged pistons, stronger forged rods, race bearings, etc... We would like the block to be capable of handling over 500whp. At which point, we will increase the level of boost on the Dom 3.0 XT-R and aim for over 400whp on CA-91 pump gas.
At this point, I just wanted to keep the community informed. And while we can speculate endlessly as to the cause of what happened, we simply do not know until we complete some of these tests. I have another car that I drive around, so I'm leaving the WRX to sit until we find the appropriate time to execute our plan of action. I apologize in advance if it takes us a while to get some answers, but the WRX will be up and running again soon enough! For now, my primary time and focus will remain on Treble Racing and ensuring that our customers are taken care of first. So if I can help with anything, please PM me!
I've been extremely busy recently and haven't had a chance to update the threads. The WRX is limping right now and we don't know the exact cause. I hate to do this to everyone, but it may be a little while before we find the opportunity to take everything apart.
It all started with a misfire on cylinder 2 and pulling off the road. We diagnosed it down to the spark plug. The following night, we changed all spark plugs to discover that the spark plug on 2 was toast! The insulator was shattered within.
On the following day, the car performed well. So we drove it to our tuner just to make sure the knock sensitivity and all are still in check. About 15 miles in, we felt hesitation at boost and again misfire! But this time, we heard something clattering around in the engine... We immediately pulled off the road and towed it home. There were no oil or coolant leaks, no thrown rods or pistons... None of the components in the short block have failed. So what keeps happening?
Some ideas are that the injector on that cylinder may be failing, and thus, causing a lean condition which results in detonation, blowing out the plug. The clattering we heard may have been pieces of the shattered insulator in the cylinder bank. So it is very possible that we may have some collateral damage aside from a simple injector failure.
Plan of Action:
We will pull the plugs and check the damage. We will perform a compression test. If cylinder 2 shows any issue, we will run a leak down test to try and pinpoint the problem.
We will also send out the injectors to Deatschwerks for testing to find the culprit.
If no collateral damage was caused, we will replace the injectors, spark plugs, and hit the road.
However, if any damage was caused that entails pulling the block, we will not simply repair and replace. We will send it out to be reconditioned and built with forged pistons, stronger forged rods, race bearings, etc... We would like the block to be capable of handling over 500whp. At which point, we will increase the level of boost on the Dom 3.0 XT-R and aim for over 400whp on CA-91 pump gas.
At this point, I just wanted to keep the community informed. And while we can speculate endlessly as to the cause of what happened, we simply do not know until we complete some of these tests. I have another car that I drive around, so I'm leaving the WRX to sit until we find the appropriate time to execute our plan of action. I apologize in advance if it takes us a while to get some answers, but the WRX will be up and running again soon enough!
For now, my primary time and focus will remain on Treble Racing and ensuring that our customers are taken care of first. So if I can help with anything, please PM me!
02-28-2010, 11:50 PM
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Thanks for the best wishes guys!
The TurboXS is awesome.
Already wrote a full review on page 14 (first post, #196): https://www.i-club.com/forums/showth...196968&page=14
Sorry to hear that man. I'll definitely drop all details here.
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Quick Update!
An overview of things to come:
- Closed deck EJ25 shortblock
- JE forged pistons
- H-beam connecting rods
- Race Bearings
- Performance Head Gaskets
- ARP headstuds
- KS Tech tgv delete kit
- KS Tech air pump delete kit
- Deatschwerks 1000cc injectors
- TurboXS 2-piece Downpipe (catless)
- matte black vinyl body wrap and gold sponsor decals by Down Shift Graphics
Already wrote a full review on page 14 (first post, #196): https://www.i-club.com/forums/showth...196968&page=14
---
Quick Update!
An overview of things to come:
- Closed deck EJ25 shortblock
- JE forged pistons
- H-beam connecting rods
- Race Bearings
- Performance Head Gaskets
- ARP headstuds
- KS Tech tgv delete kit
- KS Tech air pump delete kit
- Deatschwerks 1000cc injectors
- TurboXS 2-piece Downpipe (catless)
- matte black vinyl body wrap and gold sponsor decals by Down Shift Graphics
