i love tuned subie wagons

 

Nice build,beautiful wagon

 

Kellie, are you tuning this week? If so good luck!

 

Thanks, everyone. Should have updated last night...but I didn't.

Injectors are in, but I procrastinated that "one last thing" that the car needed (coolant line from turbo) and discovered that I hadn't done the oil drain line either, and also discovered that I couldn't really do either one without pulling the turbo, so...I had to reschedule my tuning.

On the bright side, it's snowing like crazy today, so I probably would have had to reschedule it anyway. On the not so bright side, this is why you don't procrastinate, kids.

Going to do those two lines today, and finish mounting the boost controller. Hopefully tuning will happen within the next two weeks, but I work retail and this is our busy season, so I don't get a whole lot of time off.

 

My wagon is jelly.

 

Grape? Strawberry? Apricot?

 

Here's how I decided to mount my boost controller. When I bought the car, there was a digital AFR gauge next to it, but that was eliminated with the AEM standalone, so I've been playing around with some ideas to fill that space. It's just a sheet of metal wrapped in CF patterned vinyl, but I think it looks pretty darn good. Don't mind the gap on the left, it wasn't totally finished when I took the picture.



The bane of my existence:



I pee coolant:



The current state of my car:



And tuning has been rescheduled for the 13th...hopefully for real this time.

 

I just bought my first cosmetic mod. JDM STi grille (not the fog light covers).



Now I just need LHD projectors like these (note, I have no idea whose car this is, but it's pretty):

 

I love that grille, I had it on my first WRX. I can't wait to see your new dyno graph.

 

hey check out drake's for sale thread in nor cal classified's ..he's selling some..

 

He has several thread, and I don't see them...maybe they sold already.

Probably for the best anyway, I reaaaally don't need to be buying cosmetic mods when I have tuning to pay for.

 

That went MUCH better than I expected. Much, much, much better. Gained over 50 wheel horsepower at the same exact boost levels. I'm a pansy, so I didn't want to crank up the boost, but it spools up much quicker than it did before. So tired and delirious, but here's a video. Disregard our silliness at the beginning... :P

2002 WRX wagon 559whp dyno pull - YouTube

559 WHP at 23 PSI a mile above sea level!!!!

 

That's some absurd power! =o)

 

Wow, what are you using this shaggn wagn for? That's hot stuff!

 

I use it for...well, so far I've pretty much only used it as something to do after work (ya know...work on it). Now that it's running, I'm not sure what the heck I'm going to use it for. Hah.