I should have started this when I first bought the car two years ago.

My Sti story begins about 2.5 years ago. No wait it actually begins back in the late 90s when i first saw an STi in an option magazine at a race shop i worked at. I didn't understand 90% of the words in the magazine but knew it was an STI. I wanted one and wished we had it over here. Fast forward to now some 14 or so years later. I'm getting tired and bored with driving My wife's pos rolla and my truck a gas guzzling 5.9L Dodge Ram everywhere. I want something that's fun to drive and has some power again. Then my friend buys a 06 GTO that's tuned to about 360 or so at the rear and lets me drive it all the time and then borrow it for the weekend. That was it, I had to get a new car. The hunt was on. I wont lie, i didn't look at a Subaru right away I looked at some V8's first then realized a powerful RWD wont cut it for our winter trips and an AWD will plus I can sell the wife on an AWD purchase a hell of a lot easier than a RWD car with power. I now was looking at Audi's, EVO's, Subaru's, Hell anything sporty and AWD was being looked at. I thought about reliability and maintenance costs and the search narrowed down to one, Subaru. At first it was just WRX's and i had my eye on a WRX WRB limited as it was more in my price range. I came across some STI's and thought back to years before. So I upped my price range and found more options. I found a couple of STI's both 06 both similar miles and with some aftermarket upgrades, one more ice, one more performance than the other. After chatting up both owners and getting the full list of mods and history i chose IMO the right one. A 2006 CGM STi. It has 3 pervious owners, first were parents (bought for kid as college grad present so I was told) then put into childs name (so really one owner but on paper looks like two) then that guy sells to his friend because he is moving to japan. Now the guy i bought it from is selling because as he put it "its to much car for me, I want something more chill". I loved it and it was exactly what i wanted, and had the exact mods i wanted done. He had all of the service paperwork, full maintenance history, All upgrades were installed at a dealership, car had low miles and passed both leak down and compression tests with flying colors.

*Current installed mods list* *2/1/2014 She put down 281 HP 290 TQ on GST dyno*
Motor:
Cobb AP ("stage 2" Map)
Koyo Radiator
Mocal Oil cooler
Thermal Sleeved Oil cooler hoses
Greddy Sandwich adapter with thermostat and sensor adapter
Perrin CAI
Perrin Divorced 2 piece cattless DP (have a catted as well)
Samco Upper /lower TMIC hoses
Prova AOS
GMS 3" CBE Thermal Coated (I really like the sound of it)
Zero Sports TMIC splitter
1 step colder Iridium plugs
Walbro HiFlow Fuel pump
PTP Turbo blanket
SPT heat shield
Polished STI TMIC

Suspension:
White line ALK
white line Rack bushings
White line Roll center kit
Ikeya Formula Tie Rod Ends
STi Fuji Heavy Strut tower Bar up front
Beatr rush Rear Strut tower bar
Beat rush Trunk Cage kit
Cusco H brace
Cusco Sub frame bracing
Cusco Lower Center Power braces
Cusco Adj Rear Sway Bar
Kart Boy Front and rear Sway bar end links
TIC fender braces
Swift springs
Re-valved struts (according to the previous owner)

Brakes:
Power Slot Cryo treated Rotors F/R
Project MU Level Max 999 Pads F/R
Project MU 335 Brake Fluid

Interior/Exterior & Ice:
Recaro SRD Front seats
Recaro Rails
04-05 Tails
JDM Hazard switch
JDM center console controls and vents trim
OEM boost Gauge
Prova Shift ****
Pioneer DEH-P800PRS
JL HD 600/4
Alpine SPX-17PRO Front and rear
JL XD 600/1
JL 12 W6V3 D4
Phoenix Gold Circuit breaker
Stinger SPP1200 battery
Tein Hood Dampeners
APR CF Front Lip
Carbign Craft Carbon Fiber License Plate Frame
Upgraded to DDM HID high and Low beams
Rota G Force Hyper Black 18X8.5
Conti Extremecontact DW 245 35 18


**Upgrades installed then pro-tuned by Mike @GST**
Tomei EL Header and up (Swain coated Header & Up)
Blouch 18g XT 8CM with a ported wastegate
Infamous Performance Oil and avcs line
Nvidia Down Pipe DEI Titanium wrapped
Grimspeed EBCS
Deatschwerks 850 CC injectors
Samco Turbo Inlet
GR STI TMIC
Killer B Motorsport Oil Pickup tube
Group N Tranny and Motor Mounts


*Dyno* Base is Pre Upgrade stage 2 OTS Cobb Map and then Upgrades + Tune






This is how the car looked when i bought it.


The car came with Recaros SRD's, Red JDM hazard, JDM black center console cention and jdm climate controls.

upgraded Koyo Radiator, samco hoses, Prova A/O seperator

Mocal Oil cooler setup

Cusco bracing front to rear. White like ALK/ Roll controll setup.


Ikeya Formula Spherical tie rod end link setup


More to come.

 

First waste of money mod. Hot Air intake.

Beatrush Full Trunk Cage


Full 3" Coated Cat Back

Out with the stock DP

In with the Perrin two piece Dual Cat Divorce Down Pipe and a flash to stage 2 tune.

I traded my stock Top mount for a Turbo XS and rocked that for a bit.

 

Compact and light weight Stinger SPP1200 Battery. Provides plenty of power for the two JL Amps, A HD600/4 Pushing 2 pairs of Alpine SPX-17PRO's and a JL XD 600/1 pushing a JL 12 W6 2ohm

Picked this up last year, low mileage Tomei UEL header. Was going to send it to swain, I lagged and then decided to test the waters and see about trading for an EL Tomei.

Found someone with a Tomei EL Wants who wanted to go back to UEL. WIN WIN!! The wrap has been removed and the header/up has been packed up and is going to swain tech.

 

Blouch Turbo That will be getting installed soon.

 

so it begins

 

 

I picked up a used STi TMIC from someone who drove a lot in the Snow. this was after wiping it down with a cleaner.

I went to town and sanded down the cast cleaned it up and polished it.

 

looks good nice and polished. why did you switch back to stock tmic??

 

Im currently running a cobb stage 2 OTS map and felt a power difference after i put the turbo xs on. I ran the TSX unit for a year or so. That thing is HUGE and not having the car tuned for it made a diff. When i thew the stock back on and flashed the ecu i felt a difference right away. With the new turbo, I will be running the TSX TMIC for sure.

 

buy my spearco =] best tmic on the market!!

 

Nice car!

 

I have a Turbo XS TMIC, things Huge. Thanks tho.

Thank you.

 

That's a lot of freaking bracing You track this thing (or gonna track it)? Looks good.

 

Thank you.
Funny thing, I want more bracing or to change up the bracing haha. I would like to do some track days.

 

Pulled the Perrin 2piece dual cat




Installed the Perrin Catless DP I wrapped a couple weeks ago.








Flashed the Ecu. The car feels better with this DP. Wife and friend say it sounds quieter now.
Was very smokey while the wrap heat cycled. Pulled up to a stop light and the guy next to me was pointing at the smoke coming from my hood saying looks like you have a problem. Didnt want to explain why so just said yeah ill have to take a look at it.

The header/up cant come back from swain Fast enough.

Bought an 11MM oil pump and now im wondering if i should have just gone with the stock 10mm.