This is my first project car. A 2009 WRX STI with 90k on the motor. Bought it with 3 mud flaps, a side fender badge missing, and an agency power intake not knowing if ever tuned for it.
My first order of business was fixing the mudflap (ordered 4 new ones), put on a nameless axle back exhaust (rusted bolts are the worst), ordered JDM black STI side badges, an AEM intake, and a cobb AP to run a stage 1 OTS AEM tune.
The next paycheck then went to a turbo XS downpipe, a nameless mid pipe, and a tun at PSI in Lansdale by drunkmann (great tuner BTW). In the middle of the tune he realized the fuel pump was going bad so had to get that replaced and the car tuned again, also before the next tune installed a kartboy short shifter (word of advice put a bag over the roll pin so you don't lose it like I do.
With the OEM turbo still on the finished tune ended up reaching 295whp and drunkmann suggesting that the turbo be replaced since it was tapering off a lot and he didn't want to push it to the edge since it was near EOL. Second time he saved my car's butt before major damage had been done.
Now in June I am getting ready for the next stage below is the list of parts that will be installed on July 11th at PSI:
FP blue turbo
ID 1050x
IAG AOS
Kartboy bushings
Radium Engineering FPR and rails
ETS TMIC
SMY gauge cluster
AEM AFR
Defi boost gauge
JDM fog lights
TIAL 38mm EWG
Grimspeed uppipe for EWG
air pump delete
Grimspeed EBCS
new drunkmann tune
I will also be having the firewall cracks fixed as well (so excited for no more squeak).
For the future with the higher levels of power, I will now start saving money to replace the stock block with a forged block (maybe IAG) and a FMIC (ETS). After I then max out the blue I will probably get a dom along with TGV deletes.
My first order of business was fixing the mudflap (ordered 4 new ones), put on a nameless axle back exhaust (rusted bolts are the worst), ordered JDM black STI side badges, an AEM intake, and a cobb AP to run a stage 1 OTS AEM tune.
The next paycheck then went to a turbo XS downpipe, a nameless mid pipe, and a tun at PSI in Lansdale by drunkmann (great tuner BTW). In the middle of the tune he realized the fuel pump was going bad so had to get that replaced and the car tuned again, also before the next tune installed a kartboy short shifter (word of advice put a bag over the roll pin so you don't lose it like I do.
With the OEM turbo still on the finished tune ended up reaching 295whp and drunkmann suggesting that the turbo be replaced since it was tapering off a lot and he didn't want to push it to the edge since it was near EOL. Second time he saved my car's butt before major damage had been done.
Now in June I am getting ready for the next stage below is the list of parts that will be installed on July 11th at PSI:
FP blue turbo
ID 1050x
IAG AOS
Kartboy bushings
Radium Engineering FPR and rails
ETS TMIC
SMY gauge cluster
AEM AFR
Defi boost gauge
JDM fog lights
TIAL 38mm EWG
Grimspeed uppipe for EWG
air pump delete
Grimspeed EBCS
new drunkmann tune
I will also be having the firewall cracks fixed as well (so excited for no more squeak).
For the future with the higher levels of power, I will now start saving money to replace the stock block with a forged block (maybe IAG) and a FMIC (ETS). After I then max out the blue I will probably get a dom along with TGV deletes.