The wait is over for WRX Owners....

[Guest]

Nope, still glad I ordered the FP turbo. The stock motor will not handle 550WHP. PERIOD. Nor will your 5spd transmission. Before you order this I would be prepared to drop about $9k in part to make your car stong enough to handle this much power. Such as: New Pistons, Rods, Cams, Headwork (port & polish, new springs, retainers, etc..), at a minimum you will want dog box gears. Not to mention you will most likely need to upgrade your clutch. Not to mention the lag you will undoubtedly have from spinning a monster turbine, so add N2O to the cost of that as well. Of course there is always labor involved if you don't do all your own wrenching (and I'm assuming you don't as you stated a while back that someone else modded your injectors for you).

Besides, I thought you told me you had a 16g already? isn't that a FP turbo or did you go w/ rallispec or greddy?

My next MAJOR engine upgrade will be a stroked and sleeved EJ257 w/ a 2.8 litre displacement, JUN cams...basically what easy street has done to their wrx, only beefier. Oh, and easy streets transmission as well (or a prodrive one...mmm...9 speed automatically shifting manual transmission...time to start selling kidneys). Needless to say this won't be happening for at LEAST a couple of years...unless some shop in town wants to sponsor all my parts...LOL;)

[Guest]

Stroked/sleeved Ej257 is definately worth it. Still looking on new tranny perhaps dogbox, I've heard mixed reviews on the easy street. But this project won't go in till next winter, I just bought another car this weekend too, my Toyota Camry Solara I'll have pics of it soon. The guy who sold it to me is from washington and his son has a silver wrx, that I actually saw in Detroit Lakes too, maybe I'll have to tell him to get on the forums. You up for a little race this week Tjamz? Just to see how good the tune is now on my car and some little issues fixed I wanna see how it handles against your FP turbo.

[DaveH]

It's Tintmasters nite on Friday, both of you guy's bring em out!

[Guest]

In Mpls that day doing dyno tuning. Sorry.

[Guest]

2k3WRXND wrote:
Stroked/sleeved Ej257 is definately worth it. Still looking on new tranny perhaps dogbox, I've heard mixed reviews on the easy street.
the easy street auto transmission is supposedly bulletproof. The mixed reviews I've heard from easystreet is that their dyno reads insanely low (like 100whp below everyone elses).

actually, someone (can't remember who now) is making a semi-closed deck built 2.8 liter shortblock engine for like $7500 (I could be WAY off on that price, it just stuck in my head). The same place also does crazy head work as well for a fair price (relatively speaking) so I'll probably just get a long block from them.

[Guest]

I remember reading that too, I think its some small shop in the Bronx or something, I read it on wrxhackers.com...I'll look for that motor build up.

[Guest]

Kotton Mouth King Concert on friday too, cant make it been looking forward to this for A LONG TIME.

As for my dyno tune, I think I'm going to let Dan @ Godspeed take care of it. From what I hear he took care of Shane's wagon quite well. He seems to be the best out of tuning our subies for sure.

[PSiedTSi]

*Kottonmouth Kings

[Dangler]

Uhh, just for clarification..

1. I thought you totalled your WRX?
2. I thought you already had a bigger turbo, at least thats what I read here (and tjamz did too)?
3. I thought you had an appt at SLS to get a bunch of work done on you car a few weeks ago?
4. I thought Godspeed already did the tuning on your car?

I guess I'm confused again.
Brett

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Dangler wrote:
Uhh, just for clarification..

1. I thought you totalled your WRX?
2. I thought you already had a bigger turbo, at least thats what I read here (and tjamz did too)?
3. I thought you had an appt at SLS to get a bunch of work done on you car a few weeks ago?
4. I thought Godspeed already did the tuning on your car?

I guess I'm confused again.
Brett

No Brett - your not confused. Drake just tells so many stories that he believes himself..

[Guest]

Dangler wrote:
Uhh, just for clarification..

1. I thought you totalled your WRX?
2. I thought you already had a bigger turbo, at least thats what I read here (and tjamz did too)?
3. I thought you had an appt at SLS to get a bunch of work done on you car a few weeks ago?
4. I thought Godspeed already did the tuning on your car?

I guess I'm confused again.
Brett1. I don't know about him totalling it, didn't hear that one

2. http://www.fargostreet.com/showthread.php?p=1066#post1066 is the post I saw of his that mentioned the 16G
3. Don't recall that being said, but maybe
4. http://www.fargostreet.com/showthread.php?p=1058#post1058

Not trying to disprove anyone here, just posting what I have seen said on here.

Chuck

[Guest]

Nope got rear ended in the WRX, SLS was going to do something but Nick said he was booked so I had it done elsewhere. I called him maybe 2 weeks ago. And I needed it done ASAP. nope I want Godspeed to do it, but I dont have the time to go to MI lately. Hopefully soon when I have enough PTO available. Can you grant me some PTO big boss? I already used mine up.

[Guest]

Tjamz, the guy your going to in Minneapolis, is he pretty well known for some decent tunes? The only reason why I'm interested with Dan is he's a well known member on a couple forums (IE clubwrx.net, Nasioc, etc) and seemed to do quite well with Shanes VF34 setup. What kind of experience does the person your going to have and on what kind of setups does he tend to prefer? Definately interested as Minneapolis is just a weekend drive, while MI is planning out a vacation.

[Guest]

From what I can tell, he has done a lot of audis and quite a few WRX's. Someone once told me (and I could be wrong here) that the guy doing the tuning was the tuner from Elite, and has a good rep as being able to tune about anything. They are only setup to work with the UTEC at this time, but I'm sure if you showed up w/ something else (Vishnu/Link/Delta/Element, etc) and had the software they would work with you to tune it.

I'll let you know just how good they are after this weekend. They told me ~340 to 350 WHP on pump gas is possible and ~370-380 WHP on c16 should be doable as well. Those are THEIR numbers, not mine. I'm happy w/ any HP # as long as the car is tuned to its potential. Thats all I really want.

[Guest]

hmmm Definately drop me an email at [email protected] when you get your results and see how it went down there. Would be most definately be interested.

[Dangler]

2k3WRXND wrote:
hmmm Definately drop me an email at [email protected] when you get your results and see how it went down there. Would be most definately be interested.

Adam - just a heads up, you probably shouldn't use your work email addy on a site like this - that's how people get fired.

Brett

[Dangler]

2k3WRXND wrote:
Nope got rear ended in the WRX

So, its not totalled!?!??! You said you had the check in hand while I was standing next to your desk....

I won't even start talking about the FMIC\TMIC you have\had\don't have....

[Guest]

Axis makes some good motors for racing: http://www.axispowerracing.net/services.html

[Guest]

Oh, and EasyStreet makes some gut-wrenching packages, but a bit on the spendy side. What exactly is 740 hp in a sorted package worth (32k seems a bit steep for my pocketbook): http://esxmotorsports.com/esx.htm