Newbie: Sold My Evo8 & Now Have A 94wrx!

[duke]

Hello!

Sold my evo8 which had 360 arabian thoroughbreds to fund my honeymoon back in october and recently just bought a completely standard 94wrx with 240? ish ponies off ebayon a quiet day @work for what i thought was a bargain - or as my workmate said - king of impulse buying (wish the IT lad would ban ebay!) but hey when a 1.9tdi A4 becomes your main runabout these things can happen

has proved a fun wee thing but have annoyingly started to look at mods...a few quick questions:

can i fit an sti topmount easily (bolt on?) and where can I get one?

to panel filter or mushroom (always used hks SPF in past to good effect but have been told might not be so good on the wrx)

car has been fitted with 4 pots - pads are crap am gonna change (believe are standard) , now on my evo 8 i had PF strap discs whats a good cost effective way to go on the 94wrx? was thinking maybe hitech or goodspeed bigger disc kits with ds2500- anygood or are they oldskool and newer options available?

also can the gearbox be changed easily for a uk one or perhaps at least 5th gear for a longer gear?

kept from my st205 I have 8*17" et 35 alloys with 235/45/17 barely used djo1s (ideal for knockhill) - will they fit the 94wrx?

anyhoo soon to join SIDC as my MLR membership has runout and hopefully see some of you at knockhill soon.

rgds,

Nyle.

Edited January 11, 2009 by Dorikin

[arch]

The 4 pots are pretty effective brakes with decent pads. I ran them last year with new age 2 pots at the back and DS2500's all round and it proved pretty effective. Endless do a pad that you can get from Alyn at AS performance which perfoms as well as the DS2500 but is a little cheaper and has much better wear characteristics, I have these on my 55 plate WRX and am really pleased with them.

You can fit a newage STI TMIC into a classic but it is a fair amount of work. If you look on my project thread you will see the Newage Blobeye WRX TMIC which I originally had fitted to the RA. This worked really well and fits really easily. I have removed it as I went down the FMIC route but could be persuaded to sell it along with all the necessary brackets and samco pipework, it would require a vent to atmoshere dump valve though.

http://forums.sidc.co.uk/index.php?showtopic=122196&st=0

I also ran a set of 8X17 wheels with 235x45x17 tyres on the RA at a number of events (cheers John ) with a similar offset. I didnt have many issues perhaps a very light rub of the rear inner arch but I suspect I had a camber bolt move. My rear arches are rolled so not sure if you would get away with that width without the rolled arches and coilovers. It would be close.

Hope this helps

Edited January 12, 2009 by Arch