riiidaa

Good evening,

Anyone have any previous experience of getting magnesium alloy wheels X-rayed?

SportShift WRX saloon

After a 4 year hunt, I found one already in the UK that was the right colour and not in Aberdeen.



These are unicorn rare, I'm not a fan of bugs but the only ever example I've seen in blob form was on http://www.zerotohundred.com/newforums/cars-for-sale/236829-subaru-wrx-version-8-tiptronic.html in KL

So, with this factory made SportShift JDM WRX saloon coming up for sale late last year (and only months after buying a wagon variant to cannibalise) I decided that at £3500 the bought not built approach would be a better prospect.

It was originally listed for £4700 on Autotrader but kept getting reduced until it fell to the magic number whereby cannibalising the SportShift Wagon into a newage shell would have cost more than owning both, so my brother-in-law kindly collected it for me on Nov 5th from Hertfordshire on his way home from work.



First mods were organised asap

Get my plate off retention and swap wheels over from the bug wagon...

Bought an STi rear bench and door cards for it off a breaker on s/net trader section (need a hand to fit if anyone would be so kind)






Then bought a turbo-back exhaust system off StoneJedi for £300 and had Slowboy racing do an oil change and fit it ready for JGM to map it at SRR on Feb 5th, the oem pipe was so normal car sounding it could have been a mondeo firing up if you shut your eyes.

Certainly sounds more SUBARU now it has an Afterburner Vortex and Prodrive Performance cat fitted.





Remapping of my SportShift automatic Subaru Impreza, a 2001 JDM WRX remapped by JGM at Surrey Rolling Road on Feb 5th 2014 when it was still in Surrey.

Remap footage

Modifications:
Decat up-pipe
4" angled vortex afterburner tailpipe with 2.5" straight through centre and Prodrive performance cat
STi intercooler (Purchased from and fitted by Moley )


The calculations for transmission loss are set up for manuals on the rollers and the transmission loss maths for autos are different, so although the graphs of truth show 265.3 hp both Charlie and Simon estimate it's actually putting out 280 since remap, maybe this is why the yanks favour whp readings?

JGM http://www.jollygreenmonster.com/
SRR http://www.surreyrollingroad.co.uk/

SS http://www.surreyscoobies.co.uk/
SES http://www.southeastscoobies.co.uk/

Buy a turbo

I have one...

Go on, find a WR Blue saloon turbo automatic for me, rare as rocking horse poop here, and £6k to import a bugeye...

It's an R sport

Wouldnt happen to be a uk300 would it?

nope

Cheers gents

PM'd

ps.

funny how the swear filter replaces typical abbreviations with fibs about goats!

Anyone live near Wishaw?

I'm interested in a car, but I'm in South London. Possible reconnaissance requested.

Cheers in anticipation

I go to either East India dock or Holborn every week for shift work.

WRX Wagon auto

Picked up my WRX Wagon yesterday from Neil@slowboy (Of Jura fame)

Car smells much fresher now the weeping rocker cover gaskets have been replaced no more need to drive around with recirc. air on!

Fitted Doobs Scoob's old suspension so now it all sits level. Previously the fronts were GL and rears were STi on Tein springs... (had to sell BC Coilovers - too harsh)

Neil also sorted my buggered droplinks which were making a shed load of racket. Oh and I also now don't have a squeeky left rear wheel.

Top work - many thanks.

Now all I need to do is get a restrictor pill and get Neil to sell me a saloon shell he has.

Slowboy Racing

28 BLUE CHALET INDUSTRIAL PARK

London Road

Brands Hatch

Kent

TN15 6BQ

Tel; 01474 854812

Tel; 07782 106604

Email Sales@slowboy-Racing.co.uk

Email Neil@Slowboy-racing.co.uk

Ok fella ty

Davey could you perhaps nudge an admin on there for me please? I think of my account is not approved within a short timeframe it gets removed.

I love the colour:

yeah thats it..... Community then 5 down is 'Newbies'.

If i remember correctly though you don't have full access until your account has been activiated!

Thanks, yeah can't see that

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Is this the correct URL? http://aberdeenscoobies.invisionzone.com/

Signed up but can't find the Newbies section to post in...

Prefer the urban but not enough to pay for a full respray.

Save the cash for fuel

Agreed

No response from seller, I guess I'll wait for a lotto win and import a tipronic from NZ

Hi guys

Just to say thanks for offers of help so far, the update is that the auction went to a higher bidder but it seems they have not been in touch since, so today the seller emailed me asking if i was still interested; THIS was my reply:

Hi,

I'm interested, but require further details and photos, please send

me photos of:

The engine bay

The engine number

The chassis number

The

dent on the bonnet

Any other dents or imperfections around the car

(bodywork / mechanical and electrical).

A photo of the log book including

the engine / chassis numbers

Please send the photos to

r********@hotmail.com

I ask this because I'd like to get an idea of what

I will need to spend after purchasing the car, I do really want this

specific car so please give a true account of any problems there might be

with it so that I can look into what I have to do to put them

right.

Also would you object to me sending the AA or RAC to you to do an

inspection ?

Please also confirm how many former keepers there have

been, this is stated on the log book

We'll see how much of that he comes through with and then I'll ask for a visit / address.

Does anyone know more about this car, reg: MF51 Z*U

I think i discussed this car on a local forum recently, has it had an STI bottom end fitted?

If you could PM me more on that - if it's the car i sent you a link too last night. Thanks

The seller gave me a response today, he has only owned it one month (Alarm bells)

PM's on way fellas

Ah thanks chaps!

Well, so far you two have been faster to respond than the seller has. So rather than waste your time - let us first see if he will respond to my initial enquiry, with the rudimentary questions answered. If so I will ask for the location details etc and we can go from there.

It's a blue saloon WRX with a bug-to-blob conversion, the key factor for me is that it has a SportShift 4EAT auto gearbox.

Horrible story, get a land shark !

ello

Hi there,

I'm hankering after a specific WRX, but it's nearly 600 miles away in Aberdeen, I was wondering if there were any trusted Subaru Specialists in Aberdeen who might be able to check it out for me if I arrange it with the seller, or else maybe a well respected SIDC member who can go over it with a fine tooth comb. (In exchange for a drink etc)

Just a thought.