paddy247

No Impreza now but pop in once a year ?

"slippery as an otters pocket" Ill have to remember that one, good write up Scott.

Great to see hows things have progressed indeed Gumball, wonder what it will look like in another 6 or 7 years. Paddy.

A lot of great classics on show, makes me wish I still had my one. will see what next year brings

Chris not long till your in the 10 sec club, Well done on your times at TOTB Paddy

Theres one of these scams on pistonheads every other day, it could be somthing to do with these guys lol

I think they are good looking cars and a lot of car for the money "poor mans porsche"? most of the top of the range Porsche's on the road are not paid for anyway so I hate that argument. I have heard that the early boxters around that age and millage are prone to needing an engine rebuilt, thats from a guy who has done a few. Id still buy one though

Andy get some updated pics up here man!! When this car gets started in the garage, theres always one somebody that shouts out in his best Frankenstein voice "its alive"

here it is at crail, not its quickest time, it done a 10.7 at santa pod ill try and find the link to that one. Peter its still running 4 injectors http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YlfiGU5tneE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3I7lxjOA2M

Been a few changes since these pics, mainly seats, suspension and saftey features, heres Andys monster

Shocking, brood daylight and working hours of the garage to.

Good question this one, id imagine in a few years it will be hard to get an early unmodified classic impreza, so if u have a good one it might be worth keeping it that way, Personally id like to have a standard, concours series mcrae in my garage. With plenty fresh imports of the early versions available at the moment we havent really had to consider restoring rusty old shells as most of these cars as a good as some 2-3 year old uk cars, however some of the early uk cars are showing signs of corrosion, its probally about the time to start on the upkeep of special edition such as the mcrae, terzo, ect, ect, And like has been said on this post already, standard and restored or modified and restored! as long as its done right you cant go wrong. cheers Paddy

Give AWD MOTORSPORT IN PERTH A CALL 01738 633336 or www.awdmotorsport.co.uk They can build you anything you want, big budget or small budget. Paint and body work undertaken also. Cars then maped by Andy F Theres been a few of there cars featured in last couple of months, this months one in Japanese Performance and last month one in Total impreza, they all made front cover to plenty more out there in mags and indeed members cars of this site.

well I wouldnt say no to that! Looks great Paddy

Try Grahame the guy that just painted your door, he has the proper equipment for rolling the arches and makes a top job as you know, cheers Paddy

WOW Grant!!! I like many others have been watching this on pistonheads, I think it started off at 15k and seen it last week for 9k, bargain for an icon, I to have a DVD in the collection of that car getting flung around the streets of Japan, Enjoy Paddy.

AWD Motorsport in Perth should have them in stock also, Awsome Type R Featured, built by AWD, they forgot to mention that though and the Engine spec list and power upgrades has been left out, Car was mapped by Andy F.

ohh dear, Please explain Dipsy,

Dipsy you should be fine, the paper ones out the kellogg's box dont have dates, Just checked mine, it runs out next year, cheers for the heads up, wasnt aware of this.

Sounds a bit heavy handed but withine there powers. Myabe your car flagged up un there computer for what ever reason, previous owners, reports ect. Somthing gave them suspision to act like, maybe some sort of activity thats going on in the area ect, maybe you should join the masonic lodge lol

1. If your sidelights won't switch off look for the parking light switch on top of the steering column . 2.Use the search function on the forum before asking the same old question . 3. The best first mod for an impreza is the exhaust (backbox at least) 4. Buy a classic 5. Make sure you get regular quality oil / filter changes every 3 - 4000 miles 6. Always run the car on good quality fuel - V Power/BP Ultimate/Tesco 99 and add octane booster for safety in an unremapped import 7. Avoid "chip"ing an impreza - get it remapped by an expert like AndyForrest (Apexi for classics, ECUtek for newage) 8. Sell the Newage and buy a Classic 9. Always wait till the engine is nice and warm before giving it full pelt and let it cool down befrore switching it off 10. Upgrade your brakes before modding the engine 11. A VTA dumpvalve isnt really a good idea unless your car is getting remapped to compensate for it. It will momentarily make your car run rich as the ecu gives fuel for air which has been dumped and not recirculated. All you are missing is the gay noise. 12. Solid rear droplinks and a decent suspension geometry set-up are probably one of the best sub-£100 modifications you can do to a standard car. 13. new ages will undertseer when at the limit 14. If you have a classic get Strutt Braces. The improvement is outstanding! If you have a new age...no luck! loL! 15. Clean out the boost solenoid once in a while and dont fill engine oil right up to max. 16. Go to the SIDC track days at knockhill, you get free tuition from an instructor if you want (plus ensure you wear Cat boots far better that way!!!!) 17. Love every minute of driving and owning it (it will make handing over the credit card much easier 18. Goto meets/Knockhill/Crail and tell us who you are?We don't bite sometimes 20. Join the SIDC and you'll get discounts on insurance and dealer supplied parts in addition to track days. 19. For some obscure reason there is a lot of mention of goats & homosexuals in here. Do NOT let this put you off our forums. 99% of our members are "normal" but we are all fans of The Hoff. 20. Always prefill the oil filter when doing an oil change 21. Dont believe everything you read on the forums. 22. Send off for a Shell card 23. What ever BHP you get, you will never be happy 24. BLUE is the best colour. 25. Is your car standard? - leave it that way. 26. Watch out for the Impreza's "lift-off" oversteer. It's wicked, particularly on a wet Knockhill! 27. wave to other scoob drivers 28. never buy a set of lexus rear lights[+o(] 29. sidc love some photography of your beloved 30. dont sell your scoob you will regret it and will end up with another 1 31. The best place to hang out on saturday nights is at OSIDC 32. Modding is for MEN 33. Going JDM is for winners..........leave the chocolate UK's to the Willy Wonka lovers! 34.^^Andy speaks the truth, JDM is the way forward!! 35. K.I.S.S. Keep it simple stupid and don't mod what doesn't need modding (dump valves etc) 36.NEVER let the other half known how much youve spent on the car.she will be jelious! 37. Dont go to Halfords for your servicing parts - they are more likely to give you filters for a lada or skoda. 38. the bright button really does just make the clock brighter 39. Never believe anything read on Ebay 40. Never buy a impreza when you get 10 spare ST2 (spaceman) 41. CLASSIC ARE The GREATEST IMPREZA BUILT. 42. Try not run your impreza top end as the boxes dont last long(went through 3 last time) 43. Believe the petrol gauge - yes it does use that much! 44. if you have mudflaps watch when reversing near kirbs or they get caught on wheels and bye bye back bumper 45. Your steering wheel lock isn't broken, you're supposed to have to turn it 180 degrees before it engages. 46. Boost solenoid 'chatter' isn't necessarily indicative of a fault (although the Scoob moguls say it can be eradicated the by above-mentioned cleaning). 47. Uneven tyre wear is common. 48. 10 miles use out of a set of newage shocks isn't unheard of - but if you're still under warranty, they're covered. 49. The rear proximity alarm (on newer Imprezas) tells blatant lies in the rain. 50. Door panels dent quite easily. 51. It's won't stop entertaining you on twisty roads! 52. Never use the standard horn in an aggressive manner in a road rage situation, you will just look silly!! 53. You will find that Classic owners are really insecure: they talk about how good their cars are over their Newage counterparts. They be fooling themsleves but they soon realise not to listen to what TheWelsho has to say 54. Welsho knows as much about cars as Fish know about Riding Bicycles ! 55. you will find most newage owners have a huge chip on there shoulders because A) they have lost 3/4 of the value of there cars through depreciation over two years B.) they weigh a bloody ton C) they are almost all are blue with gold wheels D) they are jelous of there classic brothers who continually spank them round knockhill 56. Try not to hold your foot to the floor and do 140mph + for mile after mile, they dont like this and tend to go POP, Take it up have a play and bring it down again.

heres a couple of pics I took myself, not the wifes pics this time lol, the first pic is from the boat as we went across loch ness and the second from the beach at nairn, Both these photos are unedited, there just as i took them.

my condolences to you and your family, Paddy.

Kids are still awake, its gona be a long night for santa clause lol, so browsing my old pics and thought id share this with ya. my old scooby

If you can make money off the banks money then thats good news, I have done so in the past when I had my first morgage, Fortunatly I was able to buy my current house outright for cash and living without a morgage really opens your eyes, and if i could doo it all again I would not have that first morgage. Theres curently all sorts of small print coming to light with the so called flexible morgage at the moment, say its a 90% morgage and you house falls in to negative equity they can and havnt rulled out making you pay the difference in a lump sum, this is shocking!!!! I believe there is no such thing as a good deal in this market unless you can gamble and buy in with an interest only deal with a good endownment behinde it for short term return.