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respectfully disagree with people that give out advice that you have 6 gears, use it, enjoy laggy turbo blah blah. sure i can imagine a bit of a wait being worth it if you're building up to 40psi / 500whp or something but when talking of relatively lower power with shortened power bands (band from 5000-7500rpm), not everyone is gonna find that fun to drive in any situation other than on track or the back streets. it is an amazing feeling when you have the space to push it and experience that sudden thrust, but you should really consider how much opportunity you have to enjoy that in your own regular driving conditions and whether sacrificing responsiveness to get a bit more top end power is really worth it. in my personal tastes as a daily, the stock sti is such a sexy setup and any 'upgrade' should really be preserving the responsiveness/handling and building off that.

I guess so. It just makes me scratch my head when I see these schizophrenic cars being built. As an example I love car audio to bits, I used to be crazy into it, SPL setups, sound quality setups, you name it, I've probably done it. What does my STI have in it? A bluetooth headunit and the stock speakers. The car is just too loud, both from the engine/exhaust and road noise, for there to be any point in me putting a decent stereo in it. It would be wasted money. I could put a quieter exhaust on it and sound deaden it and put on some tyres with softer sidewalls but the point of the STI is, well, none of those things. You can compromise on things and make the car a mediocre jack of all trades but all you will end up with is a car that's a bit S*** at everything, unless you have insane amounts of money to throw at it. The extreme version of this would be lifting a Ferrari for better off-road performance. As you've said each to their own but some stuff just doesn't make sense to me.

Was thinking something along the lines of these. Hides the center of the brake rotor, keeps the brakes looking proportional and fills the guards nicely:

Pretty sure the Brembo’s were the icing on the cake with that setup though

Chunky is better IMHO, just gotta be more pedantic with offsets to not rub Assume you're actually staying 19inch and not dropping down to 18? I’ll be going to 245/40/18 on mine for the next set of tyres as the 235 is ever so slightly stretched so gives no rim protection at all, plus the 245 is closer to the stock rolling diameter.

Respectfully disagree, anyone who is busy putting adjustable coilovers and aftermarket engine mounts and roof scoops and deleting their air con.... isn't trying to build a smooth and sensible daily. If you want that, buy a H6 Legacy. Or a BMW. A stock STI is a S*** platform for a nice comfortable cruiser. The best driving experience from an STI they ever built is an early RA and that's because they're raw and noisy and a bit feral and they have the slowest spooling setup of any STI. A GD STI only has a meaningful powerband of about 3000rpm before the stock turbo goes off a cliff anyway, probably less than that in terms of the torque curve. Doesn't matter if you're in an STI or a 1.5L carbed Civic, if you're giving your car beans anywhere that isn't the track or back roads you're probably a bit of a tool anyway, so that's a moot point as well. I couldn't give any F***s how my STI drives in stop-go traffic, because if that happens then I've had some sort of S*** day that doesn't involve the size of my turbo.

I sadly have to sell my car but noticed the classified section is virtually empty. Where can I post details?

I have a reasonably big turbo for a 2.0 and no lag. As long as I am in the correct gear for my power band

You're dead right for a road car, 260kw is stupidly quick for most situations

*Gets popcorn* In this case Inked is only looking for 260kw ish. A turbo that spools decently quick and holds to redline would feel pretty nice for street driving. Im sure a 300kw sti that spools late would be a very nice experience but once you hit boost in 3rd you would almost be breaking the speed limit on the road anyways. Im not experienced here so I cant claim to know...Do get more KW's tho

since it's all personal tastes, it's not really best to assume what someone likes or dislikes, or that their goal with their vehicle and thousands of $$ spent would be same as someone elses. that's why i added on the downsides which previously weren't mentioned so OP can weigh things up and decide for themselves.

Yea. Reckon you’ll need a 45 profile with either width to avoid the wheels looking too small as they do with the stock wheels. 19’s just look so much better on 5th gens I reckon

There is a prerequisite which needs to be met before you can list an item for sale on our forum - the prerequisite is a post count of 10 (your already 10% of the way there) Once you have a post count of 10 the classified section will open up and posts will become visible

Yea, fair point, I had thought of splitting it out but dyno thread gets more action . Single 38mm wastegate just before the up pipe. I did consider twin or larger wastegate but knew i was going to be running high boost and gambled it wouldn't have boost creep, which it doesn't. I've only really got photos in the build, none of it completed: Intercooler is coming off this weekend to test the psi drop across a different core so can get a photo of the IC set up then. It's by no means pretty, but it works (same with the whole car really)