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  1. The weight of the newer cars is what holds them back from feeling fast. even the STI needs a tune to feel fast. But the handling is a lot better and the parts aren’t generally worn out. the 08-14 are the last of the cars without driver aids and radar crap so that’s a bonus. the sg-t is very soft from what I remember. I drive one before trying the sti and that was it. But the sti was still pretty sad until I found a tuned one. some slight lowering springs and a rear sway bar plus some wider rims with good tires and the sg-t is likely very nice and corner very well. The DCCD diff does make it corner nicer if you open it up which the STI feature. sg-t is probably easier to insure and really isn’t that attention grabbing.
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  2. I just test drove both of these cars, each was stock... I was blown away by the difference! The V6 was from 2000 and had an EJ207 in it, not sure if that has been swapped at some point or they did actually offer that from factor? I drove the S-GT first, thought it was nice and civilised.. had a bit of pull which was fun, but nothing amazing. Then I test drove the V6 WRX, it blew my mind, really put you back in the seat. I can't even describe how different it was, but I loved it so much more in almost every way. Has anyone else had a similar experience with this, would love peoples thoughts on the difference between Hatch WRX's and the earlier generations! Cheers
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  3. EcuTek is hands down the best platform for the DIT Subaru, I have attached some info and 2 dealers depending where you are located https://www.ecutek.com/downloads/marketing/factsheets/EcuTek Fact Sheet - Subaru DIT.pdf Regards Phil
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  4. Bought this thing sight unseen. It turned out having extensive service history back to when it was new, previous owner had it for 10 years and bought it for approx 3200 iirc. 4AFE 5MT 4AGE 20V, just kidding 4AFE 1600, with 267000km on the clock. I paid 1200 for it. A few small dents here and there, really minor rust issues from stone chips etc, some paint fade, and a slightly bad valve cover gasket but no really bad issues. Took a midnight intercity bus down to Wellington, driver was a 0/10 and they catfished me with nice pics of a $$$ luxury upgrade, all I got was a seat upstairs. Drove it back through the desert road midwinter and the tyres while wofable were a little crackly in places and being skinny chinese 175/65r14s were a little sketchy.. so the first thing I did was replace them with 195/65r14s from the prelude that had mint chinese tyres. With the rather tall tyres it does fill the wheel arch nice but yeah that ride height. I've only given it a wash once and a quick cut/polish before these pics. I think some panels have been resprayed at some stage Only mods I've done to it are the wheels and a few shirtstuckedin / mightycarmods stickers lol, and put in a more widely used style fuel filter after damaging the hard lines. I've done all 3 filters, oil and coolant change and replaced the spark plugs and valve cover gasket. I actually used 3 of one type and 1 that had -11 as the suffix, 11 being a 1.1mm gap. Due to repco/supercheap guys being unable to find them out the back I simply gapped the plugs. The plugs and fuel filter were all original 1996 spec.
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