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Mmm +1 for no cat in JDM V7 STi up-pipe. One in the down-pipe though which, if I was to remove, I would just change the downpipe anyway

That's not the fastest. I know myself and 2 friends that havnt put a wrench on car in a year and more power and we far from fastest. Challenge?..............Over 20,000km so far No issues......Maybe the quickest...Eats STI cars!.Any year! Drivable...........bigger turbo could be fitted but then its a pig at 100 k.......block rated for 450 kw. Not easy to achieve hi hp and be able to use it on the road and the track. Up for a challenge!!! if you reckon you have a more reliable drivable one (1991 Wagon fully optioned with air con etc) that's Quicker across the range......Not fastest down 400 metres. See ya at a tar-seal hillclimb!! Oh come on. All these conditions. There's a lot of cars just on here, let alone all of New Zealand, that are both faster than yours and road legal. Having the fastest around a track road legal 1991 wagon with air conditioning that is 'drivable' by your standards in New Zealand isn't really much of a distinction. I've probably got the fastest 2001 STi with a Version 10 back seat and a slight dent in the bonnet and a blue facelift grill in New Zealand, but I don't go crowing about it.

Passenger side has no compression maybe? Headgasket, timing issue, bent valve? Just throwing out some ideas here. I think the compression test will tell you a lot. Or maybe some sensor on the passenger side related to timing?

Electrical short? A decent enough short (i.e. the time my battery broke free) will cause the engine to stall.

If you're getting blue smoke then it's burning oil. White/blackish smoke is just unburnt fuel but if it's that telltale blue (like a 2-stroke) then I'd be looking pretty hard at your piston. Do a compression test?

How brown is your bumper from all the half-burnt fuel falling out the back

What's the exhaust sound like on it? Just saw a car roughly matching this description drive through Roseneath. Quite high-pitched exhaust note for a subey? EDIT: Never mind, it had the wing on it still.

It said that on the grill... I thought it was just the brand of the fugly kit. Definitely an Impreza underneath though.

Yup, it's an Impreza...

And dangerous on a track car, if you crash it how do the track staff stop the motor? Conclusion: What ARE they for?

Whaaaaaaaaaaaa People steal N/A wagons? I thought they only went after old turbo Subeys... Ouch.

My V7 STi failed at certification by about 2dB with a 3" siamese downpipe into 2.5" Zerosports cat-back ;/ And I thought it was pretty quiet. Never had an issue with WoFs though.

They're running anti-lag and all sorts of shit, I'd be fairly confident in saying they run chinese turbos because they're much cheaper to replace when they sh!t themselves... any turbo is going to shit itself when you thrash it like they do. How many turbos do you think they go through in a season?

Just ram steel wool up it with a broom handle. It'll all blow out after a week or 2. EDIT: Just make sure it's not gonna blow out while they're doing the volume test, haha.

Personally I wouldn't bother going to all the work of pulling the VF22 just to go to a TD05. May as well go the whole hog and twist, or pay some extra cash and get a factory fitment Garrett.

With a forged motor it runs like a bag of shit until the pistons get warm anyway. So I drive it like a bit of a nanna for 5 mins or so until the temperature needle comes up, that's about it.

... waiting for some pics of Simon C's to make us all feel bad ;/

So 260 if you bounce it?

If it's a dual voice coil sub wired in parallel and you bridged your amp into it then it probably saw 1 ohm/channel and cooked something.

A 6-speed will juuuuust hit the fuel cut (180kmh) in 4th with a 8krpm redline, and by my maths will go on to a top speed of right around 260... that's if it can push the car through the air that fast. You don't get a 6-speed for top speed, you get it for shorter ratios so that you can keep the car in the powerband...

Pick up an old Nakamichi. They're money.

Oh gawd I'm a little disturbed that I know what he's referring to.

The old ones are good, the new ones are... much of a muchness with every other mid-level amp.

Yes, and very yes!