Well I've finally decided to post up a build thread since I am finally trying to get my car on the road again. We can say I've owned my car parked more year then I have owned it when it ran.
Its nothing special but still my favorite year of STI and I feel that the body lines will still be stylish in the years to come.
This is the current money pit list.
Short Block
Built with K1 rods and wiseco 100mm pistons built and balanced by maxwell performance.
Heads
Stock 2005 sti heads Pocket Ported and assembled with new cam buckets, GSC intake and exhaust valves, BC single spring steel retainers by Headgames Motorworks
Turbo
Ported FP Green HTZ
Intake System
Cobb short ram intake with a Killer B turbo inlet, perrin FMIC, ported stock throttle body, Ported NA short runner intake manifold with KSTech 19mm aluminum spacers between the IAG TGV housings.
Fuel System
IAG fuel rails, injector dynamics 1000 cc top feed injectors and a walbro 450 fuel pump.
Ignition
XS ignition amp
Exhaust System
Inferno Fabrications equal length header, perrin up pipe, mad dad V2 catted down pipe with a perrin dual tube cat back going to a single outlet muffler.
Extras
Getadomtune lite enough crank pulley, grim Speed electronic boost controller, 2006+ sti oil pan for improved equal length header clearance, tomei type oil baffle and a tigwerks oil pick up.
Suspension
Whiteline ALK, RCE regular guy black springs, Racecomp camber plates, Perrin rear end links, swaybar and mounts.
Drivetrain
Driveshaft Shop carbon fiber drive shaft, kartboy short shifter, act streetlight flywheel, act heavy duty pressure plate and clutch
Bracing
TSS Fab tubular front subframe and trans X brace, Cusco h brace, beatrush differential brace.
Bushings
Cusco engine and trans mount, kartboy outrigger bushings, torque solutions differential bushings, Kartboy diff lockdown, whiteline steering rack bushings, combination of torque solutions and kartboy shifter linkage bushings.
Interior
AEM boost and AFR gauges.
Weight Reduction
Oswald lightweight rear bumper beam, stock U brace is removed, windshield wiper fluid reservoir removed since stock sti tmic sprayer reservoir is being used as wiper reservoir, internals of sti hood scoop removed, shaved the na manifold and water coolant manifold.
Its nothing special but still my favorite year of STI and I feel that the body lines will still be stylish in the years to come.
This is the current money pit list.
Short Block
Built with K1 rods and wiseco 100mm pistons built and balanced by maxwell performance.
Heads
Stock 2005 sti heads Pocket Ported and assembled with new cam buckets, GSC intake and exhaust valves, BC single spring steel retainers by Headgames Motorworks
Turbo
Ported FP Green HTZ
Intake System
Cobb short ram intake with a Killer B turbo inlet, perrin FMIC, ported stock throttle body, Ported NA short runner intake manifold with KSTech 19mm aluminum spacers between the IAG TGV housings.
Fuel System
IAG fuel rails, injector dynamics 1000 cc top feed injectors and a walbro 450 fuel pump.
Ignition
XS ignition amp
Exhaust System
Inferno Fabrications equal length header, perrin up pipe, mad dad V2 catted down pipe with a perrin dual tube cat back going to a single outlet muffler.
Extras
Getadomtune lite enough crank pulley, grim Speed electronic boost controller, 2006+ sti oil pan for improved equal length header clearance, tomei type oil baffle and a tigwerks oil pick up.
Suspension
Whiteline ALK, RCE regular guy black springs, Racecomp camber plates, Perrin rear end links, swaybar and mounts.
Drivetrain
Driveshaft Shop carbon fiber drive shaft, kartboy short shifter, act streetlight flywheel, act heavy duty pressure plate and clutch
Bracing
TSS Fab tubular front subframe and trans X brace, Cusco h brace, beatrush differential brace.
Bushings
Cusco engine and trans mount, kartboy outrigger bushings, torque solutions differential bushings, Kartboy diff lockdown, whiteline steering rack bushings, combination of torque solutions and kartboy shifter linkage bushings.
Interior
AEM boost and AFR gauges.
Weight Reduction
Oswald lightweight rear bumper beam, stock U brace is removed, windshield wiper fluid reservoir removed since stock sti tmic sprayer reservoir is being used as wiper reservoir, internals of sti hood scoop removed, shaved the na manifold and water coolant manifold.
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