Hello Im fairly new to the forum as well as the tuner world. Ive always loved subaru's. It started as just a WRC fan. Some time down the road I decided to buy a 2010 wrx. It was a slow start, but ive seen several of the threads on projects I enjoyed following so here is mine.
I bought this car on a wind. I thought if i did not do it now. I would never so I went to the subaru dealership haggeld for a while and drove it home. I new when I bought it I had big hopes for the car. The dealer asked me how much I wanted to put down. In my head im thinking the more I put down the less parts I can have now. I have good credit so none. I orderd the SPT cat back before I even drove it home. Harman motive catted downpipe about three days later. My wife was furious i bought the downpipe and did not tell her naturally because she would say no. SPT shorty soon after. Intake was next I decided to go with the HKS suction kit, I know other intakes have been shown to produce more power but I enjoy the look.
Which brings me to my next point I have always been a fan of the stock location intercooler, I know front mount is far better in cooling proporties. So in the event I do decide to buy a front mount I will sell this intake and go for a Ks Tech or variant. Next i needed ECU managment ofcourse I went with the accessport and it's ever changing tuning abilities. I ran into several problems here. Im in the army and stationed at FT. Waynewright AK. Alaska proves to be a tuners nightmare with the highest octane rating on 90 yes 90, the state with all the oil has a super low permium. Also there is only one tunershop i know of here. The reviews i read about this place makes buisness with them not an option. So I called perrin to see what kind of map they could produce for me with 90 octane. chris cone at perrin made me a impressive map working with 90. target psi 16.8. I was pleased with the map added alot of umph. Next in line was headers. I was torn between hp and the subaru sound, after alot of research and asking around i decided to go with GT SPEC equal length.
I was surprised at the quality of the piece. Living in alaska has it's up's and down's one major down is everything i order is unreal in shipping costs. So i called my buddy and offerd him some beer headers and upipe is not really a one man show. about a hour into the project after fighting off the stupid problems, ie. one stripped bolt he got a phone call and had to go. So i drove on fighting one stupid problem after another.here is the stock vs gt spec The headers actually went on smoothly it was not until the up pipe where it got stupid. After doing it one time i bet the next time if i were to do it it would go easy. learn as you go! Thats about it so far il be shipping out of alaska to ny soon, where more options become available. My next move is a tough one i have to decide front or top mount. If i go front most likely a trubo xs if i stay top process west ofcourse. I have a few minor parts on order now grimspeed 3 port boost con, rallitek skid plate. my plan was to do the build in phases phase 1 for me was to breathe it out headers back. Now that phase 1 is done phase 2 will consist of fuel componets, cooling and turbo which is a whole delima in intself. I appriciate feedback, I know myself by reading some of the other projects i learned a thing or two. Hopefully this will help somone in some way. I should make my cooling decision here soon. Il update more when I can thanks for reading.
I bought this car on a wind. I thought if i did not do it now. I would never so I went to the subaru dealership haggeld for a while and drove it home. I new when I bought it I had big hopes for the car. The dealer asked me how much I wanted to put down. In my head im thinking the more I put down the less parts I can have now. I have good credit so none. I orderd the SPT cat back before I even drove it home. Harman motive catted downpipe about three days later. My wife was furious i bought the downpipe and did not tell her naturally because she would say no. SPT shorty soon after. Intake was next I decided to go with the HKS suction kit, I know other intakes have been shown to produce more power but I enjoy the look.
Which brings me to my next point I have always been a fan of the stock location intercooler, I know front mount is far better in cooling proporties. So in the event I do decide to buy a front mount I will sell this intake and go for a Ks Tech or variant. Next i needed ECU managment ofcourse I went with the accessport and it's ever changing tuning abilities. I ran into several problems here. Im in the army and stationed at FT. Waynewright AK. Alaska proves to be a tuners nightmare with the highest octane rating on 90 yes 90, the state with all the oil has a super low permium. Also there is only one tunershop i know of here. The reviews i read about this place makes buisness with them not an option. So I called perrin to see what kind of map they could produce for me with 90 octane. chris cone at perrin made me a impressive map working with 90. target psi 16.8. I was pleased with the map added alot of umph. Next in line was headers. I was torn between hp and the subaru sound, after alot of research and asking around i decided to go with GT SPEC equal length.
I was surprised at the quality of the piece. Living in alaska has it's up's and down's one major down is everything i order is unreal in shipping costs. So i called my buddy and offerd him some beer headers and upipe is not really a one man show. about a hour into the project after fighting off the stupid problems, ie. one stripped bolt he got a phone call and had to go. So i drove on fighting one stupid problem after another.here is the stock vs gt spec The headers actually went on smoothly it was not until the up pipe where it got stupid. After doing it one time i bet the next time if i were to do it it would go easy. learn as you go! Thats about it so far il be shipping out of alaska to ny soon, where more options become available. My next move is a tough one i have to decide front or top mount. If i go front most likely a trubo xs if i stay top process west ofcourse. I have a few minor parts on order now grimspeed 3 port boost con, rallitek skid plate. my plan was to do the build in phases phase 1 for me was to breathe it out headers back. Now that phase 1 is done phase 2 will consist of fuel componets, cooling and turbo which is a whole delima in intself. I appriciate feedback, I know myself by reading some of the other projects i learned a thing or two. Hopefully this will help somone in some way. I should make my cooling decision here soon. Il update more when I can thanks for reading.