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How much would an 02-03 manual go for about now? I haven't really paid attention to them over the past few years, but I loved them when they first came out in early 01 (as 02 models even)...
I unloaded mine this year for $11k. Picked it up in 2005 for $14.5k. Wagon, 2.0 liter and in really good shape. All stock (What I was looking for)
It's a pig on gas, it corners exactly like an NA 3rd gen Supra, and that includes the snow. The brakes are awesome, but the interior is shoddy, the body is "ok". Later models grabbed aluminum fenders as well as the hood. Seats aren't comfortable, switches aren't reliable.
But it's still better than any Z car.
Be weary of BOV's on the WRX. They cause the car to run rich in between shifts and are notorious for leaking, they also blow off air that should be circulated to the turbo system. The stock bypass valve is the best thing for the car and shouldn't be fucked with unless you want to decrease performance.
Be weary of intakes on the WRX. The way the intake system is designed on the WRX, there's a MAF sensor on top of the intake elbow and its very hard for an aftermarket company to develope an intake system that will please this MAF sensor. No system has been tested and proven to NOT affect the MAF readings. SPT came out with a short ram intake, but there's really no information on it yet. It may still mess with the MAF and cause the car to pull timing and mess with air-to-fuel ratios like all the other intakes out there. The 2.5L engine is the exception to intakes, because it seems to actually respond well to certain intakes.
Thats funney. . . . intake & BOV are the first 2 mods of every WRX owner.
This proves that most only want a WRX cause everybody else has one that goes pssssshhhhhtttt on every shift.
Same deal with headers. The best headers on a subaru are the stockers or some very expensive equal length headers like the APS ones. Problem with the equal lengths are that they smooth out the exhaust pulses and take away from the nice boxer rumble, making the car sound more like an Inline 4 and giving that ricey sound instead of the nice deep sound. Take on the fact that the APS headers are $1200 and thats a problem.
I didnt know people liked the WRX exhaust note . .
I wonder why Subaru decided to cheep out and not just go equal length
Most likely it'd stay stock with some really nice all season tires on it...
I've wanted one of these cars since they became available in the US, and the 217 ft lbs of torque it'd provide would be plenty for me coming off a car with 111.
The '06+ might have equal lengths. They changed the manifold on the new 2.5L engine because they changed the oil pan.
And the subaru exhaust note is amazing. It really is awesome. You have the two heads, like a V8, and the cams moving up and down when it goes "lub dub".
That torque is only there when the turbo kicks in, you have to be above ~3300rpm's to enjoy the car as a daily driver. Get the accessport, uppipe, and a turboback exhaust and you'll gain a ton of power and the onset of the poewr will come ~500rpm's sooner. That will run you about $1100 if you buy used or ebay.
Makes no difference to me, takes me 7000 rpm before I get to use the 111 flywheel ft lbs anyway... The 2.0 will feel more torquey in the lower RPMs prior to boost than this car ever will.
But it's still just a debate going on in the brain on if I really want to get another 10,000+ dollar car in the first place.
I'm sure even an 02 WRX won't be of any help on the insurance.
The engine isn't like a V8, the exhaust sound is - so there's no hahahhaa. It has two heads, with cams that move up and down. It just doesn't have the same amount of cylinders. There's a rumble thats a result of the horizontally opposed cylinders and unequal length headers.
There's a rumble thats the result of un-even exhaust piping (you said it yourself - not that the latter isn't true, but still). Equal lenght piping solve's that . . . unless you wanna keep it.
Download a sound clip from a perrin or blitz nur spec exhaust on a WRX. Its a very low exhaust note that rumbles. I would set off car alarms with my old blitz nur spec when I was basically at idle.
I believe you.
The SRT4, not STR..., is faster for cheaper.
Cobalt SS's can hold up in a straight line, or they could until the '06 WRX came out.
eh, just a type-o on my end. . . guess it shows my discust for the trash being produced these days.
WRX's get riced out all the time. Its quickly becoming the new Civic.
I must live in a cave . . .
Subaru is a Jap company, if you didn't get that.
. . . really?
Honda already came out with the Fit for the econo market, and Toyota came out with the Scion Tc for its econo market. Mazda just brought out the Mazdaspeed 3 and 6 for that niche market.
???? does this have to be in here ???
Its unlikely that a cheap RWD, turbo car is going to come out and it will be especially hard to compete with the huge numbers of cars like the GTO and the like. Hell there's a SRT-8. Horsepower sells cars, but people want horsepower that delivers downlow. Look at me, I want to hop ship out of the WRX because it doesn't offer enough power downlow. The newer version offer some more, but it will be the day when the WRX is offered with a H6 + turbo - which should be somewhere within the next 5years.
The GTO is nothing special. I beat the 5.7liter version on the highway a while back . . .
HP does sell cars, but sadly, for way too much money.