IntroFirst I will start off by stating how I came into possesion of my 2007 WRX Limited. I like many on here loved the WRX from a fairly young age. I thought to myself "Man that would be a cool car to own one day." As time passed the WRX/Sti would reignite my interest with the new stylings and then fade into the back of my mind again.
Fast forward. I am in college driving an economical 2000 Grand Am 4 cylinder. School sucks (being broke and all) and I keep telling myself I am buying myself a brand new, likely German car as soon as school is done and I can get the financing. I was looking at the 335i and then S5, yadda yadda. One day driving home from school Bambi and his best friend decide to form a tandem line across the road. I miss Bambi but I take his friend out, dead. Unfortunately Bambi's BFF also killed the Grand AM. It was driveable but the insurance company wrote it off. They gave me $5000.00 (-500.00 deductable). I was very happy, I had bought the car two years prior for $5k and put 100 000km on it.
So now I have five thousand for a down payment but still a couple months left of school. The Canadian loonie was on par or even slightly better than the yanky buck at this time so I began scouring the US. I found lots of beamers but would have to buy a couple years old and nothing with both performance and all wheel drive was in my budget. Then the WRX drifted back in to my mind as subtly as the last time it had faded away. I did a quick search and found a lot more choices. I was then in the pickle many of us have been in; buy a almost brand new WRX or a couple year old sti. When I found my car the choice was clear. My car was a dealer demo with 10K miles on it and no mods. It was a limited so it had the heated leather seats and sun roof which played to my German car side. I also really liked the color (to this day I have never seen my cars twin on the road). Finally the price was good, $23 000.00 all in. I pulled the trigger!
Oh and the name Havoc, I am very uncreative (ie.screen name) and live in Cold Lake. I basically just opposed
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GoalsWhen I purchased the car I had no real idea of what I wanted the car to be. As I owned it longer and started hanging out on this forum I started to realize what I wanted out of my little WRX. I work shift work and don't have the spare time to actively pursue any real competitive motorsports goals so my car was not going to be built to any rules (I will leave that up to the otto-x-robot). My car is a DD and I drive a lot so it had to be kept streetable. So what do I want? I want my car to walk the line of performance and what I can deal with driving everyday all year round. I may take it to some lapping days in the future, not to be competitive but rather to drive my car in such a manner that I never
could would on the streets. Finally I want it to be fun!
Mods to Date:Astetic -Grill craft upper and lower grill, black.
-STI limited replica lip.
-Tint, 20% on the rear three windows and 35% on the front two.
-Tail light tint
-Blacked out head lights
-WRX front license plate delete
Power-Custom RR built 73mm cold air intake
-3" perrin turbo inlet pipe
-ATP GT3071R turbo
-Turbo XS large TMIC
-DW 850cc injectors
-Walbro fuel pump
-Iridium plugs
-Agency power UEL Header (wrapped)
-Agency power up pie (wrapped)
-3" RS-R GT2 TBE
-Access Port
-Pat Richard Dyno and road tune
Drivetrain/Suspension/Brakes-ACT clutch
-STi 6spd
-STi drive shaft
-STi axles
-STi rear and center diffs
-STi rear hubs
-STi brembos ('04)
-SS brake lines
-STi brake/clutch pedal assembly MC/slave cylinder
-DCCD Pro dccd controller with switches/controls and gauge cluster hook up
Stereo-Alpine IVA-W200 head unit
-Alpine Type-R 6.5" coxials (front)
-JL TR400CXIs 4" (rear)
-Alpine MRP-F450 amp (powering the above 4 speakers)
-Orion CP 10" sub
-JL 500/1 class D amp
-Audio integrations 10" enclosure.
Other-STi gauge cluster
-Tenzo Type "M" rims, 18x8 +37 offset
-Nitto NT05 235/40ZR18
-RA flaps
Future Mods-Springs
-Shocks
-Front/rear sway bars
-End links
-Many bushings
-Short shifter
-Quick rack
-Front/Rear strut bars (Bought but not installed)
-Seats (Possibly Sparco Milano Prestige, tan)
-STi steering wheel
-S203 / TYPE RA2005 / S204 panel conversion
