Finally got the car home. I've had it for a better part of a week. Pretty happy with it. It is more of a grown up car than I'm use to.....it has luxuries like heated seats, dual climate control. I even took part of the dash apart to get to the cabin air filter, to find that subaru put sound deadening stuff on interior components.....haven't found that in any of my impreza's. It has the automatic, which I'm not super fond of in general principle, but this one isn't bad. It has a manual mode, and a sport mode. What is killing me is that I can't really tromp on it because I'm still breaking the engine in. It does show promise though. I think I lucked out with this car, seems like the owner took pretty good care of it. Absolutely everything works on the car. Only thing that isn't tip top is the driver side rear tire has a slow leak.....which is getting replaced anyway.
I ended up with a vf48 turbo which is stock on the sti as well as a sti uppipe. I don't know what sort of gains I'll see with that turbo, as it still has the stock downpipe. I'll tune it later this month after break in. I don't intend to try to turn it into a power house.
I think you'll see more of these "basket cases" showing up due to the stock oem turbo and the banjo bolt filters. You could do a lot worse than buying one and doing an engine rebuild.
It really is completely different than any of the subaru's I've owned/driven up to this point.
