Rbonnie wrote:

Looks awesome! welcome to the site, excited to see this build progress 

He's been on here since 2013 

Black and bronze is pure seks 

hammyt wrote:

Would be even sweeter with that sexy smooth 207. 

Yeh boy!!!!!!!!!!!

Travis is the man, wouldn't hesitate to let him tune your car if I were you.

sohlman wrote:

myzislow wrote:

Travis is the man, wouldn't hesitate to let him tune your car if I were you.

Good to hear you were happy with him. It's hard because I've had such a poor experience with Paul, and half the people I talk to love FW and love Snail or they hate them with a passion. I think I will tryout Snail for my Stage II tune, and when I'm ready to go Stage III go down to Cobb.

I would trust Travis/snail with any tune.That being said I wouldn't let Paul or fw touch my car. Snail and fw are separate entities; Travis just uses his dyno to tune on while he's out here in CA.

What did Paul do to make you feel the way that you do? I remember warning you about him and his reputation in your thread when your engine problems came about. Sucks to hear he's giving you problems.

My stock cloth seats were disgusting so it was time for a change.


I got a steal of a deal on these v8 spec c sti seats along with my engine. Pretty uncommon and look great with the black door cards that I was finally able to source locally.

Awesome! if I had any source of income, I'd get that cluster. There's one on NASIOC that is the same mileage as mine, I can't swing $300 though. I prefer the green too.

Thanks! You're right, and a larger turbo/injectors are in the works. What would you recommend for a street car that is a daily? My tuner and I are thinking of doing the proven dom 1.5 xtr with the 8cm hot side for a little bit better spool over the 10cm. I'm good with 350-375whp even tho I know the v7 can take much more.

Plan is to do the turbo, ID 1000s, an inlet and possibly an intake and call it a day. I'm still on the stock 5spd so I can't go too crazy yet.

myzislow wrote:

Thanks! You're right, and a larger turbo/injectors are in the works. What would you recommend for a street car that is a daily? My tuner and I are thinking of doing the proven dom 1.5 xtr with the 8cm hot side for a little bit better spool over the 10cm. I'm good with 350-375whp even tho I know the v7 can take much more.

Plan is to do the turbo, ID 1000s, an inlet and possibly an intake and call it a day. I'm still on the stock 5spd so I can't go too crazy yet.

Sounds like a good plan. The 1.5XTR w/8cm^2 will be perfect paired with the 207, you'll have a very wide powerband. 10cm would make more power but be too big, IMO, not worth the trade off unless you're looking for a highway car.

With regards to the 5MT, you should be good as long as you're not launching the crap out of it, or banging the 1-2 shift. With the longer gearing of the 5MT, it's awesome to rev out. I remember hitting 80+ in 2nd gear! Eventually, I did upgrade to a 6MT/R180 setup, but it wasn't out of necessity. Definitely worth it, though, the STi trans and diffs will change the car completely.

sohlman wrote:

Your car sounds so bad ass. I hope you can make it to a future Saabaru meet, I'd love to hear that V7 run.

The audio quality isn't great (shot in 2005), but here's my old V7 making some noise (and running DCCD full open)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AekLMUICxKo

Loving the black on bronze. I'm a huge fan of the black/bronze, black/gold, black/copper color scheme on these cars (as well as subies).  I'm just hoping to do it with a linear instead of an aero. No hood scoop for me. I like it ultra clean 

Also, those seats are sweet. I'm loving those. How comfortable are they? The stock seats are a little narrow for me through the legs; are these any wider?

whalecliff wrote:

Loving the black on bronze. I'm a huge fan of the black/bronze, black/gold, black/copper color scheme on these cars (as well as subies).  I'm just hoping to do it with a linear instead of an aero. No hood scoop for me. I like it ultra clean 

Also, those seats are sweet. I'm loving those. How comfortable are they? The stock seats are a little narrow for me through the legs; are these any wider?

Thanks. I find the seats to be pretty comfortable. They are a little firm, but not too bad. Being Japanese spec seats they are actually narrower compared to the US market sti seats, and definitely smaller than then stock cloth seats.

Still using the passenger jdm seat out of pure laziness. I plan on using this write up:http://forums.nasioc.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1868870 when I get around to it one of these days.