Found a nice and simple little article that talks about the progression of the WRX over the years. Thought some people might appreciate it

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Some interesting reading.. Someone should have proof read it a bit better..There was a few errors, especially in the first part.. eg, WRX stands for World Rally Edition ??? What the.. I always thought it was World Rally Experimental.. also vf 34 is a turbo...not an intercooler ..enjoyed it never the less. Didn't know the older versions eg 94,95 etc had TD05 turbos..then went down to TD04s for quicker response in later years.. Thanks. Cheers..

About "WRX", WR obviously stands for "World Rally", and "X" stands for the
mathematical symbol for the unknown, that means its possibility is infinite.

That was the answer given by someone in Subaru marketing.

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yeah thats what my understanding of the 'x' was, like in algebra. where x = whatever.

teejay getting your info from american websites given to someone from subaru of america tsk tsk tsk

the X stands for cross, everyone knows this, or don't they???

Yeh it's not completely accurate in some instances but overall I thought it was a very good read. It does give an answer to the good ol question: can you reflash a gc8 stock ecu: Which they say you can't do it to all pre97 models. I found that quite inspiring haha

I'm not a full bottle when it comes to tuning, but I know it was popular in the rs lib and pre 97 wrx to tune the stock ecu with a chip. Fats used to have his own and over east the Vos chip was popular.

As did MMS back in the 90's...my MY94 WRX had a MMS twin ROM chip installed in about 1995...it was also the first WRX in WA to have four pots installed (later) and an MY99-type rear wing ....

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Can you remember exactly what the computers did steve? I have one out of Steve's car and think that it will go in the old boys wagon eventually but it would be nice to know what boost etc it changed.

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^^ I honestly can't remember what the chip enhanced Tom....ask Rob, he would know....I'm not sure what Steve's original ECU had in it.

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