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Old 22-10-2013, 01:07 PM
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Why would you want more power than it currently has? Too slow to drive to work? Take it to the track. That car is rediculous in the form it is. Stop ruining it.
Its his car, he can do what ever he wants to it.

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05, 06, 07 STI's all develop strut knocks. It's very common. Due to the inverted strut design, over time the grease falls down the strut leaving Teflon top hats at the top of the strut dry which leads to the knocking (or something along those lines)

Now can you two exchange numbers and take your Dutch ruddering off the forum?
This, minus the part at the end. Just regrease your struts and put a set of decent springs on. The sti struts with decent springs will be better than any cheap entry level street coilover.
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Old 22-10-2013, 01:24 PM
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haha too easy cheers for ya input rj999
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haha for sure... :-)

Looks like Sharpy is trying to beat you at this though with comments like that
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Why would you want more power than it currently has? Too slow to drive to work? Take it to the track. That car is rediculous in the form it is. Stop ruining it.
lol youre saying that to the bloke who has a 400hp ss daily. never too much powa for a daily anyways nice car! looks better now than when you got it.
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270hp sti will be faster than any 400hp ss anyday. People think they need comodore spec power to have a fast car. Take it to the track and realise it has 100hp more than you can handle. If you can get the same/similar times to Steve then upgrade it.
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Old 22-10-2013, 02:39 PM
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FYI...the shocks are the standard STI originals...they came out of the car at about 150 km and lay in my storeroom until just under 60,000 km when they were re-fitted to the car with (new) King springs. The alignment was done at Wilkos on 3/10/2011...... 2 deg -ve camber front & rear 5 deg front castor, zero toe F & R. All the suspension components (including roll centre kit) are Whiteline...except front H brace which is Cusco from memory.
If I was putting suspension on the car now I would go KW V3 coilovers or DMS 40....Tein Superstreet are OK as they were designed with Aust in mind and are a more budget conscious item.

Jap brand coilovers are good quality but are generally way to harsh for Aust conditions.

Personally I wouldn't be bolting a big turbo on it as you'll and up with too much lag...the car has pretty reasonable power as it is really...it did OK as a track car...




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Steve...even one of the blouch xtr turbos designed to reduce lag? (them ones with the blouch modified blades and ported housing etc etc...

Just wondering, this way I can definitely write off turbo upgrade off my list of maybe mods

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