Nsg car related question (another subaru)

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Hey ns, I am looking to get some opinionated commentary on my issue, all opinions welcome

this is my car at the moment, http://vimeo.com/12568780

2008 subaru wrx, black, 29000 miles, "good" kbb value

mods: perrin turboback exhaust, cobb accessport w/ stage 2 93 octane map, whiteline short shifter w/ poly bushings, Whiteline Antilift kit, rear camber bolts/upper control arm bushings, GTworx front camber plates, hawk hp+ pads w/ ATE fluid and steel brake lines, Racecomp engineering T2 coilovers, 57 Motorsports 17x9" +45 offset g07wt wheels in winning blue w/ 255/40-17 yokohama ad08 tires

need a professional bad decision makers opinion on this. Should I:

a) Put my car back to stock as soon as possible. Sell wheels and tires, coilovers, exhaust, and accessport. Trade in car w/ about 30k miles on it and buy 2010 hatchback STI limited at a clearance price since they are bringing in the 2011 models soon. Profit?

b) Keep car way it is. Drive all summer. Change tires and wheels by the time winter comes back to stockers w/ winter tires. Drive all winter and spring. Sell Summer wheels/tires and accessport. Trade in car w/ about 50-60k miles on it and a little more equity and buy 2011 STI sedan, which is what I really want to be driving. Put coilovers and turboback exhaust on new car. Profit?

c) Keep car way it is. Keep modifying it slowly over the years till it is mostly the same car as 2011 STI including 6spd tranny swap, hubs, DCCD, front dif, forged crank, AVCS, custom tune and UTEC, new summer wheels to fit hubs, brembos or better, body work to include custom fender work.

Allright + karma to ALL responses. Give it to me hard

Cliffnotes: GTFO

 
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personally i would go with C. all are very realistic and viable.. but to me the best part of a car is making it your own. i want something that is personal to me and no one else drives! That my good sir is why i love cars so much.
I recently just passed on a Subaru (i know i know...stupid) but i found a better truck. Ram 1500 with the hemi i already put 2 10's in, they look so sick! next to come is the new flow master to get a little more rumble.
good luck to you and your decision making
 
honestly option c sounds like a complete waste of money. option a sounds slightly better than option b but again sounds like a waste if you're buying a brand new car (unless you have some sort of ridiculous financing to help out). i guess i don't really understand the need to own the latest and greatest car and put aftermarket performance parts on it. i get that it's fun but really you're just throwing money away IMO. no hate intended just my .02
 
^^ no prob man. appreciate the opinion. In my honest opinion its more fun just working on the car than actually driving it but some people don't like that. I want basically what the sti has which my wrx has but to a lesser degree. For instance the sti has a 6 spd the wrx has a 5 spd. The sti has a variable center dif the wrx doesn't at all. The wrx has the awd drivetrain which is nice but the components in the sti drivetrain such as the differentials are designed to handle higher loads, same with the wheel bearings due to a larger diameter stud pattern in the hubs. I feel I could get there with the wrx it would just take more time and money. Plus the exterior styling on the 2011 STI is phenominal imo.
http://uk.autoblog.com/2010/06/09/video-tommi-makinen-puts-the-new-subaru-wrx-sti-through-its-pac/

another thing is I didn't research enough before I bought mine and the power on the 09 wrx jumped up by about 40 hp from the 08. The STI has remained at 305 through each year the current body style has been out.
 
your car is pretty slow so i would def sell all that shit and get an sti, its probably going to be about as fast as your car without all that stuff you have on it.
 
go with option B, it's the car you want overall and the car you'll be happiest with. trust me you won't enjoy the car if there is another you want more. plus what's a grand or two lost if you'll be spending over 30k you know?

whatever you do, don't go with option C.
 
for shure go with option C i think.. if you likr this car gradually move up to what you really do want.
 
And personally i would go with B. you probably would get a little profit out of it and + its the car you want to be driving. So do it.
 
Get an older model STi. You can get them for a lot cheaper. My younger brother just traded in his old car for like $8,000 and picked up a 2007 STi that was traded in on a lease with
 
yeah if your gonna be modding your car theres no point in getting something new. old sti's and old wrx's are much cooler, you can buy them for so much cheaper. but honestly coming from someone who's driven multiple wrx's, and sti's both modded and stock. and driven an evo 9, the evo is soooo much better.
 
Dont slowly mod it, by the time your done, there going to have a new car. Trade it in now and get a 2010 sti. You'll never get your money back with modding it, if anything your going to lose money. It also wears your car down. So your wrx stock can make it to lets say 175k miles? modded to sti maybe 125k. Trade it in now or later but dont make it a conversion wrx.

And if you use your wrx for snow, awd, stay with subaru. But if your just looking for a car to race around performance wise, evo. But don't expect an evo to last as long as a sti.
 
evo's are better in snow too. and evo's are pretty damn reliable, a heavily modded one? no, but a stock or slightly modded one will go way past 100,000 miles. for some reason evo's have a reputation here for being street cars, so everyone lowers them like crazy and turns them into retarded drag cars. go to europe and its completely different, evo's outnumber sti's at pretty much every rally you see. modding the shit out of the engine is stupid in an sti or evo anyway. if you need more power than they already have stock then you need to work on your driving. only thing id do is stuff to improve the powerband and lessen lag. once you start modding sti's and evo's like crazy they just have problem after problem. keep it mostly stock and drive the shit out of it.
 
I work in the automotive trade as a mechanic and I see modded cars all the time and the fact of the matter is 90 percent of aftermarket parts are marketed as direct fit and better than oem quality but dont even come close to to oem parts quality and engineering. For instance, there is a intercooler upgrade set that comes from EVO motorsports for the 997 911 turbo and it is advertised as direct fit plug and play intercoolers but as soon as you unpack the box... surprise! no instructions and guess what!... you have to cut some of the frame of the car away to fit them in. The point im trying to get across is that sure aftermarket parts sound fun and can be decent and fun for a while but in the end they almost all lead to failures in one way or another. I work at a Porsche/ Volkswagen dealership and I see aftermarket parts daily that effect the way car drives in negative ways. I would say just bite the bullet and buy an STi straight up and dont bother thinking youre going to do all these "mods" because chances are you wont and they are literally pissing money away. The STi is more than enough power for a street car and no matter how much you mod a WRX it will never be an sti. Thats just my 2 cents.
 
definitly sticking with awd. While i do admire the evo, I wouldn't get one because I want to stick with the boxer engine and unequal length headers (for the sound). Yes I will most likely be going route b. Just have to manage my funds well for the next year. The STI sedan is great because most of the mods I already have will fit that as well. I did all the work myself so it will not be difficult putting the wrx back to stock.

As for converting the wrx I really wouldn't go far up the power ladder. My goal for whichever car I have is 350hp. And before I ever had this kinda power into the wrx I will have allready swapped out the 5spd for an sti 6spd, difs and front uprights.

I appreciate all the responses and it was good to get some peoples insight into this. Unfortunately, my buddy at work was right over a year ago before I bought the wrx. I should have just gone with an 07 sti. It was the end of the revisions to that chassis and would have been a great car for years to come. You live you learn I guess.
 
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