Complete mod list as of now..

Waste of time and money mods:
Grills are DIY, made of steel.
Teeth are DIY, made of steel.
Debadged trunk
20% tint on all 7 windows
RallyArmor Limited Edition mud flaps
Hella Supertones
Clear sidemarkers
Carbon fiber eyelids
JDM silver Hazard button
2006 STI OEM head unit
Jazzy Engineering iPod/3.5mm input mod w/ipod charging
Pioneer upgraded speakers
Mitsubishi Lancer dash clock w/red color mod
Booster Seat (swear to god this improves power )
American flag license plate (annual CHP donation), edges painted black
Roof Rail delete (traded with a Saab)
Headliner delete
Pillar cover delete
Inner trunk cover delete
Oh **** handle delete

Engine:
Exhaust is a Borla Hush Cat-back
Stage 2 w/open source tune
-Helix up-pipe
-Helix down-pipe w/v-band flange @ the cat-back, heatwrapped, painted, and sealed with DEI exhaust wrap products.
-Samco intercooler hoses
Subaru SPT Short Ram Intake w/heat shield

Suspension:
BFGoodrich 225/45zr17 on A-tech/MB Weapon 17x7 +45(fricken mystery wheels?)
Kumho r700 205/65-15 on Braids Winrace TA 15x6.5 +45
2007 sti rear struts, springs, and tophats
1/2inch rear strut spacer w/extended bolts
Whiteline sways, front and rear 22-24mm adjustable
Whiteline endlinks front and rear
Whiteline heavy duty rear sway bar mounts
Ebay Strut bars painted black front and rear
Paranoid Fabrication fender braces

Transmission:
Cobb double adjustable short shifter, currently with a rally style shifter height
Prodrive shift ****
(secondary shifter option is a short shift height with a Skunk2Racing 440gram weighted ****)
ixiszClutch (love it!)
Exedy OEM replacement clutch
Scotty's transmission Cocktail (STFU, i'm trying it! Next time it will be Redline Shockproof w/ Motul300)

Brakes:
Axxis Ultimate pads
Painted stock calipers
Painted brake hubs black

Here is an avalanche of photos:

As of July 2010
Mud flaps, Borla hush. Whiteline endlinks


Even my 5 year old sister has a better bucket seat than I do! just look at that lateral and head support!


SPT SRI, Hella Supertones, DIY grill, carbon fiber eyelids, ebay strut bar


Rear ebay strut bar, painted black like the front.


Couldn't find any whitewall tires so i covered mine in mud! (also roof rail delete)


Cleaned up rear end + upstanding citizen plates! 8) (also roof rail delete)


Custom shifter, fire extinguisher (which is usually mounted just in front of my driver seat), 06 sti head unit,


Look at all the pretty colors! calipers, end links.


Took out the headliner to do the roof rail delete and haven't put it back in yet. Trying to diagnose and fix my broken dome light.


Not sure where this sticker came from. Someone stuck it on there last week while I was parked at work.

 

yay more Russian ppl welcome and enjoy.

 

Welcome. Your wagon looks mean literally.

 

Thanks guys. Maybe this should be moved to a different thread? Or change the title to "Gancherov's 02 WRX wagon build"?

 

whats up gleb, nice to see your getting work done.

 

Nice wagon. I have been looking for some kind of grill to better protect my front mount intercooler. Maybe I will have to make something myself.

 

Got a question about smog. How do you clear the smog with those engine mods? I thought they do visual and it's an automatic fail if they see something different from stock?

Want to know what's "possible" and not, if you know what I mean

 

The cat-less downpipe is not street legal and is for off-roading or track purposes only. The car will not pass smog with this part installed. It must be removed and reverted back to stock to be street legal and smog approved.

The SPT intake is a Subaru genuine part and is a CARB legal upgrade, I carry paperwork in my car to prove this. Some also come with CARB stickers.

 

As promised, here are the pictures. I'm sorry about the crappy quality pictures but I had to either drive or take photos and that's not a choice. I had my friend take some photos and I did what I could with them in post.

New mods:
15x6.5 +45 Braid Winrace TA's (thanks Team Illuminata for the great prices and quick shipping!)
205/65-15 Kumho r700 gravel tires (thanks to UP2MTNS rally team)
Helix up pipe
Helix bellmouth downpipe heatwrapped and painted with DEI products
v-band clamp between downpipe and cat-back for exhaust-free track days
Samco intercooler hoses
McGard lug nuts
Rear subframe lock bolts
Subframe delete

And i've got a bunch of bushings, a CSS TMIC (freaking huge, thanks Terence!), and a GM boost control solenoid to install next. Hopefully get that done and start on my skid plate by October.

After the stage 2 exhaust install and the new wheels/tires, I definitely had to put my car through it's paces and re-discover my limits. I drove out to Bass Lake near Yosemite for a week and spent 3-6 hours a day for 5 days looking for all the dirt roads and gravel I could find. Only found a little bit of gravel, but I found tons of jeep trails. Some had pretty large bumps and valleys which cause me some trouble as you can see here...



But there were some great trails that were just dirt and 2-3inch rocks. I managed about 30mph on average with some sections where I reached 45, this was definitely on the border of out of control even with these tires.



I must say that I really enjoyed how very easy it was to get sideways and how much steering control I had with just modulating the throttle and brake. Trail braking was amazingly simple and instantly responsive; imagine steering with your foot. It's like flying a plane and stepping on the tail pedals, the back end just pivots around the front wheels.

 

you're missing something.

www.wagonmafia.com

 

I respect the wagon mafia but I don't need the stickers.

 

Thanks for the answers Gancherov. I read that cat-back exhaust is legal, as long as the stock cat is left intact? Is that true? I want to change out the exhaust and was wondering if I would need to do the swap-back-to-stock when the times comes for smog.

Thanks for answering my very noob question

 

bugeye wagons ftw.

 

hey lets get a group together for a cruise anyone interested?

 

Sure. The wagon is out of commission right now (blown radiator) but I should have that replaced in a week or two. Also going to install a few other "while I'm here" kind of things: lightweight crank pulley, huge intercooler, low temp thermostat, turbo heat shield, turbo blanket, rear subframe bushings, and hopefully my front and rear shifter bushings.

If someone wants to come help with the install, it's always nice to have an extra pair of hands.

After that, I'm ready for a nice long cruise to break everything in.