Well, I'm a car-nut - and I'm kinda bored now that baby-Anna has a new nap schedule (consolidated her AM nap with her PM, so it's a long stretch of nothing to do).....
I've noticed that while some of the countermeasures enthusiasts here are not necessarily "car guys" (nothing wrong with that - I'm just stating an observation; for example, I love tactical flashlights and knives, but I'm not an LEO/Mil, nor am I a "mall ninja," I'm just a hobbyist) that at the same time, many of you are.
The "What car is your V1 in?" thread, for example, contains many cool rides, but I haven't seen a complete thread of such.
Would anyone here like to post pix and/or descriptions of their rides? Not a "contest" or anything - no one-upsmanship, please - and please, don't be negative about another man/woman's beloved ride, let's all give each other the courtesy and respect we all deserve, OK?
So, I'll begin:
My wife's daily-driver is a "bone-stock" '05 Subaru Impreza WRX sedan, 4-speed automatic ( ), Crystal Grey Metallic with OEM rear wing and aero package, and an aftermarket Webasto moon-roof. No mods, not even countermeasures, actually. Well, I guess it does have some really fancy wiper blades (PIAA SuperSilicone) and a pricy baby-seat (Britax Marathon) - and a set of pretty pedal-covers (generic "STi" off eBay), so I'll list it here nonetheless. ops:
My daily-driver is a '05 Subaru Legacy 2.5GT, "Limited" trim, sedan, 5-speed manual, with OEM rear wing, STi short-throw shifter, and perimeter alarm upgrades. Not from the factory are the following:
-Cleared headlights w/DRL-defeat
-Painted (black metallic) marker streaks
-Stanza Development Laboratory carbon-fiber JDM eyelines
-RPM CCFL DDEs
-Sylvania SilverStar turn/markers and low-beams
-Narva Gold fogs, re-aimed and independently wired
-JinsuPower/RockBlocker "clear stacked ovals" tail-light overlays
-PIAA SuperSporza/SuperSilicone wipers
-Driver's side seat-belt reminder chime disabled
-Escort 8500 X50-Blue (Rev5), hardwired w/remote
-Escort ZR3 Laser Shifter, hardwired w/remote (front/rear)
-Laser Protector Ltd: Laser PRO Vehicle Sensing System (i.e. "Laser ProPark" -front/rear) [dual heads - v8.3h/v10.1s]
- CR8APL8 replica front and rear plates
-Tritium and strontium indexed moonroof switch
-Red OPTX 3" UltraMini tubes, front door cubby accents
-KartBoy front and rear shifter bushings
-RAZO RP42, 43, and 46 aluminum pedals/dead-pedal combo
-MOMO F16 Evo shift knob - wood
-MOMO PitStop e-/p-/hand-brake - wood
-RedLineGoods custom leather e-brake boot (to fit handle above) and shift boot
-MOMO T100/200 floor mats w/grid
-AutoMeter NEXUS 30-0-30 psi vac/boost gauge
-AutoMeter NEXUS oil pressure gauge w/WRXtra remote sender adaptor
-AutoMeter NEXUS EGT gauge
-AutoMeter carbon-fiber gauge cups x3
-AutoMeter SportComp II voltmeter and AEM UEGO Wideband O2 gauge in center cubby w/Cubbypod CP1 (025210), cubby light disabled, door retained
-TurboXS Knock/Shift light on column
-GReddy Intelligent Informeter, left dash below main NEXUS gauges
-ECUTeK EasyECU/DeltaDash; DELL Latitude D610
-Blitz Nur-Spec Touring axle-back canisters
-Lachute Y-pipe w/Custom 3" diameter mid-section w/Magnaflow resonator
-Crucial cerametallic coated UP and shorty-DP
-Crucial port, polish, and cerametallic coated (w/ EGT-tapped @cyl. #4 junction) stock manifolds w/Crucial cerametallic coated Injen SES Cross-Pipe and port-matched gaskets
-Blitz Dual-Drive SS BOV (70087)
-Perrin Short-Ram intake
-NGK Iridium IX (LFR7AIX) one step colder spark-plugs
-Prodrive oil-cap and battery tie-down
-OEM JDM engine bay cover set
-ECUTeK - PDXTuning custom dyno-tune
-Buschur Racing, Wakeman, OH - Mustang Dyno
-Prodrive PFF-7 w/ Fuzion ZRi 225/40/18 - summer
-Prodrive locking stem-caps (thanks, Ted!)
-McGard Spline-Drive lugs, black anodized
-Falken Ziex ZE-512, 225/45/17 w/stock rims (w/GrafxWerx reflective metallic white "STi" vinyl centercap overlay, metallic dark blue background) - winter
-Rotora 330x24 1-pc. 4-pot front BBK (clears stock 17s)
-Rotora slotted & drilled rear rotors (stock size)
-iON Sport-Spec springs
-De-badged "2.5GT"
-JDM-"STi" badging front, and rear
-JDM-"tuned by STi" limited edition badge, both sides
-"Powered by ECUTeK" badge, rear,
-Modified Perrin plate frame front
-Modified Blitz plate frame rear
My other car - the one that my wife is trying to make me get rid of ( but I secretely want to keep it around for baby-Anna as her first car 8) ) is a white '95 Eagle Talon TSi, with 2Gb Eclipse front-end conversion. She contains the following:
-ported EvoIII 16G (tuned for 18psi)
-ported OEM exhaust manifold
-ported OEM O2 housing
-ACT 2600 clutch
-Stainless oil/clutch Lines
-RC 550 injectors
-APEXi S-AFC on a custom aluminum dash mount; APEXi Super Grounding System voltage stabilizer
-Walbro 255lpm, rewired
-Injen intake w/K&N filter, home-made heat-shield and supplemental cold-air duct
-GReddy Type-S BOV
-GReddy upper and lower IC piping
-SI 21x9x3 FMIC
-RRE catch can
-UR underdrive pulley
-VRS aluminized 2.5 downpipe and test pipe
-2.5" GReddy SP cat-back
-TurboXS MBC
-GReddy Turbo Timer
-8mm Magnacore wires
-polyurethane engine and transmission mounts
-17in Arospeed RS-GT w/ Cooper Zeon ZPT 225/45
-Tein S.Tech springs on Tokico 5-ways
-front and rear RACTIVE upper strut bars
-Energy Suspension bushings
-Brembo cross-drilled rotors on front
-ViS carbon-fiber hood, black
-custom arbon-fiber thumnail wing (2Ga-style), black
-2Gb Eclipse style aftermarket single projector headlights with HID retrofit using OEM BMW Hella/Phillips projector optics, 4300K bulbs and ballasts
-Sylvania SilverStar 1156 corners w/cleared lens/reflector side markers
-CATZ XLD
-MOMO Millennium steering wheel
-GReddy CounterWeight knob on B&M short-throw
-Pioneer 6.5" components up front w/dash mounted tweets
-Pioneer 6X9 3-ways in rear
-2x MTX Thunder 6000 12s in a custom box in hatch
-Orion Cobalt 500
-Alpine CDA7939 head unit and Alpine REA-G320 14-band digital EQ
-Delphi SkiFi2
-aftermarket white faced gauges (amber at night) w/Autometer Phantom narrow-band A/F "lightshow," 30/0/30 boost-gauge, and EGT gauge on A-pillar and cluster mounts
-custom O2 voltmeter, with glare shield, on column
[The TSi also, when she was my daily-driver, sported the RAZO pedal covers, carried-over from my previous DSMs, as well as the x50/ZR3 hardwire combos.]
Lets keep this thread going, my fellow gearheads! I can't wait to see the cool rides that y'all have!
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