I don't know sonicrats wrx is pretty damn fast for only having a reflash. It was faster than my tII when I had my stage I hybrid, full exhaust and intake etc.. etc.. Now it's not as fast as my car with the stage IV bnr, microtech etc... but then again if he had the same mods I bet it would have played a number on my car.

 

hey REHarrioson your full of sh*t theres no way in hell you were even with a WRX on your GSR with just (i.h.e) i had a wrx and killed my cousins GSR and he had way more mods than just intake, header and exhaust. i currently have a FC T2 w/racing beat turbo back exaust (high flow cat) Greedy FMIC, Greedy BOV, Cravenspeed Boost controller(running 12 psi), intake and a couple of other mods and i would say that its about as fast as my WRX was w/full exhaust and a boost controller

 

there are minor diffs between the wrx and the sti one is that the turbo i smaller on the wrx then the sti and the sti turbo is small. my friend ian has a 05 sti. he runs a max of 20psi thats all the turbo will produce. the sti is not overrated at all they are very fast cars. they are a 13.5 sec car from the factory his has a 3" downpipe, full 3" exaust, greddy recirculating bov, greddy boost controler, and ecutech he's pushimg 270 awhp bout 330bhp. and srt-4s are shitty

 

You can get more than 20psi out of the stock STI turbo, it just wont hold for sh*t. I actually just road-tuned one with only TBE and it was seeing 21-22psi on pump.

 

just joined this forums and i must admit this threads (my car is still better than all those new cars) are hilarious. I love FD's hence reason for joining.

 

hey dudes, there are some serious WRX's here in perth, most have 300hp+ at the wheels. I think Perth WRX is one of the largest car clubs here.

I havent been up against one yet, but my s4 NA can hold its own with a 3ltr V6.

 

it all depends on his mods man, i have actually raced 2 wrx's, one of them seem like it was stock and the other seemed to have exhaust and i don't know what else. the one that was stock wasn't much competition even of the line, the other one seemed a little faster but as soon as they hit 3rd is like they slam the brakes because they get slow. my TII was pushing 226whp in those races and i beat them with not much problems. so if you have a tII with a couple of mods and if youre friend is stock or just intake exhaust etc. ill say you can smoke him with no probs.

 

http://www.rx4speed.com/TXS%20WRX.htm

Just like the TII the WRX responds to exhaust and chip very well. Look at the stage 2 kit, just ECU and full exhaust. That adds 59.4 WHP (36% power increase). So TII pretty much with stock turbo has no chance with same mods. Sorry guys.

 

Are we talking about the same wrx's? the 227 bhp ones? :-/ I raced an 02 with bpu's from a roll and it was a joke... my mods at the time were 3" turbo back, intake, nipodenso fuel pump, microtech lt-10 on a JDM s5 motor and that was with massive heat soak before i got my fmic...

I just cant believe some people are acting like the wrx is the sti... the wrx guy had the same attitude before i put bus lengths on him too...

 

A stage 2 (chip and full exhaust) has more power than a stock STi. The WRX factory map is really crappy and holds back a lot of power. It's tuned to work anywhere in the world in any type of weather and altitude.