Alright...so yesterday a friend comes over with his WRX. Only mod is an AEM cold air intake. We were going to hook up a boost controller and a boost gauge...but we managed to lose the gauge somewhere between yesterday and Sunday.
Anyway, we're riding around, we lose to a LS1 Trans Am, no surprise there. About to run the TA from a stop, and we see another friend in his 91 TSi AWD. So naturally, we turn around and chase the Talon!
First run is from a dead stop, the Talon gets a fender on the WRX from the light, but since his 2nd gear syncro is non-existant, and there's not much left of 2nd gear anyway, we gain the fender back on the 1-2 shift. By 90mph we are about 1-1/2 car ahead.
Next run is from a 25mph roll in 2nd gear. It was really more of a 'whos turbo spools faster' contest. About dead even, but at the end of 2nd the WRX seemed to have a little more guts on the high RPM, and we got to about 90 and the Talon was almost a half a car back.
The Talon has about 130,000 on it, stock exhuast, only mods are K&N and 14psi via a MBC. I'm pretty sure with a full exhaust he'd walk away from the Subaru.
Anyone else run a WRX in their not-so-heavily-modded DSM?
I pulled away from them in my 90 FWD Laser, and I also lost by about 2 cars to one, from a stop to 90mph, in my 92 GSX (Auto, IC pipe, full 2.5" exhuast, ported exh manifold, 15psi, walboro)
Anyway, we're riding around, we lose to a LS1 Trans Am, no surprise there. About to run the TA from a stop, and we see another friend in his 91 TSi AWD. So naturally, we turn around and chase the Talon!
First run is from a dead stop, the Talon gets a fender on the WRX from the light, but since his 2nd gear syncro is non-existant, and there's not much left of 2nd gear anyway, we gain the fender back on the 1-2 shift. By 90mph we are about 1-1/2 car ahead.
Next run is from a 25mph roll in 2nd gear. It was really more of a 'whos turbo spools faster' contest. About dead even, but at the end of 2nd the WRX seemed to have a little more guts on the high RPM, and we got to about 90 and the Talon was almost a half a car back.
The Talon has about 130,000 on it, stock exhuast, only mods are K&N and 14psi via a MBC. I'm pretty sure with a full exhaust he'd walk away from the Subaru.
Anyone else run a WRX in their not-so-heavily-modded DSM?
I pulled away from them in my 90 FWD Laser, and I also lost by about 2 cars to one, from a stop to 90mph, in my 92 GSX (Auto, IC pipe, full 2.5" exhuast, ported exh manifold, 15psi, walboro)
