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Originally Posted by jdmsohc22
Of course you could have saved the $200 more a month for about a year and just turbo-charged your civic and been able to walk that wrx lol... At least that's what I did and my boosted hatch leaves my brothers new STi in the dust, but his car is about 18 years newer than mine so he's got me beat there lol, but that's the only place he's got me beat =)
And I'm going to the EVO no matter what, it's always been in my regime to stay up to date in the cellular world so ehhh I guess it's sort of a bad habit "new phone comes out, buy it, repress any negative affects from buying it" that's usually how the cycle works lol..
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Not true. The lack of power or any displacement whatsoever in the A18 motor is disappointing, and the VTEC and DOHC hurt it for FI. People have been trying to turbo them since the motor came out and they still can't keep up with most of the quicker cars on the road. It's not as nice as the older Civic motors without VTEC, where you can boost the piss out of it comfortably and walk a WRX. Either way, the 2009+ WRX's are much much faster than the old ones. The old ones would run high 14's in the 1/4. I took mine to the track after I hit 1000 miles and I ran 13.6 pretty easily and I have no idea how to launch AWD. I saw a video somewhere where some professionals got 13.3 out of it, bone stock, and that's impressive. The old WRX had ~220 HP, not sure on TQ, but the new ones are 265HP and 244TQ I believe, and from the stock dynos I've seen, those numbers are underrated by Subaru. A stage 2 09 WRX can walk a stage 2 07 STI, haha.
I still miss my '05 Mustang GT though. I spent like $600 on mods on that car and was running 12.7 @ 107 lol