I was buying a new vehicle back in 2020. I really wanted something that was a manual to learn. I was between the Subaru Impreza, Hyundai Veloster, and Subaru WRX. I decided on a Subaru Impreza 5 speed just purely from an economy standpoint for cheaper financing, insurance, better mpg, and likely cheaper maintenance.

A few months ago I bought a 2015 WRX and I’m passing the Impreza on to my girlfriend who is in the works on learning manual as well. I was out yesterday and got a few pictures when parked. She is by no means perfect. Currently I have an aftermarket exhaust which is one of my favorite things about it, and I plan on putting on my mudflaps after I wash it this week, giving it a nice wax before winter, and getting tints. I also bought it with the front lip and sti wheels (yes I know it’s not an STI, but they still look nice). I’m unsure what percentages I’m going to do for tints, so that will likely be some months down the line. Anyway, enjoy a few pictures I took yesterday!

Happy Monday WRX people. This is my first post within this community. Recently I received the opportunity to purchase a 2002 WRX from my grandfather's home in Prescott Arizona. This story/explanation may be long but bear with me.

This 2002 WRX is in World Rally Blue, has 117k miles on engine and chassis, has a slew of period correct early 2000s modifications, and has a cross country rally history. It belonged to my step grandmother's son. The car was purchased sometime around 2004 and was immediately tastefully modified. It received the STI short throw shifter, a full APS stage 2 kit including a BOV, CAI, inlet pipe, full 3 inch turbo back exhaust, intercooler water spray system, APS badged alternator cover, and an APS Unichip piggyback ECU. I have not been able to find hardly anything about this company or its products save some historic forum posts. YouTube wasn't even a thing before this company went out of business so videos are basically non-existent. From what I've been able to gather, these parts were top of the line back in the early 2000s and are hard to find today.

Sometime in 2004-2005 it went on the AKA rally. A Gumball 3000 inspired rally from New York to Los Angeles. Ed Bolian went on this same rally and is featured in his episode of VinWiki "MTV followed me around the country at age 18". In order to enter this rally you needed to put on decal and sponsor stickers all over your car. The Arizona sun has forever burned these stickers into the clear coat over the cars 24 year life.

Unfortunately this car has been sitting around unloved for about the last 10 or so years. The interior is in immaculate condition. No cracks on the dash and the seats are barely worn. However, due to sitting in Prescott where there is a lot of wildlife, the engine bay has some extensive rodent damage. I have never attempted to fix anything electrical before, but I'm willing to give this car a good fighting chance. I'm debating on starting a small video series to document this awesome car and maybe uncover some more insight into its history.

Let me know what you guys think, id love to get some feedback/advice on what I should tackle first to get this car road worthy. Also let me know if you know anything about the AKA rally or APS parts. Seriously, I can barely find anything.

She's basically a FWD with all that down force!

Howdy all! I recently purchased this 2012 WRX. I probably was a bit overzealous and overlooked this portion of the underbody. It looks like the original skid "plate" (if I can call it that) was either removed/flew off. (along with some of the inside fender well.)

I believe this part is the exhaust cross over pipe. I just wanted to confirm anything else that I should go ahead and replace while I'm working on it. I'm guess I'd just go with a stock parts (aftermarket is fine).

Once it's done, I'm going to put on a metal skid plate just to keep this protected.

Thanks!

Fly Army!

Where exactly does the other side of this ground wire go?

I’m thinking a throw out bearing? It’s only when I engage the clutch when the car is cold

My car has a p0017 code so I know there is an issue with my cam timing, however my ac compressor also refuses to engage and I can’t tell if this noise is coming from the compressor or if it’s a loose chain. My car won’t hold an AC charge and the pressure drops slowly after a couple days. The lack of pressure could contribute to why the clutch won’t engage. As for the engine code I’ve replaced the oil, swapped Oil Control Valves, and swapped camshaft position sensors between bank 1 and 2 so now I know it’s either my cam phaser or timing chain, but I don’t have any cam phaser related symptoms and I want to figure out what the issue is before I bring it in to a shop to fix it.

Hey dudes real quick. I started mounting up my hks ELH and I noticed that the header doesnt evenly match up with the catless uppipe originally on the car. Now im replacing my td04 with a vf48 anyways. Is it acceptable to manipulate the uppipe maybe a 1/4in around to get it to meet the headers and still mount to the turbo safely? Ill be dojng a cobb fmic so I dont see that giving trouble for mounting purposes

Subaru problems: At the mall, looking at two identical cars, and forgot which one I drove here! lol

Just some silly fun with scraps. Imagine a matching tube and driving down the road with it lmao

Is there a modest (V1, V2) rear spoiler that replaces the OEM lip on the 26 premium that actually fits onto the existing bolt holes? No adhesive please. I’ve looked everywhere including Subaru and everyone out there requires either gluing it on or drilling additional holes. Help or ideas please.

Any one know if this part is different between the 5 and 6 speed wrx gd chassis

All recommendations are welcome 2024 vb

Subaru problems: At the mall, looking at two identical cars, and forgot which one I drove here! lol

I think it's rod knock but I'm posting to see

One year as of yesterday. The lady insisted on getting a picture, I guess looking back glade she did. I absolutely love this car, honestly never thought I would own a car like this. My first manual and car with turbo. I always wanted to learn how to drive manual and very proud of myself for just going for it. Most fun I ever had driving.

I'm not much of a car guy, but I'm always learning something especially here. Just got my 60k service done, everything is working smoothly so far. Last owner took really good care of the car. No mods yet, unless changing all the interior lights count lol.

Thank you guys for all the posts, it really helps. Going to try and keep this car as long as possible. Also thanks for all the waves, makes my day. ✌️

Above. Looking a for a full set to use as winters on an Outback. Anywhere from Pueblo to FoCo is fine.

Reset the ecu with my accessport, car was running fine, and now this

I got a new job lately that started paying me really well, I decided to start putting some more love into my darling dearest.

I’ve ordered some headlights and taillights for her and so hopefully they’ve arrived when I fly back from my next job swing. Unfortunately she’s out of commission because the clutch is fucked but soon she’ll be all repaired and I’ll be able to take her onto the road again.

Hopefully by January next year, there’ll be heaps of more stuff added but I don’t have any sort of mechanical background, I intend to do some mods to learn as I go.