Test drove a 2011 WRX today.
Test drove a 2011 WRX today.
1987 300SDL 6spd manual om606.962 swap project
1985 300td euro 5spd wagon running
willbhere4u
12-03-2010, 08:11 PM #2lol I want one! but it's out of my $ range
1987 300SDL 6spd manual om606.962 swap project
1985 300td euro 5spd wagon running
Now I have a $150 1990 Legacy wagon that I use for automotive abuse (i.e. rallycross). 
82 300SD aka The Flyin Pumpkin (Gone): 7.5mm super M-pump, T3 60 trim turbo, Coldish air intake, A/W intercooler, propane injection, SW Boost and EGT gauges, Monark 265 nozzles, ported/polished cylinder head.
84 Euro 300D 4 sp: White with black trunk and hood. Blue cloth interior. Manual everything. 300DT front swaybar. C320 17" wheels. Now with the Flyin Pumpkins engine!
Heh. I work at a Subaru Dealership up here in WA. Those are a fun, fun time if you get a chance to really drive one. I used to have an 02 WRX with a few mods, used to love that car. I miss it every time it snows! Now I have a $150 1990 Legacy wagon that I use for automotive abuse (i.e. rallycross).
82 300SD aka The Flyin Pumpkin (Gone): 7.5mm super M-pump, T3 60 trim turbo, Coldish air intake, A/W intercooler, propane injection, SW Boost and EGT gauges, Monark 265 nozzles, ported/polished cylinder head.
84 Euro 300D 4 sp: White with black trunk and hood. Blue cloth interior. Manual everything. 300DT front swaybar. C320 17" wheels. Now with the Flyin Pumpkins engine!
1987 300D Sturmmachine
1991 300D Nearly Perfect
1985 300D Weekend/Camping/Dog car
1974 L508D Motoroam Monarch "NightMare"
OBK #42
My buddy has an 03 he traded in for a cts - v (whats not to like about a caddi with a vette engine and 6 speed stick?). It was tuned up pretty good and put out around 380. Lots of fun. Once he loaded up the clutch pretty good and dumped it on a 5.0 mustang. Stick in mud, we were half way down the block before the mustang moved a foot.
1987 300D Sturmmachine
1991 300D Nearly Perfect
1985 300D Weekend/Camping/Dog car
1974 L508D Motoroam Monarch "NightMare"
OBK #42
82 300SD aka The Flyin Pumpkin (Gone): 7.5mm super M-pump, T3 60 trim turbo, Coldish air intake, A/W intercooler, propane injection, SW Boost and EGT gauges, Monark 265 nozzles, ported/polished cylinder head.
84 Euro 300D 4 sp: White with black trunk and hood. Blue cloth interior. Manual everything. 300DT front swaybar. C320 17" wheels. Now with the Flyin Pumpkins engine!
Yeah, I've heard those cts-v Caddi's are a sleeper... Sounds like a fun recipe though!
82 300SD aka The Flyin Pumpkin (Gone): 7.5mm super M-pump, T3 60 trim turbo, Coldish air intake, A/W intercooler, propane injection, SW Boost and EGT gauges, Monark 265 nozzles, ported/polished cylinder head.
84 Euro 300D 4 sp: White with black trunk and hood. Blue cloth interior. Manual everything. 300DT front swaybar. C320 17" wheels. Now with the Flyin Pumpkins engine!
I love WRXs guys and convinced a two time Maxima owner and Nissan loyalist to consider getting a WRX once the rumor was starting of them finally coming to America. I'm sure he would have bought an R34 Skyline but couldn't swing it. Last I knew he was getting another one and keeping his pale yellow one (the 400 first in country-only color available) to his daughter. I think I'm so lunatic fringe though I'd prefer a Lancia 037. Rear wheel drive-rear engined rally car or many of the other Gruppe B monsters. I must say I also am good friends with a 2006 WRX STi owner that is making at least 430 hp. I'll upload video when I finally get back in that thing.
I also have to say that you guys have got to drive a BMW 335d (diesel) just to experience that engine. It almost seemed to make Jeremy Clarkson happy and he is loathe for diesels (about the only thing I don't care for with him)
And... last but not least the glorious Noble M400 or the newer version the Rossion Q1. Without a doubt my favorite road car experience ever. You must-- I repeat must drive one of these if you ever get a chance. The only thing that handles more purely is a Lotus Elise (at the time) and a M400 has 400 hp per tonne!!
Sorry to be long winded but hope some of you enjoyed it...
"Molly" Jan. '84 black/tan 300d 180k miles, two owner car
Silberpfeil
12-04-2010, 06:14 AM #6Hat off to John Heinricy for putting the team together to make Cadillac a "world standard" again-first with their race cars (years ago) and also a stint as a driver in the Corvette C5-R program (1999) and now to make the CTS-V a true contender in the world of super sedans. I'll still take a MTM Audi RS-6 Avant Clubsport (older version please) but.... you gotta admire the guy.
I love WRXs guys and convinced a two time Maxima owner and Nissan loyalist to consider getting a WRX once the rumor was starting of them finally coming to America. I'm sure he would have bought an R34 Skyline but couldn't swing it. Last I knew he was getting another one and keeping his pale yellow one (the 400 first in country-only color available) to his daughter. I think I'm so lunatic fringe though I'd prefer a Lancia 037. Rear wheel drive-rear engined rally car or many of the other Gruppe B monsters. I must say I also am good friends with a 2006 WRX STi owner that is making at least 430 hp. I'll upload video when I finally get back in that thing.
I also have to say that you guys have got to drive a BMW 335d (diesel) just to experience that engine. It almost seemed to make Jeremy Clarkson happy and he is loathe for diesels (about the only thing I don't care for with him)
And... last but not least the glorious Noble M400 or the newer version the Rossion Q1. Without a doubt my favorite road car experience ever. You must-- I repeat must drive one of these if you ever get a chance. The only thing that handles more purely is a Lotus Elise (at the time) and a M400 has 400 hp per tonne!!
Sorry to be long winded but hope some of you enjoyed it...
"Molly" Jan. '84 black/tan 300d 180k miles, two owner car
I drove both the Z06 and the CTS-V at the GM test drive thing at Edwards air force base and it was insane. They have you accelerate form a dead stop to like 80 mph then brake hard into a hairpin then through a slalom ... Both cars were almost identical, the Cadd only had a little more weight to throw around but it handled very close to the Vette. If I couldn't get the ZR1 Vette I'd have a hard time deciding between a Z06 and a CTS-Z. How can you beat a Vette that seats 5, smokes a lot of other factory cars, and has a 556hp/551tq numbers?
P.S. I hate subaru's
1982 300D Turbo ... 3,6xxlbs, No fan, No AC, Hood Stack, No ALDA, No rear bumper and stuffed front, A/W Intercooled, Injectors by Greezer and HUGE Pre-Chambers with help from OM616 & Simpler=Better, Fuel Cranked up, 60 Trim Compressor wheel, EGT, EMP, Boost 50" Rigid Radius bar on roof Aux tank for a total of 48 Gal Of Diesel! Odyssey PC-1750 Battery in trunk, 27"x8.5"/R14 Maxxis BigHorn Mud Terrains, In June '14 issue of Off Road Mag
AX15 Jeep Trans swap in progress....
Captain America
12-04-2010, 09:19 PM #7The CTS-V is a Corvette with a Cadillac body on it.
I drove both the Z06 and the CTS-V at the GM test drive thing at Edwards air force base and it was insane. They have you accelerate form a dead stop to like 80 mph then brake hard into a hairpin then through a slalom ... Both cars were almost identical, the Cadd only had a little more weight to throw around but it handled very close to the Vette. If I couldn't get the ZR1 Vette I'd have a hard time deciding between a Z06 and a CTS-Z. How can you beat a Vette that seats 5, smokes a lot of other factory cars, and has a 556hp/551tq numbers?
P.S. I hate subaru's
1982 300D Turbo ... 3,6xxlbs, No fan, No AC, Hood Stack, No ALDA, No rear bumper and stuffed front, A/W Intercooled, Injectors by Greezer and HUGE Pre-Chambers with help from OM616 & Simpler=Better, Fuel Cranked up, 60 Trim Compressor wheel, EGT, EMP, Boost 50" Rigid Radius bar on roof Aux tank for a total of 48 Gal Of Diesel! Odyssey PC-1750 Battery in trunk, 27"x8.5"/R14 Maxxis BigHorn Mud Terrains, In June '14 issue of Off Road Mag
AX15 Jeep Trans swap in progress....
1987 300SDL 6spd manual om606.962 swap project
1985 300td euro 5spd wagon running
willbhere4u
12-04-2010, 09:44 PM #8It's hard to believe that a Cadillac can keep up with my turbocharged lotus Elise! Insane!
1987 300SDL 6spd manual om606.962 swap project
1985 300td euro 5spd wagon running
What they need to do is use the 3.0L flat-6 with a pair of turbos.
ForcedInduction
12-06-2010, 02:05 AM
#9
Not a fan of the flat-4, sounds like its got a misfire.
What they need to do is use the 3.0L flat-6 with a pair of turbos.
1982 300D Turbo ... 3,6xxlbs, No fan, No AC, Hood Stack, No ALDA, No rear bumper and stuffed front, A/W Intercooled, Injectors by Greezer and HUGE Pre-Chambers with help from OM616 & Simpler=Better, Fuel Cranked up, 60 Trim Compressor wheel, EGT, EMP, Boost 50" Rigid Radius bar on roof Aux tank for a total of 48 Gal Of Diesel! Odyssey PC-1750 Battery in trunk, 27"x8.5"/R14 Maxxis BigHorn Mud Terrains, In June '14 issue of Off Road Mag
AX15 Jeep Trans swap in progress....
Captain America
12-06-2010, 02:17 AM #10The flat 4 does sound like ass. Haha literally.
1982 300D Turbo ... 3,6xxlbs, No fan, No AC, Hood Stack, No ALDA, No rear bumper and stuffed front, A/W Intercooled, Injectors by Greezer and HUGE Pre-Chambers with help from OM616 & Simpler=Better, Fuel Cranked up, 60 Trim Compressor wheel, EGT, EMP, Boost 50" Rigid Radius bar on roof Aux tank for a total of 48 Gal Of Diesel! Odyssey PC-1750 Battery in trunk, 27"x8.5"/R14 Maxxis BigHorn Mud Terrains, In June '14 issue of Off Road Mag
AX15 Jeep Trans swap in progress....
ForcedInduction
12-06-2010, 06:35 PM
#12
(12-06-2010, 09:33 AM)winmutt Another successful Porsche design.
If done right, you could still keep that "who steamrolled my car from the bumper to the windshield????" look that subies have!
1990 Power Ram 50 V6 SOHC 24V 6g72
I can be wrong, don't take everything I say as verbatim, please fact-check first.
My posts are my personal opinions and thoughts, unless otherwise noted.
I'm waiting for someone to make a dual-V style engine, like a bowtie... ><
If done right, you could still keep that "who steamrolled my car from the bumper to the windshield????" look that subies have!
1990 Power Ram 50 V6 SOHC 24V 6g72
I can be wrong, don't take everything I say as verbatim, please fact-check first.
My posts are my personal opinions and thoughts, unless otherwise noted.
I was thinking of removing the muffler off my 96 outback 2.2 just to here that sound!
but then again I'm also a sucker for sound of a rotary with no exhaust!
I really want to put a 13B turbo in my outback and have some AWD rotary madness!
1987 300SDL 6spd manual om606.962 swap project
1985 300td euro 5spd wagon running
willbhere4u
12-06-2010, 08:06 PM #14I love that Subaru burble!
I was thinking of removing the muffler off my 96 outback 2.2 just to here that sound!
but then again I'm also a sucker for sound of a rotary with no exhaust!
I really want to put a 13B turbo in my outback and have some AWD rotary madness!
1987 300SDL 6spd manual om606.962 swap project
1985 300td euro 5spd wagon running
Oh, and where's "here"? If it's in NY I'd consider helping wrench a 13B in...
1990 Power Ram 50 V6 SOHC 24V 6g72
I can be wrong, don't take everything I say as verbatim, please fact-check first.
My posts are my personal opinions and thoughts, unless otherwise noted.
Forget the outback, put it in the back of a tube frame with a SRT4's 5-speed
Oh, and where's "here"? If it's in NY I'd consider helping wrench a 13B in...
1990 Power Ram 50 V6 SOHC 24V 6g72
I can be wrong, don't take everything I say as verbatim, please fact-check first.
My posts are my personal opinions and thoughts, unless otherwise noted.
1987 300SDL 6spd manual om606.962 swap project
1985 300td euro 5spd wagon running
willbhere4u
12-06-2010, 08:18 PM #16I just want to pull up to a Subaru gathering with my stock looking out back sounding like this
1987 300SDL 6spd manual om606.962 swap project
1985 300td euro 5spd wagon running
1990 Power Ram 50 V6 SOHC 24V 6g72
I can be wrong, don't take everything I say as verbatim, please fact-check first.
My posts are my personal opinions and thoughts, unless otherwise noted.
Easy, super quiet mufflers and 13KW speaker system playing a loop :p
1990 Power Ram 50 V6 SOHC 24V 6g72
I can be wrong, don't take everything I say as verbatim, please fact-check first.
My posts are my personal opinions and thoughts, unless otherwise noted.
(12-06-2010, 07:41 PM)300D50 I'm waiting for someone to make a dual-V style engine, like a bowtie... ><
These are about as close as you'll get to that, but they both have 16 cylinders.
![[Image: V10-sfw.jpg]](http://www.matsuura.co.uk/clientfiles/Image/JIMTOF%202006/V10-sfw.jpg)
![[Image: 1968_brm_h16_engine_3.jpg]](http://m.blog.hu/om/ommszem/image/BRM/1968_brm_h16_engine_3.jpg)
ForcedInduction
12-06-2010, 09:42 PM
#18
(12-06-2010, 07:41 PM)300D50 I'm waiting for someone to make a dual-V style engine, like a bowtie... ><
These are about as close as you'll get to that, but they both have 16 cylinders.
1990 Power Ram 50 V6 SOHC 24V 6g72
I can be wrong, don't take everything I say as verbatim, please fact-check first.
My posts are my personal opinions and thoughts, unless otherwise noted.
I'll take the first one delivered to my door with all the trimings...I can put it on the national debt...
1990 Power Ram 50 V6 SOHC 24V 6g72
I can be wrong, don't take everything I say as verbatim, please fact-check first.
My posts are my personal opinions and thoughts, unless otherwise noted.
1987 300SDL 6spd manual om606.962 swap project
1985 300td euro 5spd wagon running
willbhere4u
12-06-2010, 11:23 PM #20I"ll take the second for my riding lawn more! I'll call it a BRMdeer
1987 300SDL 6spd manual om606.962 swap project
1985 300td euro 5spd wagon running
(12-06-2010, 06:35 PM)ForcedInduction(12-06-2010, 09:33 AM)winmutt Another successful Porsche design.
Benz held the first patent. (which I didnt know till I wiki'ed it).
1987 300D Sturmmachine
1991 300D Nearly Perfect
1985 300D Weekend/Camping/Dog car
1974 L508D Motoroam Monarch "NightMare"
OBK #42
(12-06-2010, 06:35 PM)ForcedInduction(12-06-2010, 09:33 AM)winmutt Another successful Porsche design.
Benz held the first patent. (which I didnt know till I wiki'ed it).
1987 300D Sturmmachine
1991 300D Nearly Perfect
1985 300D Weekend/Camping/Dog car
1974 L508D Motoroam Monarch "NightMare"
OBK #42
82 300SD aka The Flyin Pumpkin (Gone): 7.5mm super M-pump, T3 60 trim turbo, Coldish air intake, A/W intercooler, propane injection, SW Boost and EGT gauges, Monark 265 nozzles, ported/polished cylinder head.
84 Euro 300D 4 sp: White with black trunk and hood. Blue cloth interior. Manual everything. 300DT front swaybar. C320 17" wheels. Now with the Flyin Pumpkins engine!
If you've never heard a pissed off Subaru turbo rally car running race gas, anti-lag, and open exhaust you are truely missing out. The sound is awesome!
82 300SD aka The Flyin Pumpkin (Gone): 7.5mm super M-pump, T3 60 trim turbo, Coldish air intake, A/W intercooler, propane injection, SW Boost and EGT gauges, Monark 265 nozzles, ported/polished cylinder head.
84 Euro 300D 4 sp: White with black trunk and hood. Blue cloth interior. Manual everything. 300DT front swaybar. C320 17" wheels. Now with the Flyin Pumpkins engine!
1982 300D Turbo ... 3,6xxlbs, No fan, No AC, Hood Stack, No ALDA, No rear bumper and stuffed front, A/W Intercooled, Injectors by Greezer and HUGE Pre-Chambers with help from OM616 & Simpler=Better, Fuel Cranked up, 60 Trim Compressor wheel, EGT, EMP, Boost 50" Rigid Radius bar on roof Aux tank for a total of 48 Gal Of Diesel! Odyssey PC-1750 Battery in trunk, 27"x8.5"/R14 Maxxis BigHorn Mud Terrains, In June '14 issue of Off Road Mag
AX15 Jeep Trans swap in progress....
Captain America
12-07-2010, 11:23 PM #23So does a NASCAR spec V8
1982 300D Turbo ... 3,6xxlbs, No fan, No AC, Hood Stack, No ALDA, No rear bumper and stuffed front, A/W Intercooled, Injectors by Greezer and HUGE Pre-Chambers with help from OM616 & Simpler=Better, Fuel Cranked up, 60 Trim Compressor wheel, EGT, EMP, Boost 50" Rigid Radius bar on roof Aux tank for a total of 48 Gal Of Diesel! Odyssey PC-1750 Battery in trunk, 27"x8.5"/R14 Maxxis BigHorn Mud Terrains, In June '14 issue of Off Road Mag
AX15 Jeep Trans swap in progress....
(12-06-2010, 07:41 PM)300D50 I'm waiting for someone to make a dual-V style engine, like a bowtie... ><
If done right, you could still keep that "who steamrolled my car from the bumper to the windshield????" look that subies have!
You know I think a W design (aka VW, Bugatti Veyron) is more practical due to its compact nature. Especially when you are using a 15 degree block (VR-6)
Hey FI good to see someone else familiar with the BRM!!!
As Nick Mason said it was like the Victorians trying to reach the moon. And he also said that it was as expensive to drive per foot as the the most expensive Wilton wool carpeting. But when you create a 16 cylinder supercharged 1.5 liter engine in the fifties you gotta' expect a big learning curve!
(12-06-2010, 09:42 PM)ForcedInduction(12-06-2010, 07:41 PM)300D50 I'm waiting for someone to make a dual-V style engine, like a bowtie... ><
These are about as close as you'll get to that, but they both have 16 cylinders.
"Molly" Jan. '84 black/tan 300d 180k miles, two owner car
Silberpfeil
12-22-2010, 03:42 AM #24(12-06-2010, 07:41 PM)300D50 I'm waiting for someone to make a dual-V style engine, like a bowtie... ><
If done right, you could still keep that "who steamrolled my car from the bumper to the windshield????" look that subies have!
You know I think a W design (aka VW, Bugatti Veyron) is more practical due to its compact nature. Especially when you are using a 15 degree block (VR-6)
Hey FI good to see someone else familiar with the BRM!!!
As Nick Mason said it was like the Victorians trying to reach the moon. And he also said that it was as expensive to drive per foot as the the most expensive Wilton wool carpeting. But when you create a 16 cylinder supercharged 1.5 liter engine in the fifties you gotta' expect a big learning curve!
(12-06-2010, 09:42 PM)ForcedInduction(12-06-2010, 07:41 PM)300D50 I'm waiting for someone to make a dual-V style engine, like a bowtie... ><
These are about as close as you'll get to that, but they both have 16 cylinders.
"Molly" Jan. '84 black/tan 300d 180k miles, two owner car
Here is a pic of the 1.5 v16 with superchargers! in a car
1987 300SDL 6spd manual om606.962 swap project
1985 300td euro 5spd wagon running
willbhere4u
12-22-2010, 10:39 AM #25After the 1.5 v16! They made an H16 basically to flat 8 siting on top of each other witch is what that pic above is!
Here is a pic of the 1.5 v16 with superchargers! in a car
1987 300SDL 6spd manual om606.962 swap project
1985 300td euro 5spd wagon running
(12-06-2010, 02:05 AM)ForcedInduction Not a fan of the flat-4, sounds like its got a misfire.
What they need to do is use the 3.0L flat-6 with a pair of turbos.
I.E. the Impreza LM engine (I believe)
throw it into a Impreza full works WRC rally car
and you're talking some fun!
"Molly" Jan. '84 black/tan 300d 180k miles, two owner car
Silberpfeil
01-01-2011, 09:24 PM #26(12-06-2010, 02:05 AM)ForcedInduction Not a fan of the flat-4, sounds like its got a misfire.
What they need to do is use the 3.0L flat-6 with a pair of turbos.
I.E. the Impreza LM engine (I believe)
throw it into a Impreza full works WRC rally car
and you're talking some fun!
"Molly" Jan. '84 black/tan 300d 180k miles, two owner car
NOT a full blown WRC car, but here ya go. I don't believe they are allowed over 2.0L in WRC.
82 300SD aka The Flyin Pumpkin (Gone): 7.5mm super M-pump, T3 60 trim turbo, Coldish air intake, A/W intercooler, propane injection, SW Boost and EGT gauges, Monark 265 nozzles, ported/polished cylinder head.
84 Euro 300D 4 sp: White with black trunk and hood. Blue cloth interior. Manual everything. 300DT front swaybar. C320 17" wheels. Now with the Flyin Pumpkins engine!
http://www.perrinperformance.com/pages/show/32
NOT a full blown WRC car, but here ya go. I don't believe they are allowed over 2.0L in WRC.
82 300SD aka The Flyin Pumpkin (Gone): 7.5mm super M-pump, T3 60 trim turbo, Coldish air intake, A/W intercooler, propane injection, SW Boost and EGT gauges, Monark 265 nozzles, ported/polished cylinder head.
84 Euro 300D 4 sp: White with black trunk and hood. Blue cloth interior. Manual everything. 300DT front swaybar. C320 17" wheels. Now with the Flyin Pumpkins engine!
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