ran my WRX at the 1/4 mile track, went 13.47 with a boost leak Options

[97sccelica]

hey guys, i finally got a good run with my WRX

every time i went to the track, i would have exhaust leak problems causing major bogging issues and power loss

i thought it was the turbo gasket, but when i took the turbo off to check i saw a nice 2 inch long crack in the pipe!

so i welded that up with a friend and put the car back together(this was a couple weeks ago)

car ran much better, but still felt slow to me. i shrugged it off to the fact that i had just gotten used to the speed

so i went to the track today since a lot of SRT4's were going to meet up there. on the second run i ran a 13.47 at 92mph.

of all the WRX's/STI's that were there, only two ran faster times than me. one was an STI with full exhaust and intake and the other was a stage 4 02-03 WRX(bigger top mount, bigger turbo, supporting mods). the STI was .3 seconds faster than me, and the stage 4 WRX was .1 second faster than me(my WRX is stage 3, stock turbo).

so on the drive home, the front passenger fender lining ripped out of the car, making a very loud noise. when i got back to my home city i stopped to check it out. the inner lip of the fender was bent out a bit, and all the plastic lining was gone. i figured, oh well, **** happens. so when i get home, i take a closer look at the bent lip of the fender, and thats when i see it, a hole, half the size of my thumb nail, right in the side of one of the intercooler pipes!

from the looks of it the hole has been there for quite a while getting bigger the more i drove the car.

tomorrow morning im changing the oil in the car, ordering new fender lining, bending the lip of the fender back, and taking the pipe to have my friend weld it up.

then when it gets dark, i will retune the car and see how she feels.

[97sccelica]

can you give me some basic upgrade paths for modding a stock wrx? how much can you turn up the boost of the stock turbo, where is fuel cut, common  mods, etc? i have a buddy with a wrx he wants to mod up.
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first mods should be up pipe and down pipe(dont get the HKS DP, and trim the heatsheild so it can be put back on).
any catback of his choice will be good
dont get a CAI, they cause unstable AFR's. stock airbox is good to 300+ hp
engine management is major on these cars, if he wants plug and play, he can get a Cobb Access Port and run the map that suits his amount of mods. i have a UTEC, it costs more, but has more features and full tuneability, to get tuneability with the access port, you either go to Cobb or buy their tuning software. tuning the utec is mandatory when you install it, or it wont have any more power and get horrible MPG
stock fuel cut is at 18psi, if he has a 02-03, its ok for him to get a MBC and turn it up to 16.5psi(stock is 13-14psi) 04+ have really bad problems with part throttle, full boost when you install a MBC, its bad enough to blow up engines.

once he has full exhaust and engine management, the car is ready for bigger turbo and injectors, should he feel the need for even more power.

me personally, i think i am going to try to hit 12's on the stock turbo with out the use of nitrous or anything higher than CA 91 octane

What's your launch like? where do you launch, hows the clutch handle it, ect.
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i get 2.0 60ft times, and that was with the boost leak, i want 1.8-1.9 60ft times once i get the car fixed(each 10th of a second u shave off the 60ft time usually shaves off 2 10ths of a second off the 1/4 mile time)

i used launch control, which keeps the revs at 5500 and makes boost. the launch control turns off when i let off the clutch

i let the clutch out fairly quickly, no burnt clutch smell, no weird pedal feel, like the tranny, feels just like day one