My WRX STI Experience, kinda long, possibly worth the read? Options

[bloodrain]

well, yesterday I was talking on the iwsti.com forum and there are a few people who live around my area with them. I finally got one of the guys to hang out with (his name is David, and hes mad cool) so we meet up at Target, talk about cars for about 30 mins and then 6 more sti's pull up. So they are all talking about turbo this, awd that, and they want to go driving. So I leave my car at Target and jump in the sexy blue and gold STI. While he is driving he tells me "hey reach under the seat and grab the bag for me," so without hesitation I start to reach and I hear a sound that is similar to a million bats excaping from hell, while im being flung back into the seat and just figuring out there is no bag under the seat I think to myself, man, I gotta get one of these. After hitting the seat with an ungodly force I hear "sorry, I do that to everyone" and I start laughing and call him an ass. Then he says "wanna give it a test drive" needless to say I was a bit nervous but somehow I manage to get out "sure why not." So we all pull over by TY park and we switch seats. Then I hear someone from the unholy shiny black STI infront of me "have you ever drove an STi before" I answer no. He then ask's if I ever drove an EVO, I answer "no," he then warns me "put your seat belt on and unleash the power how Thor into your hands to hang on." Im thinkin, 'ya, sure thing... psycho...' at this point I listen to him and put my seat belt on, look around for a bit and finally get a clear spot with no traffic. This is where the fun starts... As I put it into gear and start to ease off the clutch, I have a million things runnin through my mind and Im nervous as hell now. As im letting the clutch out I feel like it needs more gas so now im at about 2.2k rpms and the car starts to move forward. Im now rolling at about 5 mph and decide to let the clutch completly out, bad move. To keep the car from stalling I had to give it more gas, so now im at 3k rpms, and then... the turbo kicks in... the sound was all to familar as again I hear that sound of bats out of hell. A quick half second later I notice im redlining and quickly shift gears before David kicks my ass and I ruin his transmission. I shift into 2nd and am now cruising at a safe 2k rpms and notice the other STI guys are pretty far ahead of me again. So I give it some more gas and hit that magical 3.2k rpm's and feel the STI's best friend kick in again. So right before I hit 6k rpm I shift again and am now cruising at 30 mph in 3rd. I speed up again and am now in 4th just cruisin. Kick it up a bit, put it in 5th and notice the left turn arrow about 150 feet ahead of me turn yellow. Now I have a dilema, do I start my downshift into neutral and stop at the light, or downshift into 4th and gun it... Well, considering it wasnt my car, I decided to neutral it. David notices me getting on the brake and he says "GUN IT!!" a split second later im in 4th watching the tach climb higher and higher, as I start my turn I now realize why Mr.Black STI mentioned Thor earlier. So as a magical lightning bolt comes from the sky and runs through my body I grib the wheel like my hands were welded down to the steering wheel. While turning the corner I notice I dont hear much, no tires squeeling, no chirping, nothing. Just a spooling turbo, a screaming engine, and my pulse thumping inside my head. As I ease off the gas finishing the corner I upshift back into 5th, I felt like punching it and seeing what this bad boy could really do, but my instincts got the better of me and said no considering there was a fire station not to far ahead of me. So low and behold I let off the gas a bit and go past a nice looking crown victoria with a pig sitting inside of it. So as I hit the light on Sterling and 441 we do a chinese fire drill and im now back into the passenger seat. We all pull into McDonalds on Sheridan, talk for a while and then head back to target. After I thank him for letting me drive the ungodly car everyone leaves and Im walking to my car thinking 'man, I've GOT to get one...'

After this 'test drive' I've decided to get my celica painted and sold. So hopefully In about 4 months I will be driving a new '06 STI. Dont worry though I will still be lurking around the 6gc.net forums.

This post has been edited by bloodrain: Feb 23, 2006 - 4:40 PM

[97sccelica]

their must have been some stuff done to that STI. my friend has a 2004 STI with a full exhaust and upgraded throttle body and this other kid i know has a 2003 Evo 8 stock and the evo all ways wins. ill admit the STI's are fast but i wouldnt really want one. plus their is a ton of turbo lag on them, they usually dont spool untill around 4K RPM.

for 1, a stock 2003 evo is not faster than a stock STI(they are neck and neck). 2, an STI with full exhaust is definately faster than a stock 2003 evo. your friend in the STI cant drive

also, the STI's are drive by wire, i highly doubt any company makes an upgraded throttle body, besides, its pretty damn big to begin with.

and well, your just plain wrong about the spooling at 4k rpm. my wrx has a 2.0l engine, i have the dinky ass stock turbo which has to work very hard to fill a turbo xs fmic, yet i still have full boost at about 3k(which is where they hit it stock) an sti with the bigger engine, AVCS, and the stock TMIC spools faster than a stock WRX and makes a lot of torque below 4krpm

actually the sti has one more thing over the evo..it as all time awd...which u prob know..all fours wheels put power down..when in the evo only the front left and rear right..or vis versa..(cant remember) put the power down...also one thing the sti has that i absolutly love is that u can control the power distrabution over the 4 wheels..have 50% up front and 50% in the rear..or my personal favorite 20% up front, and 80% in the rear

its actually 35% front, 65% rear to 50/50 split

and my car has that now

my buddy just got a 2006 evo 9, its a great car and it has ACD, which is similar to my DCCD, only u have to select from 3 modes where mine is adjustable. but yea, power distribution in an evo is all computer controlled.