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.