We've come a long way since my first buy & build thread in 2013! The Shoopstermatic underwent a #megaswaptronic job this year.
Nutshell version: Everything under Shoop's 315k km body is now only 145k km old, Japanese, and in nearly showroom condition. (And damn near every bolt has anti-seize on it!)
Spring 2016 I bought a 2001 jdm bugeye WRX with OEM sportshift (manual option) transmission. It couldn't be registered here because it's a RHD under 25 years. To even consider this swap project, we needed the whole car for everything to work.
AFAIK, the sportshift bugeye WRX, with paddle-shifts on the steering wheel, was available everywhere except the US/Canada market, which didn't see the sportshift option until after the drive-by-wire/electronic upgrades of 2005+ . I belieeeeve this makes the Shoopster the only sportshift GDB in North America, and quite possibly the only sportshift GD with a moonroof anywhere
[I've no idea whether this transmission option was ever offered, anywhere, for the blobeye WRX; if you have one, I'd love to hear from you. ]
I think it would be easier to list what's still original/factory (USDM Sept 2003) on the Shoopster, because most of the body panels have been swapped too, at some point: So, the Shoop still has its original trunk, shell, three doors, sideskirts, rack & pinion.
The man who made the impossible possible, my boyfriend Sebastien Gagné, who must love me very much to make this the greatest birthday present in the history of greatest birthday presents.
Shoopster's #megaswaptronic before/after pics on Instagram : http://www.instagram.com/shoopstergram/
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/spottedshoopster
Nutshell version: Everything under Shoop's 315k km body is now only 145k km old, Japanese, and in nearly showroom condition. (And damn near every bolt has anti-seize on it!)
Spring 2016 I bought a 2001 jdm bugeye WRX with OEM sportshift (manual option) transmission. It couldn't be registered here because it's a RHD under 25 years. To even consider this swap project, we needed the whole car for everything to work.
AFAIK, the sportshift bugeye WRX, with paddle-shifts on the steering wheel, was available everywhere except the US/Canada market, which didn't see the sportshift option until after the drive-by-wire/electronic upgrades of 2005+ . I belieeeeve this makes the Shoopster the only sportshift GDB in North America, and quite possibly the only sportshift GD with a moonroof anywhere
[I've no idea whether this transmission option was ever offered, anywhere, for the blobeye WRX; if you have one, I'd love to hear from you. ]
I think it would be easier to list what's still original/factory (USDM Sept 2003) on the Shoopster, because most of the body panels have been swapped too, at some point: So, the Shoop still has its original trunk, shell, three doors, sideskirts, rack & pinion.
The man who made the impossible possible, my boyfriend Sebastien Gagné, who must love me very much to make this the greatest birthday present in the history of greatest birthday presents.
Shoopster's #megaswaptronic before/after pics on Instagram : http://www.instagram.com/shoopstergram/
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/spottedshoopster