First thing I ordered when I hit 7000km was Nameless performance muffler deletes and a K&N short ram. The intake in my opinion is not great. It sucks in too much air. The mufflers are pretty good. Nice sound but lots of drone. Not my pics but they are pretty much the same \/

 

Once that came I had a custom tune done by Perrin (Stage 1) with my new Cobb V2 access port and a Perrin recir by pass valve.

 

I was running those few things for a little while and then I decided I wanted more power. So I was talking to my tuner and he recommended that I get a Catless Invidia Downpipe. Once I got that I took off this piece of garbage \/

And put on this beauty \/

I got that tuned up and got 267whp and 290wtq on 91 Octane

 

The following day I picked my little brother up and we went out for something to eat. While I was parked I noticed my car let out a weird shake.. So I quickly turned the car off. Fearing it was the common issue with sti (blown ring land) I called my tuner. He told
Me to do a couple tests and see what the Cobb AP was saying. It was reading a misfire on cylinder 4. He told me to bring it in the next day. When I brought it in he begun to do a compression test. She was reading 52psi on cylinder 4 when I do believe it supposed to be around 120psi. He told me my ring land was gone. Seeing at this point it was almost time for snow I put the car away for winter. (We still use salt in Newfoundland so I will not drive my sti in that garbage)

 

When I took it out the following April I brought it to my tuner. The car at this point only had a little over 13,000km on the engine. We started to scrap it...

Tied up and pulling the engine \/

 

Engine out! \/

She's pretty empty in there at this point

Engine with the cam gears and intake manifold off \/

 

All the parts off \/

This is what it looks like with all that off

 

This is the cracked ring land \/

And these are the new baby's that went in \/

These are the new CP forged pistons put back in the block \/

 

Going back in the engine bay!\/

And she's back in

My tuner took the engine out on a Thursday, taking his time (2 hrs) and Friday he started at 3pm and at 3am the next day or morning however you want to look at it I was on my way home. It was a pretty nervous drive home.

 

Next I ordered a HT autos front lip, side skirts, rear lip and exhaust garnishes. And took my car to my buddy's garage.

Getting ready to install \/

After install

 

Next I ordered: OEM rain guards
Blox shifter knob
Kartboy short shifter and bushings
Proto Cobb AP holder

When they arrived

During install

 

Next was the mudflaps.
Taking the tires off for easy access

The beautiful sti brakes lol

After install.. Pic isn't that great

 

Next I ordered a SMY gauge cluster with prosport boost/vac and AEM AFR
When I got my gauges

Installed

 

Next I got OBX header (which is garbage) changed to a Tomei EL header.

And not long after that I ordered Perrin rad and pulley covers
Before

After

the front lip looks wavy cause i have water on the lens

 

Then i waxed and De-badged the back except for the STI logo
Getting ready to de-badge

De-badging complete

 

Then i got my tint done. 15% in the back

Before:

During:

After:

 

I then order these things. Cusco Catch can and Hella horns

And this

 

Then I ordered a Tomei Equal length header. Found out that i had about a half an inch exhaust leak where the up-pipe connects to the header and also had a leak at the middle of the header

 

And then this happened cause i didnt have enough clips put in the front fender connecting to the front lip

Still needs to put this on. I put more clips in and bolted it in a couple places

 

Got bored one day at work and made a little video. Still needs to make a new video with the new header on but here is my old setup.

2012 Impreza STI - YouTube

 

Then I ordered a grimmspeed y-pipe intercooler piping kit (Blue) and Tomei turbo inlet pipe. Still waiting for my Tomei type-s fuel regulator to come in..

And also got my new side skirts for Alain at Fraal.ca (check them out! Amazing service and can get you just about everything)

 

Then this showed up 4 days early lol

 

Getting ready to install

Also got my Perrin Cozy put on

And this was the garbage OBX header that came off. Looks like crap

And this was the final product hard to get a decent pic while under the car

I'm very happy with the final product sounds cleaner in my opinion

 

Then I ordered these little things lol

 

I installed my Cusco catch can and my Password JDM quick release fasteners.

The catch can was a simple install. Bolt bracket, bolt can to bracket and run the blowback line.

The blowback line was a bit too long so I cut off the extra and put it on the overflow nipple.

Here is the results