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Originally Posted by calmlikeabomb
@smack, sweet evo. I'm gonna pick up one eventually to keep the Subaru company. Both are great cars. I have lots of friends with one or the other. I don't think I'd ever buy another non-awd car after driving these machines. They grip the road like nothing else and can give some exotics a run for their money < 160mph.
ps- is it an IX MR?
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yeah it's a IX MR with the SE wheels/lip/and zero lift kit.
i haven't gotten to drive an STi yet, but have driven a couple wrx's in various stages of modification. my only real complaint being the steering ratio, but that's minor. i would love to get a rwd car again in addition to the awd because honestly the caveman in me misses being able to do burnouts.
as far as drive-ability goes though the awd is incredible. the level of grip i have with a few minor suspension mods and the dunlop star spec z1s (255/40) is just wild, and when then car does let go it is rather graceful and controllable.
i've actually been considering getting an 08 STi as a daily driver and just going balls out and stripping the evo to the metal and caging it for hillclimbing. i just need to get together the money for the STi, and then the other $30,000 to prep the evo in the way i want it. at this point a crippling drug addiction would probably be cheaper than my love of fiddling with my car.
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Originally Posted by datatank
Awesome. Those snow shots kick ass. Must be fun.
Nice to see some one racing
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it's a blast. when i got my first evo i was all about making it one of those showy cars with a big stereo and one of my friends told me that before i went that route i should try autocross. i did it once and was hooked. then that led to the SCCA time trial events which are amazing. there's nothing quite as exhilarating as coming down a straight away at 130, mashing the brakes only to find they've been toasted and faded away, then cocking the wheel and hoping for the best.
hopefully next year i can complete my plan to gut the car, cage it, get some ohlin coilovers, and roll the fenders to accommodate a 285/35/18 hoosier so i can get in to hill climbing. i have been holding off because the safety gear entailed in it is fairly expensive, and i don't want to risk shoving a car through a guard rail and over a hill that is my daily driver.