arctic_blue83 wrote:18th car at age 36? Wow, so you go through cars at about the same rate as I do... every time I buy a car I tell myself I'm going to hang onto it for a while, it just never works out lol. Hopefully the STI will be different, I actually would have kept my WRX if it wouldn't have kept having problems, I kept it the longest at a full 2 years. Hopefully my STI will remain problem free *knock on wood* Although I don't have much in the way of a "project" in store for the STI, it's pretty damn impressive in stock form, I'll probably just pick up a TBE, tune it (haven't decided on what flavor of EM...) and call it a day.
I don't suppose you have a "master list" of your former cars?
Sorry, kind of off topic, I just realized what I wrote last year lol...
Wow, I think I say that about every car I buy lol. It never really works out that way... here it is a year later... and well, I guess I didn't really stray too far from the "original plan" lol. I got a TBE (Cobb DP+Borla XR-1) & tune (went with a Cobb AP I picked up for dirt cheap- $250), but have added a couple of things since then, nothing major or expensive though. Crank pulley ($50 on Nasioc), Walbro ($50 on Nasioc lol), 811cc injectors ($200+stock cores from Revolutions Performance), so nothing too crazy. A few brake mods, but I don't really consider those "mods" per se, as my pads were getting a little low, and it was cheaper to buy aftermarket (i.e. better) pads/rotors/fluid than to buy new stuff from Subaru, although I figured I would pick up a set of SS lines since I only wanted to do it all once.
The extra fuel (injectors & fuel pump) were needed though, in order to run E85
I love this stuff!! Although I'm almost "done"... for a while... next are an SRI+FMIC+retune, probably in about 6 months... and after that, well, I'll wait until the VF39 starts to go, and replace it with a TD06-20G...
Sorry for the OT rant, I just laughed when I saw what I wrote.
Back on topic, previously/currently owned car(s):
2006 Subaru STI (current)
2006 Mazdaspeed 6
2003 Nissan 350Z
2004 Subaru WRX
1991 Toyota MR2 Turbo
1996 Mitsubishi Eclipse GS-T
I'm now 25, have owned my STI for over a year, and have no intentions of ever selling it *knock-on-wood*
Although I have considered the possibility of getting an older project car... possibly an old Miata?!?