8 MISTAKES I made modifying my SUBARU Impreza 

I have a few Subarus like that too, older and wiser now though so I won't be rushing to get things done. Thanks for the honesty, it's good to see

Loving the content. Keep it coming!

This is up there as one of my favourite Scooby vids!! Thanks for sharing your experiences.

Duncan, this video is gold!! 🤩

As we get older we realise less is best, i've just had my 2006 Hawkeye's first remap to around 320 bhp and that's it, standard stickers are removed, definitely no dump valve but I did purchase a Tomei Extreme Ti as my JDM was far too quiet, slotted discs to front and to finish off with Tein suspension. I'm over the moon with the car now. When I start the car up when I'm out shopping people walk past and say Holy S--t because of the Tomei. Great video by the way 👌

Thank you so much. You saved lots of heartache. And a great deal of money for so many. Thank you 😊

I concur. I feel like going down that rabbit hole of building a race car out of your daily is just so enticing. Especially that first time.

This is a great video as it’s all about learning and some times people become embarrassed about making mistakes but it’s how you learn. I had a blitz nur spec exhaust and it was obnoxious with out loud it was - mistake! Coilovers for a road car also a mistake and that ruined the drive of it.

Yeah done all of them 🤣🤣 Btw absolutely loved your hawkeye 💙

Interesting perspective. I’m also coming to the conclusion that leaving them (mostly) stock is the best way to enjoy these cars. I’m actually intentionally going to revert my FSTi to stock and sell off the thousands of dollars worth of mods I made to it for this very reason.

Wow you only got that much experiance, of subaru's, owned my first and only scooby for 20 years and still ask for advice, and still feel like a novice. but love my car as much now as day one. and yeah did a lot of ruining it, but still have it running strong, and 90% very happy as it is. great heart felt vid.

No heating lol mate the two things I really regretted, and spoiled the driving experience for me where , headers ,standard ones sound so much better and front mount added to much lag for my liking. Your right the perfect sweet spot is 330 350 fantastic drive at that level 👏

A rollcage could have saved your life..... necessary evil IMHO. My least successful choice was overly stiff Tein suspension.... the 2002 Type UK had a really nicely sorted set-up that I should have just replaced after a few years. Love my Forge dump valve, as you said lush under full boost and quiet most of the time ( fitted one to my Polo GTI for nostalgic reasons ! ) Great video, Regards Duncan

I currently still own my 07 wrx Sti I fully understand I did a lot of mods full e85 bigger turbo but living in California that all caused me more problems on top of maintenance and fear of breaking it. Just recently I put it basically back to stock now it’s a simple Cobb stage1 tune, Cobb AOS, and SPT Intake. Everything legal in California to have car runs like a champ. I can hop in it and go less worry. A couple of racer guys wanna take it on I just and watch them run off into the sunset. I’m totally happy cause it’s my dream car so just driving it is a pleasure.

Coilovers on GC8. Noticed I didn't even want to drive the car anymore. OEM STI suspension had the opposite effect.

I laugh at the first ine because i daily my 04 STi with a catless uel tomei and i love it

Polyurethane outrigger bushes in a Forester STi daily driver. The sheer amount of NVH they introduced was insane!

My mistake was Cusco engine and trany mounts. It made the cabin SO MUCH louder and I couldn't hear the turbo noises because of it

My mistake was not change the oil on time kill the bottom end bearing but now its a 2.1 stroker big turbo 700 bhp

For some reason I fitted a cat back toyosports system on the blob sti, it was insanely loud and knocked in about 3 places due to the poor design. Binned it off and got a miltek!

I agree with the numbers thing always kinda feel like 300-400bhp was a great number for these cars. Do you regret changing the seats from the standard sti ? I think they are superb standard ones personally

Changing the turbo from a standard sti, injectors etc, and also bc cooilovers. Faster, probably, less fun, definitely

Glad I stopped at 450bhp, my scooby is still my daily and is as happy at 30mph as it is at 130mph.thanks Duncan

My exhaust is loud. Think it a 3.5 into a 3 inch but my silencer has a good size box on it. Ferraris are not quiet so I can live with that. My little girl don’t like it though. Pleads with me not to start it with her around. She’s not mine I don’t think 😅 jokes aside. As far as whoosh whoosh pssssst sounds. I can’t get enough. Reminds me of onboard Colin McRae stages. Makes my old body feel 20 again till I park it up lol. Power wise I’d love 380 crank or at the wheels be better but if it’s drivable, reliable and does not quite make it. It’s no total loss to me. 330 is my bottom figure for these I desire. As for cage, I’m still looking for the 6 point dash dodger for a 4 door so I can keep the interior. I ripped out my air con but would never rip out heating. My 1st car was an air cooled bug. That thing as much as I loved it at time. Needed to be an Eskimo. You’d have to scrap as much ice off the insides of windows as you would the outs. Looking forward to get my yellow injectors in soon and come back see what I get with the boost turned up now I using it again

Loud exhaust system for me was a mistake, put a invidia n1 changed it almost straight away haha. What do you think of whiteline anti lift kit and the essential front kit as a mod ive got a v3 sti have you had any experience with it. Cheers another great video

Q: "How do I stop making mistakes?" A: "Experience" Q: "Ok, so how do I get experience?" A: "Make mistakes" 🙃

Less is more when it comes to graphics

The worst thing was to buy a wrx instead of a sti, now I've spent the money of two to make a fake sti ;)

is a half cage worth doing on a gc coupe?

TSL motorsport, remember those guys

I put a td05 20g on a bug sti and it was lag city

Well Mr G, I hope you felt better after getting that lot off your chest!! I wonder if that will be 'right to proceed' for others to confess?

Hope you liked your biscuits.😂

I hear what you're saying about an embarrassing reputation sticking in a small community. You try to help ONE SHEEP get over a fence...

Number 7 made me laugh, number 8 is CRUCIAL to how long your car will last, or perform, be unique and follow your own path, not what your mate down the pub says to drill the airbox for 15bhp...

Biggest mistake was getting into Subaru... “ restraint “ mmmm still looking for that one ? Doesn’t help having you locally because that blows all restraint out the window as the possibilities with your help and knowledge are endless “apart from how much more my gearbox will take “

Nothing worse than chavy stickers all over them 🥴

95 % you not on boost, why you even bought that car?

Cheap coil overs. Never again.