I appreciate all the comments everyone! But again! I build my cars which make me happy and I build them in the image I envision. I enjoy my cars and builds. Not everyone is supposed to like your car. I’m just giving advice on some mods like these because I get asked a lot about them. I hope everyone has 1 mod in video that you may like and decide to do. Again everyone has different preferences and I hope you all build the cars you all envision as well. Build something different too many cars the same these days. But importantly, do what you love guys! Always send positivity and love in the car community
Mitty Tokumeisei tbh. With how much power these cars have unless your doing MAJOR track events I didn’t value brakes that can be between 4-6k on these cars. Brakes are VERY important but cost/effectiveness personally on “these” WRX cars there are many other mods that can be done for street driving :). Now if I do a mod video of top mods for track. Brakes easily top 10 if not 5
Best mod by far is a universal Subaru flex fuel kit from eBay saving 200-250$ from buying same thing branded by Cobb and then getting a flex fuel tune by Bren or phatbotti. Hands down best money spent. And if you bundle the ap purchase with their e tune then you save 100-200$ on that as well. Just went e50 with universal flex kit and power gains are insane. 360/360.
With a factory tune, I recommend the xtra long throw shifter. That way, after easing off the throttle, double clutching, and playing a full game of solitaire, you can shift from 1st to 2nd
1. Shift stop any brand 2. Kart Boy or Perrin short shift adapter 3. Weighted and/or ergonomic shift knob. 4. Lighter wheels. OE weighs 26 lbs. Don't gotta spend $4,000 for 18 LB Volks. $1000 gets you a good set of Cosmis Racing or ESR wheels that weigh between 20 and 22 lbs. Rota Grids are circa 22 lbs. Rotary forged wheels are great too but understand these wheels (like RPF1 or NTO3+m) are great wheels but not ideal for places with potholes. Your wheels will bend. Can never go wrong with a set of Gram Lights 57DR. Recommend 18 inch wheels between 8.5 and 9.5 inches. +40 to +55 offset is best for handling. 5. Don't gotta buy Michelins, but Nitto, Nankang and Hankook make good wallet friendly performance tires. 235-255 width is best. Any more and your wheels gets heavier and wet traction worsens. 40 sidewall is best to protect the rim. Wouldn't go beyond 35. 6. Coilovers. OE struts and shocks are great. But if you wanna go low, fortune auto 510 on swift springs are really good. Ohlins if you got money. Tein and BC if you like me. 7. Sway bars. 8. Quality exhaust. Tomei, AWE, Fujitsubo, Nameless, Remark, Magnaflow, Perrin. 9. Air Oil Separator 10. Paint protectant (synthetic sealant, ceramic coat, whatever). Front lip for protecting the bumper, mud flaps to keep the summer tires from sand blasting the paint, whatever. Less warranty friendly but not voiding mods: 11. Hear wrap your headers. Headers will wear faster but oil temps will drop. A lot. 12. Cobb Accessport with Cobb intake and stage 1+ 93 octane tune. 13. Seats (because of the electronics, the seat belt latch, airbag components, heating/electrical components). Out of warranty but worthwhile: 14. EBCS 15: EGRD 16. TGVD 17. Jpipe (catted or catless) 18. FMIC (optional) 19. Flex Fuel and tune 20. Brake upgrade.
Nice vid. I 'highly recommend' a group n transmission mount. Shifting feels more direct with the stiffer mount. If you look into it, there are 2 sizes, so make sure you the the one that fits your year's chassis.
Everyone builds around their budget, I dig it. Personally I like the flares made for the car more than the universal ones, and I would get real wheels over the vordovens. But I definitely recommend when you do have more saved up to swap out the cipher seats, they look nice and all but they're cheap and not FIA approved, in a car accident I wouldn't trust those seats to not snap on you. I've had friends run fake/cheap seats, your life isn't worth $400. Just my two cent, keep it up tho 👌🏻
I have a dgm rex too and fam yours looks good. I just installed that same lip. that grill...omg Wish you were over on the east coast for a collab lol good luck with the build
LaFlame 5280 thanks bro! Headlights are OEM. Just added the c light and halo rings from inside. Previous owner did kit but you can do it yourself. Look up subiespeed and online to get pieces
That hood looks great. Theres some shit ones out there that dont fit right. You should post a list of the mods. Are the seats u got wider. Im 6'2 240lbs, stock seats are narrow as hell
Nice car overall, but I personally would have picked a different body kit, maybe something with more coverage, as to me it kind of looked odd or out of place, especially on the rear fender area, just my opinion :).
Sphoxros all good! The car came with this wide kit on it when I bought it. There are definitely better kits out there but looks much better in person. Appreciate the comment thanks :)
RED HOONIGAN VLOGS I have a white 2018 so I don’t think I would like the carbon fiber hood or that many carbon or black accents aside from a front lip but I do want some new headlights/taillights. I really like subispeeds. Everything goes really well with your car though good looks man
Mathias Strickland thanks a lot man! And aye that’s dope the new 18s look really good. Subiespeed has DOPE lights and like them. But they are pretty pricey. But they are swag and really nice go for it :). Build the car that makes you happy man
SubZeru Vlogs You have good taste and no problem. Just curious, what headlights are those? They are the only aftermarket headlights I like the looks of.
xxDuo appreciate it! I actually made a headlight video talking about everything that went into the lights. I can’t remember everything fully but it’s on there :)
Initial D sticker on a all-wheel-drive car that will never drift in its life and put wide sticky tires on the car that will never spin.All the mods he showed never increase the horsepower
I got DGM, but I should have gotten Pure Red or WRB. DGM looks great with silver or white wheels and yellow Brembos. Otherwise, it's just not a great color for the body lines. Go blue.
Bro I love your wrx! I just recently picked up my 2019 wrx and I love it! I was wondering where did you get that red tow strap that’s hanging out the front? I’d like to put one on mine. @SubZeruVlogs
Mod 4 gonna have to disagree i have a 18 sti and 19 wrx as my daily.... sti handling is 10/10 out the box even if you change the sway bars or add coilovers its just not the same... let alone the better brakes and the lsd... wrx is more of the daily driver car🤔🤔 But you said for you... you must be smoking that good shit bro to feel that🤣🤣
Duckrockerz4life i was referring to daily driving handling, hence the daily reference. A WRX won’t handle on tracks better then an STI with suspension, brakes, diff, etc. but driving everyday being able to have a more comfortable driving feel and smoother. That’s what I meant. You can’t push in the street anyway. Thanks for watching appreciate the comment and congrats on cars :)
@@ChristianHudnell cant hate on the wrx i think it got a overdue update it clearly is the better value, because the sti to me is just a 2006 sti with better technology and handling But even street wise handling is a lot better like on the street u cant hit its limits, its just sometimes when you go on a rough road that experience is annoying but the wrx is more liveable your 100% right🤣🤣
Duckrockerz4life haha yeah!! I’m just excited for the next gen STI, it is seriously in big need of updating. I do agree though and handling I’m sure will be really good
Not my cup of tea but those seats are mint!.. The ricer in me wants to love the headlights but man I keep thinking "evo" when I look at them.. idk if ill do it... What I hate the most is the color. I have the same color and I just hate it. Its so plain and does not give the CF hood any justice. With that said, I highly recommend you do a paint correction and full paint detail. It really brought out the deep color on my car and I can tell you need it too. You will love it.
I’m not into the STI style wing. I put a Perrin gunny flap on mine. Only 100$, looks mean, adds some great down force that you can notice even at 30mph. If you’re not into paying hella money for short throw shift, get a shift stop. Takes the rattle out of 1st and 2nd gear
@@ChristianHudnell they look boss...your whole car looks and sounds great, happy for you brother....quick question tho, when swapping the seats, were you able to still make use of the seat warmers? God bless
ROBSKI yeah those should be fine. To void warranty and manufacture has to “prove” the mods you did damaged or caused the failure to occurs. So that’s why embers, catback exhaust, wheels, etc are fine cause they have nothing to do mostly with engine for most part in terms of warranty
Red Hoonigan, you caught any flack for trying to gain fame by bouncin' off the Hoonigan name.? I see you even rock some Hoonigan stickers. I see possible legal action in your future.
TEKNOiD hey! What’s funny is that’s kind of the name others started calling me. I have a red corvette and says HOONIGAN in it so people started calling me that. Many cars here in LA have HOONIGAN in cars. I been to the HOONIGAN headquarters with my vette and they liked car :). If change name if they asked me to
Clemente De La Cruz hey! Brakes is a great mod but IMO if your car doesn’t have serious power or isn’t fully built then cost/effectiveness doesn’t make sense. Good brakes can be between 3-5k for really good ones. But spending that much on a car under 300 RWHP doesn’t make sense personally. But if my car was best mods for “track/modddd setup. Brakes would be top 5 for sure! 🙌🏾. Now if we talking about my vette brakes are important as well. Thanks for comment man
JTundra hey! Well a “catback” exhaust upgrade will be fine. The catback is just the edit point and doesn’t afford anything. However, changing the downpipe/j pipe- etc will because you will need a tune with those mods. Mainly catback good also because you don’t need a tune :). Good question
Ok, so the first mod, I highly highly recommend is watching a video from another, more knowledgeable creator who has a tuning philosophy for the sti and doesn't just highly recommend the parts they sold him at the local "tuner" shop...
Edward Agora Feenman I’m confused. I didn’t mention a single thing about “tuning” or performance power “mods”. This video is about warranty mods. “Tuning and power” voids warranty. I appreciate comment but I didn’t talk about that aspect in video. This car is my daily. I have my vette tuned
Madtwos ! Well he is stating to see a Person with more knowledge about “tuning” and assuming I bought parts from a local “tune” shop. I’m just confused how he can make that accusation when I mentioned nothing about tuning in the video haha. Also, I pride myself on getting high quality parts and taking care of my cars but again my cars. I build my cars to fit my needs and wants not just for someone else. If I’m paying for car I will build them the way I like and what makes me happy :)
Madtwos ! It’s all good. I just want to spread love throughout car community and enthusiasts. We all enjoy cars and building them. Take ideas from each other and if you don’t like them don’t use them. We all wanna build cars in the image we love and that’s what makes it fun! Your perfect build won’t be the same for others :)
The carbon fiber hood is definitely first on my list. Am most probably going with an sti. Found one today in the pearl white....think it would look nice to contrast that white with the black carbon fiber in different spots.
@@ChristianHudnell Actually will be a good gift from my fiance. She drives a forester and after I commented on how much I liked driving it, she said "I'm gonna get you a Subaru then". I was like..."but the only Subaru I want is either a wrx or sti".
First off LOVE YOUR CAR!!!! I really appreciate the time and effort you put into this video. I just had a quick question, when you put the wing on the back, did you have to drill holes or did you go ahead and buy the STI trunk that comes with the spoiler
Subaru’s are like a bob ross painting You fix it up it’s perfect and then at the end you go to far and ruin it Like stickers rope tow hook splitters on the rear spoiler Basically if you cut back a little it will look so much better
Y'all might call this a "ricer" but this is about what the car owner likes. If you guys were really enthusiasts then you would realize that it doesn't matter how a car comes stock (to an extent) it matters how you upgrade it and how much enjoyment YOU get out of it. Remember how vehicles started, and look at where they are now, a lot of the styles makers use are inspired by modded performance cars, so wouldn't that make any car you get straight from the dealer somewhat a ricer as well? It's "slow" but it has added looks that at one point weren't standard.. An enthusiast should respect others visions....hey the dude with the lime green lambo or car on rims that cost more than the actual car might look ridiculous to you...but that's what they like.
As a service advisor for a dealership which has Subaru i can confidently tell you most of the mods he is listing my service manager would tell him to try and find another dealer to get his work done. Not saying that all dealers are like this but mine is i take my modded subbie to a dealer who is mod friendly
like you said with having to take your Subaru to a certain dealer that is mod friendly it’s same thing here. All depends on dealership as you mentioned :) Good info to spread to people. Basically gotta find a dealership that is fine with certain cars and working on certain cars. It was same way for my vette as well. Just stating in video these won’t void “warranty” but your right a dealer can tell you to go somewhere else happened to me before.
