WRX faster than S2k ?
01-07-2002, 09:38 AM
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My brother just bought a 2002 Red WRX. He already has it, and I am planning a trip down to my home town to see and drive it. We will likely race a few times, and we will drive each other's cars around. Hopefully I can try and form an objective opinion about the WRX since it seems that nobody is really sure about the whole S2000/WRX fiasco. I do know that the dealership my brother purchased his WRX from offered to connect him with a guy in CA that would install a $400 chip for an extra 65 HP (it seems that the turbo charger on the WRX is capped and it is relatively easy to remove the limitations with the chip). I know that my brother wants the chip, so we'll have to do a bunch of testing prior to his upgrade.
My one concern about the testing is that the tread is getting a little low on my rear S02's, and the high-RPM drops (7-8k) will spin the tires and let me hit the rev-limiter rather than getting traction and dropping the tach back to 6k or so. I guess I will just need to warm the tires up a little before any racing. Thankfully, my brother is a police officer in my small home town, so we won't have to worry about harassment during our "scientific" testing of these two automobiles.
My one concern about the testing is that the tread is getting a little low on my rear S02's, and the high-RPM drops (7-8k) will spin the tires and let me hit the rev-limiter rather than getting traction and dropping the tach back to 6k or so. I guess I will just need to warm the tires up a little before any racing. Thankfully, my brother is a police officer in my small home town, so we won't have to worry about harassment during our "scientific" testing of these two automobiles.
01-07-2002, 04:39 PM
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[QUOTE]Originally posted by GameDev
[B]I do know that the dealership my brother purchased his WRX from offered to connect him with a guy in CA that would install a $400 chip for an extra 65 HP (it seems that the turbo charger on the WRX is capped and it is relatively easy to remove the limitations with the chip).
[B]I do know that the dealership my brother purchased his WRX from offered to connect him with a guy in CA that would install a $400 chip for an extra 65 HP (it seems that the turbo charger on the WRX is capped and it is relatively easy to remove the limitations with the chip).
01-08-2002, 04:42 AM
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MY two best friends have a Type R and a WRX.. our car just annihilates both of them. The Type R hangs real close in 1st and 2nd but when i hit third i am GONE.. The WRX i just slowly pull in every gear.. never raced it from a stop though...
01-08-2002, 05:58 AM
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Originally posted by 2kturkey
Yeah but isn't Scooby generic for Subarus (or Sub R Us
) whereas Rex is specific to the WRX.
Yeah but isn't Scooby generic for Subarus (or Sub R Us
) whereas Rex is specific to the WRX.
Andrew