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I was shocked at how good the speakers are in my 05 sti. Better than my Audi, f150, etc etc etc.

I have a VA WRX and can check off most of the boxes. First manual (learned daily driving it and still using that same clutch), head unit and speakers have both been upgraded, and I do rip on the car a decent amount (within reason and when it is safe to do so). Maintinance is always done and the car has been tuned for the parts on it so I do look after it especially since it does get driven spiritedly a decent amount.

I had gotten a VA when I was 16 I’ve ticked off a few boxes: first manual, got a no name axle back, and would rip the hell out of it any chance I could get. I’m more tame with my VB, I do a couple of small rips every so often, gonna hopefully get a cat back in a few weeks.

Those bushings you replaced were already poly cross member bushings so you kinda wasted $50 those blue ones were not oem but definitely didn’t hurt to be replaced.

"keep it stock and it will be fine" Lol. Lmao even. Runs better with proper mods. Still spent the cost of the car to keep it running.

Currently troubleshooting a po302. Tried eveything no luck so far. Did all swaps did not follow. Did compression and leakdown all good, did vacuum leak testing with smoke machine found nothing. Checked pulsing on injector connection its good. Gave up , taking to a subaru only repair shop $$$

2006 subaru sti too many issues pos

“I ended up getting rid of the Audi for maintenance reasons.” Remember that, kids. When you see an Audi on Facebook marketplace for cheap, that’s why.

Just put 2007 STI under my 2.5 RS coupe

I bought at 2018 sti and it had nothing but problems when I bought it. It needed a new engine and the transmission rebuilt along with a lot of other stuff, but after several months in the shop and more money than I care to admit it is something that has been sooo much fun to drive I wouldn’t trade it for the world.

4 years without knowing oil pressure. My fear! I need this!

super underated channel man love the content keep it up

That limited STI you have is mint! You're right about Subarus having awful speakers and being difficult to work on, but I still love them.

Try decontaminating with a sponge claybar and claybar lubricant. Then use chemical guys hydroslick hyperwax and you will notice a great difference. But I would do that to the whole car

do you recommend putting a grimmspeed in any subaru and wont have any issues without a tune?

Bro I barely can afford one car, what am I doing wrong.

i just watched your speaker installation video before this and was wondering why you mentioned having so many subarus, being so young. i love my soobie sm and was dying inside thinking all of yours blew up! this video makes me happy, knowing that all these subies treated you well! anyway love the colorado content, im here in the springs!

Man i wish my hawkeye was that clean

The baseball ⚾️ story was great! Sorry about the injury.

Man like the title of this video I honestly thought it was the typical Subaru issues that caused you to get rid of it. But after watching it, it was just stuff that was out of your control. I picked up a used VA from my local Subaru dealership and it’s my first Subaru so knowing the reasons you got rid of your previous cars wasn’t because of any engine problems helped put my mind at ease. I love this WRX and really happy to build this car. Earned a sub man, keep up with the good videos 🤙🏻

I have the VB love it

you got rid of the uggo heavier car and got the better looking lighter wrx. lol ive only had 04 imprezas/wrx but I would go for any blob or hawkeye wrx/sti. it doesnt handle as good as my turbo miata or mr2 but wrx is such a fun daily/grocery getter. You had a pretty blue bugeye tho. sad face =( The Legacy 2.5gt was the first subaru I wanted but after driving many LGT vs WRX i preffered the WRX handling. I also drove a 98 2.5RS coupe with a JDM ej207 swap and it was amazing light and powerful. sti 6speed is win

MFs like these guys need to buy Fords tbh!!! It takes a competent diy hobbyists to own these cars. Yall need to step your game up and have spare motors in your garage bwahaha.. Ppl like u spoil the brand to us that fix our own subarus lol

Buys stepped on older WRXs because new cars are too expensive for him, has problems, repeats error, has same results, college isn't teaching objective reasoning, buys an old stepped on <insert new brand>, has problems, repeats error...

Love the video man, just found your channel and watched a couple vids. Great stuff. Your STI is cool AF

I'm on my 4th Subaru at the moment and I can't get enough. My first Subie was a first gen mean eye wagon with the EJ22 and a 5 speed manual. That's the car I first really learned how to drive stick on. Now I'm on my the 2nd gen Legacy Outback, what great cars. I especially love all of the first and 2nd gen cars from the 90's. I would love to eventually get an early 90's BRAT.

29 here, since they stopped blaming our generation for everything, I don’t know if I could be considered young anymore - but I still tick a lot of the boxes. Jumped in headfirst and got my 2019 STI a few months ago. First MT car too. Already came with a lift kit, Morel subwoofer + Alpine amp, and Invidia exhaust from the dealership. Swapped out the front speakers with some Arc Audio speakers from a local shop and plan on doing the back speakers next. Cars a blast to own and drive. I’m glad I only owned beaters in my early 20s because I know for a fact I wouldn’t have been able to care for this car properly back then. Only things I’m lacking off your list is the intake and tune. Those will come further down the line once I’m more comfortable with the platform and understand what it does.

I love my subie, I got a ‘13 wrx hatch got it when I was 19 and I am guilty of some of these😂 I cut my muffler and my resonator. Luckily when I bought the car it already had BC coilovers and a cobb air intake with the tune already mapped into it. Im currently 22 and car still my daily

Learning manual on the car you've bought is better, even as STi. I specifically bought another car, my STi, just to learn manual and i still have yet to change clutch because unless your riding the clutch at 6K RPM, you really aint doing that much damage to your clutch, tranny, and engine.

If you do it right, they sound good without beatin on em too hard.

Can confirm on the speakers haha. I bought my 2006 sti and only the front speakers worked lol! Just picked up a nice $500 set. Looking to install them soon.

For the bugeye and blobeye, the STI engine is actually more reliable. It is made of higher quality parts, and they are still 2.0L blocks. The hawkeye was the first 2.5L engine Impreza. And it is notoriously worse than the previous 2.0L engines. At least in Europe, all of our pre-hawkeye WRXs and STIs are all 2.0L. But the STI has forged internals and is all around just higher quality.

The number 1 thing that young Subie owners do wrong, is bolting on modifications without getting a professional tune. Subarus got this undeserved rep of being an easy tuner car. Probably because it was really easy to get more power out of them. For sure, that is correct. But the hard part is making it reliable. You really have to get a professional tune for ANY part you install anywhere between the intake and the tip of the exhaust. These engines are the princesses of engines. They have really low tolerances for having the wrong kind of tune. And especially WRX engines and transmissions, are not fit to run higher boost than factory tune. So young owners either get the intake, BOV, and exhaust. But neglect a proper tune to account for those changes. And they end up getting an engine knock and 5 leaks. Or they get a tune to increase the boost and power of their WRX, but they blow up the non STI engine... or more commonly, they explode the 5 speed transmission of the WRX that is already questionable at best for the power the car makes stock. Seriously that 5 speed WRX transmission should not be in that car. And even if you own one stock, do not launch it with a clutch drop at high RPM. Do not try to drift with clutch kicks even on gravel. The stock WRX trans, is not strong enough to sustain the stresses of high RPM boosted power spikes. Like seriously even just a BOV. You think it's harmless. The air exiting the intake system just makes a louder noise, right? Wrong. WRX and STI cars have a recycling bypass valve as stock. They also have MAF sensor that measures the air taken into the exhaust. The car has a stock tune that calculates fuel amounts to be injected, based on how much air was taken in. And as you let off throttle, the stock BPV recycles that air back into the intake where it keeps looping through the still spinning turbocharger for a few seconds. But when you install a BOV, that air exits the intake system with a loud woosh noise. The stock tune of the car still thinks you have that air in the system for a while, since the stock BPV would have recycled this pressurized air back into the intake system. So it calculates way more fuel into the cylinders than you actually have oxygen to burn. And the engine runs rich for a few strokes every time after you make the BOV go PSSSSH. Now in some engines, this does not cause major issues. You get worse gas mileage and your car has more turbo lag any time you get off the throttle. But it's going to be okay. But the Subaru flat 4 is not the most forgiving of engines. It does not like running rich or lean. It should always be tuned to run as clean as possible, to avoid developing leaks or knocks. So in reality, that cool BOV you installed, might have just cut your boxer engine's lifespan into half. And you don't even realize it.

I thought you guys got bug eyes? Or did they not call that the GDA for you?

the wheels has more stock-look than the WRX stock wheels :D

Looks are subjective and i happen to like the two tone blue interior. While many sporty cars like the STi get abused, incorrectly maintained or modified without tuning for new parts and end up blowing a headgasket it’s not something they suffer from. In fact, unlike the infamous N/A 2.5 sohc engine (which is the one that really used to blow headgaskets and created that stigma for Subaru) they come with multilayer steel headgaskets from factory. Rev hang? I think that’s more like something specific to your car. They do leak oil…specially from the valve covers but again…maintenance. Don’t worry, my other car is a Toyota with less miles on the odometer and it’s got a few leaks too, and trust me, Ive seen lots of blown k20 and k24’s, if you treat your car like a race car you’ll have race car problems. I agree with you about the drivetrain being noisy at very low speeds when taking a curve. All I’m saying is you should first fix the christmas lights show you got going on in your cluster, check what is causing your rev hang, get well versed about these cars and then do a "What i hate” list. 😂

Do you dry the car? Cause if you don’t that would cause water spots. You also want to rub the clay bar more than once. Not just a drag across.

damn the ebay exhaust call out ;(

Owned my STI for 2 years now and rip it pretty hard. Oil changes before or around 2k are very important when you push them. 85k miles and runs like mint 🤘🏼

I need to get a tune on my car I’m thinking of doin it myself I have a ej205 with sti pink injectors and a vf48 turbo with a intake and then a light weight flywheel and stage 1 clutch. I’ve been running this setup on a stock map usdm ecu even tho my last ecu was a tuned jdm ver7 ecu so my car isn’t running like it should for the time until I get a new ecu but it still pushes 15psi of boost 😂

Not much beats that feeling😂

1st mod I had to do was replace my clutch with a stage 1 clutch and light flywheel because i burnt in 1 night learning how to downshift double clutch and fucked up my clutch because i did it wrong 😆

Have an 07 SWP STi and people still love it, it has it's quirks but it still gets looks whenever I take it out

I have an 06 with zero rev hang?

They should just get back to really and go with hybrid engine

I have a 99 2.5rs, 02 wrx wagon, had a 04 wrx and never had a problem with rev hang until i got my 04 sti, its something to do with the drive by wire system doing it for emissions, ive read somewhere in a forum about someone being able to tune it out but i havent been able to figure it out, the rev hang is a real mood killer when driving

told myself i had 1 year of owning the car until i install any modifications as it is my first manual (2020 brz tS). had her 7 months and only have installed aftermarket shift knob and dash cover. car sounds like a garbage dispenser after 4k rpm so i cant wait to add tomei uel headers exhuast an a tune. 5 more months to go tho lol

Yawn 🥱

I miss my tomei😭 Got an exhaust ticket (California) and I sold it and moved over to the q300 to avoid future tickets. Still sounds nice, buts it’s no tomei.

This looks ALOT like Colorado