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Old 19 September 2010, 12:28 PM
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Old 19 September 2010, 02:02 PM
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If the vf35 is ported then its not a standard unit, the standard vf35 will produce upto 350bhp normally, and watched the vid, the evo driver makes a bollox of the start, you can hear that happen when he bogs his car down off the line, but the times for the white STI are good, BUT any owner can get good times, it just depends how sympathetic you are to the car, if your not at all sympathetic then good times are achievable, but it will cost you when it goes pop.
See the bug at 7.54 v the evo, evo bogs down, scoob gets a better start

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Old 19 September 2010, 07:33 PM
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Originally Posted by TonyBurns
If the vf35 is ported then its not a standard unit, the standard vf35 will produce upto 350bhp normally, and watched the vid, the evo driver makes a bollox of the start, you can hear that happen when he bogs his car down off the line, but the times for the white STI are good, BUT any owner can get good times, it just depends how sympathetic you are to the car, if your not at all sympathetic then good times are achievable, but it will cost you when it goes pop.
See the bug at 7.54 v the evo, evo bogs down, scoob gets a better start

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Ok will give u that but if is good acceleration your after with least lag or no lag VF35 would be a good start for him. yes your right it does depend on how the car is driven but even a stand impreza driven hard can go pop
Old 19 September 2010, 07:34 PM
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Old 19 September 2010, 07:39 PM
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The VF35 is easily capable of reaching 350+ bhp with a few simple tweaks, my 35 is only running 1.4 Bar so its hardly being rinsed. There cant be many Classic Imprezas out there with less than 400bhp running 11s, the white Sti in the clip is mine (not the best clip the ones against the hyabusa turbo bond bug were better), it has been down the 1/4 @ the Pod on no less than 50 times over the past 2 years as well as being my daily drive and being driven all over the UK and its running the std gearbox/diff and clutch so reliability is not really an issue.

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Old 19 September 2010, 09:14 PM
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Iain,
Its not the diff you have to worry about, you have a better gearset than a uk car but the weaker casing, the clutch.... well borrowed time on those, not the best in the world and they do go with more power through them unfortunately and not many give you warning of when they are going, they just break, another downside

Oh and Bob'5 340bhp TD05 car ran 11's not at the pod though, the pod cheats, it has very sticky tarmac for better traction, do it on concrete (though not good for your tyres), a few different places will mean different times.

Best one is a standard UK car at the pod, wind behind it, virtually empty fuel tank etc, well read it for yourself

However, the most remarkable tests were carried out on a standard 4 door saloons during November 1997. Firstly Top Gear magazine covered the 0–60 mph sprint in only 5.2 seconds! Then Performance Car (sadly no longer with us), as part of their 0–60 challenge timed the Impreza at a mind blowing 5.03 seconds for the 0–60 sprint, with the 1/4 mile being covered in 13.72 seconds at 100.6 mph. It should be noted though, that the Performance Car tests were carried out at Santa Pod drag strip (quality grippy tarmac), with only the driver, a near empty fuel tank and in one direction only.
Good times on your car though

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PS, your vf35 is ported though? hence why it can run 1.4 bar, wouldnt want to push it too far!

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Old 19 September 2010, 09:30 PM
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I dont know Bob 5 but I do have to question is 119mph with only 340bhp even possible? The std VF35 can run 1.4 Bar but it will boost creep like mad hence the wastegate port only has been ported (nothing fancy). I will let you know if anything breaks lol


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Old 19 September 2010, 09:35 PM
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Originally Posted by TonyBurns


PS, your vf35 is ported though? hence why it can run 1.4 bar, wouldnt want to push it too far!
I have seen vf35s running 1.6bar that are not ported with no porblems though not sure what Bar a vf35 could take (was a 53 impreza if that makes a difference)

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Old 19 September 2010, 09:37 PM
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Originally Posted by Big 'D'
I dont know Bob 5 but I do have to question is 119mph with only 340bhp even possible? The std VF35 can run 1.4 Bar but it will boost creep like mad hence the wastegate port only has been ported (nothing fancy). I will let you know if anything breaks lol


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Iain i would point out you wern't running drag radials lol
Old 19 September 2010, 09:44 PM
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Originally Posted by Lewak
Iain i would point out you wern't running drag radials lol
I was running Yoko Parada spec 2 tyres.

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Old 28 September 2010, 02:40 PM
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340bhp in a classic and never got boring having kept it like that for years. Mid 300s (done right) on a classic makes a stormer of a car.
Old 28 September 2010, 08:14 PM
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I went from 280 standard on an sti with VF28, to 320/280 on the VF28, then a VF35 running 350/340 and although the figures are a huge increase between the VF28 & VF35 figures, it feels a totally differnet animal, puts a smile on my face again - spools up quick and just wants to keep on pulling all the way to the redline in every gear
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Originally Posted by wackydog
heres 1 for u all whats the difference on the road performance to a standard 280bhp classic to a 350 to 400bhp car will be modding to these power levels soon on my type r v4 as not gettin my accelaration fix that my mk2 fiesta gave me lol
If its still on the original engine then going for more power could be quite expense. Even stock they tend to do BEB... at this age

I had a vf34 on my v4 type r and it went really well. If you can get a used sti vf35 and above it would go well and be cost effective.

The difference to a std car is 350hp takes the car from mild manered to quick esp in the mid range.

MD321 takes it to another level again as they keep on going to the rev limit.
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