Hi all,was driving my recently aquired first scooby the other day when an evo 8 came right up to my back end. As i was driving along an open stretch of road i floored it and was amazed when the evo flew past like i was driving a bus ! My car is an 01 bug eye which came with a rolling road printout for 257 bhp. I know the evo has more power but the speed with which it passed left me wondering if i made the right choice of car. My question is what is the best route to gain more power with a budget of around £ 1500 pounds. The car as a dump valve and ninja exhaust, apart from that i am not aware of any mods.

 

255lhr fuel pump, 550 Injectors, STi Intercooler+under tray, full decat, VF34/35 turbo, remap. Should be about 330bhp, but you might still get blitzed by an EVO, there's always someone out there quicker than you.

 

walbro fuel pump
vf34/35 turbo
decat exhaust/downpipe
k+n panel filter insert
remap
maybe 330 bhp
headers and upipe would be nice

 

ive done all the above, accept for the injectors and ive got 310 bhp

 

All this for £1500 ?

 

Maybe cheaper if you play the 2nd hand market.

 

make the car what you want!
if you want to be faster than any one else
you will not do it!

enjoy the car if you want to beat others take up judo

 

Buy an evo

 

How do you not knnow that the Evo wasn't modified??? I like leaving EVO's and they probably thinkthe same as you. £1500 isn't much to make you car as quick as you say the evo left you???

 

lol. plently of evos are running big figures. just as many as there are scoobs running 1.8 engines.

 

After owning several high performance cars and after reading all the hype i decided to go down the subaru route, just a little disapointed with he performance considering mine has around 260 bhp the standard cars must be real slouhes. Dont want to beat everything else just want a respectable performance output.

 

sell it and buy an sti. cheaper in the long run when you want to up the power.

better power, brakes, suspension etc all as standard.

 

To be fair, you only have a piece of paper to say you have 260 bhp. I had a letter from Reader's Digest to say I had won a million, but here I am still driving my 02 Bugeye. They are not slow, not by a long way, but EVOs are quicker out of the box and most will tinker with them as Impreza owners do.
As for upgrading, I agree with the last comment to go down the secondhand route. I got a Prodrive Sportcat for £120, a Prodrive 2nd cat pipe for £20-30ish, Prodrive backbox for £70, de-res centre pipe for a tenner(!), I have a Japspeed up-pipe in the cupboard, brand new that I got for the princely sum of £21 off the bay. A Simota panel filter for about £15. OK Im tight, I know that, but Im tinkering with the idea of a remap from Dynamix for about £300 and a Walbro 255 lph fuel pump at the same time. I presume Ill be looking at 270ish bhp, and better driveability, dependent on the map.

 

Buy an Ev* and stick a 2.3 in it, a cheap and easy 500 bhp.....

Yes I know 'cos they hammer my 400 bhp STI all day long. At half the cost, sob !

dunx

 

make sure its a classic sti they are faster than new age ones.

 

Not true my spec c was quicker than the equivelent classic STI(s) running similar BHP, plus it drove and handled better and produced gearbox (classic) breaking torque out of the box

Tony

 

Don't be too hard on ya Scooby, he could have had any kind of mods over you, saw your car was fairly new and fancied his chances, it tends to be the older cars that have had the heavier mods and sometimes rediculous bhp etc. Not all Evos will be that quick and not all Scoobys will be beaten by him. I had a silver Evo in Stevenage the other day sitting up my Kyber and when i decided to follow him he cut everybody up to get a gap between him and me before flooring it. Ya never know quite what they're intentions are.
Don't worry about it just enjoy ya car.

 

spec c aint your standard sti

 

Dump valve will be adding nothing but some lumpy running and a sound of bus doors. Ninja exhaust will free up a little but not much.

Lots can be done with the bug eye - they can really fly if a few selective mods done well. (and a remap)

The evo has a quicker spooling turbo as std so unless you decat and map to suit you will get left behind. But it doesnt have to be that way

Evo is not the dark side it is the wrong side