around £6000-6500 to spend, or upto £4000 to 4500 for a WRX

Would prefer one with a few mods

Ideally 75k miles or under

 

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Buy mine

 

bit too much for me £6500 is at a stretch, deffo couldn't afford £7k. but thanks for the offer

 

 

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boom

 

One of my friends is selling his wrx, nice car and good mods.

http://www.pistonheads.com/classifie...culate/1757807

 

I've seen it bud, smart car, only thing stopping me from wanting it is that its still got 5 speed box fitted

 

No worries, good luck in your hunt

 

Feel free to ask any questions about mine. Good base for further mods..

http://www.pistonheads.com/classifie...p-2005/1638163

 

your's is smart aswell bud, but ideally only want to spend upto 4.5k on a wrx as I have other plans if I had a wrx over an STi which I probably wouldn't do much too if I had one over a wrx

 

6 speed easy conversion if thats what you want
but the 5speed still works fine and will be fine unless you drive it like you stole it every day

 

on a limited budget, for the car. £6.5k is really all I have to buy/mod the car to how I want then its a case of just having to fix it when it goes wrong and maintain it.
If I went for an STi I wouldn't bother with the ideas I had planned

 

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if you buy mine for 6k you wouldnt need to maintain or mod,its all just been done...at a huge cost to me
and the 5 speed handles this power okay.
come try for yourself

 

Lol hey its only a 2k job.
easy it may be cheap it is not

 

Op if you have the money go for an sti.
you will kick yourself if you settle for a wrx.

 

well I wasn't really planning on going over 300bhp to begin with, as originally I was planning on getting a wrx and going for looks/visual mods over performance, as I was planning on lowering the car fairly low which would most likely ruin most of the performance/handling side of things

but at 6k I wouldn't be able to get the respray that I wanted, also ive read into the rokker coilovers, apparently sister company of raceland, so id be fussy and end up wanting to replace those aswell.

It is a nice car jake and if it was cheaper id of probably been interested

 

How much cheaper?
Lol Go for what's right for you
I read mixed reviews on the rokkors too, but to be honest I'm very pleasantly surprised by them,car grips endlessly now after the alignment and ride is fine
My target was 350,and makes a fantastic road car at this power level,still useable as a daily car if needed and still goes bloody well!

 

If you have the money for an STI then do right first time and buy one...

 

well I seem to be struggling to even find an STi for my budget, which is one of the reason I looked into getting one as was struggling to find a WRX aswell

 

That's the reason I bought a wrx,got a mint car in my price range,and not a haggered sti.
Also I fully well knew I was going to mod over time and upgrade most parts the Sti has better than the Sti
I'm far from trying to make you buy mine, but a wrx is still a very capable car! Especially at the power targets you want/aiming for

 

well I missed out on a cheap STi, was ideal for what I needed, but sold day before I had chance to look at it, it was only since then I considered looking for one. Downside is for £6500 what ever mods the STi had it would pretty much stay that way

 

Decent Sti's do come up,waiting game really

 

i havn't, dont, its only you being precious about your little badge you slow poke,,, hahahahah

 

on the verge of giving up and looking for something else to be honest. Actually regret selling my evo now

 

scoobyclinic had a few in stock at one point, give em a bell

 

If you plan to mod and not go over 350bhp then the WRX makes perfect sense with your budget.

From a modders perspective the only aspect that makes the STI better is the 6 speed's ability to take more power, but you really want an 04 onwards for guaranteed gearbox reliability, because you'll change pretty much everything else (see tubbs car as a perfect example).

But this is also dependant on how far you want to go.

A nice clean low miles WRX is better and a lot cheaper than a knackered STI.

But it is a waiting game and the odd decent cheap STI does come up, there was one for £5k a week or so ago, and they definitely come up inside your budget, just buy the best example of either you can find.

 

yeah, had noticed they had a few on there website aswell, but think they were asking 4250 for a wrx with 104k on the clocks, seem a tad expensive