Member Profile - Subie Boy

[Subie Boy]

Name - Brian
Member User Name - Subie Boy
Vehicle - MY06 2.0R Turbo
Colour - Obsidian Black Pearl

I've had my car since 18th March 2006 (bought it brand new). I have gone through heaps of stages with the car ever since then, the VIP Luxury stage and now the JDM Performance stage. Love the car to bits and pieces, so here are the mods below.

Accessories
- STi labeled oil cap
- Liberal A/T Shift Transmission Leather boot





Exterior
- STi Front Lip
- Painted Stock Chrome Grill in black
- De-badged







Braking
- GT front and rear brakes
- Brake calipers painted in Red
- Hawk Ceramic Performance brake pads (front and rear)
- GT front and rear rotors machined
- Cusco cyclinder brake stopper





Lighting
- 6000k HID (front lights and fog lights)
- Interior LED light (doors, map and cabin light)
- LED replacement for parkers/reverse/rego

Suspension
- Whiteline swaybars (front and rear)
- Cusco front strut brace with brake cylinder stopper
- K-sport coilovers





Audio/Security system
- 2 TME-M780 Alpine 7 inch TV screens
- FOCAL 165 V-Slimline speakers front and rears
- DYNAMAT Sound deadener (Front and Rear Doors, Boot)
- ALPINE DVD/CD/MP3/WMA/VCD Player DVA-9861
- ALPINE PLV-7 Subwoofer
- ALPINE PDX-4.150 4/3/2 Channel Power Density Digital Amplifier
- Mongoose Car Alarm System







Wheels
- Stock wheels powdercoated in black
- STI Wheel Cap





Engine
- TD04 Turbo
- Power Enterprise 650cc injectors
- Walbro Fuel Pump
- Go Fast Bits Response blow-off valve
- Phat Performance Products Quad Tip Mufflers
- Custom Turbo Up-pipe & Turbo mounting brackets
- 3 inch High Flow Cat Convertor
- Custom Turbo dump pipe
- Hybrid Front Mount Intercooler
- Braided Turbo Oil & Water Hoses
- Haltech Interceptor
- Turbo Heat Bag
- Yellow Optima High Performance Battery
- Engineers Certificate
- Certificate of registration with RTA (Blue Slip)

















All engine work is done by Pulse Racing in Menai last year and currently the car runs at 8psi boost (very safe for the engine). Currently produce 140KW atw which doubles the power of stock 2.0R (approx. 70KW atw). Very happy with the performance and the car is heaps of fun to drive and feels like a brand new car. PM me if you need more details.

The car is fully engineered by a Mechanical Engineer who is also an authorised engineer from RTA, so the car is registered on the road as a Subaru Liberty 2.0R Turbo, this means that insurance price is the same as stock 2.0R which is awesome.

So, there it is hehehe hope you guys enjoy it and let me know what you all think!!

Cheers

Brian

[GTB Liberty]

Kudos on the no mail slot bonnet - a sleeper.

[GTSPECB STI]

great work there but hardly a sleeper with that giant silver FMIC showing.

[Arith]

Great work Brian! Looks like you put a lot of effort into your baby.

Question: What made you decide to turbo a 2.0 N/A rather than just get a GT?

[GTB Liberty]

great work there but hardly a sleeper with that giant silver FMIC showing.

When your side by side with someone they don't lean out the window to check that Dave LOL

In the end you could hide it completely behind some mesh grill.

[birch_security]

Nice job Brian. Looks good. Keep up the good work.

[GTSPECB STI]

great work there but hardly a sleeper with that giant silver FMIC showing.

When your side by side with someone they don't lean out the window to check that Dave LOL

In the end you could hide it completely behind some mesh grill.

ok but the aftermarket BOV is likely to lead most to the same conclusion I suggest

[Subie Boy]

Thanks guys for the kind comments. Jim, I did it to be different and also because I love the car and felt like it was a part of me (kinda sentimental hehe), but I'm glad I did it because it worked out well!

[teK--]

Very sly and stealth upgrade/downgrade, I like it! Also the powdercoated stock wheels looks great, I'll consider doing the same to mine some time. Did you do them with tyres on or off? Approx cost?

[Subie Boy]

Thanks mate, got mine done at Mr Clean here in Sydney (Padstow) and I think from memory they charged me $75 per wheel. Also I took the wheels off and left them at Mr Clean for 3-4 days!

[matty_et]

Loving it!!! dared to be different and it paid off. loving the stealth look. Hey Brian was a sti engine swap considered? i know its a pretty broad question but considering Brians making 140Kw @ wheels on stock internals @ 8psi does anyone have a rough idea of what the power output might be if a sti block running say 15psi was used?

Well done mate.

[hks180]

Looks great Brian !! job well done ...

Did you powdercoat the wheels again?

Aren’t those the wheels you swapped with me? haha

Getting old … my memory is getting worse & worse …


Leo

[hamish_023]

That has done wonders to the stock wheels!

[teK--]

And also damn those FM901 are some good and oldskool tyres! You mustn't drive the car much

[cruisn]

Thats pretty well done mate.

I like the whole black theme going on and my only two suggestions would be gloss black calipers, not rice red and get some black wheel nuts stat.

That would set it off better imo.