Stuffing a front mount onto my 05 STi - done!

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Exhaust is done, car is fully tuned with the fmic. Its great!

And to anyone who said it lags more, well, not by any significant ammount . From a 2500 rpm roll, we had 19.5 psi at 3200 rpm. From a 4.5k roll, its near instant. You should see the heat difference too. I did 5 pulls last night, then pulled into a parking lot and let the car sit for about 2 minutes, while running, with my hood closed. I then turned off my car, poped the hood ,and felt the hot side pipe. It was hot enough to burn you. I then felt the cold side pipe, right at the TB, and it was cold as ice :smiley:

So, yup, it works!

–mark

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awesome :tup:

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Sounds like it rips now :slight_smile: sadly you took off before visiting, damn you

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Looks good. Nice write up :tup:

Jeller

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Thanks guys. I also didnt mention, but I purchased the factory STi fog covers, and put those on. It looks much better, in my opinion. Now, I am tracking down some of the factory badging. Particularly, I want to get the front grill STi badge, and the trunk STi and WRX badges. That leaves the S U B A R U badging on the trunk off, but if I got a great deal on it, i’d put that on too.

–mark

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:tup: i think i seen u at innovative last week, i pulled in with my DD (blue retta) evo was getting cammed so i was checkin the progress :slight_smile:

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nice clean work…i am liking the parking lot job as well haha

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Nice, thanks guys. Here is the exhaust we did:

The old downpipe, nice, but too small for me:
http://www.rit.edu/~mamcmp/perrin/bosal.jpg

And here’s the cat we got rid of:
http://www.rit.edu/~mamcmp/perrin/cat2.jpg

Here’s a shot of the inside:
http://www.rit.edu/~mamcmp/perrin/cat1.jpg

And Another:
http://www.rit.edu/~mamcmp/perrin/cat3.jpg

So we threw the car u on mikes awesome lift:
http://www.rit.edu/~mamcmp/perrin/lift.jpg

And put this guy on there, Perrin 3" catless downpipe:
http://www.rit.edu/~mamcmp/perrin/perrin1.jpg

It has a nice separated wastegate pipe:
http://www.rit.edu/~mamcmp/perrin/perrin2.jpg

And its not bad looking:
http://www.rit.edu/~mamcmp/perrin/perrin3.jpg

We decided to mate this up with my 2.75" catback:
http://www.rit.edu/~mamcmp/perrin/catback1.jpg

Luckily, the flanges matched up great:
http://www.rit.edu/~mamcmp/perrin/flange1.jpg

We just used 2 gaskets, to give us a little bit of room in there:
http://www.rit.edu/~mamcmp/perrin/flange2.jpg

After adding some new hardware, it doesnt leak at all, and fits perfect!:
http://www.rit.edu/~mamcmp/perrin/flange3.jpg

Thanks again mike, for everything!

–mark

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Looks titties. :tup:

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You werent by chance in tonawanda today on military were ya? If it wasnt you somebody else has a FMIC with missing fog lights and a nice exhaust. If it was you, looks and sounds great

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Nope, not me. I got my STi foglight covers back on now. I’ve been at work all day today :nite:

–mark

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man you got a double. Same color as well.

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its rrsti

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Yeah, he has a great car!

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Hey man, good job- looks real clean. Nice that you were able to take your time with it. ^^ what gear are you in w/ full boost at 3200rpm? My car is Cobb Stage 2 and full boost in 5th is about 2900. If same, your lag isn’t too bad at all.

I still don’t understand why all these kits have the cold side pipe run over the turbo. I realize it can be delt with, but it still bugs me.

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Any chance you got your TMIC laying around still?:smiley:

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I do have a stock STi TMIC laying around. I wanted to hang onto it, but we could work something out. PM me if you like.

–mark

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hmm alrighty. my stock IC I painted black awhile back and it really looks like shit now… so I’m thinking I mine as well get the STi one before I go for a tune. I’ll shoot you a PM when it gets closer to that point (should be pretty soon).

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sucks you have to work outside

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He makes 18-19 psi by 3200 in 4th. Of course it’s definitely lower than that in 5th…