# What to do? Make STI fast and have slow DD or buy cheap fast car and keep STI as DD?
**URL:** https://forums.speedlife.net/t/what-to-do-make-sti-fast-and-have-slow-dd-or-buy-cheap-fast-car-and-keep-sti-as-dd/53217
**Category:** NYSpeed Automotive
**Created:** [August 14, 2008, 7:46am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/what-to-do-make-sti-fast-and-have-slow-dd-or-buy-cheap-fast-car-and-keep-sti-as-dd/53217 "2008-08-14T07:46:59Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Slopoke](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Slopoke)
#### Post date: [August 14, 2008, 1:04pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/what-to-do-make-sti-fast-and-have-slow-dd-or-buy-cheap-fast-car-and-keep-sti-as-dd/53217/61 "2008-08-14T13:04:02Z")
> [@MrSmith](#):
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> If its so cheap to run 10s with an LS1 car whats with all the local money pits? :gotme:
> nm i get it all day for _1_ day until something breaks. Cougarspeed’s car excluded. 😛
I dont believe bill’s and chuck’s car were meant to run 10’s… Think they were a tad quicker than that… Besides if Ed mans up and sprays 125+ shot im sure he will run 10’s and he has a total of what 6-7K in the Formula?
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### Author:  [@93dx\_hatch](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/93dx_hatch)
#### Post date: [August 14, 2008, 1:06pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/what-to-do-make-sti-fast-and-have-slow-dd-or-buy-cheap-fast-car-and-keep-sti-as-dd/53217/62 "2008-08-14T13:06:32Z")
^ It should be good for a few passes
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### Author:  [@reliant\_turbo](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/reliant_turbo)
#### Post date: [August 14, 2008, 1:07pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/what-to-do-make-sti-fast-and-have-slow-dd-or-buy-cheap-fast-car-and-keep-sti-as-dd/53217/63 "2008-08-14T13:07:55Z")
buy a geo metro or a diesel benz and run it on veggie. with all the money youll save, you be able to build the sti in no time.
are there any final drive options for a sti to make it taller? other trans families that can donate shafts/rings/pinions? rear end options?
im doing a gearset swap right now with my k car with parts from different year dodge trannies so i can go 126 in 4th at 6k. my car doesnt rev for crap. 5500-6k right now. full spool at 2500-2800 though.
Brian
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### Author:  [@newman](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/newman)
#### Post date: [August 14, 2008, 1:08pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/what-to-do-make-sti-fast-and-have-slow-dd-or-buy-cheap-fast-car-and-keep-sti-as-dd/53217/64 "2008-08-14T13:08:28Z")
Buy my turbo kit:
turbo kit was 3800
ic is worth about 500
hydra was 1400
bov was 200
injectors were 400
fuel rails were 200
DLi was 500
Fuel pump was 100
that’s a total of 7200 worth of stuff…
i’d sell it for say… 4500 plus stock IC stuff…
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### Author:  [@dreid](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/dreid)
#### Post date: [August 14, 2008, 1:10pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/what-to-do-make-sti-fast-and-have-slow-dd-or-buy-cheap-fast-car-and-keep-sti-as-dd/53217/65 "2008-08-14T13:10:02Z")
> [@newman](#):
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> Buy my turbo kit:
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> turbo kit was 3800
> ic is worth about 500
> hydra was 1400
> bov was 200
> injectors were 400
> fuel rails were 200
> DLi was 500
> Fuel pump was 100
>
> that’s a total of 7200 worth of stuff…
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> i’d sell it for say… 4500 plus stock IC stuff…
deal and a half. No more love for the GT35R STI??? i knows it been asked, whats next?
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### Author:  [@LZ1](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/LZ1)
#### Post date: [August 14, 2008, 1:10pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/what-to-do-make-sti-fast-and-have-slow-dd-or-buy-cheap-fast-car-and-keep-sti-as-dd/53217/66 "2008-08-14T13:10:46Z")
> [@newman](#):
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> Buy my turbo kit:
>
> turbo kit was 3800
> ic is worth about 500
> hydra was 1400
> bov was 200
> injectors were 400
> fuel rails were 200
> DLi was 500
> Fuel pump was 100
>
> that’s a total of 7200 worth of stuff…
>
> i’d sell it for say… 4500 plus stock IC stuff…
:tup: then you can blow the motor up all by yourself
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### Author:  [@newman](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/newman)
#### Post date: [August 14, 2008, 1:12pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/what-to-do-make-sti-fast-and-have-slow-dd-or-buy-cheap-fast-car-and-keep-sti-as-dd/53217/67 "2008-08-14T13:12:59Z")
shut up justin
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### Author:  [@LZ1](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/LZ1)
#### Post date: [August 14, 2008, 1:14pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/what-to-do-make-sti-fast-and-have-slow-dd-or-buy-cheap-fast-car-and-keep-sti-as-dd/53217/68 "2008-08-14T13:14:38Z")
> [@newman](#):
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> shut up justin
sorry christian
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### Author:  [@Slopoke](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Slopoke)
#### Post date: [August 14, 2008, 1:23pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/what-to-do-make-sti-fast-and-have-slow-dd-or-buy-cheap-fast-car-and-keep-sti-as-dd/53217/69 "2008-08-14T13:23:08Z")
:grouphug:
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### Author:  [@MOBOOST4U](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/MOBOOST4U)
#### Post date: [August 14, 2008, 1:28pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/what-to-do-make-sti-fast-and-have-slow-dd-or-buy-cheap-fast-car-and-keep-sti-as-dd/53217/70 "2008-08-14T13:28:11Z")
> [@LZ](#):
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> :lol: If you want a cheap drag racing car buy a LS1 F-body…5k car…5k in mods run 10s all day…
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> I still don’t understand why people turn 25-30k cars into drag cars then spend a ton of time broken.
Because some people would rather be able to turn in their car at the end of the day rather than just having a “pure” straight line monster. I could never justify having just a straight line car. At least with the STi, if he wanted to hit twisties like a mad man he still could.
Ill take a shitty running STi over a 10 second Transmarobird any day.
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### Author:  [@Slopoke](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Slopoke)
#### Post date: [August 14, 2008, 1:31pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/what-to-do-make-sti-fast-and-have-slow-dd-or-buy-cheap-fast-car-and-keep-sti-as-dd/53217/71 "2008-08-14T13:31:27Z")
Thats you… He never said he wanted an auto-x car, he said he wants something that runs 10’s or better
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### Author:  [@LZ1](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/LZ1)
#### Post date: [August 14, 2008, 1:31pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/what-to-do-make-sti-fast-and-have-slow-dd-or-buy-cheap-fast-car-and-keep-sti-as-dd/53217/72 "2008-08-14T13:31:36Z")
> [@MOBOOST4U](#):
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> Because some people would rather be able to turn in their car at the end of the day rather than just having a “pure” straight line monster. I could never justify having just a straight line car. At least with the STi, if he wanted to hit twisties like a mad man he still could.
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> Ill take a shitty running STi over a 10 second Transmarobird any day.
Didn’t you hit the twistes and run right into a curb a few years back? Maybe you should practice going straight before you attempt to turn.
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### Author:  [@MOBOOST4U](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/MOBOOST4U)
#### Post date: [August 14, 2008, 1:36pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/what-to-do-make-sti-fast-and-have-slow-dd-or-buy-cheap-fast-car-and-keep-sti-as-dd/53217/73 "2008-08-14T13:36:32Z")
> [@LZ](#):
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> Didn’t you hit the twistes and run right into a curb a few years back? Maybe you should practice going straight before you attempt to turn.
Its been 4 years… believe me, I have had practice asshat!
It was just my opinion
Im sure its pretty hard to drive an automatic stone age gm.
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### Author:  [@Bacon](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Bacon)
#### Post date: [August 14, 2008, 1:43pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/what-to-do-make-sti-fast-and-have-slow-dd-or-buy-cheap-fast-car-and-keep-sti-as-dd/53217/74 "2008-08-14T13:43:33Z")
Sick burn dude bro.
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### Author:  [@BluBalls](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/BluBalls)
#### Post date: [August 14, 2008, 1:44pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/what-to-do-make-sti-fast-and-have-slow-dd-or-buy-cheap-fast-car-and-keep-sti-as-dd/53217/75 "2008-08-14T13:44:28Z")
I laughed.
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### Author:  [@MOBOOST4U](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/MOBOOST4U)
#### Post date: [August 14, 2008, 2:05pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/what-to-do-make-sti-fast-and-have-slow-dd-or-buy-cheap-fast-car-and-keep-sti-as-dd/53217/76 "2008-08-14T14:05:41Z")
> [@BluBalls](#):
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> I laughed.
But seriously blu? Is that part of the lure to you keeping the STi as a drag car as oppsed to just building a 1 demensional fbod that cant go left and right?
With the STi or evo, you can at least change directions at any time if you want to move towards T/A or auto x or anything or are you just really looking for a strictly drag car?
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### Author:  [@Harvey](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Harvey)
#### Post date: [August 14, 2008, 2:19pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/what-to-do-make-sti-fast-and-have-slow-dd-or-buy-cheap-fast-car-and-keep-sti-as-dd/53217/77 "2008-08-14T14:19:01Z")
> [@theblue](#):
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> I don’t think you can consider “easily” to include “forged pistons”
I never said 10’s were easy in an STi. I said modifying the STi was easy. If it’s a fast drag car he wants, then the STi is probably not it. Road course or autoX on the other hand…
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### Author:  [@TrueBlue](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/TrueBlue)
#### Post date: [August 14, 2008, 2:26pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/what-to-do-make-sti-fast-and-have-slow-dd-or-buy-cheap-fast-car-and-keep-sti-as-dd/53217/78 "2008-08-14T14:26:18Z")
People that think “fbods” can’t handle turns need to visit a racetrack more often.
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### Author:  [@theblue](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/theblue)
#### Post date: [August 14, 2008, 2:27pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/what-to-do-make-sti-fast-and-have-slow-dd-or-buy-cheap-fast-car-and-keep-sti-as-dd/53217/79 "2008-08-14T14:27:09Z")
> [@eesti](#):
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> I never said 10’s were easy in an STi. I said modifying the STi was easy. If it’s a fast drag car he wants, then the STi is probably not it. Road course or autoX on the other hand…
is that kind of like how changing the spark plus is easy compared to the evo 😃
when it comes to tinkering with the evos vs stis the evo pretty much does everything cheaper and more easily.
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### Author:  [@Harvey](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Harvey)
#### Post date: [August 14, 2008, 2:28pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/what-to-do-make-sti-fast-and-have-slow-dd-or-buy-cheap-fast-car-and-keep-sti-as-dd/53217/80 "2008-08-14T14:28:43Z")
> [@theblue](#):
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> is that kind of like how changing the spark plus is easy compared to the evo 😃
>
> when it comes to tinkering with the evos vs stis the evo pretty much does everything cheaper and more easily.
No, my dick is bigger.
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