By: Chris Neprasch 9/15/2004 One of the descriptions in a typical model stereotype is that whether they be male or female, they are usually high maintenance. You would figure beautiful or not a person who has just spent hours battling with rusted catalytic converters and frozen oxygen sensors would wantContinue Reading
By: Neil Tjin and Nick DiBlasi (Section 8 Motorwerks) Photos: Neil Tjin 8/25/2005 When it comes to building the perfect import vehicle, suspension is always one of the most important aspects. Regardless of what you plan on using the vehicle for, a good suspension set up is a key elementContinue Reading
6/24/2005 By: Chris Neprasch The Volkswagen R32 has an identity crisis. It has the numbers that come close if not exceed a host of Japanese performance car, yet the refinement inside the cockpit rivals that of most sub-60K high-end Euros. Yet besides the awkward pedal placement, one of the biggestContinue Reading
By: Chris Neprasch 6/17/2005 Back at the 2004 SEMA Show we made a trip by the Sun Auto to check out their Cyber EVO that only a few days later dominated Super Street’s Time Attack competition. While we were there we talked with Mark Mendoza of Sun Auto and heContinue Reading
By: Chris Neprasch 3/16/2005 In the quest for more power, better handling and improved braking it’s real easy to overlook the basic stuff. The lure of flashy parts like huge 14-inch rotors with six-piston calipers or 30-way adjustable coilover setups tend to take precedence over the fact that no matterContinue Reading
By: Chris Neprasch 3/16/2005 We’re just like anyone else out there, when we get a new toy we want to play with it. So when Baer Brakes sent us their Grand-Touring front brake upgrade for 2002-04 non-STi WRXs, our first impulse was to throw the Sube on the lift andContinue Reading
2/18/2005 By: Chris Neprasch In the first three parts of the WRX series we have mainly focused on what’s under the hood of our Subaru. Making power is only one small element of being successful on the track though. We took the WRX to a local autocross event with allContinue Reading
2/4/2005 By: Chris Neprasch It’s no secret that the cold air makes more horsepower than hot air. In turbocharged cars this creates a problem since the turbo itself is powered by exhaust gases exiting the combustion chamber. Explosions don’t create cool gasses so the more you can do to bringContinue Reading
2/4/2005 By: Chris Neprasch First off, catalytic converters help keep the environment clean. You’ll get in big trouble with the authorities in some states if you ever get caught on the street without them and they help lower emissions so much that Subaru put three of them on the WRXContinue Reading
1/28/2005 By: Chris Neprasch Our latest mission is to turn a stock 2004 Subaru WRX into a car that can handle its own during local track days and on the autocross course while still maintaining enough civility to be a reliable daily driver. This means no huge turbo setup thatContinue Reading