WRX GC8

[Chum]

Hello fellow car chumps, been a member here almost a year but mostly just reading and learning bits and pieces. Have owned this wrx for almost a year so might as well showcase the little guy. It's also currently for sale so I'm copying my post from perth-wrx so I dont have to re-type everything.

Enjoy

Some of you may have seen/been in this car and will know its not for the faint hearted.

Driveline
MY98 GC8
Chassis ~95000 km
Forged 2L built by RMS with wiseco forged pistons and eagle rods
VF22 turbo tuned to 1.6bar on high boost
LINK ECU with antilag
K&N pod filter
ARP head bolts/studs
PW oil cooler
RMS Front mount intercooler
Hyperflow catchcan
STI 6 speed with Spec C clutch
R180 plated rear LS diff
GFB Pulley kit
MMS 3" stainless steel mandrel bent exhaust system with a hi flow muffler with cat and custom tip
Bosch fuel pump
Silicon inlet hose
Equal length headers & up pipe
STI head gasket
Tuned to a safe 210kw


Handling
DMS coilovers with strut tops
whiteline rear adj 27mm swaybar & front 22mm swaybar with alloy links
whiteline roll centre kit
heavy duty rear sway bar mounts
Front and rear whiteline strut bars
under body H brace
sti alloy bonnet
sti alloy control arms
OZ Superleggera wheels
GDB brake upgrade - caliper - rotors pads - braided lines
Master cylinder brace
NEW set of yokohama advan neovas (~500km) with no events/skidpans etc

Interior
Sparco sprint bucket seats
4 point harness ERG
Bonds rear bolt in cage
Momo Italy racing steering wheel
Interior of rear removed for weight reduction (have all the parts)
GReddy Profec B-Spec 2 boost controller
Boost gauge with pillar mount
After market dashboard dial colours
Sony headunit with speakers
STI steel racing pedals for heel-toe shifting
2 x fire extinguishers with brackets bolted under seats
Terratrip terraphone

Exterior
STI light alloy bonnet
Recently repainted bumper/fog covers 2 weeks ago at unique auto refinishers (thanks to Neil).
All skirting including sti lip redone in gloss black also at UAR. Looks awesome.
Red close ended wheel lock nuts.
Rally armor mudflaps.
Tint bran new, darkest legal
Clear indicators all round.
FMIC painted black
JDM tail lights
Sporza carbon finish window wipers
HIDs 4300k

Extras
Silver carbon fibre bonnet struts
Autowatch 456 alarm with built in turbo timer
Engineers signatory with report and permit for the cage and bucket seats


Cheers

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[mys1]

The car has had most of the work done at RMS, feel free to call stechnic and speak to David or Leigh from Bussleton subaru service if you want. Have all receipts for pretty much everything done including servicing/mods/wheel alignments totaling around $60k (only the mods). Car is in pristine condition and is all shiny from being detailed. The car has been tracked in its early life but has been taken care of with frequent oil changes/services etc to ensure its maintained well. This is a good opportunity to own one of the better looking/handling GC8s in WA. It has a lot of push/pull with virtually no lag and feels like its on rails so it would be perfect for a track car or hard street car depending on what you are after.

Is it still for sale? or did you just copy/paste an add because lazy?

[Chum]

Yes it is, I said at the start Im copying my forsale post at Perth-wrx.com so I didn't have to list everything again. I'll take out that paragraph from it though.

[Joe]

Welcome to the forum dude, good to see more of my pwrx brethren over here :D

[JBAE]

actually quite a hot dak dak! nice pick up!

[Sfidz]

What is with WRX's having mud flaps on them?
Are they actually used for rally events or is it some subi thing?
Nice car though, looks the goods.

[JBAE]

going out on a limb here but judging by that metal looking frame work in the rear... but unless its some intricate shopping bag hanger id hazard a guess and say yes it is used or has been used for some form of motorsport...

that and ive heard rumour that WRXs were used in rallys on the world stage in past times too! some colin guy used to race them but its just rumours ive heard may not be true!

:D

[YOUR MATE]

They race Holdens, too. Don't see me with a T wing, though. Same principal.

I don't know much about Subi's, but I don't mind the look of these older ones. Seems serious enough though. Going to be doing any events in it?

[disc0-dan]

Sneaky for sale thread, i like it ! :-P

Also very nice dakdak, i saw this our Riverton/Willeton way a few weeks back im pretty sure and looked the goods.

[TJ]

What is with WRX's having mud flaps on them?
Are they actually used for rally events or is it some subi thing?
Nice car though, looks the goods.

99% pure wank to be honest.

Colin won a WDC in one, so your street GC8 is an instant rally car if you add these.

No offense of course, but thems the truths.

[TJ]

They race Holdens, too. Don't see me with a T wing, though. Same principal.

I don't know much about Subi's, but I don't mind the look of these older ones. Seems serious enough though. Going to be doing any events in it?

I see bulk HRT replicas doing the rounds though

/tarring everyone with same brush

[Yakky Bear]

used to see this every morning on my way to work.. looks clean!

ps how u go with getting the sticker off of it not long ago?

[mehow2g]

They race Holdens, too. Don't see me with a T wing, though. Same principal.


Because Holden drivers think its "JAP CRAP".

If the Holden boys dressed their cars up semi looking like V8 supercars I might give it a second look.

[Gladio]

Very nice, so clean! I dont mind the mudflaps tbh.

[mc68]

Hows it goin Jay...Solid car. Worked on it when it was first put together. Had the Plates [ANTILAG]

still to this day drives mint :)

[Chum]

going out on a limb here but judging by that metal looking frame work in the rear... but unless its some intricate shopping bag hanger id hazard a guess and say yes it is used or has been used for some form of motorsport...


Correct sir, if you read the build carefully you would notice the bonds bolt in rollcage and stripped interior and also the paragraph I deleted but the first guy quoted lol. When the car was originally being built it was used for a bit of motorsport indeed and had 6 pot AP racing brakes. I also believe that the oil was changed everytime as the owner was very careful.


99% pure wank to be honest.

Colin won a WDC in one, so your street GC8 is an instant rally car if you add these.

No offense of course, but thems the truths.

Not exactly, on the last cruise before the bumper was reprayed the guys infront of me were constantly flicking pebbles and I ended up with a bunch of stone chips even at a good 10 metres. So at least no one behind me copped it :D But yea, I just wanted the rally look. Most cosmetic things serve no functions (lips, coloured lug nuts etc) but we still put them on.


Hows it goin Jay...Solid car. Worked on it when it was first put together. Had the Plates [ANTILAG]

still to this day drives mint :)

Hey, I'm gonna guess andy from former RMS? I didnt know it had those plates, that woudlve been sweet to still be there, would be worth a bit now.

[Chum]

used to see this every morning on my way to work.. looks clean!

ps how u go with getting the sticker off of it not long ago?

Yellow sticker was easy and a pingpingpingping. Just had to get an engineers report/signatory for the rollcage and buckets which was fine but failed because the exhaust was 2 decibals too loud so just temp swapped it. But I passed easily the next time, guess it depends if you get a pingpingpingping of an examiner. The engine bay is pretty neat so they didn't have any problems with anything, just turned the boost controller to 'off' so the car was at 0.5 bar instead of 1.5 making it slow with no blow off valve sound.

[Chum]

They race Holdens, too. Don't see me with a T wing, though. Same principal.

I don't know much about Subi's, but I don't mind the look of these older ones. Seems serious enough though. Going to be doing any events in it?

If I was planning on keeping it then yes I would be, mostly just skidpans and tunings days atm. Car is still WAY faster than me (did an 11.9 1/4 mile on my one and only go when I got the new tyres on). Still learning it :)

[n1ghth4wk]

Don't sell it man... just garage it and buy a $1500 excel or something. You're gonna regret it :(

[Chum]

Mate I really don't want to sell it. Its by far the best car I've ever driven and probably will. Even the last owner recently drove with me and he was amazed at why he sold it in the first place. I also have a hyndai accent in the family that I use.

But I have to sell it, moving house and its hard for a 21yo uni student to pay insurance, maintainance, rent, fuel. Also carry a lot of music equipment such as guitars/amps etc and I need something more practical. Im already regretting it just being on the market, but I gotta do what I gotta do.

[Marti]

Nice gc8