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You may ask yourself how old is Vlad? He is 17 years old and has a nicer car than most 30 year olds. He was mostly influenced to build this 1999 Subaru Impreza 2.5 RS mostly by his brother Igor and all his cars he built.

Vlad is always saving his money to buyer bigger and better things for his 2.5 RS when he’s not going to car meets or surfing CTSUBIE.

Vlads main purpose of the build was to have one of the cleanest and most well done GC8’s. We must say he did a very well job! This 2.5 RS is very tastefully done and clean for a 10 year old car. . It has an EJ20 swap, a motor from a 2002 Subaru Impreza WRX. Vlad plans to do a STi 6-speed transmission and upgrade to a bigger turbo someday. Vlad says the build couldn’t have been done any better. Dave Anton at Rallispec did a great job on swapping the motor and very well tuned by Dave Brown and Clark around three years ago. All the work on the car was done perfectly and has not had any bad signs since.

Mad Props to Vlad a kid who is just getting started in the scene!

1999 Subaru Impreza 2.5rs – Silverthorne Metallic

Modifications:

Engine:
EJ20 swap
Forced Performance 18g turbo
Deatschwerks 740cc injectors
Walbro 255lph fuel pump
Tial 38mm external wastegate
Ultimate racing up pipe
Ultimate racing dump tube
Turbo XS downpipe
Turbo XS modified mid pipe
Turbo XS muffler
Turbo XS intake
Perrin turbo inlet
Custom front mount intercooler and piping
Earls coolant fittings
Cobb Accessport V1
1 step colder NGK iridium spark plugs
Helix catch can
Kartboy exhaust hangers
Optima red top battery

Drivetrain:
Spec Stage 3 clutch
ACT streetlite flywheel
Cobb dual adjustable short shifter

Suspension:
Tein SS coilovers
GTSpec front strut bar
WRX front cross member
19mm front swaybar
19mm rear swaybar
WRX front endlinks
Whiteline rear endlinks
Whiteline steering rack bushings
Grp N front top hats
Grp N rear top hats

Wheels:
Volk LE37-T – 18 x 7.5, 45
Falken Azenis RT-615 – 225/40
McGard spline drive lugs
McGard stainless valve stems and caps

Brakes:
Hawk HPS pads
RacingBrake slotted rotors
Goodridge stainless lines
ATE Superblue brake fluid
MRT master cylinder brace
Calipers painted gloss black

Exterior:
Impreza L hood
JDM STi V5/6 front grill
JDM STi V5/6 front lip
JDM STi V5/6 fog light covers (replica)
JDM STi v/5/6 front aero mud guards
Body colored sideskirts
JDM STi V5/6 rear spats
JDM STi v/5/6 rear aero mud guards
JDM v5/6 tail lights
8000K Bi-Xenon HID conversion kit
Tints, 35% front & 15% back
Headlight housing painted black
Matching corner lamps
Cleared signals
Cleared sidemarkers
Black bumper vents
Debadged

Interior:
Greddy boost controller
HKS Type-0 turbo timer
Defi Link V1 boost gauge
Defi Link V1 EGT gauge
Defi Link V1 control unit
Yonaka Motorsports-Ronin leather racing seats
Sony CDX-M9905X CD player
Kenwood speakers
Leather interior
Leather door panels
Prodrive floor mats
Subaru performance pedals
Subaru trunk mat
Greddy shift knob
Redline goods leather shift boot

The swap was done at Rallispec by Dave Anton about 3 years ago. Tuned by Dave Brown and Clark. With a conservative tune, it laid down 322whp/304 ft. lbs at 19psi on pump gas.

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