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Originally Posted by Racecomp Engineering
That's impressive, congrats! They're legitimately good cars and I'm blown away by how good they can feel in terms of handling + ride quality with proper suspension, and yes even stock they're not bad at all.
My 3 mechanical complaints:
1. Some LSDs would be really nice.
2. 6k redline stinks
3. Shifter feels not good.
I don't love the fender things or the big screen, but they're not that bad.
- Andrew
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I am very impressed with this car in stock form. It is right between my '02 WRX (when it had a boost controller) and my stock '04 Evo. I would like LSDs, but my bigger need is to improve the brakes. 6K redline comes really fast in stock form so modified it will be a pain. Mine came with the short shifter kit which was the only option I needed installed from the factory. I read the online warnings about the stock shifter. The fenders don't bother me as much, but the rear bumper is jarring to me. At the end of the day I am an all go and no show guy so I won't be spending any money to make it look better before I improve the performance. I think the only thing I will do to it this year is lower it an inch on springs.
I am glad the way things turned out that I am in this instead of a GR86 because getting kids into the back of this is already a pain. Just having one kid in the back of the GR86 would have ruined my plans for weekends away from the house. I do still have to scoot my driver's seat forward to get a kid behind me which slightly impacts how I drive.
All in all I would buy two of these if I could. One to mod and one to leave stock. For the price there isn't a better car to have as a fun DD in a place that has snow up to seven months of the year.