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[camoshop]

Think its time for an upgrade , not keen on spending anymore money on my gen2 NA, if the big end is gone!!

going to take this for a test drive during the week ..

http://www.carsales....s=215&silo=1011

[camoshop]

shit some how it posted a couple of times , can a mod delete the other posts please !

cheers

[alexGT]

nice, 07 must be the model with brembos??

[camoshop]

nice, 07 must be the model with brembos??

shit i just noticed that too , thought all the sti's had brembos , or mayb just the series 2

[Soop]

That's fairly good value, pitty its not a manual.

[camoshop]

That's fairly good value, pitty its not a manual.

yeah i was surprised , when i saw it , im too lazy to drive a manual these days , especially in Melbourne traffic

[hamish_023]

That car has been up their for a while now, so def room for movement

07-09 STI's had the Brembo's
GT brakes are still big though (316 x 30) fronts and 290 rear.

Very nice model though





Ps, go the manual, comes with bigger turbo.

[Soop]

Comes with dick and balls too... jk.

[camoshop]

That car has been up their for a while now, so def room for movement

07-09 STI's had the Brembo's
GT brakes are still big though (316 x 30) fronts and 290 rear.

Very nice model though





Ps, go the manual, comes with bigger turbo.

oh cool yeah , will try and get the price down a bit haha,

[aekOne]

nice mate! good luck with the search

shit some how it posted a couple of times , can a mod delete the other posts please !

done

[legacy rsk]

nice but no brembos it is and 06 model.

[camoshop]

nice mate! good luck with the search



done

thanks aek

nice but no brembos it is and 06 model.

so from your knowledge did the 06 have brembos to ?

[aekOne]

06 didn't have brembo's. 07+ had the gold bling

[camoshop]

i dont know if i'm crazy or what but i saw this on carsales and now im , stuck between getting the sti or this ...

http://www.carsales....id=12A877492797

[Soop]

BMW FTW.

[alexGT]

might be a good price, but owning a bmw is a very expensive game.

they have their own light globes they are that anal.

[Soop]

Subaru aren't exactly cheap either so its six of one half a dozen another.

[hamish_023]

might be a good price, but owning a bmw is a very expensive game.

they have their own light globes they are that anal.

Yeah, No converting to LED'S otherwise the computer goes crazy.

Love that BMW though. I would go STI but...

[camoshop]

might be a good price, but owning a bmw is a very expensive game.

they have their own light globes they are that anal.

haha thats exactly what my said said when i rang him haha

[Alex]

Alexxx would know. His brother Peter owned a neat little E30.

I too would know, having owned one myself for six years, and having another in the family for longer.

They're good cars and all, but the electronics can be quite fussy, and you'll need to find a supplier of parts and consumables, else its becomes ridiculous. (ten years ago, I was paying $50 for an oil filter... from a BMW dealer parts department. Then another parts supplier i frequented had them for $8 a pop. Genuine BMW. Many other examples too!)

They have a service interval computer which will need resetting. BMW charge $50-$100 for the privilege of plugging in their ECU reader and punching three buttons to reset the service CEL. Or you could buy your own for several hundred dollars...

You'd also need to be besties with your local BMW mechanic, as normally, mechanics charge like a wounded bull on crack. For some reason, they all charge at least double or triple the going rate for a job, just because they see or hear those magical three letters, yet they source their parts pretty much the same price as most other parts.

Stick with a Subaru. Extend the budget slightly, or hunt around some more, and get an STi with Brembos. Trust me, you won't regret it.