The Subaru Impreza WRX STI, which has a nose of 460 horsepower, sounds like another JDM fan car. Carbon fiber cover with towering nostrils, oversized tail wing and four tail throats, classic large turbo with four-wheel drive system, the comers are not good, give you a few seconds to run, the Panther will immediately catch you.
But don't worry too much, there are not many opportunities to see this STI on the road, and if you want to know it, you still have to get off the track. If you can run, don't lie down, STI has such a good foundation should let it play its nature, so today we will listen to the story between the owner Lu Yi and his ultimate driving machine STI.
"I belonged to kunming relatively early contact with modified cars, at that time basically played with Japanese cars, leopards belonged to the scenery at that time, so buying STI is also a kind of commemoration of that era." At the end of 19 and the beginning of 20 years, a few friends said on a whim to buy imprezas together, and as a result, four imprezas were bought back, and I bought the STI one by one. ”
"At that time, there was a majestic track in Kunming, so I bought STI back to run the race. As soon as the car came back, it was replaced with Ohlins suspension and Rays TE37 rim, put on the Michelin cup 2 and directly went off to debug, debugging ran two races, a champion and a runner-up is also good. ”
"Because the car didn't change its power initially, the runner-up game was a loss to a BMW X4 M. But I think the base of the STI should be able to run rampant in the four-wheel drive group, so I began to change the power, honestly forging in the abdomen. ”
"The person who helped me change the car was the captain of our team, he played with the impreza for thirteen or four years, so everything was familiar with the road, forging pistons, connecting rods, crankshafts, large and small tiles, turbines and so on, all of which were basically in place in one step, and now the wheel is about 380 or 390 horsepower, which can be used for the time being."
The power is of course to continue to go down the track, the classic JDM high-horsepower model is basically equipped with Rays TE37, this rim owner alone has four or five sets, with 265 tires wide Michelin Cup 2, Pirelli Trofeo R, etc., the light tire rim burned a lot of money.
"Now that the chassis has been tuned, the dynamic limit of the corner is very high, STI is born with a good foundation, plus this car chassis is full of experience, and it is full of confidence to drive." So now I have ideas about the power, I feel that the displacement is not enough, although the back section of the force is not bad, but I am afraid that it can not be built. ”
"The next step is to prepare the whole machine of the previous IAG900, with a displacement of 2.6 liters. Because it is a fully enclosed waterway, an integrated CNC cylinder, it can withstand 900 horsepower, but if I only adjust to 550 head horsepower to go to the field, I should be able to run for 20 minutes continuously, and with the overhead air conditioning pressure fast and low twist. ”
"STI basically does not open much every day, and it is launched every week to heat up, because the usual step has A6 Allroad and Extreme Kr 001, and the riding texture is much more comfortable than STI." But both kids in the family love the STI so much, so I'm going to keep it and take my two kids to experience racing culture. ”
Now there is no track in Yunnan, so the owner can only take two children to the nearest Guiyang Junchi Circuit in Guizhou, and at a young age, he can feel the impact of hundreds of horses, as well as the bombardment of those monsters in the track, and one driver's father really had a different childhood.
Owner / Lu Yi
Photography / Lu Yi