xluben's 2011 WRX: Spec B 6 Speed and Rotated PTE 6266 by xluben

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Well, you all suck at voting, but here's the tally so far. Looks like brakes are in the lead. I'm still open to more voting. Don't feel like you need to come up with unique ideas. That kind of defeats the purpose of voting, lol.

I changed the font to note which ones I'm actually considering. Here is the key:

Bold: Very likely to do within the next few months
Italic: Strongly considering. Possibly within 1 year
Normal: Thought about it, but not high on my list
Strike: Not going to happen

(4) Brakes
(3) Cams
(2) Rotate Intake Manifold
(2) Headers
(2) CF Drive Shaft
(2) Coilovers
(2) Stock Hood
(2) Street Glow
(2) More Stickers
(2) Twinscroll Rotated Turbo
(2) Steering Wheel
(1) Flip Switch Ignition
(1) Half Cage
(1) Race Seats
(1) Rad Shroud and Alt Cover
(1) Tint
(1) Hookers and Blow
(1) Hard Wire FP and FPR
(1) New 10cm Hot Side
(1) Rear Tow Hook

Here's the CF driveshaft test you linked to. Shows 25HP gains on an STI.  

http://theattack.rallysportdirect.co...on-driveshafts

But they did a similar test on the BRZ and it showed basically no gains.

http://theattack.rallysportdirect.co...ber-driveshaft

I do realize they are completely different cars. One has AWD and double the power, and many other differences. And my car has nearly double the power of the STI. I'll have to look into this a little more. 25HP gains may be worth it, but that seems very unlikely. I'd expect the difference to be more in transient response (hard to see on the dyno).

9-23-2012

Here's a quick video from out in the country this afternoon. The scenery is so nice out there!

The drive was mostly just cruising around, but I edited it down to some more interesting sections.

Here's a photo of the header:

Here's the wrapped photo of mine:



More pictures and initial review here:

http://forums.nasioc.com/forums/show....php?t=2412751

I'll try to get some videos up sometime soon.

Here's a video of it going through the gears:

Here's the outside the car video:

Here's a video comparing the sound of the stock headers to that of the Invidia equal length headers: