- Welcome back to another episode of Reviewing Our Cars.
You guys seem to really like taking a look
at our employees' cars.
So we wrangled up a few more of them,
cause we got a bunch in the lot
and we're gonna start this episode off with Trey's STI.
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But let's hop right into this and take a look at Trey's STI.
So this is a 2012 Subaru WRX STI.
She has a little bit of a rich history too.
- How rich?
- So I will tell you how rich.
It's so rich it's lean.
It blew up not only once, but twice.
And now he has the third rebuilt engine
in there making about 450 horse on Flex fuel.
Hopefully it's able to hit like 10,000 miles
before blowing up.
Maybe you can enjoy it for a little bit.
- Yeah, my favorite piece of information is that,
- Yeah.
- The engine blew up at 72,000 miles.
Subaru replaced that engine
with a factory OEM engine, nothing done to it.
8,000 miles later, that one blew up.
And now this one, how many miles are on this one Trey?
5,000?
- 5,000?
See, so we're gonna hope for 10.
We're gonna hope for 10.
- I wasn't gonna jinx anything.
So starting off, we got the good old quad turbo set up.
- Quad?
- Yeah. You can see the quad turbos right
through the grill there.
No, apparently - Damn.
- with Subarus, they just, they love to honk.
They're big honker guys.
- Big honker guys?
- They wanna honk louder than anyone else on the road.
Checking it out.
We have a COBB front quarter plate
weight reduction it's only a quarter of the plate.
- So, it's a COBB license plate replacement.
- He's from Louisiana and Louisiana
you just do COBB license plate.
I dunno.
Alright, so we-
- And he's got a Louisiana sticker.
- Come over here.
We're on Tein coilovers, which is nice.
Gels runs those too.
- Yeah, I think they're the Flex Z's. I run the Flex Z's.
I like them.
- Now, he said that they ride pretty good.
He likes them, but they are a little bit on the stiff side
but he said that's due to to running a bit
of an aggressive set up with these Cosmos Racing MR7s.
As you can see, if you come here and look,
they are right in line with the fender,
like you're gonna rub a little bit.
So he has the dampening set up on these a little bit,
so they are a little bit stiffer,
not as much rub action going on.
But you'll still get a little bit of that when
you're doing some spirited, blow up engine driving.
- What do we run it for tires on here?
We got some Azenis. FR5...
- A penis?
- Azenis.
- Oh!
All right. So tire size.
You've got some Falkens on here.
245/35 fenders rolled and pulled.
Make some extra room because yeah
(indistinct) plus 25 is pretty aggressive.
- But in typical Subaru fashion, mud flappers.
So when you're flapping mud.
(laughing)
So again, this thing is making some decent power
and it's on a Flex fuel tune so he can E85.
Has a good old corn smell to it.
Does some pops and crackles.
- Me and you can both take a crack at this one.
- Oh! Quad fist challenge!
- Oh yeah. Oh yeah.
Yep, uh-huh!
- Yeah, I'm in it.
- I'm in it too.
- I'm in it.
- I'm in it to win it.
- How do we get out now?
- Stop rolling. (laughing)
- I always do this, then my hands are dirty
for the rest of the episode.
- Okay. Anyways, he got the Louisiana plate on there,
cause he just moved up not too recently.
If you didn't know, Trey is our social media guy.
He works on answering some
of your questions and all that good stuff.
He drives this Subaru WRX.
We got the-
- Pair of wing risers?
- Shark fin diffuser things.
Yeah, you gotta do that.
You know why they do this?
- Why is that?
- I was asking, I don't know why they do it.
- I don't know. Every Subaru has them.
- Yup.
- I think they look good. I like them.
I like them. - To be honest,
it does look good but I think it was completely pointless
but I put a ton of pointless stuff on my car.
So Trey is probably scream a little bit
but I wanna see the interior.
We're going from the passenger side.
- Oh-oh!
- Oh, stinky! - Crusty!
- Now this is a beautiful car.
It sounds awesome.
And make some decent power but the hydro dipping
work as good as about the first two engines.
(laughing)
- So that's a little bubble, little crinkled.
We got the COBB shift knob.
- COBB knob.
- COBB knob, COBB corn on the COBB knob.
But I don't mind the white interior accents.
It doesn't look that bad, but however
I can kind of see how hydro dipping played out.
I've never done hydro dipping.
- So that was supposed to be like a white carbon?
- [Trey] Yeah.
- Okay.
It was something, but yeah
that's about it on the interior.
Trey you wanna pop the hood real quick?
Anyways.
Okay, so as you can see, we got the (indistinct) of course
but what's interesting to see still got the
top mount inter cooler, not running the front mount.
Any reason behind that Trey?
- It holds the power.
- Holds the power.
- Oh, okay.
What about the first two?
(laughing)
- I got a lot of Peron stuff.
- Peron, COBB,
- And?
- Duralast.
- Duralast?
- Platinum.
- Grim speed. - I like that.
- You don't even need that fancy of a battery in Louisiana.
Doesn't even get cold down there.
- Oh (indistinct) this is Flex fuel.
- Yup - That's good.
That's really cool.
- I'm ready to rate it.
- It's good stuff.
- I'm ready to rate it.
Yeah. I like the car.
I'm not big, huge, massive Subaru guy
but I can recognize when one's done well and this ain't it.
Let's rate it.
I'm just kidding. I'm joking.
I just love busting Trey's balls.
All right.
You ready?
- He chose to be out here.
- Let me get a number in my head.
Oh, one second before we rate it.
- Oh-oh!
- I want you to take the hydro dip into consideration
and then this paint chip on the rear bumper because
Trey's always tells me about it.
- I thought that was just some smuts.
- It is.
It's permanent smuts.
- Perma smuts
- Perma smuts.
All right, now we can rate it.
(laughing)
That was mean.
You ready?
- Yeah!
- Three, two, one,
eight and a half. - Eight and a half.
(laughing)
- That work?
- Just wanna make sure I was rating it good.
- Make you feel better? - Yeah.
Okay. All right. Next car. (laughing)
All right. We got car number two and we have Soyer's.
He works in customer service, helping you guys out
find your fitment.
2009 Honda civic SI and I have always been a sucker
for this body style. - Same.
- I love these. - I always wanted one.
They look so damn good.
I dunno.
- Yeah.
Yeah.
So we got airlift performance, three piece suspension.
Winning some brownie points with (indistinct) already?
And then we got the Heritage Hokkaidos.
These look really good on here.
Big fan, the fitments spot on.
Now he was almost reluctant to give us the car and
let us review it because he said,
"Bro, I got a carbon fiber trunk coming in
that's getting installed later today.
And then my camber arms, those are
in the next couple of days so I can..."
- They're literaly sitting right here.
- He's like, I want to air it out one in the rear.
So yeah, we actually have parts in there.
- Literally sitting right here.
This is what he needs to get that rear fitment
dialed in.
- Yeah. The slamming on the ground parts are sitting
in there, but we'll do it another day.
- So he's got it. I believe him.
- Good news is I wanted to rip him a new one anyways.
We'll get it on driver to driver,
and we'll go over all that fancy stuff.
But reviewing it how it is today.
I think a Honda civic SI with parts in the passenger seat.
It's about as good as you get.
You know what I'm saying?
- The only thing we're missing is the Blitz body kit,
some green under glow.
- Oh baby, and some VCR's.
- And some VCR's.
- That was a Fast and Furious reference.
- Yeah it was.
All right.
We got, let's see the mod.
So we talked about the suspension.
We talked about the wheels or what
tires we got on here.
NATO Neogen.
- So these are 18 by 99 plus 22's
and then 215/35 tires, a little bit of a stretch
but obviously running the air suspension on there,
you got to have that.
- Now little cheat code for stance guys.
NATO Neogens are a fantastic choice.
They stretch really well.
And not only that, but the inner wall of the tires
a little thicker than the rest of the tire.
And that's to help with camber wear.
So they're affordable.
They stretch good and they have that inner wear.
They're a great tire.
I use them on everything.
I put them on my focus.
I put them on my GTI.
- Perfect
- I've had really good luck with them.
- Yeah, these are really your go to.
- Yeah, I even ran them in the winter.
Not necessarily what I'd recommend
but it did get me through.
Yeah. I had them on the lagoon too
but let's check out the Invidia N1 exhaust
and you already know we got to fist test.
(upbeat music)
- All right, you're up.
- Oh, I'm up? All right. I can do that.
- My knuckles are still dirty.
Alright. I don't mind getting dirty for the YouTube's.
All right, here we go.
Camera guy you getting this?
Oh it's hot!
(laughing)
It's not that bad.
It just scared me a little.
We pass this. Gels what are you doing?
- Sorry.
- Dude, I'm going to have to wash my hands.
- Hell yeah.
- All right.
So this says low FG2 woods low for all right.
(laughing)
So I don't know what these are.
What do you think these are?
Is there a little factory wing or something there?
- There was absolutely probably like a factory wing on here.
- I like this one. I like this one
but I think the carbon trunk that he has going
on is going to be killer.
He said it has kind of like the duck bill on it...
- Like mine.
but it's not here.
So we gotta rate it with this one.
Car's a little dirty but I like this.
- I don't mind the wing.
- Let's check... shift knob.
Pretty cool.
JDM is (beep). So that's good.
And then we got the airlift controller mount on the vent.
Pretty sweet.
Again. I just like these cars.
I like the interiors. I like the seats.
The body styles look good. It's a clean overall car.
This is a good era for Honda, I feel like.
- Yeah, definitely.
And not only that,
the black is actually really cool when you see
it up close.
- You can see all like the Pearl and stuff in it.
- Yeah, it's got a lot of metal flake to it.
- All right, not a lot of engine stuffed under this one,
not like the Subaru,
because believe it or not,
it's able to keep its factory engine
because it's a (beep) Honda.
Let's rate it.
All right, now I'm going to keep in mind before we rate
this that he does have the carbon trunk going on.
- Yup
- He has the camber arms to pull in the rear a
little bit and get that perfect fitment.
But with that in mind, I'm rating it how it sits.
- Okay.
- Right now.
- Okay.
- Three, two, one,
- Seven and a half. - Seven and a half.
- Dude, we're on point
Quit copying me.
- Sorry.
- All right, next car.
- What am I thinking of?
- Hotdogs?
- You're right.
- All right, we got the third car of the day,
which is Erin's from customer service.
Again, helping you
with all the wheel and tire fitments, all that good stuff.
- We also got new hats.
- 2013 Volkswagen GTI
but 2021 floral bucket hats.
These are the pot hats baby, flower pot.
- Flower pot.
- Yeah, that's what they're called.
Flowerpot hats.
- Let's go.
- Brand new, We just got them in.
So we figured we'd throw them on and some
of our other hats.
Go pick one up fitmentindustries.com.
Anyways.
- All right let's dive into this thing.
- So classic Volkswagen fashion,
we got the Rotiform OZR's on there.
Fitments pretty good.
Gels what do you think of those wheels on here?
What are you feeling?
- I do like them.
I think honestly, like any Rotiform can fit a GTI.
I feel like, but these ones that I do really like.
We got the Advan tires on there.
Some meaty (beep) tires.
- Yeah. Yeah.
- Those are surprisingly like some
pretty big tires on there.
- And again, if you see it,
it's just the slightest bit of poke.
It's nothing bad, nothing crazy.
But we do have a little bit of poke on this fitment.
Now, one of the unique features of this GTI...
- All right. Oh, sorry.
- It's not all white.
We got like this forged carbon wrap type thing.
(laughing)
It breaks it up.
It definitely makes it, so like you spot this GTI,
you know, it's Erin's.
- Yeah
- I don't know how I'm feeling about it.
I feel like it's very Audi R8 esk.
- You know how Audi feels about it?
- How they feel about it?
- Well, they didn't do it on the second gen R8's.
- Oh, look at that one, look at that.
There's a R8.
They stopped doing it.
Now you just doing GTI, it's like Lambo doors
and they stopped putting Lambo doors on Lambo's.
- Now y'all look like fools.
- Yeah. All right Gels, I'm going to list some
off the mods for you.
All right.
- I'll see if I can spot them.
- All right.
We got a stainless steel, three inch catless downpipe.
- Oh. Okay. Okay
- We got the Spoolinboost pipe.
- Boost pipe?
- AWE CCB intake.
R8 coil packs.
That's why it's basically an R8.
- Doubt it.
- They all made, it's full circle now.
All right.
Then we got a Four Seasons RSR clutch.
Boost Dynamic stage two tune.
H&R lowering Springs.
- All right.
- Hella EuroLED tail lights.
- Okay. Yup. Yup.
- And Duckbill lip spoiler.
- Yes.
- On some Yokohama Advan Apex, V601 tires.
We didn't touch on that.
Whoa. This Duckbill... Do you see how sparkly this is
camera man?
Holy (beep).
- I always thought this was wrapped the same.
- Yeah. - Like material...
- But it ain't.
It ain't it's... - But it ain't.
All right.
- That was wild.
All right.
- Can you fist test this one?
- Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
- All right, double.
- Double. (upbeat music)
Yeah. Uh oh.
- Uh oh.
- They look kind of small.
- Push. Push. Okay. Okay. All right. All right.
I seen the downpipe come out a bit. You pushed too hard.
- Yeah.
- So...
(laughing)
...it did not pass the fist test.
Unfortunately, you tried your best.
I seen you down there grunting and
we cut the footage.
Gels was probably down there for a few hours.
- Sorry. I'm usually not...
- Was not able to pass the fit, fit, fit fist.
Fit fist test.
Anyways, I think the tail lights look good.
I like those.
I honestly do like this kind of like Duckbill that's
on here, but I think I would just like everything more.
If it was just all white,
have this white take the wrap off, do that white.
Maybe you could do a black wrap on the roof.
I've seen some cars do that and pull it off.
It looks pretty good.
Fitment, pretty good.
You got some meats on there.
It's a little pokey, but nothing crazy.
- Honestly. I think if you lower it
down a little bit, it would cone in.
- Oh, are talking (beep) about lowering springs.
- No, I was saying like with the natural camber
I think it would cone in a little bit.
- Yeah. Or you could get some camper plates
on your struts and get some coil overs
and then just add a little bit camber
and then it should be Gucci.
It's not that bad though. We're nitpicking.
All right. I think I'm ready to rate this thing.
The interior is pretty stock.
We got the bolt-ons that we mentioned.
I would like to see some more low.
I liked veedubz dumped on the ground.
- Yeah. The cool part is like these cars do really
really well with your bolt-ons.
Then you upgrade that clutch and they're good.
Like if you're looking for a car
to really kind of just modify and get
the most out of your modifications,
I think the GTI is going to be a good ticket.
- Yeah. German engineering.
- German master approved.
- Veedub in the house yeah.
- Do you remember those commercials?
- Oh yeah.
- We've talked about it I feel like.
All right, Let's rate it. Audi R8 on three.
Wait, no, rating it on three.
One, two, three
Seven and a half. - Seven
- Wait, did we just?
- No, I said seven.
- Oh, okay. So I give it a half point extra.
- We didn't get all of them the same.
- Yeah. Alrighty.
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