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- The Subaru Technica International or STI
is Subaru's motor sport division.
It was created in 1988 but they didn't release
the Subaru WRX STI until 1994.
Hey that was the year I was born.
And the same year Lion King came out that was a big year.
The blobeye STI was released to the United States
and was short lived from 2004 to 2005.
And then they wanted to give a facelift to that old pig.
It featured a 300 horsepower
2.5 liter pair to the 6 speed manual transmission.
And bright pink STI logos all over it
that kinda remind me of like those Barbie
24 volt power wheels.
As original MSRP of just over 31 grand.
That's like 9,717 quesaritos from taco place.
(splatter sound)
Subaru man.
It used to be known for its rally heritage
and now its known for vaping and redlining
its rumbly exhaust at car meets.
Today we sit down with an owner and have a good ol' chat.
Driver to driver. (saxophone solo)
- All right, so what's up guys,
Dakota from Fitment Industries
don't forget wheels, tires, suspension.
Today I am here with Matt.
Matt an I go way way back.
Way back
- Way back.
- Years and years and years
and its really cool to see that
you've changed your wheels from black to white in that time.
- And the car is still black.
How many cars has Dakota since then?
- Too many to count.
But that's for sure.
So how are you doing.
- Good.
I'm doing really good. - [Dakota] Good.
- Glad to be here guys thank you for having me.
- Absolutely.
So as I beat around the bush, how much did you pay for
that sexual transmitted infection of a car scene.
A whole fifteen thousand dollars.
- Fifteen thousand dollars huh?
- Not bad.
- How many miles are on it when you bout it.
- 87.
- Thousand?
- Yeah eighty seven thousand,
two owners.
Sound like you, you're a gambling man
I'd rather buy scratch offs
than get a Subaru with eighty seven thousand miles.
- Oh it bit my ass later. (laughing)
- Have you seen Subaru math, you know Subaru math.
I hear you drive it a lot.
- I do.
- But you didn't drive it here.
- I did not.
Its broken.
I broke it myself.
- You broke it yourself?
Alright we'll get into that.
What made you go with the blobeye over like a
bugeye or a hawkeye or a
stinkeye or a pinkeye or any of that stuff.
- I like the look honestly I just like that whole chasse
I would have gone with the hawkeye
but blob was just my favorite and quite
honestly its what I could afford.
- Oh gotcha all right.
- Hawkeyes?
Add a nice eight grand to that
and I was just a broke college kid, so.
- True, true.
Yeah because you bought it a while ago right.
- 2011.
- 2011, oof.
So no bugeye though, you like the blobeye
more than the bugeye.
- Well yeah no drive by, what is it, drive by wire.
- You don't like bugs?
- Yep.
- Alright lets take a break from me
and lets hear from our extremely loyal YouTube community.
Qqunee asked, why did you buy a subie, not an evo?
- They sound better.
- I don't know about that.
And they sound like, you could tell
when its a Subaru when they're running.
- I like a challenge I want it to break a lot.
- [Dakota] Okay. - That should have been,
in hindsight that would have been.
- So you bought a Subaru because you wanted to break it?
- Sure.
- Okay, all right, all right.
Evology MR says, sick ride.
A little low for my taste but sweet build none the less.
That's a lie coming from an evo owner.
He says, discuss your drivetrain, specifically the clutch,
trans and transfer case.
He's probably a little concerned about transfer case
for the evo guy.
- Yeah because the evo guy.
Its just stock, ACT, heavy duty clutch.
- Any issues with it.
- No its, I guess I drive good but.
(smash and laughter)
- Unless you want to add more power then I'll need a new one
and they're expensive I forgot how much they were.
- Lava is dying to know, how much have you spent
and how much horsepower does it have?
- Too much for too little.
Because I have wheel problems I don't know.
That car has probably got twenty grand in it or something
and I make like 360 horse over 400 foot pounds on E.
But if I change turbo on clutch that's mid upper fours.
- Did you say twenty grand?
(heartbeat)
- Eh, new motor, yeah,
new motor, wheels. - [Dakota] Oh my.
- I mean I spent four on the wheels, so I guess.
- That's a lot of Subaru math.
You could have bought a whole other
car that probably has 400 horse.
- I wish sometimes I would have bought
another car I would have had a lot less headaches.
- Let us know what you think about WRX's
in the comments section below
and if you're looking for wheels,
tires, suspension, check out fitmentindusties.com.
- Squaaaa wants to know.
How do you feel about people putting
STI wings in their WRX's?
- I mean rock it, if its what makes you happy,
I mean don't put the badges and act like an STI.
- Why not?
- You're going to sit in there,
and gonna be like well this interior's
a lot cheaper than the next guy.
- That's true and they have bad transmissions.
- Benjamin E says,
does the STI burn when you pee?
Moving on.
Caesar asked, why so low?
Wait I got this one.
If you're low, you drive slow, and then you don't blow.
Subaru math.
- I don't even know what to say.
- Why'd you make the car so low?
- I didn't intend to just cause, peer pressure.
Peer pressure kids.
Don't do drugs.
- Drugs made you get low?
Oh my god.
Hey, you remember?
We did a road rally together.
- [Matt] We did.
- [Dakota] Do you remember that?
- [Matt] Yeah we came dead frickin' last.
- Look.
Last place baby.
- I thought we were doing good.
- We got the noob award.
Maybe if we weren't in an STI we would have did better.
- [Matt] They'd probably penalize us for being low.
- [Dakota] Yeah that is true.
- Hey we did hit cow manure that was great.
- Yeah, getting poop all over.
- If you can't drive your car slow, hey I came out with
cow manure all over me.
That was great. - [Dakota] Yeah.
- [Matt] Photographic evidence.
- [Dakota] That's true.
It was good time.
We rubbed a lot and we hit cow shit.
- [Matt] I rephrase that one.
- So what have you all done to this car.
- Uh its kinda typical for some people but built motor,
fuel upgrades, coil suspension, a lot of it is detail
work so I did a lot of work doing wire tuck,
battery relocation I wanted to stuff to the engine bay
so my favorite thing is, some people might like interiors,
I like the stance, I like simple,
I wanted things with a good body lines.
But my whole thing is I liked engine bays
I wanted to do where you don't have five different colors
of yellow caps and things I wanted to start color
coding it and I just started going down this
rabbit hole of taking things out, hiding it
and kinda making its own piece of when you
pop the hood or take the hood off it's its own element.
Some people like the interiors and the outside
I have a hard time unless you're sitting in the car,
getting into the interiors, so its stock.
But I like being able to walk over and seeing all
these matching pieces of hardware all this color coded.
- Its like purple right, you got purple in any of it?
- Yeah purple and black so the theme
we have is a black blocked out stainless
hard wear everywhere and the the candy purple
is now gone into the piping and the shields.
- That would look good when it blows up.
- So the idea is to pop, and I got some
lighting tricks for you too.
So hopefully the whole thing will look
like it glows in the dark in the night.
- Oh. - [Matt] So.
- You're going to be like batman.
Do you think its worth making an engine
bay pretty if its just going to blow up?
- It is easier to take out.
- That's true I guess it looks good when it blows up.
- But no.
- Speaking of which have you had any problems with the car?
- Plenty.
Numerous issues with wires, with fuel,
and throttle sensors, bad coilover choices,
bad tire choices.
- You should have used the gallery at fitmentindustries.com
- I would have saved a lot more money.
(laughs)
- But what you're telling me
is you had a secret gem in the STI world.
One that was reliable and great and you just destroyed it.
- Pretty much.
My dad even told me not to, he says, oh yeah
this will be a good upgrade for you,
your second car, keep it alone it'll be a nice
mature car to go to places, job interviews,
things like that.
Little did I know, nope.
- Sounds like a smart man.
I guess spooderman's uncle was right.
With great power comes great responsibility.
- Good thing I don't have great power.
- Yeah he got shot too. (laughs)
- What's your favorite thing about the car
and your least favorite thing about the car.
- My least favorite thing about the car
is probably my trash rear fender work.
It looks pretty on the outside but inside it definitely
could use some body help.
- I remember back in the day,
you were rubbing and you just got out of the car
with a hammer and you just sit there
and you just pull her out.
And then it wouldn't rub for a little bit.
- Oh god I've pulled it with a hammer,
a pipe, never did a phone book,
it's just too thick but I've tried it all.
- What about a baseball bat?
- No. Just because I didn't have one.
That's a good thing I didn't I probably
would have beat the car up other places.
My favorite thing about the car was probably
that I've just kept it as a story piece,
without that car without getting it probably
wouldn't have made the connections with you.
Wouldn't have met my wife through it because
I wouldn't have the connections there, so.
I wouldn't be here without that car, I honestly don't know.
Because it kept me in Wisconsin partially.
- That's deep.
- [Matt] That's very deep.
I keeps you in Wisconsin because you couldn't drive it?
- Yep.
- Do you ever wish though that
you went with a different model car?
Or are you happy you went with it?
- Part of me was tempted to go into the euro scene.
I had a lot of friends with like the B5 S4s and things.
And then when I got into it, the same with evos,
I was an evo guy before I heard of Subaru.
And then all parts of me thought,
Audis and expensive to maintain the evos look cheap.
Little did I know.
- Evos look cheap, then you put twenty grand on the STI.
Man oh man.
- Do you have any advise for someone
looking at getting a blobeye STI?
- The only advice I say is just don't get
one that's one beat up,
and just buy quality parts, and getting a tuner.
Someone who can take care of the car, that's all it is.
You can put cheesy parts, good parts,
your tuner doesn't know how do anything.
We know plenty of people in the state
that had a certain someone blow up a number
of motors back in the day.
- A lot of people have blew up.
I think everyone that I know who has a Subaru
has a different motor in it than the factory one.
- Its all about the good tuneup.
- You heard it here first.
Get it tuned.
All right that about wraps it up.
Thanks for Matt for coming out letting us poke
some fun at his STI.
And don't forget, wheels, tires, suspension,
at fitmentindustries.com,
we'll see you later.
- I don't know what to do with my hands.
- Tata.
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