nope. I dont care about ringlands in my stock DD that might see 45mph on a good traffic day.

Does the car have a factory warranty? I do suggest you look it up-- ringlands problem happens with all black everything. i mean all stock everything.

Up to 60k

fae-tuning and stupidity shatters ringlands.

proper tuning and a short but effective mod list produces 400whp in a daily that looks stock

My tunes had absolutely nothing to do with my subie motor death.

And what would this ez 400wheel hp list be?

20g-30r sized turbo of choice
spearco top mount
IDs
wally or dw
free flowing exhaust
Possibly header/ewg if you're into that stuff
3port

Basically
Well tuned and on e85 of course.

See the dyno plot I posted in other thread from 09 STi I tuned today

Or leave it stock and enjoy a nice reliable car. Having a modded DD is annoying.

Yeah, like anyone ever listens to me anyway. I'm more like background noise.

Or have a modded and extremely fun while completely reliable DD.

Yes. But its very rare, you only hear alot about it because everyone that it happens to complains about it. Though, IMO a good "stage 1" tune is safer than stock because of the stupid CL/OL delay.

And I wont do a turbo swap, the VF52 is a pretty sweet daily driver turbo that can hit 300whp.

I heard you, just chose to ignore. Not going to be your car, so your opinion means little.

Notice how I didn't start a thread: "I have a budget to buy a car, I dunno what to get, please all you gays a mt.net tell me what to buy"

I had been debating the WRX, MS3, V70r, and A4/S4 wagon for a while now. The WRX won out and now I get to own one this week. It's in pretty good shape, the color I wanted, only 40K miles, and the guy kept it relatively in good shape. The body is in good shape, a few scratches here and there, a bunch on the door handle cups I think I can buff out, but other than that theres no rust, it's stock and will be a fun versatile DD. I dont have to worry much about snow anymore, I can finally pass minivans on the highway, and I wont have to borrow my in-laws minivan as much when I need to transport small objects. I might be able to throw away my spool of twine now...I'm tired of having to tie my trunk-lid shut when objects are too large to fit in any of my other cars.

Wagon > Miata.

I'd trade my Miata for a decent wagon in a heartbeat.

Well I'm keeping the miata of course

How much did you pay for it?

Note that a "stage 2" WRX with downpipe and exhaust and tune is faster than your miata. I was neck and neck with stage 2 WRXs back when I was at 10ish psi, gt3071 and 255hp on the York dyno.

That is $1000 of mods. Add a wideband and boost gauge and you are at $1250. Add a $100 tactrix and you can tune it yourself.

The way you do fuel with the "open source" tuning is a little unintuitive but it works. No megasquirt but the knock detection is legit, timing table and trims are ez, and logging is fucking awesome. Runs at something like 40hz yay.

I'm not modding it. And probably slower than miata at a roll

You have a pm sir

You own a miata?

I deposited that $50, so I can't take gangster pics with it.