Doing my part to help.

I had been waiting for months to sit in a new WRX with the OEM Recaro seats. Then when orders finally opened up for the ‘18 WRX, I bought a ‘17 SS with a 6-speed manual.

Previous car was an 02 WRX that was extensively modified, but not modified well. 6 speed swap, STI engine swap, fairly large turbo running a dumb amount of boost, giant intercooler on the front of the car, and of course daily driven.

4Loko coolant overflow tank. Let’s just say I was a bit drunk (I’ll give you two guesses as to how that happened), completely ignored the notion that my coolant overflow tank wouldn’t fit under the hood after the FMIC install, and the problem became the solution.

Shenanigans. I’ve been driving WRXs for a decade now, with 3 very different gear sets and a handful of engine setups, and I’ve never had that problem.

That’s my 30th birthday present to myself. 1st quarter 2018, 5 day course. Been saving up for 3 or 4 years.

I like how they marked his seat with a circled X.

My friends called my previous WRX the black cloud, because it was like there was always a black cloud of hatred and bad luck hovering over it. I’ve got a dozen stories of “HOW THE FUCK DOES THIS SHIT KEEP HAPPENING”.

Similar to how the Forza games seem to have every goddamn Subaru ever made except for the bugeye.

How and when can I apply? I work about a mile and a half from Novi, in the auto industry.

Currently reading this, eating an oversized burrito for lunch, still wearing my R3. Work is a mile down the road, but I suited up anyway—once you get the hang of it, it only takes seconds to put it on and take it off. Worth it to me.

In my WRX, you open the hood and curse loudly while once again considering the possibility that this will finally be the time you take a hole drill to the fenders.

“I’ve been doing the TT for 11 years, and it’s a fantastic event, but for me it’s lost its edge, really.”

What you’re calling the spring clearance event started in fall 2014. What I’m talking about ($13,999) is the current MSRP on a brand new 2016 1190RX (the 2016SX is $12,999). It is not a sale price, much less a fire sale. That is the price of a brand new bike that is currently in production.

Mix the thrust load from the helical gears with the long, narrow, unsupported length of input shaft over the front differential and you’re left with a nice flex in the input shaft that will result in the input side of 2nd gear pulling away from the output side. All the force those teeth would normally see (possibly…

A brand new 1190RX is $13,999.

The Subaru shit that has become widely and blindly accepted as fact is insane. Ask 99.9% of Subaru drivers why the 5-speed likes to break so much, and you’ll get a nice slew of inane responses.

Been spending some time at the Falklands.

Wandering down a mountain through the slums of a wealthy Mexican town where I was studying abroad. It was sort of like an open world RPG like Dragon Age or The Elder Scrolls, how you could just walk in the back door (which was really just a towel or sheet hung like a curtain), out the front door (which was also just a…

The 1190 is all Erik’s. Nothing to worry about there.