alright so theres this guy who has a 03 STI i wanna kno what all mods i would need to beat him besides a supercharger.

 

gears, DRs, 75-100 shot, good driving.

 

There was no USDM STI in 2003. You could get them, but they were considered to be in the MY04. Are you sure it's an STI or maybe a WRX? (WRXs were available in the US for the MY02)

 

Video:

http://videos.streetfire.net/player....5-72485AECDB21

However, from what I have seen/heard on the internet (grain of salt) this is not the typical result. He did have a few mods, and when I say the guy was totally rapeing the car I mean RAPING the car.

 

yea either way if i lose i lose but i figured i would need gears itd be nice to say i beat an sti

 

WRX what do you think about that video? I have been told I should have been raping the guy alot harder than that, but I did run him down after a horrid launch (30~ degrees outside and no preheat on the tires).

Isn't the STI supposed to be a 13.0 car stock? I would have been happy with a 12.9x with my old setup.

 

I almost took a stiped 06. And I dont really have any really cool mods just no cats and flows.. ohh yeah dr's.. I was at his door at the end of the quarter.. (he was pulling on me)

 

ohh and sweet kill man!!!

 

If you beat him with just d/rs, cats, and a set of flows either it wasn't a STI, or he was really screwing up.

That sucker just moved the fk out. My car felt really strong for what was done to it, but it was everything I could do to reel him in until he was in 5th (at which point it was all over).

 

You had a really awesome run that second time =D STIs are going to be roughly in the 13.5s really... you're not going to find many drivers who could get it close to 13.0. Hell, I probably couldn't get a stock STI to that time.

The fact that his mods said "16psi" tells me he was probably using just a manual boost controller. These are not great to use on the WRX/STI without being combined with some form of engine management, because the stock ECU is designed to operate the car at stock boost levels and fuel trims. Also, a turboback exhaust again without engine management can cause boost creep and other related problems with the car.

If he had a custom tune with EM, I think it would have been a LOT harder for you to run him down, from both a dig and a roll. It's not hard for STIs to see ~320awhp with just an exhaust replacement and aggressive dyno tune.

Again I think you did awesome though! You definitely had the driver mod going for you on the second run.