I think as an alternative, this is a good forum to get together in.

The WRX wagon owners have a whole different set of needs than we do. I know there are some who will be rallying their wagons, but many of the WRX mods do not apply here, not in the engine compartment or throughout the driveline, or suspension.

Because I am retiring this year, and bought my wagon as a touring car, rather than to race, or mod with usless gee-gaws, my questions do not belong in an RS or WRX forum, a thing I have been made very aware of by those who frequent those forums.

I think that 165-200 hp is enough for a car of this size and weight especially if it isn't going to be raced. I would like to modestly modify my wagon to get close to that 200 hp wall, and with upgraded wheels and tires and that is about it.

I do feel that there is a contingent posting on this board who have nothing to say and make up for it with ridicule and $mart A$$ remarks in place of helpful answers. I wonder how many have been driven away by these immature jerks?

Anyway, I think wagon owners should get to know each other better so let me start it out.

My handle is fungo phil
My name is John
I am 62 years of age and born before WWII broke out.
I am of Scots heritage
I am 6'1" 225 lbs
I live in the Seattle area
I travel I-5 and the I-90 corridor daily
I drive a 2002 Impreza 2.5TS Sport Wagon with a 5 speed stick in Blue Ridge Pearl and I love it.

Who are you? :p

u live in seattle area??

u gonna come to the big arse subaru meet/show/prize giving/rallycross thingie???

www.pnwsec.org

aug 18th and 19th

be great to meet ya!
j.
www.subiegal.com

Great advertising Jamie.


Well I am Chris
I am 17 years old and born after WWII :rolleyes:
Drive a AUTO MY98 Green OBS with a bit of yellow
I also live in a Seattle suburb! Where's everone else?
And wishing I could go to the ORV park :(

Chris

My name is John
I don't think I have a handle
I also have a wagon
I'm also an old fart (47yrs) but not as old a fart as you
I live in Woodinville
I telecommute from what I quaintly call the "Bunker"

This is funny

WA
WA
WA
WA

Chris

Well, I'm Chris too
24 years old...never been in a war, but I'm in the military!
Formerly of Tacoma, WA :-) (drove I-5 as well...I-90..ugh)
Along with the wife I drive a 2000 Legacy GT LTD and
will be adding the WRX Wagon just as soon as Uncle Sam lets me re-up!

I would like to attend and see what is going on, but I'll have to wait and see. :)

hi everyone

My handle is nomadtw
My name is brad
I am 19 years of age, and born after world war 2 ended.
I am of german heritage
I am 5' 11" 190 lbs
I live in the pittsburgh area
I travel I-79 and rt 19 frequently
a go to school at west virginia university
I drive a 1997 green outback sport and love it

Well, my handle is gtguy, my name is Kevin Williams. I'm 39, born in 1961, and am black (sorry, nobody asked ME about this African-American stuff). I'm a 5'10" tall, bicycle racing Buddhist who works as an asst. section editor at the Chicago Tribune.

And I love wagons. I got out of a '98 Legacy GT wagon, for a silver WRX wagon, and I think it's a fantastic car.

Kevin

OK, I'll break this mold now and show how VARIED us wagon owners really are!

46-yeah, almost an old fart but don't feel like it
2002 OBS (traded my 2000 OBS in April for this one)
Homeschooler of a 16 year old, great violinist, budding mechanic (go figure that)
Mother of successful independent homeowning 26-year old son
Married almost 29 years
Former medical transcriptionist
Something like 5'2", 125 lb.
Born BEFORE Vietnam war

I agree with you, Phil, about not needing more than a certain amount of horsepower just to drive around with. I have a Ganzflow intake and it just puts a little edge to the upper end power to give you nice boost when passing, etc... I love the stock wheels on the 2002 OBS so don't need to buy others, and will look forward to replacing these tires when they wear out.





Love the car, drives like a dream. Test drove a new Miata today for fun and probably because it's small, was just not at smoooooth as my OBS. Still, an adventure....

http://www.imagestation.com/picture/p62fa0f330a8c0d645c2d2a60897f989e/fe52f0be.jpg

Here's mine

http://www.altekruge.com/subaru/sube2.jpg

hello everyone!

my name is Luis Estevez, but Lou is fine
I'm 29, getting up there
i am 5'10" and 230 lbs (i get: "hey big guy" alot)
i was born in 1972, just when vietnam was ending
i am half Spanaird half chilean( i know wierd mix)
i live in the LI, NY area but this week i'm moving to Queens,NY
i drive a 96 OBS which has recently undergone a WRX transplant and that's why i cannot for the life of me wipe this stupid grin off my face! :D


-Lou

OKay, here goes....

My handle is Narcotix
I'm 29, of asian descent, and just finished my residency in anesthesiology...hence the handle.

Originally from Northern California
Moved to Southern Claifornia for schoolin'
Was given an offer to do a residency in Columbus, Ohio that I couldn't resist,
Just finished giving my master's thesis Monday!!! And my thesis was accepted!!! Yeeehaw!

And I'm moving back to Southern California via I 90 and I 80 and then down the Pac. Coast Hiway

And my wife and I are travelling all the way in our '02 Scooby wagon!!!! 3000 miles so far, 7000 by the time we get back home!!!

Glad to be part of clan....

Jimmy

Last post of a very extended i-club marathon - :lol:

Name is Scott

First time with a wagon
First time with a turbo
First time with AWD

Born at the dawn of a new age .... in '60

Sensitive, single, athletic, philosophical

6' 1", 185#, red, hazel, pinkish

Colorado transplant

Love travel, good handling cars, volleyball, art, ideas, public radio, music, outdoors

sense of humor

I think the wagon forum is a fine idea!








:lol: :lol:

i'm gene, my handle's scoobagenie.

i'm 27 (sorta on the young side of this group! :lol: )
dwelling outside of baltimore, md

i've been driving subaru wagons my whole driving
career:
85 gl wagon
97 obs
02 black wrx wagon

just installed a cobb exhaust, and yet again still can't stop grinning!

Hello, Sean here! My handle is my middle name and first initial.

I'm 27 an am a Web Marketing and Content Manager for a university in Columbus, OH.

I'll be getting my Master's in Marketing and Communication this Sunday.

I'm half Irish, half Italian....I just eat and drink a lot and sometimes argue with myself.

I think I was one of the first group of members of the Yahoo! Outback Sport Owner's Club.

My '98 Glacier White OBS now has 77,000 miles on it. Except for a squeak I can't seem to get rid of, I love it as much as the day I drove her off the showroom floor at Hatfield Subaru.

Mods? Not many...I'm broke and am trying to save up money for a wedding. Anyone want to contribute?? Ha ha.

As soon as the new STX comes out, I'll probably no longer be a wagon owner. That pickup truck bed is just too tempting. The bed is perfect for a mountain biker/camper/homeowner.

Later,
Sean

I received my (4th allocation) silver 5 sp WRX wagon on 6 June; the Tire Rack sent my 17" SSRs/225/45/17PP SO 3s on 13 July, and I had the windows tinted on Tuesday @ Pro Tint/LLumar Platinum Plus. The tinting shop owner has a first allocation white WRX sedan. I could not be happier!
The local dealers are wonderful: they "gave" me two free oil/filter changes, and a two year free maintenance contract.
Subaru has a hard sell here in the DFW metroplex as Pickups, SUVs, and BIG BMWs, LEXI, and MBs are the social standards.
The current Roundel (BMW's monthly mag) states that of the 70 MINI franchises awarded in the USA, NONE are in Texas!
BTW, I am 56 and served from '68 -'78 in the active forces of the USN - full time 5/'70-7/'78 LCDR,MC,USNR (former head, Nuclear Medicine, and (Nuclear) black ops, NRMC, San Diego, CA)
Mike

Hi my name is Chris also and my last drink was jan 1 2001. Oh wait wrong forum.

2002 MBP WRX wagon. Don’t think I’ll wind up doing much to it cause I want to auto-x it once its broken in. I will be doing tint in a bit and get some new street rims but other than that not much.

As for me im 6.3, dark hair blue eyes. I’m a software developer in a small company in the pacific northwest. I like lying by the beach and long walks on the fire. Or is that the other way around?

Hi, I'm Steve.
I'm 37, I-talian, and occassionally say "yo."
Grew up near Philly, but hang in Delaware these days.
I'm 5'8", 160 lbs.
I'm a chemist that works with computers more than test-tubes.

Been driving Scoobies for 4 years, and ~70K miles, and can finally throttle steer by feeling weight shifts in my butt.
I love driving my Scoobie in the rain.:D

Handle is DuneHopper, because I take my white MY00 OBS onto the beach, where I hear brilliant questions like, "Did you drive that out here?" :rolleyes:
A white car stays cooler in the sun than silver. :cool:
Got a wagon to haul my band equipment.

I wanted a to trade for a TS wagon, but my soon-to-be-ex screwed my credit,:mad: so I'm stuck with a 2.2L, soft clutch and brake pedals, and tiny fog light holes.
I'm dreaming of a coil-over suspension to *raise* my car when needed. Better yet, an electrically controlled helper spring system like that which is available for pickups.

My girlfriend finally agreed that Scoobies are kewl when we were the only non-pickup truck to not get stuck in the mud at an outdoor concert. All the bikers on the hill cheered.

I think us wagoneers are into Scoobie versatility, and should share ideas.

Yuck, when did i-club turn into a self-esteem self-help board, this is still i-club, the car forum right:confused:

tahrndt: Did we bore you? Sorry, we'll try to be more concise and talk more car stuff, but thought this was more about profiles and not exhausts and time slips.

Yuck, when did i-club turn into a self-esteem self-help board, this is still i-club, the car forum right

You have one smart ass

Chris

Sorry Phil I meant to tell you how nice your car looks with that blue. It's the first I've ever seen in that color and quite impressive. Those Team Dynamics Motorsports in silver with gold center caps would look sweeeeeet........

By the way, if you wanted 16" wheels you could buy the stock 2002 OBS wheels. Mine are just the stock wheels that came on the car!!

Good idea! I checked out the price of WRX 16" alloys and they are $474 for the set of four, uninstalled. With tax $512 or $128 each. Hard to go wrong with that.

Hi fungo phil (and everyone),

I drive a 2002 TS Sport Wagon that looks *exactly* like yours right down to the roof rack crossbars and mudflaps. Okay, except for that little bit of pinstriping along the side (and mine's an automatic). I think we are of the same mindset. I plan to upgrade the wheels to Raceline RL7s with Toyo tires, and I might just leave it at that.

As much as I adore the WRX, I'm grateful to see some talk of the sport wagons.

Oh yeah, and I was born before the, um...Gulf War?

Phil, did you check on the price of the OBS wheels? When I first posted pics of my car a few months ago I had several of the WRX owners tell me they liked them better than the WRX wheels!

Cindy H, I got 16" Raceline RL-7's a couple years ago because they were the best durability/price combo at the time, and I still like them a lot. However, for example, now you can get stock WRX wheels for about $500 a set; nice wheels and considerably cheaper. Also, you may want a bigger rear sway bar to go with those new wheels/tires. Cheap, and makes a huge difference in handling.

No I didn't check the price of OBS wheels. I will, but they are probably equivalent, or at least very close in price to the WRX wheels.