Subaru Impreza WRX

[RetroPug]

I let it rip a few times on the way home, but at first it had fairly low fuel so I was going a steady 70 and it was still drinking it! Still not driving this until later in January- waiting for insurance on my current daily to end. Just to get my money's worth and avoid admin fees etc. Insurance quotes for the impreza haven't been too bad so far.

Due to life getting in the way over the festive period I haven't touched the car much other than starting it, rolling it about and letting it get up to temperature. However I have been spending £s and accumulating parts in the background over the past few weeks, including:
- full cambelt kit and waterpump (dayco belt, all bearings same as OE but not bought from Subaru, much cheaper!)
- Millers oil
- Genuine Subaru oil filter
- Coolant
- NGK iridium spark plugs
- Cabin filter
- Bosch Fuel filter
- Thermostat (think also genuine from memory)
- Milltek De-Res Centre section 2nd hand
- Centre Decat link pipe
- STI Spoiler
- Replacement gearknob, stereo surround, cup holder and boot carpet as mine are all tatty
- lightly used set of midrange tyres for free. Not what I want to run forever but it's got a slow puncture on one tyre and all are ditchfinders currently

I got a really good deal on all the 2nd hand bits! Absolutely can't wait to start driving it and also to start fitting some of them! Hopefully an update with some of that soon. Getting my friend to help me fit the cambelt kit. He's been in the motor trade for decades so hopefully should be OK. I'm not going to fit an up pipe now until the car has been mapped as after doing more research it would be better to map decats in. These have 3 cats as standard, probably going to end up running just a single sports cat eventually.