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Make and Model: 1999 GC8 WRX

Model Year: 1999

Registration: BQ50FO

Car Condition: Road Worthy/ Registered

Location: Wollongong

Price: 11,000 ONO

Contact details: 0411969511, [email protected]

Personal Sale: Yes

Read the rules: Yes

Pictures: Included

So I am looking at selling my WRX. Not because I want to, but living conditions have changed recently and I cannot afford to keep her at this point in time. May consider swaps but prefer to sell. I bought the car back in February from a bloke in victoria, I have since then had it passed in NSW and now has NSW rego until May 2013.

Cosmetically has a few scratches, stone chips and a few little car park dings.

The WRX has 187,000 on the odometer, however was rebuilt with forged pistons and rods around 20,000 km ago, have receipts for rebuild by a shop called "Pro-tek" in melbourne. As for mods it has the following:

- Front Mount Intercooler

- Turbosmart Supersonic BOV

- VF34 turbo

- 770cc Injectors

- Walbro Fuel Pump

- Microtech LT10 ecu currently tuned for 196kw @ 19psi. I was planning to get it retuned as I think a few parts could be a bit better fine tuned but I just havent had the money to do it.

- Drift pod

- Turbo back exhaust

- STI 5 speed gearbox, diff and drive shafts.

- Lowered on Pedders shocks and Kings Springs

- Turbosmart Eboost Street (Electronic Boost Control)

- Radiator only 6 months old

Also has generic things like Keypad Alarm (as well as immobiliser/button alarm), Boost Gauge etc. I recently replaced the Fuel Filter, Thermostat and all exhaust gaskets from the Headers to the Dump Pipe as well, with Grimmspeed gaskets and thermostat.

Brand new turbosmart 3 port boost solenoid. I thought the old one was cactus so I bought a new one, turned out the wire that goes from the eboost to the solenoid had come off causing it to run on spring pressure.

It does have a tiny boost leak which starts to leak around 16-19psi. I think its probably somewhere in the intercooler piping or the bov but as you can guess, I havent had the money to get it looked at. I don't drive it that hard on a daily basis so I barely notice the leak is there.

Also has a decent soundsystem in it, but could use some better front speakers. Consists of:

- Pioneer double din head deck (dvd/mp3/bluetooth etc)

- Kicker Splits in the front

- Alpine Type R 6.5 inch speakers in the rear

- Alpine 600 watt 4 channel amp

- 2 x Kicker comp 10 subs

- Kicker 300 watt mono amp

I would be willing to take some cash off the sale without the soundsystem as I have a normal cd player I can put in etc.

Looking to try and get $11,000 ono.

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  • 2 weeks later...

the email pre-dates owning this car lol. derives from thinking im an awesome flamin mongrel back in high school.

thanks for the offer on the skyline, but not what im after at the moment.

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