Hey All,

New owner here, all the way from Auckland, New Zealand. Just bought an 03 touring spec, 6MT (although I'm fairly sure all the touring spec are manual).

Got the metallic bronze paint, came with a few extra goodies

• 19inch black rims, staggered
• Stillen dual exhaust system
• Nismo intake

Unsure about cat's and headers because the previous owner was also unsure, will get it on a hoist and have a look when I get the time.

Immediate purchase will be a Motordyne plenum spacer, then maybe a few more exhaust components depending on what I see when I lift it up, and finally a good dyno tune.

My only concern is that I am noticing the beginnings of the apparently well known "3rd gear grind" synchro issue. I did not notice this during the test drive because I did not want to thrash the gearbox in front of the current owner (lesson learned, when you test drive, cane it!).

Other than that stoked to be in the car, a very nice upgrade from my old 1.8 Impreza!

Look forward to learning a lot from these boards

Regards

Ty

Edit: On second thought, forget about the spacer. Just had a poke around and got some pics off the net, looks like it already has a spacer of some sort. Looks like at least one of the previous owners knew what they were doing...

 

welcome and congrats. post pics when you get a chance.

 

Sounds sexy. Pics!

 

Hopefully your car has test pipes too

welcome to the forum

 

congrats and welcome. pics of the Z and impreza!

 

Welcome and congratulations. Pictures of both cars would be nice.

 

Only have the one pic here on my work PC, will get some more up soon!

ImWeeZzel, kinda hoping to see stock cat's when I lift it up, otherwise I'm not going to have anything much to do

 

I got the touring and it's an automatic. That color is the nicest
for me at least.

 

Nice Z man