2015 WRX – Project Northstar Update

Well i’m just over 2400km and have had the car for 2 months and it has been a joy to drive. We haven’t done anything too crazy yet as we’re waiting for stuff to arrive from a few companies, namely Killer B and ETS. Given we got the car in November it was obviously necessary to put on some winters and luckily the car came with some awesome Enkei RPF1’s with Michelin X-Ice tires! I am very impressed by the tires, they have performed awesome under all conditions and really give you confidence in adverse weather. We used some Muteki SR35 Lug nuts in blue to mount the RPF1’s and they look great IMO. I normally try to change the oil at 1000km on new cars but we have been so busy it was difficult to find the time to do it. Finally at 2200KM we drained the oil, which surprisingly looked pretty dirty, and replaced the filter. The OEM filters are Tokyo Roki which is great, but it also begs the question of why the EJ255 and EJ257 filters were switched to Fram manufactured filters. We filled it up with some Motul 8100 5W30 which the car will see for it’s life unless it goes to the track in which case we’ll switch to 300V. It’s worth noting the FA20DIT almost takes 6L of oil, even more then an EJ with a Killer B Oil pan!

That’s it for this update, the next updates should be a little more interesting I promise!