Before the flaming starts I'll start by sayin I'm not going to go heavy modding on the car. The car will be to drive around to keep the miles of my Wrx. I'm looking for another boosted car to have fun in. I was looking into a s/c cause they can be bought fairy cheep now days. Is it worth the extra couple thousand for the t/c? Is the ride quality much better in the t/c compared to the s/c? Will I be disappointed if I go with the s/c for the fact I am used to a turbo?

 

It depends what you have done to the wrx when it comes to how you'll feel. I have a friend who has a new one with cobb intake/exhaust and tune. He pulled my stock SC from a roll about 2 cars or so. He's not the best driver in the world though. They're pretty fun cars.

 

There's a guy on here with a WRX as his winter beater and another with a EVO X that have the cobalt as the faster car. Spend more on the SS/TC just do a DP intake and tune and have fun, it'll be reliable with about 300 to the wheels and 350 ft lbs of torque to the wheels.

 

Right now my wrx is bone stock. How does a tune worm with these cars? Is it an email tune and I road test it and send to a tuner and he sends me more data? Or do I need to take it somewhere?

 

It depends. If you have HP tuners you can work it that way. You get a tune. Log a bit, send it to the tuner then he'll update, back and forth. If not it's usually easiest to find someone around you with it and meet up with them to tune it. Like andrew said above, a DP, and intake on the TC will net you around 300 with a tune. For the sc, a 2.8" pulley, injectors and supporting cooling mods and a tune will get you around 250 or so.

 

Roughly what's it cost to or a tune and do? About another 1000 on top of what I buy the car for?

 

It really depends on if you have to buy HP Tuners or not, I'd say about $300 for the tune + $300 for the DP +200 for the K&N intake.

 

I just bought HP tuners. It costs a pretty penny at $600. If you only plan on tuning once or twice then I'd find someone close to you. If you plan on tuning and working on it often,

 

I'm in ND I don't expect any people around me to have one lol. Also When you say 300 is that crank hp or wheel hp?

 

300 WHP is easily achieved on the stock turbo and around 350 wheel torque.

 

So I'd say I could get a tc to 300whp for probably around 13k? Saying I can get a tc for around 12k?

 

If you have no problem spending the extra 5-6k on the TC, get one. If you think it's too much to spend on a car you're just wanting to have to keep miles off your WRX, get an SC'd one.

Ride is probably the same, only thing I'd say you are losing is the seats, but just look for the G85 package with recaros.

Bolt ons and a tune on the SS/SC will be faster than a stock WRX. A tuned WRX will be faster.

 

What are bolt ons for a SC? Same as for a tc just dp intake tune?

 

intake, pulley, injectors, downpipe, exhaust manifold, tune, cat back for sc.

 

How much are you looking to spend?

Downpipe, intake, charge piping, and intercooler are LNF bolt-ons.

 

ND = North Dakota?

Pretty sure InfraRedline and Paintballerr78 are in ND. Both have high powered cars

 

Yea I now paintballer is a few hours away. Thought he sold his car last year? So you looking probably around 14k for a Bolt on LNF and probably like 9k for a bolt on LSJ all said and done? Just trying to weigh my options

 

Paintballer still has his car.

 

Oh I thought he had itup for sale

 

He did, but I think he decided to keep it.

 

14k for the TC alone, if you plan on getting a decent one with decent miles.

 

Oh alright. I thought a saw a few on here for around 12k maybe not. But 9K for an LSJ with Boltons?

 

Don't waste money on a most likely bagged on or POS sc. Same goes for the tc. You have a wrx so drive it, keeping the miles off a wrx ain't gonna do **** for it, they are meant to drive. Even if you had an sti, unless it was a big turbo race machine you should just drive it. A cobalt will be a very much less enjoyable dd than a wrx.

 

Haha looks like we have a cobalt hater here.

 

I own a tc, and it's fantastic. Just figure if you have a car, why buy a car that will most likely in the end give you more headaches than its worth?