Follow me as i build project vehicles for PERRIN Performance and myself.
Perrin Performance Promo from J. Christopher Miller on Vimeo. A good friend of mine Chris Miller called me a few weekends back and said he had an opportunity to play with a really cool Sony F3 35mm HD video camera. This is one of those $20,000 cameras used in the film industry to make [...Continue Reading...]
JOHN’S PROJECT IX – KEEPIN’ UP WITH THE JONES’ AKA JEFFS’ ’08 STI AND PROJECT X It all started back in March (2008) after trying a few other cars for a wile (mustang GT, BMW M Coupe) I just had to get back into and Evo. So I was looking at the used ads for [...Continue Reading...]
Project 15K started life as a $10K 2002 WRX we purchased to show people how you can get great power from the older 2.0L cars. The project car was purchased with a lot of miles, but also a few mods already done. The Blaze yellow WRX had a catback exhaust, catless downpipe, huge diameter uppipe [...Continue Reading...]
The Story Well as many of you have seen, not all of the ALTA crew and vehicles made it to the Dragon Event. We had some issues with our new GM 4500 truck. Cruising along down I84 at about 10pm it broke down. We were about 100 miles from Salt Lake City, and got towed [...Continue Reading...]
We were the first to dyno the 08 STI, we were the first to bring you intimate pics of the car, and we were the first to tune the AccessPORT on the STI! In stage 1 form (bone stock car), with some initial testing we did, we got great gains! We saw roughly 40ft-lbs and [...Continue Reading...]
Now that Project $15k has a healthy dose of power it’s time to put some focus on the suspension and brakes. Starting with a car that has 110k miles on it probably means it has the original struts holding things together but not playing a big part in the suspension game any more. We [...Continue Reading...]
Selection Process and Cleaning Not too long ago we where talking about the older WRX’s and how inexpensive they are getting in the used car market. So after some discussions we thought it would be fun to find a good example and build it on a budget (about $15k including the car). What we expect in [...Continue Reading...]
Besides building a fast and cool looking 2008 WRX, we had a goal to showcase a turbo that I think should be the most popular for the normal guy thinking of a turbo kit for his 2.5L Turbo motor. The GT3071R! This turbo gets overlooked quite often. It easily makes 350WHP on an STI, and [...Continue Reading...]
It’s a love hate relationship with any new model of car that comes out. You either love it, or hate it, but eventually it grows on you. I personally love the hatchback look from the side, and front, but the back is a little scary. But a few simple things can fix that. Getting rid [...Continue Reading...]
First let’s start with the car. I am not going to get into the stats of the car in stock form. Its by no means is it the fastest car, or the highest G load car, but it does everything pretty well, especially handling and feel. I have owned it for almost 2 years now [...Continue Reading...]
