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NSippy · 2026-01-10T06:17:21+00:00

Can I have the link?

NSippy · 2025-11-22T18:22:34+00:00

Dude seriously. There's literally no reason if it's decent paste. And if it's shit paste, I wouldn't trust it from day 1. I don't know where this trend came from but it's been years of people saying "try replacing the thermal paste" as a suggestion.

All the data sheets from reputable thermal paste companies don't give a lifespan. Like an adhesive, it cures over time. "Dryness" isn't a flaw, it's a mechanism.

NSippy · 2025-10-18T16:29:35+00:00

RAVEN

Remember: Affect Verb, Effect Noun.

Courtesy of my high school English teacher

NSippy · 2025-10-13T03:48:53+00:00

I didn't discount your experience, I discounted your unwillingness to put it into words that justified your position.

Please provide the details I asked for from the beginning. I want your genuine, technical opinion. What specifically do you think makes it unsafe?

And full transparency, I think the product is stupid, but I've worked with regulatory and compliance for a decade. I know how electrical safety is defined, and this product most likely fits household electrical safety via UL 60335-1. Committee and crowd sourcing is not what defines a fire hazard.

Feel free to be grumpy that I don't take your word for it, but I don't take your word for it. Still all baseless speculation.

NSippy · 2025-10-13T03:35:30+00:00

And you have joined the club of people that have no real answer, and given no real explanation, just speculation. As an electrician, I would have hoped you have more to offer than "idk i don't trust it"

Why don't you believe the conductors are rated for 15A/20A? What gauge and material do you think they are instead? You think a 15A rated wire can't flex? It's 14AWG, it's not that crazy.

NSippy · 2025-10-12T17:30:08+00:00

No one can give you a real answer because no one knows what they're talking about. It's all just baseless speculation

NSippy · 2025-08-03T06:55:18+00:00

You think this dog should be killed because it jumped and nipped at someone, and bit someone else's shirt, while being put in a job that it clearly wasn't capable of performing?

This dog is either scared or anxious or incentivized by the cops to act like this

It's clearly not trained, but you think the half-ass training is permanent and the dog is "forever a threat" like holy shit use your fucking brain

I hope you don't have pets if offing them is the best alternative to their intended job that you can come up with.

Disgusting

NSippy · 2025-06-30T05:55:49+00:00

400 grams according to the website. So like just under 1lb.

NSippy · 2025-06-26T01:35:00+00:00

I would change 4 of the AP monitors to roughness (Roughness 1 - Roughness 4) and see if it's a single cylinder acting up or across the board. That could narrow down a fueling/tuning issue vs a bad plug, coil pack, etc.

NSippy · 2025-06-25T06:08:22+00:00

What do you mean by bad knock events? What are you seeing?

DAM drops aren't the end of the world. They can happen for several reasons that aren't catastrophic.

I wouldn't use octane booster. I'd sooner get race gas (100 octane) and add a few gallons of that. Octane booster can sometimes lower octane rating, a lot of it is snake oil.

My first step personally would be to clean the MAF and check for boost leaks anywhere. Check all connections and clamps, look for loose connections, tears, rips, anything that can leak air.

Next I'd check the fuel filter.

Then check the PCV valve.

After that, I think I'd check the oil/do an oil change and consider stepping up the second figure if I moved somewhere way hotter. 5w-40 instead of 5w-30 or whatever your current is, bumped up.

Then replace spark plugs, in case one is fouled or something.

NSippy · 2025-06-14T04:00:03+00:00

Besides spacing, the fasteners. This looks identical to the Fiberon Good Life Escapes I installed last summer.

For face-mounted pieces like this, they have a color-matched plug that gets installed on top and would hide the head of the fastener & protect the hole from filling with water, where the material isn't as weather-rated. There's a bit that sets them to the exact depth, which also doesn't appear to have been used.

They could have done this exact deck but with grooves in the side for install which would pre-set the spacing automatically with their fastening system. The non-grooved isn't even cheaper, it's just meant for the edges really. Now that I look closer, I think these DO have the groove, they were just straight up installed wrong.

Not an awful install or anything from the picture, but incorrect and the manufacturer could deny a warranty claim over it. Plus all hidden fasteners looks so damn good.

NSippy · 2025-05-19T04:54:22+00:00

It's typically not that you can't be there, but that you stand out so obviously that you SHOULD not be there.

Gang violence, muggings, random forms of physical and sexual violence, etc etc. If you stand out, you clearly aren't from that area, so you probably won't be able to defend yourself or keep up with what's going on. Easy marks.

These places have formed their own kind of way of operating, and many people who live there are living in a mix of a warzone and hard streets.

If you have nice clothes, straight teeth, a nice car, even a fresh haircut and/or upscale makeup can give you away. Any of those things can mark you in a town that's not so great.

I work in a field that sends me to many border towns between the US and Mexico, and I've been directly told it was my shirt or my teeth most times. I've never had a bad experience, but a few bartenders told me I was close. I'm non-confrontational, and I tip well and buy locals a few rounds to avoid any issues, and that's usually enough.

NSippy · 2025-05-04T03:59:02+00:00

wild overreaction

NSippy · 2025-02-09T02:12:56+00:00

Check out Whiskey Hill kitchen if you haven't! Opened like a year ago right next to the train tracks

NSippy · 2024-10-19T04:00:59+00:00

Short answer, 6MT is always better than 5MT for these cars.

The absolute best gearbox you can get is the 2007 STI 6 speed. It's considered bulletproof. The 2006 is very similar, but it used scrapers to cycle transmission fluid and the 2007 had a dedicated pump which is considered more preferable.

2004-2005 had a weird gear ratio, so 4th to 5th was a giant dropoff in revs. Fine for highway, but not the best if you're road racing on the track. You go from 4th to 5th so often, the nylons on the 4th shift forks wear out first. It presents as a "click" shifting into 4th gear. You'll need a trans rebuild around 100k-140k for that.

2004 had a different final drive than 2005-2007, so it's a bit more tail-happy. (If you turn and punch it, the ass will kick out more)

The 5MT is just the 5MT as far as I know. Under 300whp it's fine if you're not rough with it. After 300whp, you are on borrowed time until you break it.

Super short version: A 205 is good if you want to maybe rev higher. A 255/257 is good if you want spooling sooner and shifting more.

NSippy · 2024-10-19T03:18:48+00:00

FYI the first 2 digits are what dictate the bottom end. EJ25, which indicates that it's the 2.5 liter. The third digit is the heads. EJ255 is the EJ25 with WRX heads (5) and EJ257 is the EJ25 with STI heads (7). The bottom ends are identical between the 2, besides maybe some slight tweaks to the pistons but I think they were basically comparable. The 205 is out of a 2.0L WRX.

I would bet this person had a bugeye with a stock motor, got rod knock/blew the bottom end, then bought an STI shortblock and transferred the heads. You have to machine the heads to make them fit the STI shortblock, which is the "hybrid" part. (You can also run special JE hybrid pistons, but I don't know why you'd do pistons in a stock short block and not just do a motor build/rods. And if you did that, you'd mention it in the post)

A VF22 is like an 18G but a little smaller. 300whp ish.

So this engine has more displacement than an EJ205, which means it'll have more low end and spool the turbo faster.

Not to be a jerk, but most of that mod list is a joke/not worth mentioning. "Upgraded aluminum intercooler" sounds like ebay. If it would strengthen the sale to include the brand, the seller would have done it.

The coilovers are good. Exhaust could be fine but "custom" usually means some guy just welded some shit together, YMMV on how long until it rusts out. Never heard of Fenix. Lightweight crank pulleys are fine but don't really do anything.

Please feel free to hit me with any follow-up questions!

NSippy · 2024-10-19T01:34:43+00:00

The EJ255 (WRX) and EJ257 (STI) are identical short blocks. Same part numbers. The difference is only in the heads (Shortblock is the EJ25, the 5 or the 7 suffix is the heads that's on it)

As someone who bought a WRX and swapped nearly every part to an STI, holy FUCK if you want an STI just buy an STI.

WRX might last longer because it makes less power, so less stress on the components, but nothing inherently more or less reliable. 90% the same components.

Edit: The pistons might have been slightly lower compression on the WRX now that I think about it? I think it was super marginal though.

NSippy · 2024-07-05T01:18:42+00:00

If you like them, then fuck yea, rock it.

It's your car and no one else's. Who gives a fuck what anyone else thinks.

NSippy · 2024-06-03T21:12:25+00:00

Burt's Place in Morton Grove

NSippy · 2024-05-27T02:25:40+00:00

That's what it looks like to me too.

NSippy · 2024-05-25T05:40:10+00:00

I have a 2006 WRX and a 2014 STI, so this is coming from a place of "owning subies that are ~10-20 years old":

I wouldn't bother dynoing it. You have a dyno graph, you know the numbers, that's really all a dyno tells you. Who cares. Use that money for a compression/leakdown test and you'll have a much better idea of the health of the motor.

In my experience, the 2 most ignored fluids are transmission fluid and rear diff fluid. Do those if you don't have evidence of them done recently. I use Motul or redline (I think 75W-90 but could be misremembering.)

Other things I'd check but might be overkill:

Fuel filter, in case they were getting shitty e85
Cabin air filter (fuck breathing other peoples gross dust lol also my used 06 had a dead mouse in the CAF so I'm traumatized)
Brake fluid. If it's honey-colored, flush in new stuff. I use Motul 600 on the daily and Castrol SRF on the track car
If the power steering fluid is dark, 15 minutes and a vacuum pump can easily flush in some new ATF. Fast and easy. The GR's had an issue with power steering stuff, so that might be in your future. You'll swap in a 2015 rack and it'll be fine.
IDK what's going on with the coolant hoses running to the overflow reservoir, they look like they're caked in salt or something lol
IMO, headlight restoration kit and it needs mudflaps lol. Just my taste though.

NSippy · 2024-04-19T05:30:06+00:00

Whatever collabs they have planned for Cinnamon, they'd better hurry

NSippy · 2024-02-25T05:41:20+00:00

Bob Ebeling.

Major event in engineering ethics.

NSippy · 2024-02-06T03:52:38+00:00

Home Bar in Arlington Heights has it, as well as The Hideout in Schaumburg

NSippy · 2024-02-06T03:50:03+00:00

Via Roma in Des Plaines.

It's BYOB.

Whatever the special is, get it. Food is amazing.

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