Fellow SVXers,
my name is Walter and I've been visiting this Forum quite a lot in the past 3 weeks (mainly searching - I learned a lot). Let's make a long story short: my old Man sells his almost-new truck and tells me he wants to buy something different. He tells me to help him find a 'Subaru SVX' because that is a car he always liked ever since it came out in Europe (we recently moved to Miami from Rome). We do a search online, we find his car and in two days it's in our driveway.
#1: 1995 Dark Green SVX, 70K bone stock, immaculate (showroom) conditions inside-out
Now here's my story... I've owned a 1991 Talon TSi AWD every since I moved in the USA, and I've stupidly dumped several thousand of dollars under her hood over the years. The car looks very clean, nobody would suspect her nature except for her exhaust and front mount intercooler.
The Talon has an appointment with an AWD dyno sometime in May, so I don't have real numbers but being in the DSM world for quite some time
I know what to expect, so if everything proceeds as planned I hope to put down between 380-420 awhp on 93 octane.
You can imagine that such a vehicle is a 'ticking bomb' and is no longer wise to use it as a daily driver due to reliability issues, so I had been thinking of getting a reliable daily driver. I had been looking at my Dad's SVX for about 2 weeks realizing what a little jem of a car he chose, when he finds another one, same year and options, not too far away. That was mine:
#2: 1995 Green SVX, 120K bone stock, good conditions inside-out
One one side I am very happy I found this community due to the quality of people that frequent it and the infinite resources. On the other side however, I am trying not to look too much in the 'MOD-section' because I am supposed to keep my hands off of this one and keep it stock!
I am very glad however that there is a 5-speed kit out there, and I don't exclude in the future to consider it since this is my first AT car and I don't enjoy that part at all. Which reminds me to ask you this question: how good are 'smallcar' products? The pictures on their website are low quality, and although I saw on eBay a 5-speed SVX converted by them and it did look very nicely done, the interior picture on their site almost
looks like the stick-shift has been 'Photoshopped' on it. Does anybody have links to better AT to MT pictures?
Well, I am sorry for the long post, I am honored to be part of this community and I look forward experiencing the SVX experience for years to come.
Regards,
Walter