Subaru 22B STi Premium Sports Coupe ( stock and tuned review )

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Subaru Impreza 22B STI Premium Sport Coupe

This is the Subaru's tuning department's STi's finest. Subaru 22B STi is most rare of all Impreza's, and it's worth of it. Only 400 of these virtually hand-made cars were made, and they were sold instantly. I've seen only one used one for sale in Europe, and the pricetag was quite shocking. But with that money, you get grunty, 2.2l 280 bhp turbocharged boxer engine, that makes this sleek, if not even savage looking coupe not only run fast, but fly low around the corners. Mostly because of that innovative boxer engine, the cars COG ( centerpoint of gravity ) is so low, that the car grips the road like bubblegum grips your hair, even in stock form! If you know what you're doing, you can feather the throttle and guide the car to the inside of the curve and still get out faster than on a more open line that takes you near outer side of the curve. Acceleration is swift and effortless, and the car keeps accelerating till it hits the rev limiter. This car is already a classic and one of the cars I would love to own.

mileage: 18800, and price was 20-35k.

Stock power, in bhp: 290 bhp@6000rpm's
Stock torque, in ft/lb: 280.27ft/lb@3200 rpm's
Stock weight, in kg: 1270kg


Stock 1/4 mile in seconds :0'13.358@103 mph
Stock 1000m in seconds :0'24.414@134mph

Stock 0-30mph in seconds :0'01.540
Stock 0-60mph in seconds : five seconds flat.
Stock 0-100mph in seconds :0'12.020
Top Speed in mph :147.16 mph

0-100mph-0 in seconds :0'17.380

Pro's:Turbocharged, grunty engine with short gear ratios and grippy AWD, combined with light, mean looking coupe body assure that you'll stay ahead of others. Meaty brakes make sure that you'll stop quickly enough when needed.

Cons:Price.. and the rarity of this car. you might love to have one, but try to find one that's for sale, with reasonable price tag. It also needs sixth gear for longer straights..

Conclusion: This car does almost everything you wish. Just don't use it into shopping trips, because I think that the eggs will be scrambled in that short time between the mall and your home.

There you go. this is the stock part. next I'll deal with the tuned one.



Subaru Impreza 22B STI ARC-edition -- Advanced Race Car By Mad Finntuners co.


This particular 22B generates 548 bhp. It might not sound much after 700bhp+ GT-R's, but remember, that this car weights only 1079 kg, thanks for weight reduction. The acceleration and turning in the curves is neck-snappingly sharp. And boy, does this blue devil turn well? Drift or grip, you must decide that yourself before going to track and blasting towards corner. Of course, tyre choice has big part in this.

Modifications

Power mods: racing exhaust, port polish, engine balancing, racing chip, NOS, lvl.5 turbocharger and racing intercooler. ( plus oil change from standard to racing oil.. laugh.gif )

handling mods: racing brake kit, brake balance controller, fully customisable suspension, body stiffening and roll cage + lvl. 3 weight reduction.

other mods: fully customizable racing gearbox, triple plate clutch, racing flywheel, fully customizable LSD, carbon driveshaft, R3 tyres, wing, VCD

Settings

Brake Balance controller: 22/20

Suspension

Spring Rate: 9.6/9.2
Ride height: 102/102
DBS: 10/10
DRS: 5/5
Camber: 4.0/0.5
Toe: 0/-2
Stabilizer: 7/7

Auto settings: 12

1st: 2.329
2nd: 1.620
3rd: 1.207
4rth: 0.942
5th: 0.772
6th: 0.602
Final: 4.444

Downforce: 30/30

LSD

LSDI: 15/40 or 60/25
LSDA: 25/40 60/30
LSDD: 20/40 30/25

VCD: 50/50

these settings gave 1'34.791 at Seattle, and impressive 0'55.053 at Tsukuba.

Tuned power, in bhp: 540bhp@6000
Tuned torque, in ft/lb: 454.80lb/ft@3200, available thru rev range.
Tuned weight, in kg: 1079 kg

Tuned 1/4 mile in seconds(400m Test):no NOS 0'10.342@13mph, NOS 0'09.324@159mph
Tuned 1000m in seconds(1000m Test):no NOS 0'19.206@168mph, NOS 0'16.585@202mph

Tuned 0-30mph in seconds (at Test Course):no NOS 0'01.100, NOS 0'01.100
Tuned 0-60mph in seconds (at Test Course):no NOS 0'02.550, NOS 0'02.400
Tuned 0-100mph in seconds (at Test Course, if applicable):no NOS 0'05.760, NOS 0'04.400
Tuned 0-200mph in seconds (at Test Course, if applicable):no NOS x'xx.xxx, NOS 0'15.880
Top Speed: no NOS 196 mph, NOS 204 mph

0-100mph-0 : 0'08.400

Pro's: Good can always be improved. This car is able to destroy such supercars as VW Nardo and Pagani Zonda in the corners, and run neck to neck on straights. On acceleration this car smokes them for sure.

Cons: modding costs.. and increased power means increased engine/chassis stress.. but, no pain, no gain.. right?

Times on GVS: 1'55.001 and 1'49.877 with NOS
Times on El Capitan: 1'44.374 and 1'43.183 with NOS. ( I get ahead in the straight but in the twisties I can't use NOS and my overall cornering suffers from the speed when i try to go faster there without NOS.. anyways, I survived.)

Conclusion: If you want stylish AWD coupe with supercar-rivalling power and speed, this is your car. It's ultimate trackday weapon, but wide torqueband assures that it's also comfortable to drive at cruising speed, when the engine burble scares the heck out of posers..
 
good report man, i love this car too and with this stats and such times
im sure i will get my hands on it:)👍
 
Nice to see you're spreading this brilliance around 👍, to see what the GTPlanet thinks ;)

Hope we get some more like it! :)

DE
 
Subaru's strongest motor. The EJ22T Fully closed deck. Yup and only 400 are made, the first half was made by man, the second half was made by machines. Europe has a few, maybe 4 at most? Then Austrailla(sp) has a few, 3-4, Not sure. Then there is 1 in the USA but it's only for display.

Tire size of 17x8.5 and that nice sexy wide body look to it.
You can actually find the motor in the USA. =P
 
that car would be a killer to drive in winter. so much fun due the power and AWD, and that excellent chassis too. one of the MUST HAVE cars in my list if I win in lottery.:sly:
 
mmmm, it is my one of my favourite cars of all times.. it is my dream car, like a Ford GT or Ferrari Enzo might be to the other guy

i do wish they would put other rare subarus in GT5, such as the P1 (only 1000 made i think) or even the STI RA's (1000 or 2000 made per version) i see the occasional one on sale here in NZ, they can't really be called rare.. but still, very worth having. in fact i saw a version VI RA on sale for around 30k (NZ) last month, in my opinion one of the sexiest subarus ever (second only to the 22B)

i got my 22B in GT4 not long ago and fine tuned it to my driving style, and managed to get 1:11.834 on midfield. (my fastest ever subaru time on the track) it wasn't a perfect lap but was the best out of something like 25. this was without nos and no custom wing (i could not bare to see the 22B without it's real rare wing :p) regardless, i managed to stamp out all of the understeer and got it going round corners like a true dream

to compliment Leonidaes' settings, this is how i have my fully modded 22B set up (original suspension and turbo stage 5 from HKS)
i changed the suspension around ALLOT after reading ///M-Spec's supension sticky in the tuning forum, and it helped my time allot

Breaks at 14 and 20

Suspension:
Rates at 6 and 10.5
ride height at 110 mm on both
damper 6 and 7
camber 2º and 1º
toe at 0 and -1
and stabilizers set to 3 and 5

Gear settings: auto 16
1st 2.460
2nd 1.637
3rd 1.172
4th 0.881
5th 0.691
6th 0.561
final 4.444

no downforce, but it would be 30/30 if i used the custom wing

LSD set to
10/10
30/40
15/15

and finally VCD on 25/75

cheers
 
hehe, good to see that others than me have found this wonderful car. it's a real beast, no matter where you drive it.:)
 
i almost forgot to mention that, that midfield time was using racing hard tires

anyway, i just got a usb flash drive today, and could finally get my pictures from GT4. here's 2 shots of the 22B

the first is deep forest reverse, that car really does fly
Pic 1
Pic 2
 
Vision GT
Europe has a few, maybe 4 at most? Then Austrailla(sp) has a few, 3-4, Not sure. Then there is 1 in the USA but it's only for display.

There is alot more in Europe than 4.

About 30 in the UK for a start.

My dad's being one of them. His has been modified and now produces about 400bhp
BOY is it quick. once he went from 20 to 90 in about 6 secs

And it really does grip like Leonidae says. You can go into a corner at nearly any speed and it will hang on in there.

Thing is though that unless you get the limiter removed it will only hit around 120mph because of Japans restrictions on speed and power.

If there was no restrictions the 22b could have had 350bhp easily but to get the quick accelration that they wanted they shortened the gearing. Which dropped the top speed a bit.

Just a little backgorund knowledge i've learnt while looking for 22b's
 
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