My New Toy!

[SHIZNT]

Hey guy's, im fairly new to this forum and am a new memeber to the Stagea Brigade!!

First off i'll start with a story of my new purchase..

After me & my partner found out we have twins on the way we decided we needed a car that was more suitable and the search for a family wagon began.. Previously owning a HSV Senator and other performance cars i wanted something more family suited but still wanted something i could have abit of fun in when the family not in the car so we looked at various wagons on the internet (V8 Commodore Wagons, Legnum's, Liberty's ect). After abit of reseach i couldn't go past a Stagea so the search for the perfect Stagea began..

After seraching around on various websites we decided importing wasn't much of an option (Bidding in auctions, waiting for it to be imported ect) so we starting looking at private sales & car yards but couldn't fine many Stagea's that already had modifications in our price list until we came across this one sitting in a car yard not to far from home..

She's a 1997 Rs Four Stagea with 79,000kms on the clock, twin sunroofs, Abflug bodykit, front mount intercooler, 18" Blitz 3 peice mag's, imaculate interor with all the little extra goodies like cd player with stacker, hks boost guage & turbo timer ect..

After looking at it i decided this is the car for me & after taking it for a test drive i knew i had to have it so after some haggleing a deposit was made .. now it was just a matter of waiting for it to be registered..

After waiting a week the day befor i was meant to pick up the car i recieved a call from the dealership to say she was invloded in a minor accident and if i was still interested it would be a few weeks befor she would be ready ..

After 2 weeks of patiently waiting she was finally ready to be picked up.. after checking the repairs i was abit disappionted the bumper was replaced with a Nismo style bumper instead of the Abflug so after some further haggleing i exchaged money for the keys and the fun has begun.. First thing was to put on a boost controller which is currently set on 11-12psi.. also im not a huge fan of the honey comb style HKS air filter so it was replaced with a new Apexi Power Intake.. i also purchased some Nismo clear side indicators which are yet to be put on and next on the cards is a new Abflug bumper from Japan..

Here's some pic's i took of her today..

Hope you's enjoyed my write up..

Edited June 9, 2008 by SHIZNT

[skyboy33]

congratulations man and welcome to the RB family

[GoldZilla]

Nice buy, Jay! Welcome to the SAU community, and especially to the Stagea section in particular!

[jko_one]

congrats

[stagpower]

congrats,i bought my stag when i was 18(20 now) just after my son was born and i crashed my statesman,thats a nice car,the deep dish looks nice on the half rear/half side on pics.

[Xmetal]

Holy f*ck how cool is your exhaust system!

Welcome fellow Abflug connoisseur.

[stagpower]

Holy f*ck how cool is your exhaust system!

Welcome fellow Abflug connoisseur.

+1 i couldnt find any tips in perth like that so i went with my single,it looks mean

[Tangles]

looks great, better than the original front bar

nice pickup

[MyStag260]

Holy f*ck how cool is your exhaust system!

Welcome fellow Abflug connoisseur.

I was thinkin the exact same thing! i hate my rear mufler i want to get the twin pipe look happenin as well

Sick ride dude congratz

[SHIZNT]

Thanks for all the comments guys.. Had her nearly a week now and overall im pretty happy with my purchase.. exhuast sounds pretty awesome.. has a nice note and doesn't really drone like previous exhuast systems ive had.. its just hard telling myself its going to be a family car soon and doesn't need any more performance mods..

[JVP]

nice dude

congrats

[rb26stagea]

Very nice! I want your rims! I have loved those for years...

[Silverback]

Congrats on the purchase, it looks great. I agree with the choice of front bar, the one they put on looks fantastic. Hope you have lots of fun.