Leedsarmy

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The time has finally arrived for me to move on to a more sensible car, and that means that someone else will get the opportunity to own this fantastic Scooby.

The car is an MY03 STI Spec C Limited. It was imported new (0 miles) by Litchfield’s in Jan 2004 and is registered on a 53 plate. Litchfield’s are the only people who carried the type approval certificate for the car. She is red with 17" lightweight gold alloys.

I am the third owner, the original was a lawyer who lived in London and owned the car for approx 28 months. It was then purchased by a chap in late 2006 who very shortly afterwards went through a divorce and for some reason he traded it in for a Saab convertible!! His loss and my gain, I purchased the car in April 2007 from a small independent dealer in Southampton after shopping around for ages for the right car.

The car currently has 76,000 miles on the clock. The car only had 24,000 miles on the clock when I purchased her. In the first 12 months of my ownership I did a further 22,000 miles in her – these were mainly motorway miles as she was my only car. Since the end of 2008 I bought a commuting car so the Spec C was only used on weekends and for longer distance road trips (to central Europe and the like), so she was used infrequently and when she was they were again mainly motorway miles.

The car is MOT'd until February 2013.

The car is taxed until September 2012. As there is no emission rating on the V5 the car is charged tax on the PLG rate for engines over 1550cc, therefore currently the tax is £220/pa

The car has a full service history. Prior to my ownership there were three stamps in the book from Powerstation (Litchfield Imports in-house tuners). Since I purchased the car there is a fully documented service history kept in a ring binder, with all receipts etc. These were at my local Scooby independent garage and are fully in accordance with the service book. There were also interim services over and above the standard services to keep the oil in good shape.

I can provide Dave West’s contact details at Risborough 4x4 should you wish to discuss the car with the mechanic who looks after it. He builds Subaru rally cars, so knows Imprezas inside out and he loves this car!

No expense has been spared in the maintenance and upkeep of the car. If something needed replacing, it was replaced, all with original Subaru items, other than the discs and pads which were upgraded to Mitnex pads and grooved Spec C discs.

The car has a Cobra 8185 Thatcham Cat 1 Alarm and immobilizer. There was no certificate for the system when I purchased the car, so I had the alarm Thatcham tested for my insurance company in May 07 by JFK Automotive, and a new certificate was issued which will be required for presentation to your insurers. The car has an RAC Trackstar tracker fitted.

The car is HPI clear. I was issued with a HPI certificate from the dealer when I purchased the car and still have this in the history folder, and I paid cash so there is no outstanding finance. Please feel free to check though.

I won’t bore you with listing all the standard Spec C extras as if you are reading this you will already know about the abilities and extras that are encompassed in the Spec C model and that all of the extras result in something pretty special. Please be aware that this is the Limited model, so it has a few luxuries including air conditioning and electric folding mirrors. The interior has black Recaro’s with the STI logo stitched into them.

The original purchaser also specified approx £2,500 of tasteful extras from Litchfield’s/Powerstation, these being as follows: -
Full 3” Milltek exhaust system with sports cat
Performance air filter
PowerStation ECUTek ECU remap
Colour coded STI ‘large style’ spoiler
Full Alpine sound system incorporating head unit and component speaker system. I have since upgraded the head unit to an Alpine IDA iPod unit.

The car is currently running approximately 350bhp and 350ft/lb which makes for a pretty nippy car. In my ownership the car has been nowhere near a racetrack or cruise and has never been smoked in. The car is mapped to run on V-power and in my ownership it has been run using this regardless of hassle planning journeys around petrol stations.

Being a petrolhead the car is regularly polished and cleaned and kept in tip top condition, using pretty much exclusively Autoglym products.

Any bad points? There are the inevitable few stonechips as a result of the motorway miles and the notoriously thin Spec C ‘lightweight’ paint, but these have all been touched up. For the most part you can’t see them unless you look closely. The brakes squeal at low speeds which is a result of the fast road pads – I personally would go back to stock items next time the need replacing as they are far quieter! There is also a chip on the windscreen but this has not affected MOT’s

The cars location is Marlow in Buckinghamshire.











Plenty more photos available if required.

Best Offer in the £7k's by Saturday 23rd June - PM me your offer

Cheers, JT

Terminator X

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Lot of car for the money, quite rare to get FSH for Jap cars too

TX.

white noise

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Looks a very nice clean example of a rare car GLWTS

Neil

KAS35RSTI

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Silly question, I cant view the pics on the thread as I am at work. What colour is this??

Cannon Fodder

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It's red Kas and a nice example.

KAS35RSTI

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Thanks Ty

B0DSKI

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Not blue

The Pink Ninja

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Very nice and one of 6 in the UK

Cannon Fodder

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No problem Kas, now go and have a look.

Not everyone can have one in the fastest colour you know Boyd.

tubbytommy

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its pink

Rob Day

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Very nice example... Good luck with the sale!

Ideal car for some track action.....

Pinched from tyre RA forum

Spec C standard Specs:
Lightweight body panels
Lightweight smaller battery
Lightweight smaller fuel tank
Lightweight glass
Lightweight larger radiator & revised cooling system
Lightweight smaller Air-Con compressor
Adjustable Redline Rev Limiter
Spec C Revs increased to Redline @ 8,000rpm
Auto/manual adjustable Differential
Larger intercooler
Intercooler 12Ltr boot recessed water tank
Auto/manual intercooler water spray
Uprated pumps, fuel system & interjectors
Equal length manifold
Twin scroll ball bearing Turbo
Spec C Forged pistons & engine internals (2.0ltr EJ20 variant)
Front STi strut brace
Rear chassis boot brace
Air cooled oil cooler
Gearbox oil cooler
Spec C lightweight & strengthened suspension & geometry: Anti-roll bars, Links, Brace struts, Wishbones etc
Spec C uprated steering & gear ratio (quick rack)
Brembo braking system
Spec C front splitter
Spec C roof vent opener
Rear window diffuser spoiler
High winged rear spoiler (optional factory fitted at new)
Spec C ground effect under body rear diffuser
Spec C all Black Recaro Alcantara trim & carpets
Lightweight carpets
Spec C logo Overmats white bindings
Enkei Lightweight forged wheels, same in appearance but half the weight of standard STi wheels
Bridgestone RE070 semi slicks (road legal factory fitted new) original set from new & still good tread, had an easy & respectful life
Xenon Spec C de-chromed satin effect headlights
Spec C de-chromed rear lights with Uk fog light conversion
Factory tinted dark screens (rears only)
Power fold mirrors
Sony Cd/Radio (front speakers only)
No side skirts
No internal boot release (key operated only on Spec C's)
No passenger visor
No boot carpet
No underseal
No soundproofing

tubbytommy

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i think that maybe the hawkeye version

The Pink Ninja

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Edited it a bit, As it wasnt all correct and probably still isn`t

tubbytommy

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more editing required. i think window vane was hawk only. not on widetrack blob

The Pink Ninja

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Your right TT, Free bump

apac

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This should sell quick if the photos are recent and not from 2007 lol. rare in red.

apac

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The intercooler is no bigger than the standard STI v.8
Transmission coolers not gearbox cooler

"Spec C Hypereutectic pistons & engine internals" is this true??

has anyone mentioned the subframe?

Cannon Fodder

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Well if you mean that the pistons are not forged then that is correct, but the pistons are no different to a standard JDM STi as far as I know.

There really does not appear to be one source of confirmed information for Spec C's as everyone seems to add their own bit of BS to the differences list.

I did start to have a look into it myself but with so much conflicting information and absolute rubbish on the internet I thought I would be better off spending my time just driving the car.

KAS35RSTI

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So true

Leedsarmy

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Cheers for the tech input guys. Now I’m totally confused

WTF does "Spec C Hypereutectic pistons & engine internals" mean

She is still for sale peeps. Sensible offers considered.

Moley

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As Terminator X said... that's a lot of car for the money. Should selling quickly i'd have thought

Cannon Fodder

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Anyone who starts looking at tech info on these cars get confused.

"Spec C Hypereutectic pistons & engine internals" means nothing to be honest - it would be easier to state that Spec C's (apart from the bugeye variants that is) use cast pistons and the engine is pretty much the same as the JDM STi with some minor improvements.

Nice car and I am surprised it hasn't been snapped up at that price.

The Pink Ninja

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I might have caused a bit of confusion there, I edited the original post that said `Forged` pistons but didn't delete the rest of the line, I agree with CF cant see it hanging around for long, But then again i`m a bit bias as i have the same car apart from BBS wheels,Defis and a few tweeks

Good luck

TonyBurns

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I wondered where wkb was, ive got wkc and wkd is in the midlands (thats us red/white/blue ones sorted )

Tony

TonyBurns

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Get some of these myths out of the way

Spec C standard Specs:
Lightweight body panels - roof only
Lightweight smaller battery
Lightweight smaller fuel tank - not lightweight, just smaller, 50ltrs (extra 10ltrs of water in the ic spray tank)
Lightweight glass
Lightweight larger radiator & revised cooling system - not lightweight but revised over the standard STI for better cooling.
Lightweight smaller Air-Con compressor
Adjustable Redline Rev Limiter - not true, the rev limiter isnt adjustable but the shift change indicator is
Spec C Revs increased to Redline @ 8,250rpm - EFA
Auto/manual adjustable Differential - A-DCCD
Larger intercooler - nope, same size as the standard car's.
Intercooler 12Ltr boot recessed water tank
Auto/manual intercooler water spray
Uprated pumps, fuel system & interjectors - uprated pump and anti surge unit, injectors are the same as any other new age sti of its era
Equal length manifold
Twin scroll ball bearing Turbo - vf36
Spec C Forged pistons & engine internals (2.0ltr EJ20 variant) - not forged pistons.
Front STi strut brace - 05 onwards i think
Rear chassis boot brace - 05 onwards
Air cooled oil cooler
Gearbox oil cooler
Spec C lightweight & strengthened suspension & geometry: Anti-roll bars, Links, Brace struts, Wishbones etc - not lightweight, alloy yes as per standard STI spec, different geometry.
Spec C uprated steering & gear ratio (quick rack) - and quick shift
Brembo braking system
Spec C front splitter - MY05 onwards
Spec C roof vent opener
Rear window diffuser spoiler - MY06 onwards
High winged rear spoiler (optional factory fitted at new)
Spec C ground effect under body rear diffuser - MY06 onwards
Spec C all Black Recaro Alcantara trim & carpets - not Recaro.
Lightweight carpets
Spec C logo Overmats white bindings
Enkei Lightweight forged wheels, same in appearance but half the weight of standard STi wheels - not true, these are standard STI wheels, the BBS are the lightweight ones.
Bridgestone RE070 semi slicks (road legal factory fitted new) original set from new & still good tread, had an easy & respectful life
Xenon Spec C de-chromed satin effect headlights - Halogen not Xenon on Spec C's
Spec C de-chromed rear lights with Uk fog light conversion
Factory tinted dark screens (rears only) - option/not available
Power fold mirrors
Sony Cd/Radio (front speakers only)
No side skirts
No internal boot release (key operated only on Spec C's)
No passenger visor - fitted on the Spec C Limited MY 03 models
No boot carpet
No underseal
No soundproofing

Thats better

Tony

The Pink Ninja

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madisonmonkey

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My additions. BTTT.

tubbytommy

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i thought the alli boot lid was another spec c urban myth

Maz

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Ally boot lid added on MY05 onwards.

madisonmonkey

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Mine had one.

Mine was MY05.