BUDGET BOXER BUILD PART 2

Getting lost in a big-dollar car build that spans years and swallows the entire contents of your wallet, time and time again, is something that is all well and good if you have the budget and patience, but what if you had limited funds and wanted the entire project to be over in a matter of weeks, not months? That was the brief given to JTune Automotive for our project, code-named ‘Budget Boxer Build’, for which we’d keep the total build cost under $10K and extract as much party power as the factory engine would allow while still holding on to its rods.

The project is based around a 2003 Subaru WRX two-litre turbo with 240,000kms on the clock. The plan? To push the power levels to around the 170kW at the wheels mark — a point that is just about the ceiling for an unopened EJ20 of this vintage. To do this, we are going to upgrade the turbo, exhaust, injectors, and fuel pump, as well as adding a little more boost, and