Stunning long-exposure photography and stunning V7 JDM STI engine swapped bugeye, complimented by Seattle’s nightlife and a Do Luck trunk (with ‘Aloha’ badge nod to the 808 state)
photo and car via 808_Subie (and sv&co media group | sveeonline.com)
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Snapshot & Part: Prodrive Grill
I’ve always been more into the regular JDM STI grill, because of the more rounded 3d appearance, but this rare Prodrive UK piece is one of the few grills that makes me rethink that. It’s part of a 3-piece grill set that can use the stock side-pieces (or any other side piece that permits a factory-sized center grill piece). Pretty hard to top, rarer than the STI grill, comes factory from Subaru on the STI-Prodrive model, and as shown here flows magnificently with the Aqua reverse Hoodscoop and STI version 2 lip. Add some SSR Professor SP1 and you’re ready to roll – in true ‘Panda style.’
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InJINious
Came across a cache of pics from this older bugeye build from New York. The owner, Mr. Jin, took an interesting approach that balances JDM style, incorporating a diverse assortment of incredibly rare parts, with WRC Rally style (itself a JDM style in a way, as there are scores of Imprezas in Japan done up as WRC replicas). Some of the best looking bugeye builds are those that don’t follow the strict “rally replica” look, but instead improvise along the way.
The rally graphics and gold was one of the later iterations of the car, and I was more of a fan of the subdued bronze/stickerless look (last pic), but admittedly this car is absolutely wild in any form.
Snapshot: Fear No Evo
Been a busy few months but did make it to a ‘Dinosaur theme’ party a few weeks back at a friends party with a bunch of ‘car people.’ This was my entry for a one-off t-shirt. : P (And yes, Gojirra counted as a Dinosaur for one night)
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Rap Genius
I’d normally say this vinyl wrap thing is getting out of hand, except how unbelievable these cars are coming out.
(lil jon’s insane ej205 build bugeye: Cwest v2 grill, JDM STI headlights(black), Prodrive lip, Kaminari reverse-cowl hood, Bronze volkracing TE37 …and loving the throwback JIC-Magic seats)
bonus
I’m hoping K3lh3′s car will be next on deck:
WRAP IT UP!
ReiNfEktion
Previously featured on BugeyeGarage and hailing from Hawaii, iNfEk’s bugeye now sporting some new Super Advan Racing V2 kicks and JDM ION yellow headlights
I’ve always thought with Blobeyes the ion yellow fogs looked amazing on Aspen White. Apparently the same goes for Bugeyes (at least with a Prodrive bumper and Prodrive optional open foglight covers)
I’ve always been a fan of the exceptional J-Spec details on this car – everything you’d come to expect from a Hawaiian build. Notice the power-folding JDM mirrors among other rarities on this beast
I helped Mr. iNfEk find these ion yellow bad boys in JDM land on the cheap (not to honk my own horn, but, you know… beep beep ; )
What’s GDB? It’s Golden. Genuine. and Glorious.
Really hard to really beat a world-rally-blue on (original-Advan-RG-)gold bugeye with all of Subaru Technica International’s JDM factory upgrade goodies.
More pics of this bugeye on this site (not an STi though, just an exceptionally clean looking and characteristically classic WRX)
- JDM STI projector headlights (black)
- JDM STI pink badge
- JDM STI GDB grill
- JDM STI version 2 front lip
- JDM STI scoop
- JDM STI carbon wing
- USDM OEM painted sideskirts
- USDM OEM bodykit strakes
- USDM OEM bodykit rear lip
- carbon hood
- Advan RG wheels 18″ / gold
- Subaru 4-pot brakes red / black ‘subaru’ lettering
- yellow tinted foglights (Lamin-X or equivalent)
Der Meister
Whatever you may think of ‘stance’ and ‘fitment’ and generally ‘form over function’ setups…
this car looks great
world rally blue Bugeye on blue Work Meister S1 3-piece
Trunk by Do Luck, front lip by Kaminari
Self-Medication
Came across a pic of this S202 out of Japan randomly on another JDM blog, okidokyo, and fortunately they were nice enough to post a link to the Minkara blog where I could snag some more shots
I’m liking this growing trend of aggressively modified S202′s. Actually, just noticed that I’ve seen this car before in a slightly different form The stickers and white roll cage are the giveaway.
I’ve never seen this bodykit before on a Subaru WRX. I’m wondering if it’s not a one-off special: perhaps a body kit meant for another car grafted onto a WRX. I’d love to see it painted. The front lip looks nice from where I’m sitting. (But the sideskirts look awful, can’t even be bothered to post a side angle)
Also have been wondering for some time how a bugeye might look if you just cut the license plate mount out altogether, giving it a GT-R “N1″-ish feel. Carve out a little more room for a giant FMIC too. If I had a FMIC and a spare bumper to play with I’d consider this… but you’d have to do a stellar job not to make it looked hacked.
Not knowing the lip is driving me crazy… any thoughts? Looks a bit like a SYMS lip for a GC8 but it isn’t. There’s one other bugeye-specific model I’ve seen before that’s somewhat similar but can’t remember…
Rear bumper cut to decrease wind resistance. A characteristically JDM track-car trick.
For good or worse, makes you switch
This is a car that I’ve been following since at least 2005, and in that time it’s been through at least eight wheel changes – meaning a new crazy setup each year. I’ve seen a few wheel addicts in my time, but none have had a lineup quite like this under a custom-widebody bug eye.
This is one of my favorite bugeyes
I’ve put off posting this car because it’s already made the rounds on the jdm blogs ad nauseum a few years ago (after first appearing on the Minkara thread on Nasioc and before that ; ). It made a few posts in a few snapshot and video posts. But finally this car has a new setup that’s pretty jaw dropping. I really thought it would go the Volk Racing TE37 Tokyo Time attack route since it seemed to be on a TE37 bender for a while there.
This widebody bugeye belongs to Itakichi and resides in Japan. It sports one-off 80mm wide fenders, and attention to detail like you’ve never seen (notice how the bumper is blended into the Version 1 front lip, the de-whiskered front vents, intake funnels in the foglight housings, and despite all that it still curiously has the lightweight STI type RA spec C headlights (otherwise known as USDM bugeye headlights)).
With all that said, I still think the new setup is lacking something . . .
Personally, I think the tires are little too narrow, and the camber is little too much. These photos are the BEST angles of the car that I could find, but there are some angles where it looks a little eyebrow raising. I think it would be even better with wide tires and a little less camber – Like some ADVAN A048R in 285 width would be awesome : D
Wheels to date…
1. Volk CE28N 18×9.5 bronze (back in 2005)
2. Work Emotion CR Kai bronze 18×9.5 (back in 2005)
3. Volk Racing CE28N 18×10.5 gold
4. Volk Racing TE37 18×10.5 white
5. 5zigen FN01R-C 18×10 silver
6. Volk Racing TE37 SL 18×10.5 gunmetal/polished lip
7. Volk Racing TE37 17×10 bronze
8. BBS LM
