Rebirth of Bertha - 313whp 440nm

Just got Bertha back from the workshop and tuner and boy, my Bertha feels like a new animal now. After months of sourcing and collecting all the parts needed for my stage 1 upgrade, its finally complete and ready to be assembled like a fine lego set and transplanted into Bertha. A human equivalent would be doing a brain, heart, lung transplant in one operation.

I've finally chosen a workshop to do the 'operation' on Bertha, which was Lim Tan Motorsports located at Sin Ming. Good quality workmanship and service with a reasonable price. I would like to say thanks to their chief mechanic 'skyteck' for putting up with my price haggling whilst still maintaining a smile on his face.. :-) I just hate workshops that give you this "My fancy workshop don't need your cheapskate business" face when you try to haggle the price down. Anyways, LTM did a good job in apeasing both my car and EGO, so they got my vote! However, I still went to Edgetuning for my tuning as alot of good things has been said about their in-house tuner Ken.

Anyways, got Bertha back from LTM earlier than expected, couldn't say the same type punctuality from my tuner! I scheduled an appointment for the tuning on Saturday morning 9.30am, he came at 10:30am! And when he finally did arrive, he had to do some minor re-tuning of another car first, excuse moi, whats the whole point of a booking system when someone can just cut the que. But i stayed calm, no point creating a ruckus over it as this man will be tuning my baby, the last thing i want to do is make him pissed at me. Unfortunately, both me and Bertha are at his mercy. Its like when you are at a restaurant, no matter how bad the service is, last thing you want to do is piss off the waiter, coz god knows what shit they put in it if you did. Anyways, tuning started at about 10:45-11am and I got my car back at about 3pm. Went for a test drive and woahhh, Bertha has been reborn. Its like a totally different animal once you go WOT(wide open throttle) and the numbers are in... Bertha is running 313horses on wheel with 440nm of head slamming torque running at 1.3bar peak boost! All 3 figures are almost a 30-40% improvement from a stock wrx, daddy is proud. All that time and money spent sourcing out all the parts has finally come into fruition. Actually, the tuner said he could have squeezed more torque to a mind blowing 500nm if not for my stock clutch slipping. Well, this figures will do for now... For how long you ask? For as long as it will take me to save up to buy an aftermarket racing clutch of course.. hahaha...