On Throttle New Zealand

I make no secrets about my love for Subaru's boxy boxer - the Forester, I simply have a strong connection to the first car I researched, saved for and then bought when I was a teen. I even snuck a photo of my first Subaru, a 1997 Forester T/TB called the DeForester into the print edition of Driven Magazine recently thinking I'd never own another 'Foz' again. That changed over the weekend when I saw this car, a 1997 Forester T/TB in completely unmolested form. After paying a reasonable amount of the weakening Kiwi dollar for it it is now mine, and I have a plan on what I'm going to do this time around. My first Foz, The DeForester, was filled with go faster bits to improve performance on the road in every way imaginable. With the help of many friends over a period of time it went from an asthmatic automatic with sloppy handling, to a STi infected sleeper with 184kW at the wheels. My original Forester was chassis 7411 and made 184kW at the wheels. This ti...