World One Performance Blog

Carrying on the World One tradition of taking on young blood as employees, Joey Atterbury (aka advanwrx on NASIOC.com) became World One’s newest employee in 2005. During his stint at World One, Joey just happened to have an STi that would become the test bed for Element Tuning’s upcoming GT65 turbo kit. This was definitely no show car: Joey’s mind was on the track and on the track alone. While it took a few months to finally get the Element GT65 kit onto his car and running properly, Phil came to town and tuned the hell out of it, creating an absolute monster of a track car. Joey took me in a ride following Phil’s tune and I can say with full confidence that I’ve never been in a smoother, and more powerful Subaru in my life. 100 comes up like it’s nothing, and Phil’s tune is so great that it doesn’t even feel like it.

Always a stickler for the best parts available, supporting the Element Tuning GT65 kit was a Phil-tuned Hydra, TurboXS v2 FMIC, a set of Advan RGs at 17″ for the track, and 18″ Advan Model T6s for the street (after having gold LE28Ns as well). Holding the power was a Cusco Twin Disk Carbon/Carbon Clutch and the motor was fueled by Perrin 816cc injectors. Suspension-wise, he started off with JIC FLT-A2 coilovers with track springs, and then moved on to Cusco Zero2Rs, and finally to Tein Super Racing coilovers. The only body mods were a Cusco front lip and Beatrush brake ducts, along with painted stock WRX sideskirts. He also ran a full titanium Kakimoto GT1.0Z catback, which BY FAR is THE loudest exhaust available for any Impreza. Despite all these mods, Joey daily drove this car, and was quite happy breaking the car loose at 60 mph on the freeway.

The car’s since been parted out, with Joey going on to successful Spec Miata and Volkswagen Factory Race Car driving career, but it still represents what could easily have been the fastest and most powerful Subaru in Washington State. He took the car down to California after entering Best Motoring’s “American Touge 2,” in which Orido himself praised the car’s response and power.

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