Justin Woo's "Backyard Built" LS-Swapped Subaru WRX Drift Car

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When you hear “WRX,” you think all-wheel-drive rally car, right? Think again.

Justin Woo is a fun-loving, adrenaline seeking owner of a LS swapped 2003 Subaru WRX drift car. “I’ve always loved cars,” Justin says. It all started with him hooning around and sliding his big wheel as a child, and the addiction never stopped.

Looking for a drift car that wasn’t just another S-chassis, Justin decided to go all-out and traded his RB25DET swapped 240sx for this WRX back in 2012. He converted it to rear-wheel drive and drifted it with the EJ20 for about two years but eventually came to his senses and opted for an LS1 instead.

After countless hours of work, Justin completed the LS swap on the Fourth of July (of all days) in 2014. ‘Merica.

As of now, Its sitting on Fortune Auto 510 coilovers with Swift springs, extended lower control arms, modded knuckles for more steering angle, Whiteline lateral links, tie rods, and roll center kit. Its housing a Nissan S14 R200 differential and, of course, a hydro set up.

The exterior modifications are quite obvious: the Nimbus Grey paint job (from the Audi TT), dogwood livery, Cosmis wheels, and aero add-ons. The interior features a Cool Eskimo Secrets drift throne, Vertex steering wheel, and Yashio factory harnesses.

The powerplant, donated by a 1998 Chevrolet Camaro, features the stock 3.898-inch bore but has been stuffed with 12 cc dome-top pistons, Scat rods and a Texas Speed & Performance Torquer 2 camshaft. 243 heads top the mill off while FAST Precision-Flow injectors, housed in a BBK SSI intake, provide the octane and air charge. 1 3/4-inch headers, feeding a custom exhaust, whisk spent exhaust gases away from the Gen III engine.

Not bad for a backyard-built drift machine, huh?

Justin loves the quick response and massive amounts of torque available from the naturally-aspirated V8. He claims the car is “finished for now,” and is “super fun and ready to rip!” While he has enjoyed track days, autocross, and drag racing in the past, Justin now just attends and participates in drifts events around his hometown of Salem, Virginia with his friends and team.