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Ricers and Tuners! No one is bad at tuning, its either you are a good tuner or a good ricer — you can never be both. A tuner is simply a person that modifies the performance or appearance of a motor vehicle.
A ricer on the other hand refers to a person that makes unnecessary modifications that do not necessarily make the car go any faster but only make it “look” faster — simply unsightly modifications.
Most of these ricer cars or rice burners as they are called have big exhausts that are not performance exhausts but just make noise, big fake performance intakes, big wings, big spoilers and stickers with no real modifications.
One day in the life, you meet real tuner cars with performance modifications . . . one day in the life . . . I meet a Subaru Legacy B4 Blitzen Rev D — The beast from the East. It can only be Sanni Makalima’s.
They say simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. Some cars look so innocent, so subtle, so effortlessly simple until you get close, until it’s powered up, until you step inside the cock-pit, until you are in the driver’s seat — until you get up-close and personal. Only then will you learn to never judge a book by its cover — tuner cars are not so predictable.
From a distance, the candy red paint glistens in the sun, noticeably a Legacy B4 but with a bit of curves to it. In proper blitzen fashion, it winks with every sparkle, grins with every one of the sun’s says that lands on that six star Subaru badge. It’s beautifully wrapped in the original Blitzen body kit with 18’’ pro-drive wheels icing the candy.
It is indeed Porsche Design with the slightly different fenders and HID headlamps from the normal B4. Upfront it’s got the Blitzen intercooler hood scoop and a blitzen wing at the back that complements the aerodynamic stance of this Asian Candy.
Under the hood it’s the infamous Boxer EJ20 GT B E-Tune 2LTwin Turbo set up. Popped the hood and I was served some cusco magic. It has a top Cusco strut bar and bottom suspension-linked front and rear bars to further stiffen the chassis and handle the 210kw it produces. It sounds mean too with a full stainless steel exhaust with a Fugitsubo backbox.
This is JDM at its best, it might just speak Japanese. Oh! It does with a stock McIntosh Audio System with stock amplifier under the passenger seat that powers a 60w Subwoofer — before I forget It’s got 13 speakers . . . This candy baby absorbs all the African-ness in Zim roads through a set of bilstein shock absorbers. Cusco type Helical Limited slip differentials drive the back and front wheels. Two-pot racing brakes bring all that madness to a stop in record time.
The interior does not look Japanese at all. It’s a full black leather affair with Blitzen branded front seats. The STI branded red-dotted foot pedals caught my attention effortlessly. A short shift kit for the manual transmission makes for effortless shifting . . . if it was auto I wouldn’t have looked twice.
Quick Facts
Subaru Legacy B4 Blitzen Rev D
Owner: Sani Makalima
Engine: EJ20 GT-B Etune Twin Turbo
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