Originally posted by TampaWRX
STi>EVO. More displacement should please all the domestic guys and 300bhp from the factory (265+whp seems to be the average) ain't bad at all. With a couple of bolt-ons guys are seeing 12s on the stock turbo. Low 12s are a matter of weeks(everyone is scrambling to fab up new parts for the 2.5T) and I have a feeling we'll be seeing a lot of 11s by the end of the year, early next. STi own3z. 
Not hating on the EVO, but any car making less than 300whp on nearly 20psi is missing something. Not sure what the CFM rating is on the stock potato, but it needs bigger lungs. 
HAHA, here we go, Evo vs. STi round 23
265 whp, it better make more power with the .5 extra liter, but wait, the evo makes around 250 whp stock, btw, the evo also has a bleeder system to its only running 16 by redline, CFM rating on the turbo is over 550 (big 16G), thats fantastic that STi's will start to see 11's soon on stock turbo's, however, the Evo's are already doing it, people who have taken evo's and hooked some fuel control up and backed off the injectors a little, done full exhaust, and a open element filter are seeing 300+ whp its not easy to get air in and out of stock airboxes and factory restrictive exhaust systems, thats goes for any car, evo is supposed to be much more of a drivers car, while the STi is an understeer king, in fact the only thing the sti was rated better on, was straight line acceleration..thats good, considering neither of the cars are really designed for that...so, in response...evo > sti , flame away, and sorry to hi-jack your thread dino
* edit * , the usdm sti does have the cooler driveline features, however, any evo shopper could look at evolution imports, who sells jap spec evo 8's for 1k over usdm dealer cost, US legal, and they come with the active center diff, 325 stock horsepower, front lsd, active yaw control, and a beefy 6 speed ...here is the current registered times of some owners
http://www.dsmtimes.org/evo.htm