What did you do to your subaru today?

that looks pretty rad, how did you change the subi logo?

 

There is a good write up on NASIOC .... CLICK HERE

 

wowzers, that is some tedious stuff. Looks cool tho.

 

Yeah the background of the emblem isn't too hard of a job, the stars are a PITA!

 

Really nice mods. They are small but very significant. Hope to see it tomorrow night! Looks great!

 

I am on-call this week, so I have to skip Tuesday. I will be out the following Tuesday.

 

Really dig the flat black with painted horns. Well done.

 

Late night tune with Nuke, car is finally all set for a while...

 

Got the rear end of the car back together last night, swapping the tranny soon here hopefully, fabbed up my BOV flange and positioned it on the piping today. Hoping to have the new front end here this weekend from Cornfed and getting it back on the road finally.

 

AEM Digital Wideband O2 Gauge (in the cubby in the middle):



Hardwired a serial cable, but I'm still working on getting it to log correctly. Lots of blue screens. I think I have a bad driver for my serial to USB cable...

 

that or if u have a laptop that has a physical not a solid state hard drive it can cause issues. When i tryed logging up north with my normal laptop i got lots of blue screens because of the laptop hard drive getting so much vibration it would shut itself down to not corrupt data.

 

I never got out of the garage, so that's the not the issue. Good suggestion though. I hadn't considered that.

I have logged with this laptop before. Usually works OK, but the USB seems to be easily bumped and lose connection.

 

Picked up some goodies for the WRX today:

STi wagon springs
STi hood scoop
Replacement struts for the hatch (worn out)
WRX badge for the rear (Not a fan of completely naked wagon butt)

 

Changed my car oil and clean interior a little bit. Tomorrow clean engine bay and exterior.

 

Drove to Colorado, stayed a few days, drove back.

 

G_2.5rs came over and took some shots. (Then I took a cell phone shot)



Washed the car... I also cleaned out the inside of my headlights. I took an extended bolt grabber, attached a cotton ball to it and soaked it in alcohol. Then went through the high beam hole in the headlights. The cotton left some stands of cotton so I switched / cleaned it with gun cleaner cloths attached instead. It worked pretty good. Here is an action shot.




And washed it.

 

Blacked out my headlights using the NASIOC guide: http://forums.nasioc.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2163744

Very happy with how it turned out. Looks good on an '04 PSM.

 

Put a compustar alarm/starter in the winter beater wagon.

 

Put brambo on my lgt on monday!!!!!!

 

I love mine, never having to get in a cold car is so nice.

 

Koji'd my headlights
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Got a new set of tires installed. Michelin Pilot Super Sports. Definitely worth the $$$ loving them so far.

 

think i blew the motor............

 

i painted my wheels!



and put on mudflaps



painted my impreza badge:



and changed my extremely warped rotors!



and here's the final product:

 

Ordered an Invidia Catted downpipe and an AMS Catback!! I'll show up on a tuesday at calhoun once she is all put together and tuned!

 

^classy btw

 

Finally installed the new battery so I had it fired up for the first time in 3 months. Ugh. Also checked the tyres, oil and coolant while I was at it, and softened the shocks up a bit as they were set far too firm for the city roads round here. Now to get it to the mechanic so I can get the leak checked out. It looks to be either the front of the rear diff or the fuel tank, neither of which is good. Sigh.

 

Drove my car home yesterday from the cabin and my Boost Gauge was working, woke up this morning for work and my Boost Gauge is not working... all the hoses are still connected, and the plastic T connector looks fine.... I guess I get to start digging.

 

what gauge is it?

 

He has a ProSport I think.

Does it power on (electrica)?
Does it read right at 0psi (mechanical)?

Did you check the BPV to manifold hose (manifold side)? You can't see it unless you take off the intercooler. Mine popped of last week and that caused the gauge to read right at 0psi.

 

Correct

It has power. IT is a mechanical issue, or the gauge is bad. I am putting my money on boost leak.

I just did a quick check when i filled up with gas this morning. The back of the gauge is still secure. The lines are all intact in the engine bay. Nothing had blown off, and the "T" connection looks fine. As long as the weather holds off tonight I am going to dive into it after work. Looks like I won't be at Calhoun.

 

When I was having issues with mine, it had power but it was a bad connection. This caused the needle to stay pegged at full boost. Rewired and all was well.

 

Well if there isn't a leak I will try that before I order a new gauge. I am going to check my boost lines first... I am guessing something has a hole or cracked... I hope

 

Did you check that BPV to manifold line? You can't see the manifold end connection, but if you pull on the hose, you can probably tell if it is disconnected.

 

I checked the top part of it but I did not dig into anything. I just made sure every connection I could see was in tact. I was thinking my T connection blew, or the hose fell off of that. I did look at the BPV hose, but I did not pull on it at all. I have not thrown any codes but there was once or twice were the idle seemed off. I also wasn't hitting my target boost this weekend... so now that i think about it that might make sense.

 

Yeah, if that one pops off idle will be pretty rough, and my car would only hit like 8-9psi. I'd pull the intercooler, and then follow that BPV hose past the T and see if it's loose. I think I had e-mailed you about this a few days ago

 

no it isn't a very bad idle. it was way worse when those rubber caps failed. The gauge was reading 19 PSI instead of 23 PSI.... so maybe that isn't the issue. I guess time will tell. Looks like no rain tonight so I hope to have it all fixed up by sun down.

 

Sounds like a very minor leak, but if the gauge is pegged at 0psi and not moving, it seems that the gauge is reading ambient pressure only (which would likely be a pretty major leak). I'm sure you'll be able to find it once you poke around enough.

 

Derek, have you checked against the ecu to see if the gauge is reading correctly? There may other issues causing you to make less than target boost.

 

Yeah i know, I am just hoping my two problems are related. I noticed the boost was low this weekend and was going to talk to Nuke about it, we needed to meet up and log my tune/car anyways. When my gauge stopped working this morning I was hoping that the two were related... maybe a leak was keeping me from boosting where I was at last week. Although the more I think about it the less I feel that they are related. I guess we will see tonight. I will attempt to fix the gauge first, then I will see where my boost is hitting. Also you bring up a good point, i never really did a data log to see if my gauge is even reading correctly. Once i get it from reading only "0" maybe I will log it tonight. I think my cousin has a cable... if not then i guess i will have to drive the whole 1/2 mile over to Nukes house and bug him later this week.

 

get over here, ben's gonna meet up later

 

Ben and I hear you have a Ginger visitor tonight too (RexNEffect).... I will hit you up after Chris and I figure out the gauge. If it is too late no big deal, I am around and open the rest of the week/weekend.

 

geez, word gets around pretty quick

 

I didn't hear anything about RexNEffect.

I'll be stopping over at Nuke's around 7PM with my car and with my brother and his MS3

 

Its possible the gauge just died. The prosports are not the most reliable gauges from what I heard.