What did you do to your subaru today?

I washed it and found out the Nuke slipped launch controll on my map and I didn't even know it! Thanks Nuke!

 

Put front frozen rotors/hawk hps's on my Impreza. I was BARELY able to get the caliper bolts out of the 4pots even with heating them up. With help from Grayguy got the clutch bled on my 91 tleg as well.

 

Stuck caliper bolts=deep creep+1

 

Traveled from MN to milwaukee back to school. Car went from pristine for cars and coffee to full of bugs and brake dust pretty fast

 

Nuke infect tunez

 

fixed the stupid filler neck

 

Oh just an annoying rattle that comes and goes somewhere under dash near the windshield on the driver side. Also one somewhere in the back, near the rear window/surrounding plastic. It's kind of hard to tell when I'm driving and my wife isn't a big fan of driving stickshift...well, you know what i mean

 

^ in response to Brian Shorten

 

i blew the manifold hose again had to zip tie it down.

 

How does one blow one's manifold hose?

 

it's the one underneath the intercooler, where the hose connects from bpv to the back of the manifold.

 

Happens to all the 3G's once they get up to around 20psi.

 

tried my ghetto gas fill tube, realized not having the breathers sucks and stopped after 3 gallons.

 

Dude! you gotta quit bouncing off the rev-limiter! For realz!

 

was off the rev limiter, it comes off by itself

 

Just checkin! gotta keep my eye on you

 

thanks and i am doing the same as well, can't afford a speedo ticket, made a bet with fuji, if i get my first speedo ticket, i gotta get him a full tank of e85. can't do that

 

Got my new Wilwood big brake kit installed

 

where's mine

 

dropped it off at the body shop Tues. for a minor touch up of an area on my replacement rear clip that wasn't done right prior to my rebuild last summer. If anyone has read my rebuild thread we found out after cleaning up the rear clip it had a quarter panel replaced on it at some point. The work done was not the greatest.

It's now done and will be picking it up tonight. If i'm lucky the area that was scraped by a person who parked next to me will also be clean.

 

Had my new swifts&kybs installed last night. Getting aligned this afternoon.

 

Woot! Which swifts? Where are the pictures!!!

 

Got my new drilled and slotted rotors and pads on. Got the air outta my lines. 110% improvement from the stock ones!! I got them for $220 from eBay seller BrakeMotive. Deff recommend them if you need new/replacement brakes! Oh yeah that price was for all four with pads ;-)

 

Sanded and polished the nasty crap off my headlights!

Got my new (used) roofracks on too...took me minute to figure out the new whistling noise when I'm driving... Facepalm

 

Put some more pieces back on mine so she can run. But we will see tomorrow. Probably blow something up or something... WHOOOOOO

 

xluben showed me the seat mod for the 2009 WRX. A 2 - 5 minute modification to the back of the seat and it feels so much better. It 100% cups the back way better and hold you in your seat around turns. Thanks Ben it rocks.

 

finally redid the wiring to my passenger door so I have a power window, mirror, lock, and speaker again

 

Turn fast to test it out.

 

What no more "driving like a grandma" ???

 

Should've seen, after the mod, Derek got into a racing mode because the it hugged him like a bucket seat. Boy was flying by everyone's grandma, flipping them off and looked me deep in the eyes with an evil laughter. Then he dropped me off and had some buffet.

 

So Ben cupped them from the back for 2-5 minutes?

 

Detailed it and put her in the shop for the winter. Changing from mildly modded to BA this spring. See ya in a few months!

 

It was going really well until the whole "looked me deep in the eyes" thing.... For a minute there Ben would have believed that I was driving like a really bad ass grandma yesterday! I did the passenger seat mod @ Holiday today while I was filling up with Magic Corn Juice. The wife wanted to see what it was like driving the speed limit with better seats. She likes it.

He likes to be the bun and not the hot dog.... LOL

 

Wow, I'm pretty glad now that I didn't ride down to Iowa with ya. I'm not into the whole cupping thing. I'm happy for you Derek.

 

Swift sports with some new KYB's... Alright just snapped a few quick in my garage. Not the best pics but they work. Loving the new dance. At 97k (mostly highway) one rear strut was completely gone, the other almost done, and the fronts in pretty decent condition actually but for how long I'm not confident.

Wanted a slight drop (driven in winter) and a smooth ride with some added performance. Swift advertises a 1" drop in the front and .8" drop in the rear w/apparently no "settling" time but we'll see I suppose; my measurements confirmed that I dropped an inch in the front and about 1/2" in the rear as I wanted. I threw on some 1/4" saggy butt spacers (TIC was out of 3/8"that I wanted) to help even the wheel gap a bit especially with the over 100lbs of stereo equiptment in the trunk. Loving the new setup, very happy with the entire setup, and FINALLY really feel like the car is complete for what I want it to be. It's not the fastest or best handling car on the road but it is exactly what I want it to be - a fairly fuel friendly, great year round, awesome handling, quick, and practical DD It's handling like I wanted it to from the beginning matched up with the cobb sway bars and it handles the additional power bump I gave it over the course of it's life while cornering so much better now of course. Happy camper here and think I will be done with the IMO tasteful and reliable modifications .... for 2 years or so until I get a new WRX/STi and start over.

 

Wow, great work man, huge difference!

 

@ 2bar ^^ that's at least a 4 tube project.

 

you're doing it wrong?

 

I wish jb weld would work. I believe the bell housing is made of die casting and wouldn't take well to welding anyways. Going to be ordering me a new bell housing through Minnetonka Subaru.

 

Debadged my trunk finally...and chipped the paint. I still need to figure out how I am going to put in my engine mounts too.

 

did the seat mod the seat actually hugs you more great diy mod. take out the metal mesh in the back seat where the zippers are.

 

So, you figured it out... Pretty easy, huh? We still need to meet up sometime.

 

Installed EWG

 

yes it was simple! easier than what i thought it would have been, thanks to ofspunk07 but yeah we do need to meet up sometimes, just been busy with this stupid nonesense at home. i'll text you this week sometime.