What did you do to your subaru today?

Swapped out my summers for winter. It is amazing how the car changes when you add 2" of sidewall and take away 3" of width.

 

I'm into winter mode as well.

 

Flaps on? It looks like it but I can't tell.

 

Just the front. I've had them on all summer.

EDIT: I put on the stock exhaust and stock wheels with snow tires yesterday.

 

Woah - going winter stock mode!

Yeah I am not full winter yet. They say never go full winter!
Waiting on some graphics and then the snowboard rack needs to go on. Weather Tech mats need to go in... and an oil change!

 

Drove mine in the snow on Saturday night

 

Put her in her new home! First time in my ownership! I think that she likes it

 

winter mode: firestone winterforce on some black stockers

 

Plastidippin the stock bbs black, installed red rally armors, had my snow tires mounted, temporarily put the volks on

 

Plastidippin the stock bbs black, installed red rally armors, had my snow tires mounted, temporarily put the volks on View attachment 4994 View attachment 4995

 

^Were you on 61 North this morning? I passed a Silver STI this morning about 8 am

 

Finished product

 

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Just like everyone else, the winter wheels/tires went on today along with the winter floor mats. I also bled my brakes.

 

02 WRX brake swap on the 96 Outback.



Thanks again Izzy for the calipers!

 

You'll love those winter tires. I really like mine.


Oil change on my car. Going to clean and put in the weather tech mats. Swapped winter tires. Cleaned the air filter.

Changed the oil on my sisters bugeye and swapped out the summer for winter tires. Cleaned her air fitter.

 

Replaced broken (rock) fog light and fog light assembly. It took longer than expected.

DDM had both my clips backwards for my lights. The delayed the install... Troubleshooting, FTW.

Depo Lighting sent me the wrong mounting setup. Lucky for me i could separate the glass housing from the plastic mounting assembly. Again, troubleshooting FTW.

Lights installed, i am happy.


EDIT - emailed Amazon.com and told them they sent me the wrong mounting bracket. I explained that I had to disassemble my broken setup to make the new setup work. I told them i didn't want to return the item because I could make it work. I just wanted them to know that they were sending out parts for a 2009 WRX that won't fit a 2009 WRX. They refunded part of my money. Customer Service FTW!

 

I picked up the OEM cross bars for my WRX tonight. Going to get the kayak carriers this weekend and get all ready for winter.

 

Finally after almost 2 months, installed my Polyurethane Sway bar bushings on the FXT and swapped back on the stock 16's in preparation for winter.

 

Changed the oil, and put Infinitys in my wifes WRX.

 

I finally got the chance and the willingness to install the 6 disc changer I got from SeanWilke. After an hour, I got it in and it seems to be working well.
Installation tips:
1. forget the top tray. There's no bolts under there that you need to take out and your sunglasses will fly all over inside the car.
2. forget taking off the shifter and the shifter platform. You'll just waste time taking it out and figuring how to put it back correctly.
3. don't yank out the stereo after taking out the four screws that holds the stereo in. There's 4 different wires connected to it: three in the back to power it and a flippin connector under the unit that doesn't do a thing besides piss you off because one of the rear connectors was already a bitch to disconnect.

 

Bought my straight pipe material with flange for $26 bucks today. Me and the seller derped and I got 2.5" pipe but that'll be fine as the slotted flange will fit and 3" down to 2.5" isn't a big difference for like 4ft of length haha

 

Blizzaks on, bring the snow.

 

Replaced the factory front speakers with some after markets ones. Also found out where my oil has been leaking from ( oil feed neck) need new gasket

 

Got my winter Cooper tires mounted up, had some custom brackets fabbed up for my Hella lights, wired them up via adding pins on the Hella wires and plugging them into the stock fog light wiring (both use 15A), and did the mod allowing you to turn on the fogs regardless of whether your brights are on or not. Thanks to all the folks who helped out! Now I just need my Rally Armor flaps to come in and the wagon is all set for winter!

 

New turbo blanket:

 

New battery but i would rather have it go out now then in dead of winter. I still can't believe it lasted over 7 years

 

replaced second new cam sensor in the 02 sti. Still getting cel p0390 when under 1400 rpms only. it goes out immediately after going above that. soooo frustrating. car drives normally.

getting the car tuned by nuke tonight double checking that that avcs is functioning.

 

Got a "Free" Oil change by Subaru Surgeons

Another shop I'll go to in the future for issues/problems

Anyone here that can unmount my current tires and mount and balance on my 4 winter tires for a fair price?

 

Got my mudflaps on over the weekend and put my snow tires on last night.

Spent about 20 min struggling with the OEM cross bars before giving up for the time being.

 

Tested way too many wires/pins for continuity diagnosing avcs issue on v7 swap...

Who needs a drink? This guy.

 

Motul in the car. I'm trying out their 8100 0w40 motor oil for the winter, and I just tossed in some Gear 300 tranny oil. I've got some 90PA for the back end, but I don't have a wrench big enough to take the top bolt out It'll be nice to compare against Amsoil SevereGear and see if Motul's motor oil likes the cold or not.

 

Looks nice man!

 

What's the motul go for a quart? Let us know what u think.

 

almost had the opportunity to swap out a destructoid spark plug on the side of 494, decided to do in the morrie's parking lot though
towed, tools borrowed (thanks techs / brian) and parts from the service counter (thanks eric)

 

Shipped my block and pistons to MPS to be sleeved/bored/honed today!

 

A lot. It's around the same as buying some Amsoil SS 0w30 or something, about $10 per so pretty normal for this product range. Too bad Amsoil doesn't make a 0w40. I've used Mobil 1 0w40 too. For sport driving, it's just helpful to have that thicker hot viscosity to keep consumption down. I run 0w50 Eneos in my old 02 Forester with a well worn engine to keep consumption quite normal, but I can't use a 0w30 without drinking oil like Kool-aid during a sport event. I find the 04 FXT has similar tastes during sport use, so there's a desire to keep the high viscosity somewhat thick. p.s. I'm quite a fan of the Eneos 0w50, as excellent in the dead of winter as it is in the summer, broadest spectrum oil you can buy. However, I wouldn't needlessly scale my oil unless the need was there. If a 0w40 works well, there really isn't that need to go thicker.

So far, I do like the Gear 300 transmission fluid. It's only a mild 40-50F right now, but the transmission feels as it if was 80F outside starting and driving the car dead cold. I enjoyed the Amsoil SevereGear too, and it too felt great at these cool temps and retained good function as the temps plummeted. The Gear 300 stays thinner colder than the Amsoil Servere Gear, so I'm eager to see how it feels and shifts once the temps get really low. I've already done one winter with what was in there (likely Extra-S if I were to guess) which felt more like a normal dino with poor syncro action and some need to double clutch.

The Motul 8100 feels good so far too, but I expect that from a 0 weight oil. I have no racing over the winter, so I will have no idea how consumption might be when used hard. Still it'd be great to compare it to Mobil 1's 0w40, Amsoil SS 0w30, etc. for cold weather use. Technically, nothing really beats Amsoil's 0w30 for cold weather unless you wanted to step to a 0w20 to get something thinner.

 

Had a new timing belt done, changed the rear diff fluid, finally fixed the oil cooler oil leak, I hope. And new weather tech floor liners.

 

Put the Blizzaks on the rex around 1pm. Good timing.

 

busy week with the rally car, put in gas tank, TSSfab rear sub-frame, T bar and custom skid, 4.44 r180 in, got suspension hung at all 4 corners, all the arms mounted, Q-rack in on the front got the wiring laid out in the shell, ziptied the hell out of it, ran the fuel lines thru the shell, Ran all the new brake lines (took forever with rented O'rileys double flare tool), plumbed in the hydraulic E brake and wilwood proportioning valve, pressed in milled down 04 sti hubs into rear knuckles with new bearings so i can run 2pot disks with R180 rear and shafts. got all the calipers on with federo pads. got all the impact foam mounted up on the cage. windsheild wiper motor and arm assembly in. skid plate mocked up (much easier to drill holes with out engine and trans in the way) then its just spacers once its in.