What did you do to your subaru today?

Thanks to Chris at Flawless Front Ends and Tint! Amazing job, quick service, and a good price!

 

Got it back from Morries Bodyworks, they did a wonderful job and she looks better than ever!

 

paid $2200 to get my head gaskets replaced last week, watched my coolant temp shoot up to 250 and puke coolant all over my engine bay today.....

 

I hit a big puddle.

 

"Get a little mud on the tire?"

 

Forester gets STI suspension

 

My tires finally came today Continental Extreme Contact DW 255/35/18. These are Varrstoens ES2 18x9.5 +34
Sorry if this is not "low" enough for some of y'all. I absolutely hate the stance tard concept. Took some pictures before i put red lug nuts on

 

Looks Good! Digging the color combo.

 

Time to invest in an awd Subaru

 

Installed a '06/'07 GD front lip on my BD summer bumper,
W/ a little fab work and a cut, it fits great.

Pic's when the snow goes away so I can take this winter bumper off.

 

Red lug nuts on

 

Cobb SF intake on the Forester XT today, now I can make boost noises like all the WRX and STI kids.

 

Oil changed with t6, cocktail mix tranny fluids and synthetic blend 75w 90 fluid for the rear diff. Hopefully it shifts better.

 

Fmic core installed, now to get some fog light covers.
Edit: ordered piping last night!

 

Is that diet mountain dew can functional? Just cutoff the tops and bottoms, weld them together and you got your tubing...ricer style

 

Nope, just a convenient can holder!

 

Dem horns! Omg!

 

that pic makes me want to throw on another pair of horns.

Conversion finally complete! Plasti dipped the whole car, threw some paint on the wiper arms to get them shiny black again and painted the horns yellow-orangeish

 

My brother rolled his truck over with the stuff on. And the only areas it came off is where the metal split. Stuff sticks pretty dang good.
They also have multiple colors at the lowes in stillwater. I bought enough from them they started stocking all kinds of stuff, purple and orange, red, white!

This is just temporary I'm going to bedline the whole car once I replace and redo the fenders. Fronts are dented and rears are rusted.
3 tone was too much of an eye sore

 

Love the 4 Hellas too,that little bit of extra loudness over 2 is amusing. :evil:

 

Switched over to summer wheels... And managed to break a wheel stud.. Looks like another little project to take care of this week.

I will say that the 17s look like an even better fit now with the slight lowering from the Mach V springs. Now that I do like the black on black, it's time for some black lug nuts too...

 

I've got some black nuts if you'd like them?

 

PM Sent

EDIT: Re-reading your quote more carefully... lol.

 

Biannual CAI filter and MAF sensor cleaning. I'm always amazed at how dirty those things get and it usually restores 1 MPG or so. This time I notices a bit of motor oil that the filter was sitting in. No oil in my FMIC boost tubes so the filter must have soaked it up when some a** hat mechanic spilled oil when changing it.

I'm sure it happened when I was going to Bloomington Subaru because which is horrible. I'm sure it was them because after that last change I got there there was smoke billowing from my hood due to spilled oil on my exhaust. Now I go to Morrie's and love it.

I also ordered a StopTech brake upgrade kit and motul fluid. That combined with my RCE Yellows/ Bilstein that'll be coming shortly should make for a fun little AUTO X setup!!

 

Got my engine out last Saturday. Found out I was pushing oil out the head gaskets. Took the heads to NF for some tlc and ordered up some more parts.



I should have everything by Friday so I can get it put back together on Saturday to install what I call my table of fun!

 

Well not my Subaru but a buddies Subaru. Powder coated the valve covers.

 

3rd brake light installed, now officially winless!

 

Went puddle splashin on lunch break, and then brought it back to the parking lot where the clan of geese are frontin' from.

They think it's cool to live in a parking lot!

 

Got new "three season" tires. Goodyear Eagle F1 Asymmetric. Super deal including $160 rebate using Goodyear credit card. Great service again from Samaritan Tire. No pictures...they're black and round.

 

More powder coating

 

Past few days actually, but I installed a TIC master cylinder brace, KartBoy pitch stop brace, PTP lava turbo blanket, Perrin heat shield, Defi LinkMeter BF oil pressure and boost gauge, and finished off with a roof vent and scoop. I'll get pics up later, have zero interest in touching the buggy flickr ap from my phone.

 

Oooo, shiny shiny. Insert Early Cuylers voice

 

I'm not an expert in thermodynamics, but intuitively, one would not want to insulate the cold side/ front of a turbo so as to maximize heat dissipation. I could see coating the back/ hot side as being beneficial. Or is powder coating not thick/ insulating enough to make a difference?

 

You definitely dont want to coat a turbo (either side) with anything with an insulating factor...

 

It's not my turbo so I do what my buddy asked me to do. But no there is not much thermal changed from coating. There is some though. But like I said not my Part so get w.e the customer wants.

 

You could provide guidance, suggestions...save people from themselves!

 

There is enough to decrease life of the turbo.

He wouldn't make money if he told his customer he shouldn't.

 

It's my buddy who knows just as much about cars as I do so I figure he has done enough research about it to either decide it's not a problem or its worth it. It's also a foglight mount setup so it will. Be getting plenty of fresh air I think to be ok.

 

Oh, and since I didn't add it yesterday: past few days, but I installed a PTP lava turbo blanket, Perrin turbo heat shield, KartBoy pitch stop, TIC master cylinder brace, Defi BF oil pressure and boost gauges, and last but not least roof vent and scoop.



And yes, completely functional.