What did you do to your subaru today?

Finally got these put together. Should be installed tomorrow.



Got this installed too thanks to @J.Rex and his mad electronics skills.

 

Mine wasn't quite that awesome. Replaced the absolute sh!t right rear strut. Also threw in a Japanese butt lift as well (spacers). Thing looks much better now. Maybe too "high" for most people, but at least it's level. And the back tires aren't leaning in anymore.

 

I want a Texas yard! Nothing but rock haha

 

Replaced my fog light bulbs over to gold ones. Looks wayyy better now.

 

Lets hope you don't need to use a torch as much as I did.

 

A torch is a Minnesotan gearhead's best friend. Also, pb blaster, freeze off, air tools and breaker bars.

 

FMS FMIC installed. Now off to NF tomorrow for injector install and then its E-85 time! )))

 

Nothing but rocks, no grass anywhere, hardly any trees and plenty of evil little plants called "goat-heads". Yeah, I'd rather not live there as much, lol, though there are plenty of desert "roads" to enjoy.

 

Dspecs on 07 Sti springs with P.F. 3/8" saggy butt spacers

 

24mpg on E85. Tuned and tweaked by Yang at Devoted yesterday. Runs so much smoother now, hard to explain it but 24mpg on corn Stock on pump gas, it was getting 24.

 

Got rid of some bad vibrations. woops.

 

Ouch!

 

Wasn't like that for much more than a week, I was going to wait till I rebuilt my wrx calipers but it was too awful. Metal on metal burns down hella fast, stoped that tire real good too. got it going sideways braking for a ramp switch. (because it pulled the right front tire to a dead stop on a right hand turn)
Ordering up my retrofitsource kit.

Also did my first oil change on the car, rotella full synthetic. Holy crap the motor loves this stuff I couldn't believe how much more free it feels.

 

Did a mod on my floor mat holder thing. Bought the car and it didnt have one, was wandering if I could buy the part for it but found a mod thats a lot more sturdy than the plastic piece.

 

Details

 

link to DIY:
http://forums.nasioc.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2016932

Instead of the wing nut, I decided to go with a ball screw cap. Was the only thing Ace had that looks good or decent instead of just a screw and a nut showing.

 

Did the JDM tail light mod and re-solder the compass on my rear view mirror. Now I can actually read it! =D

Running lights with no brake:


Running lights with brake:


Fixed compass on rearview mirror:

Cracked the outer plastic piece though :'( Oh well, no one's gonna be looking at my rear view mirror anyways.

 

Can't see compass. All I can spot is S2000!?

 

Lol. That's my cousin's s2k.

 

Did spark plugs and just thought to myself why I got back into a Subaru...

 

Finally took the effin' snow tires off. FU Mother Nature.

 

Went from basically a short block out of the car to a running car this weekend. About 23 hrs of grinding.




The only hang up of the entire build was the stock turbo to intercooler hose was too short but thanks to mike at Grimmspeed with a spare hose that was the perfect size I got it up and running on Monday. I just have to finish up a few loose ends and bring it over to nuke for a final tune.

I'll do a total breakdown of my build this weekend if anyone is interested in me doing thread in the modification & maintenance area. I just can't wait to drive it finally!

 

Chris changed my oil, brake fluid, spark plugs, and did a compression test.

 

Installed a 6 disc headunit from a 2006 impreza into my 2000 outback, plug and play!!

 

This, super time constraint so it's not finished yet. 55w ds2 3.0 x lens

 

Custom painted tail lights

 

Lol, I actually kind of dig that. Is it just some matte black paint or did you go with some sort of tinting paint?

 

Looks like plastidip to me but who knows.

 

Flat black paint with a satin clear.

Looks great lit up

 

my next set are to be determined but I plan on a PSM set...

 

My lightbar had braved two Minnesota winters and the rock chips in the powder coating had turned into rusty cancer so I decided to fix it.
I sanded it all down until there was no more rust or powder coat and then sprayed it with 3 coats of truck bed liner. I figured the bed liner would hold up better to rock chips since it is kind of rubbery and not brittle like powder coat.
It has some drips and isn't perfect but it came out great!
Before:

After:

 

Just got done installing both front springs on the RS. Got dark, so rears getting done tomorrow. Apartment garage sucks!

 

Adjusted my AGX's one setting stiffer. I left them at 2 (same as GR2s) when I installed them to get a good baseline feel and also because I read that a slightly softer damping is better for driving in snow since there's more suspension travel. No idea if there's any truth behind that though.



Also, bit the bullet and swapped over to Summer wheels/tires.

 

Dropped my car off at NF on Saturday for some work. Oil change, SS brake lines w/ flush, Defi boost and oil temp on SMY cluster, STI black badges and custom stage 2 93 tune.

Love it!

 

Is there a forum thread on that tail light mod?

 

Put in a down pipe and got an alignment. Next up getting it tuned!

 

I hope you aren't driving it without a tune...

 

Should be fine to drive around without a tune but I wouldn't go wide open.

 

New grill. Now I need to repaint the hood scoop.

 

Finished installing the springs. Found out the rears shocks were blown already. haha...anyways, if you're wondering, they're KYBs w/H&R springs.

 

Pulled plugs, checked compression and installed new plugs. I never knew the foresters were even more of a bitch to do plugs.

 

Put new 5th door struts in, didn't even take 10 minutes including pulling off the interior pieces and putting them back. Popped off the brakes and realigned the hardware and it went back to making noise in 3 stops, ordered hardware waiting on it from colorado.
Cut my ac belt and pulled it out. Ah, silence.

 

I have an AP, so just flashed the ECU.