I feel like this has been my exact frame of mind for the last 10+ years... Haha. Someday maybe I'll see it through.
Decided to sacrifice the Forester for its engine. Planning to use it in the outback that has rod knock. Ended up finding an external head gasket leak so a quick swap turned into a huge project, which is expected with subarus. In other news... Anyone need a forester parts car?
Can't attach images over 5mb. Sorry man, just too big.. But in all seriousness, the SO got to help disconnect most of the wiring harness and intake which was a lot of fun to do together. Hopefully next weekend we can pull the old outback motor and give the engine bay a good wash.
Goodridge lines installed on all four corners. Guy on CL a 10 min drive away...NIB with all hardware. How often does that work out?
I put the summer tires on the Forester. The car has used less than one tank of gas since March, so it wasn't a priority.
Bought another chassis to recieve the ej22 in my garage. Old chassis is being reworked to tube chassis mid engine.
I won the sad lottery a week plus back and spun on a rod on My 2016 WRX on the dyno. Wasn’t trying to do anything g crazy, just stage one. I guess it couldn’t happen to a nicer guy....
Yup. Wouldn’t have tried it had the vast majority of peeps having success. My fa20 was garbage apparently.
I’m having JM put a new engine in and getting the stage one once I get through break in. It’ll be covered this time in case something goes wrong.
Nice! I just got mine back. Breaking in period first but then can't wait to see how it does with the new cold air intake, tune, and new engine.
Finally got around to buying and putting in dash cams. Pulled the trigger on some Aukey DR03 front and rear cameras as there was a sale on Amazon ($65 for the set + tax). Still had to buy a memory card (128gb Samsung High Endurance) and also bought a mirror mount carrier clip $10). It was so cheap I bought 2 sets and put the other one in the wife's car (she needs it more than I do based on an incident or two a whiles back ). All said and done it came to $115 per car to get them up and running. Ran the cables in the headliner, front down the A-Pillar under the floor mat to the 12V accessory unit in the center arm rest and the rear through the top rails and snaked the cable through the rear door/hatch rubber wire protective boot. Did mostly the same for the wife's car too but could seem to get the rear headliner popped off and gave up since it was on one of those 95F days and I was sick of sweating buckets out there (mounted it using the sticky kit on the flat metal piece behind the middle child seat rear strap clip/bar). Word of advice, the Aukey Hardwire Motion Dectection kit is junk (that plugs into the ODB2 port). It kept power cycling/rebooting the cameras on my Outback every minute or so...non stop (on the wife's car (Honda CR-V it could get up to 2 minutes but would still constantly power cycle). Lots of complaints on Amazon that it doesn't seem to work properly with the DR03 model (but seems to mostly work with the DR02 and below models). It's not the cameras because when I plugged them into a AC power source (using one of the several dozen USB phone charger plugs I've amassed over the years) it worked fine when left on for 30+ minutes with no power cycling. Tested both hardwire kits in each car with each set of cameras. It didn't make a difference. Returned those immediately for my money back. Also, the night mode isn't the greatest so at night without good street lights it can't seem to capture license plates very well for the rear camera. Didn't look at the front very closely. But it's not like I bought a top of the line system so it's still better than the not running them like I was before.
Yeah, the thing is giant in comparison to other systems and I can't hide it for stealth because of the 2.7"LCD screen.
-Removed, cleaned, and oiled my GS intake filter. -cleaned the MAF sensor(which looked as if it had never been cleaned before. -detached my front bumper to get it realigned. It was off and would not sit/connect properly to the quarter panel. -then I hit it with some Mothers Showroom Detailer. Just because
Bought another one the other day. Who can resist a cheap, running, driving H6 Outback? OK, it's a neglected basketcase, but that's OK. 20200731_151152 by Numbchux, on Flickr 20200802_150204 by Numbchux, on Flickr
Too bad these are such a crummy "special edition". Total base model + H6, climate control and painted handles/mirrors. I just noticed they don't even have tweeters in the doors. My '00 even has those...
Bought a couple Foresters yesterday. Both in very rough shape, and priced accordingly. But we were thinking one could probably make the 150 mile drive. I've never thought much of rear VLSDs, never seem to be very strong. And with how beat this car was (and the fact that we didn't think it had one), I wasn't worried about the mismatched full sized spare (215/60r16) with 3 smaller tires (225/50r16). Made it abouT 40 miles before I could feel the diff binding up so bad on straight roads that I knew something was wrong. We pulled over and the rear diff was crazy hot to the touch, so swapped the mismatch to the front, but the damage was done. After about 10 more miles, it actually started on fire. Looked like the gear oil had boiled/blown out of the vent and/or side seals, and covered the diff, which caught fire. Not sure if the ignition was from the heat of the diff, or the exhaust, but either way. Luckily there was an extinguisher in the truck, so we got it put out quickly. Drove 10mph for about 2 miles to park it in a Dollar General parking lot in Luck, WI. Drove home and yanked the junker off the trailer, and came back for it. Got home after 2am.
Yea, when we put the fire out, and looked down the road for a better place to leave the car, there was the sign that said Luck is 3 miles away....
Can't thank @ericthegoalieman enough for the free antenna delete. Finally got around to pulling up the carpet (only the antenna goes underneath the driverside carpet.....) and pulled 'er out. Don't forget to remove and use the old rubber bushing(?) from the previous antenna. Small but cute mod imo
Ah... the good old days. I actually inspired that mod. I asked Justin to make it and he sent me the first antenna delete and windshield mount antenna. Such a nice clean mod. I eventually tried to paint match mine to blend it even further.
Apparently I'm into 1st gen Foresters, now.... And then there were 3: 20200912_192112 by Numbchux, on Flickr Wouldn't have been one of my projects without drama....in a lesson on why not to leave the ebrake on for extended periods, the left rear wouldn't release. I have a winch on the trailer, but it's a Harbor Freight ATV winch. It wouldn't have done it without the snatch block, I would have used a second snatch block if I'd had it.... and to get the trailer lined up with the car, the truck was sticking out in the road. Not to mention a few strange looks on the way there due to the car being backwards on the trailer, and the truck was involved in an accident this week, so the grill is gone, headlights held in with zipties, and bumper is all bent up. A true sight going down the road. 20200912_153824 by Numbchux, on Flickr Not sure what the exact recipe is going to be, but hoping to make at least 2 good cars out of the 3. This silver '01 is very solid cosmetically. Lots of surface rust underneath from sitting, but some of the cleanest quarters I've seen on any Subaru more then a decade old. And the red '98 is an "S" trim, with the big ass moon roof, so I'm thinking that's the other shell that will survive. Although I have to figure out why the rear diff started on fire, since it doesn't appear to have a VLSD...
They do look good I used to think Foresters were ugly but for some reason I'm really into the first and second gen models
Every story has two sides. I feel bad I wasn't around to help but I'm glad you got it figured out and the old forester found a good home!! That isn't the first time that my street has had an impromptu road block and probably not the last.
Replaced this with a new OEM one yesterday. Hoping that gets rid of that pesky P1443 code on our 03 WRX.
I was sitting in my front yard yesterday, looking at my Forester collection. And then I looked in the garage and saw my welder. And then I spent 5 minutes on Paint. 2020-09-17_08-32-52 by Numbchux, on Flickr hmmmm. In my free time....
