What did you do to your subaru today?

I welded an EGT bung into my new headers, then got underneath the car and used the crud thug and a scraper to remove a bunch of undercoating on the drivers side.

Tonight I'm going to work on wrapping the headers, uppipe, and downpipe.

Maybe next weekend I'll get to the passenger side undercoating.

 

Test fit the fmic:


Going to pick up new brackets tomaro, it needs to drop about an inch or so. And then the bottom brackets need to be welded on! Anyone have a portable welder?

 

jesus that's a tiny intercooler! haha

 

I am also considering adding a 3rd mounting spot on the top, in the middle.

 

lol, yah i'm hoping the evo 16g can fill that thing, also I will have to relocate my supertones :biggrin:

 

just an evo 16g? seems like you could have gone with a much smaller ic lol

 

.....or a larger turbo?! I think a 20g might be slapped on in the future.

 

looks badass.

 

got my car back to stock and finally running

 

sweeeeeeeeet. How do you like stock?

 

i only started the car and let it idle. But i'm sure I'll just love the -70whp

 

You should run it in SA. You might be competitive with only one other car in your class.:biggrin:

 

got my eibachs and new rear struts on the bug

 

Put about 300 miles on today. 1 Full tank of gas. I found out that I can get down to 13.47MPGs and up to 30.5MPGs, with the 5spd, in the same weekend. (full tank averages)

 

listen here tool boy........na nevermind:biggrin:

I can't run SA, that would screw up my points for the year. once carls car is done we're running that in m4.

 

except for the rallyx school so we don't have to split seat time

 

yea I'm kinda concerned honestly... it needs to hold together for the stage rallies - I don't need dave messing it up in a soybean field!

 

LOL....IIRC soemone else went off the road?:hsugh:

 

going off the road is one thing. putting zipties on backwards is another!

 

Deputy D.A. Drury is the crew chief. He can put those zip ties on

 

Way to delegate. :laugh:

 

yea what happened with that muffler? lol

 

at least it wasn't ME Dave:biggrin:

did you guys take a picture of the inside?

 

watched the 03 drive away!!

 

Oh I got a phone call yesterday from the people who have my car,

"Hello is this Chet?"
"Yes."
***Bill makes fun of me for chewing my gum in the phone by accident so I spit it out.***
"I am just calling to inform you that we have dropped your car off to have the suspension work done."
"OK"
***Bill is feverishly pointing out the window at this snow blower throwing snow off Pioneer trail***

I don't here a single thing she says till the end of the her sentence cause of Bill pointing like the sky is falling, when its just snow :laugh:

"... do you have any questions Mr. Beireis?"
"No not right now."
End of conversation ...

"Alright Bill what the hell is going on outside?"
"Look at that thing throw that snow!!!"

:laugh:

All in all I hope to be driving it again next week.

 

I took off my hitch

 

fix my lights.

 

went to get it from CPD/GEM - we fired it up, it ran well until it reached operating temp and then it started knocking like mad! it was really bad sounding. Nate showed up, flashed a new map, tweaked it a bit and then it ran fine. timing had to be pulled back and fueling had to be added.

got the trailer from grimmspeed, brought the car home. Tomorrow it goes to RS for more tuning

 

What time?

 

no specific time. I'm leaving it, Ron is getting it done whenever he has time.

 

That new map revision behaved nicer, I take it? Sorry I had to buzz out quickly, I had a busy weekend

If the whole timing map is going to take massaging like that, Ron certainly has his work cut out for him.

 

yea once you added in more fuel the knock went away completely

 

I didn't change fueling it at all, since all cars should really target 14.7:1 at idle and cruise. I removed around 5 degrees of timing all across and around the idle range, so I'm glad that solved the issue. Glad you're trailering the car to Ron's, though, as I can't promise the rest of the timing map wouldn't have spots like that.

Good to hear, though. Glad it was simple and not something with the build.

 

well yea, whatever you did lol - it worked! thanks again Nate for fitting us into your busy schedule

 

So....(tuning idiot question here). Ron will know to create a new map before he even makes one dyno pull?


and...thanks a ton nate for flashing my car too

 

I bet yours isn't as rusty as mine! haha