What did you do to your subaru today?

Today, my girlfriend and I were departing for a nice breakfast. I noticed my check engine light was on (Yay!! Again!!!....). I brought it down to the parts store after our lovely breakfast to get it plugged in and figure this out. The machine tells me i need the vehicle code to get the diagnostic code, so he put it in as a mitsubishi. It said something about it being an emissions issue.... It gave me a code ( P1490 ), but I have no clue what that means. I'm confused.... Again.... Oh well. I guess that means I get to spend more alone time with Subie. But if anyone has any input as to what's wrong with my ride, message me. Thanks.

 

finished the lightbar and adjusted the tire pressure to subaru specs

 

Smiled at Sheen's wonderful detailing work. It looks great.

 

Ripped out the cluster**** of a remote start install from under my dash that Best Buy put there under the previous owners direction and fixed it.

Hadn't been able to start my car with the key in like a year, and every now and then the remote wouldn't do it either (until I'd reach up in the dash and shake everything around a bit). Bad butt connectors. And like, oh, 6 miles worth of electrical tape.

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Checked for flatspots on the tires from it not moving for so long. Then kicked it...lightly...and told it to grow itself a new motor.

 

found and fixed my exhaust rattle. damn heat shields

 

Got my wife's car back after getting some rust repair done by Centerline.

I don't have any before pics, but here are during and after. I think it turned out great and my wife is really happy with it.

Now I'll have to wait a while for the paint to harden and get the rest of the car detailed.

 

summer bumper/fogs and grill installed.

 

repacked and installed a new set of struts on my sti

 

I dropped the money to become an AMSoil PC. Then ordered a case of AMSoil for cheaper than retail with the cost of the membership..... YEAH DISCOUNTS!

 

Hmm, must research this!

Got her detailed on the inside yesterday. At least she looks mighty pretty from the inside out.

 

sunday had nuke do some vodoo on my car. today had jeff the aligment guy help he figure out what is wrong with my rear camber.

 

Installed an AVO TMIC.

 

drove it. and thought of future mods.

 

picked up an '05 rear clip for my bugeye. time to remove rear winow and drop it off for some body work.

 

very nice! my dad's car desperately needs some rust repair like that. what did that cost you, if you don't mind?

 

Nice looking job on the rust repair. That is on my to do list for sometime in the future.

I dropped the rear diff in my car to look at installing new rear diff mounting bushings. It is going to be a huge PITA.

 

Sold it. Both sets of wheels, exhaust, weathertech mats, DVD player..... everything. Got more than I was looking for, and it only sat on the lot for 20 hours. The 2 customers literally got in a bidding war over it. lol

 

wow. that's awesome.

 

Wow, what's next?

 

picked up my final round of parts, only thing left to secure, a few bumper clips, and the bracket that holds the right side of the bumper to quarter panel, then it's off to body shop.

 

Finally put in the rear door panels (after a month and a half of dicking around) They need to be repainted but I figured all the panels should be on for Saturday.

 

Nice speaker glow.


Picked up a box of AMSoil sitting on my door step, oil change on Monday WOOT!

 

late last night, started wiring up the radio harness, only to find out i had not sodder, electrical tape, or heat shrink laying around.

 

lulz, sucks when you get motivation like that only to realize the parts bin is empty.

 

ID 1000cc came in today, looks like I'll be putting new injectors in this weekend

 

baught some electrical tape, now taping up the wires and hoping to instal... lol

 

oil change! (2 cars)

 

Somebody stole my exhaust tip last night.... I spent today painting and installing a new one. I really don't like this one either. It's too big. I kinda like the sound, but it's too big.

 

Put in my DBA 5000 2piece frozen rotors and stainless brake lines tonight.

 

How many powers?

 

we had the same issue as last time - not holding more than 16psi. I think my wastegate is getting weak, i might try the one off the spare vf39 we have. 220whp, 287wtq

 

Is your turbo ported?
Also, did you look at the hotside for the infamous wastegate crack?

 

it's not ported. I haven't really looked at it for the wg crack but it probably is

 

carl I have a vf48 I want to sell

 

Changed out the front 02 sensor and tried to install rear sway bar links (sway bar is off center and I didn't have the right size hex to remove it and recenter). Also put in a pioneer avh-4200 and an underseat 8" sub.

 

downpipe and wideband o2 sensor

 

fixed a vacuum leak

 

blacked out the headlights last weekend. it was way easier than i thought

 

#1
Needed List:
Front o2 sensor
Tune

#2
E85
Tune

#3
E85
Tune

 

changed the oil in the sti, and now i need to do rotors and pads. Only 10k more and i make it to 100k.

 

Very, very nice! I like what you did with the logo too (saw it earlier, but not from this point of view). My red hawkeye is officially jealous.

 

Ordered some extra s from fried beans. Going to do some of my 30k fluid change at 17k.

 

Polished headlights on my "new" 04 WRX with 3M kit, works pretty good.