What did you do to your subaru today?

Drove all over creation trying to replace a battery in our Civic...

Car died after dinner at Redstone in EP, walked home to get our reliable car, the Subi. Drove to Redstone tried to jump it, which failed. Then drove to parts store to get a new battery. It was the wrong size since our MY Civic had 3 different battery sizes... Went back to parts store with the original battery, got the right one. Came back to Redstone and finally got it replaced... Not the way I wanted my Friday to go.

I am ready to get up early tomorrow, detail the Subi, and do an oil change. Yay!

 

I put gas in it.

 

installed new deck and rear speakers, sounds much better

 

it's temporary until I figure out something more permanent, but I'm happy with it. no drilling into the car, the V1 is hidden from prying eyes, and there is very little movement with it driving down the road. I might give it a quick spray of flat black paint in the meantime.

 

Took off my Gridlock flaps and picked up some new material. It is a rubber with woven fabric in the sheets. it keeps it from ripping or tearing and gives it great flexibility. The flaps are on, similar to Ted's template, with a few modifications. Need to go to the store and pick up some sort of brace for the top part of the rear flaps.


FOUND RUST! so i guess not all the hardware was stainless! was very pissed to see that the tabs we used were rusted, and took the paint off the metal frame in the front... so there was rust on my car too. A 45 min job turned into hours. Had to take off panels of the car. Fix the rust, paint the metal. put the panels back on the car. then continue to fab and fit the new flaps.

I am very happy with the new found flexibility in my flaps. hope to finish the final touches tonight.

 

Dyno'd it

 

Got my first CEL... a P0420 on my stock 02 RS.

 

What's the material called?

Results?

I installed a set of Whiteline steering rack bushings. ~1.25 hours from wheels up until I was pulling back into my driveway after a brief test drive. It wasn't fun but it also wasn't awful. I ended up tweaking the hard power steering lines to get some clearance to get at the driver's side bushing.

 

Not sure. I have a family member who is in the rubber business, he hooked me up. It is a sheet of rubber, sheet of woven fabric, sheet of rubber, sheet of woven fabric, sheet of rubber... all pressed or glued or something ... they are together. about 1/8 inch thick. I really like it. picked up some 20 gauge straps of metal for more support in the wheel well. going to put them on after i walk the dogs.

 

yaaaa for o2 sensors

 

Is the little sun block section on the windshield going to block the laser signals and potentially the RF too if it's magnetic? I like that spot for it though other than that.

 

Rewired the speaker in my front door and started getting rid of rattles. Couple more things to check out before theyre gone.

 

It will affect laser, but it won't block RF signals because the sun block spots aren't metallic. My experiences with laser are that once you're hit, it's too late, so I'll take my chances with that. I'd rather have the increased radar performance from mounting it high and also the privacy/secrecy of it up and off the windshield. I'm not a big speeder, I just like to be aware of my surroundings

 

Installed a Hydra 2.5 EMS, had to solder five wires for the Wideband O2 sensor and route the DB9 cable to connect to the laptop. Also pulled out the stock fuel pump assembly. I'm going to make an attempt to build my own Walbro 255 "Double Pumper" to send fuel to my surge tank. I've found the dual walbro hangers sold by a few companies for around $400 and that's without the pumps. Sounded kinda outrageous since It's only a modified hanger with a few AN fittings, a Y-fitting and a pressure switch. I think I can make this work and since my budget is running dry I really can't afford to buy anything I don't absolutely need.

 

drove it 2500miles in 10days

 

Numbers?

 

^^^^Yeah really Jeff......way to tease us.

Drove mine for the first time in a week. I drove the forester for a long weekend @ Road America. I think we averaged 29.1 mpg for the trip which I felt was pretty good.

 

helped drop the subframe, gas tank, and cut out the good quarter panel before hacking up the rest of the bad '02 wrx rear clip.

 

dropped it off at flatline performance...=)

 

the stock horns were way too quiet so I upgraded them today

 

Nothing too fancy. Oil change, rear sway lube, rear strut tightening,muffler polish, car wash and vacuum.

 

Installed HIDs last night. 6000k in the high/low and 4500k in the fogs with Yellow laminex already on them..

 

Not much: cleaned/vacuumed and went after some trim rattles and noises... now mostly gone!

 

Drove it about 50 miles

 

Full turboback, injen sri and nuke conservative tune, 282/292

 

Wait, you did not have the injen sri when i tuned it?

 

Installed my new Frozen rotors and Hawk HPS pads, cleaned up the BBS's hope like hell that the new pads will help with the brake dust. Also did the brakes on my 2000 Z71, kinda funny the STI rotors are bigger than my 1/2 ton pick-up rotors. I must say that the Brembo design is much more user freindly in comparison to the GM design. Would have loved to take the STI for a test drive, but I broke that very last caliper bolt when tourqing it and all of the stores were closed. I guess I'll have to wait till tomorrow.

 

^^^I found the HPS pads much better than the stockers w/brake dust.

Also 3 of 4 of the last posts are from drivers of cgm sti's, not a big deal but kinda funny.

 

gotta love the CGM!!

 

I'm not sure if I had it on then nuke?

 

Took it out to play with some new friends.

Not one, but *two* white RA-R in this picture...



And this is me parked behind an RB320...



I'll start a thread later for the story and lots more pictures

Stuart.

 

omfg..

 

Can't wait! You share some of the best of both.

 

dropped the rear subframe.

 

Decided the XT6 needs help before the 4runner will be driveable. Crap.

on the list. KYB GR2 shocks/struts all around, Eibach 250lb/in springs for the back, stock GD WRX for the front. EJ front knuckles/axles. v1 WRX brakes (of the 276mm variety, so they will still fit under my 15" steelies next winter). Also timing belt, water pump, and tstat. hopefully that solves (or lessens) my cooling issue with the single core radiator.

 

Fabbed up the catback and hitch setup. Ready to tow the bike for the MAP Proving Ground weekend.

 

dropped gas tank

 

Wasn't sure if I would be able to make it Sunday to thunderdan's so I baked and cleared up my headlights. Driver's side turned out great...passenger side not so much, and added a sexy new yellow logo

 

I picked up a set of 04 BBS wheels for a good price.

One of them hit a curb fairly hard, looks drivable still however.

 

i really like the spoiler on the left white sti. what is it?

 

The S204

 

mesa want

 

I bought a new motor for it

 

nice!

 

Yesterday actually...spent 11 hours washing, claying, removing tar, removing old wax from back trim, washing windows, cleaning interior, 303ing interior, waxing wheels, polishing exhaust tips, (taking a lunch break), and now I don't want to drive it and get it dirty. And I hurt in a variety of places...it sucks getting old.