What did you do to your subie today?

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BlueRidgeGrl

Discussion Starter · Mar 20, 2010

Thought it would be fun to start a thread on everyday things we do here and there to our beloved Subarus. The weather is getting nicer, so I'm sure we will all be outside more tinkering on our cars.
(if this is a repost, please delete it)

Today has been a busy day for me! Got my Dunlop Direzza Sport Z1 tires in yesterday from Tirerack for the Sti and had them mounted and balanced today by a real cool guy off of Nasioc. If anyone wants his info in the PNW PM me. He runs a legit business out of his home doing tire stuff n such, for a really good deal. But let me tell ya, these tires are STICKY!!! They pick up gravel everywhere but they are SOOOoo nice! It feels like a different car

When I got back from joyriding the STi in it's new tires, I washed the Forester (for the second time this week) and finally got around to hand waxing it. Looks pretty, but boy is there a lot of bumps and bruises on it!

What did you guys do to the subarus today?? :biggrin:

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Blue Fox

· #661 · May 23, 2010

thebeephaha said:
Man... that seems to happen every other day for you (kidding). :icon_sad: You think something else is causing it? I know you had a lot of "fun" with your engine after reading your journal. Maybe there is an underlying issue?

BTW the rear sway I got from you went on great!

Well, I'm thinking that when all that mud/pebbles got into the timing belt covers when it was submerged, the belt somehow got stretched (Because that's when it jumped 3 teeth), and that's when all of these problems started happening. (well, I guess one problem, just happens over and over :biggrin

. I'm a master to get to the timing belt though. 10 minutes and I'm to the covers, and it now takes me only 5 minutes to time it perfectly. :biggrin: I'll probably just cough up the $110 bucks for a new belt and pray that there's nothing else wrong.

And I'm glad to see you're happy with the sway bar, it was good to me, but not when off-road. :icon_wink:

Jarema

· #662 · May 23, 2010

New KYB struts on swifts actually done yesterday and rally armor ur's installed on Friday!

snowdance38

· #663 · May 23, 2010

Hugh Jass said:
Snowdance, it's 2000cc.I have just a few pics at the moment, I will have loads more on Monday.

Everything from this:

Is going into this:

Interior before:

Interior afterwards:

Thats some real HP for a 2 L engine.. Looks like you are doing great.. Sure making a big change..

But we got to do some thing to teach you which side the steering goes.. Grin.. I have been there several times over the years and it drives me crazy trying to drive with the steering on the wrong side and every one on the wrong side of the road.. Or are we on the wrong side ????

Snowdance

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Hugh Jass

· #664 · May 23, 2010

It was Dyno tested a few years ago at 301 bhp and that was running very low boost. It will be mapped to run at 1.5 bar so it should easily it 330bhp without any fuss.

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imprezu

· #665 · May 23, 2010

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Here are pics of my new headunit.

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Elmy

· #666 · May 23, 2010

^It was you who bought the avh-p4200. right?
You like it?

Tuned200

· #667 · May 23, 2010

Un installed my custom intake.....ugh

CalamityConcept

· #668 · May 24, 2010

Installed a seibon c-west carbon scoop replica (CWII). Fit wasn't all that great, but not all that terrible. And gave her a bath and a nice vacuum! So fresh so clean:biggrin:

-RC-

· #669 · May 24, 2010

Tried to install the Green performance filter, wich didn't fit

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MudRunner

· #670 · May 24, 2010

Tuned200 said:
Un installed my custom intake.....ugh

Wha? Something wrong?

pleiad7

· #671 · May 25, 2010

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Wessneroo

· #672 · May 25, 2010

Fixed the rear hatch rattle with a little bit of foam tape. Silent cargo area now, well, for a Foz.

TonW07

· #673 · May 25, 2010

The subaru made me proud today.

To get to the good fishing spot I had to go over a pretty steep hill to get there, which wasn't a problem. My buddy then took the forester back over it to go to town to get some worms and a case of beer.

While he was gone, some guys in a 4x4 gmc sonoma tried to come over to the same area. They tried three times but couldn't quite make it. Right then my buddy showed back up so they moved out of the way and said "Go ahead, I wanna see you try this".... First try he made it over.

They tried one more time and couldn't do it. Then left. It was awesome.:icon_cool:

(Attached a quick cell phone pic of coming over the hill from the fishing hole)

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good dog

· #674 · May 25, 2010

pleiad7 said:

Hhhmmm, looks like this should be moved to Member Mishaps (?)

Wyldcat89

· #675 · May 25, 2010

TonW07 said:
The subaru made me proud today.

To get to the good fishing spot I had to go over a pretty steep hill to get there, which wasn't a problem. My buddy then took the forester back over it to go to town to get some worms and a case of beer.

While he was gone, some guys in a 4x4 gmc sonoma tried to come over to the same area. They tried three times but couldn't quite make it. Right then my buddy showed back up so they moved out of the way and said "Go ahead, I wanna see you try this".... First try he made it over.

They tried one more time and couldn't do it. Then left. It was awesome.:icon_cool:

(Attached a quick cell phone pic of coming over the hill from the fishing hole)

WOOT WOOT!!!

shalootm

· #676 · May 27, 2010 (Edited)

installed fog lights in the sports bumper lower opening and strut bar

SubieOutlaw

· #677 · May 27, 2010

What did I do with my Subie today................................nothing. The wife and kids have it in Campbell River while I drive a piece of crap Jetta.

blackOnblack

· #678 · May 27, 2010

changed the oil + filter in under 10 minutes. Thank you fumoto valve.

Blue Fox

· #679 · May 27, 2010

Roommate decided it would be a perfect spot to put the trash can half way into my parking spot on the drive way......and I backed into it.......and it was full of heavy trash......which all scattered about the road.

Dented my liftgate, and I made him clean it up at 5am.

Whatever idiot city official decided that matte-black plastic is a good color for a freaking trash can is retarded.

scootarida1

· #680 · May 27, 2010

cleaned my engine bay, wax comes tomarrow

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