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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Legacy

· #141 · Mar 26, 2010

Swapped the coilovers on this weekend and just came inside from doing a 4 wheel alignment in the garage. Took me 2.5hrs, not bad considering the front tie rod bolts get rusted on and sieze. Went for a test drive and its straight as an arrow + steering wheel points straight.

nine7oh

· #142 · Mar 26, 2010

just swapped to coilovers, SLAMMED!! alignment tomorrow!

BlueRidgeGrl

Discussion Starter · #143 · Mar 26, 2010

Damn all you guys and your coilovers!!! I'll just convince myself Im happy with my saggy a$$ wrx setup...

lol!

Elmy

· #144 · Mar 26, 2010

BlueRidgeGrl said:
Damn all you guys and your coilovers!!! I'll just convince myself Im happy with my saggy a$$ wrx setup... lol!

put on a couple of lift blocks on the rear should do some good there. Ofc like everything else it costs money.

Snoshado

· #145 · Mar 26, 2010

Drove to this parking lot with a friend after work and... Learned to drive stick in her jeep!! : D

-RC-

· #146 · Mar 26, 2010

Drove to work, went to the tint shop for an appointment, to the Subaru dealer and back home:biggrin:

pleiad7

· #147 · Mar 26, 2010

Snoshado said:
Drove to this parking lot with a friend after work and... Learned to drive stick in her jeep!! : D

That sounds dirty. :lol:

mike5335

· #148 · Mar 26, 2010

Installed:
1) seatback cargo net
2) chrome exhaust finishers and
3) cargo area floor mat
All this morning. All came from subarupartswarehouse.com and arrived last night. Had to call them, absolutely could not find the "dimples" that are the markers for the cargo net mounts that require drilling a 1/2 inch hole...they are there but it almost takes a magnifying glass to locate them.

Haven't painted the mufflers yet...there is a home project (fixing some water damage) that has to some first. Darn!

Elmy

· #149 · Mar 26, 2010

pleiad7 said:
That sounds dirty. :lol:

Doh, I did not think of it that way. :lol:

Snoshado said:
Drove to this parking lot with a friend after work and... Learned to drive stick in her jeep!! : D

Dude, your a dirty man :raspberry:

MudRunner

· #150 · Mar 27, 2010

pleiad7 said:
That sounds dirty. :lol:

That's what I thought. :lol:

I changed all of her lubricants, and took her out for a nice drive, then brought her home, and washed her, dried her, and put her to bed for the night.

Diff fluids were gross... I think the dealer had been skipping that part of the service. :chair: ATF looked good though.

YoGeorge

· #151 · Mar 27, 2010

I got over 29 mpg!

After almost 2 years of ownership of my '09 FX with a stick and averaging 24-26 mpg, I did an economy run.

My wife was working this evening, I was a bit bored, so I did a solo freeway spin to the outlet mall about 65 miles away. I reset the dash mileage readout just before I got on the freeway, was running Costco regular gas (probably with ethanol) and did my best to hold speed between 60 and 65. Oh yeah, I did change my air filter element yesterday as well.

When I got home, it was reading ~130 miles and 28.5 mpg. I've got 215/70x16 tires on it, so adding 3%, this should be a fairly legit 29.2 mpg.

I passed NOBODY and spent the whole trip being scared to death that I would be rear ended and killed, so I will basically NEVER do that again....but it can be done. My wife has an '07 Civic and a 43 mile 1-way commute (mostly along that same stretch of road), and she regularly gets 34-36 mpg driving 70-80 (bit worse with winter gas).

George

BlueRidgeGrl

Discussion Starter · #152 · Mar 27, 2010

Productive day! The rear sway and whiteline mouting brackets are on the foz! Feels much nicer around corners. And I've got a headache from baking the bugeye headlights! lol. Too much paint fumes for me I guess, but they look beeeutiful! I will put a few pics up tonight.. I also smoked the turn signals on the bugeye as well. Let me tell ya.. Blacking out those headlights takes ALOT of patience! The forester will be either tomorrow or next weekend
:banana::banana::banana:
yeeeaaahhh!

neoshi

· #153 · Mar 27, 2010

oh dear...

i looked at my forester, looked at my mods/maintenance board, actually re-greased the brakes, and then said "BALLS!" and went upstairs to play on the ps3.

1 down, 23 items to go.

SubieOutlaw

· #154 · Mar 27, 2010

Took it offroading. Washed it. Took it offroading to go mountain biking. I am sooooooooooooooo out of shape.

Snoshado

· #155 · Mar 27, 2010

Drove it to work, hit a fat jump and jumped over Lake Tahoe, got a car wash, drove home and now I'm going to go take all of my personal belongings out of it because this is the last day I'll be driving it :'(

ben_0614

· #156 · Mar 28, 2010

thebeephaha said:
Went to West Seattle and shot on the first really beautiful day this year:

I see we have another Apple Wheel Drive guy on the board too!

:biggrin::banana::banana:

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BlueRidgeGrl

Discussion Starter · #157 · Mar 28, 2010

5

alright.. heres a before and after of the bugeye. I must say, I like the dark look on it =)
I got an extra special surprise behind the grill though.... a fancy jerry rigged headlight bracket...:/ Guess I gotta get some EDMs now!? (the car is drrrrty rt now)

BEFORE:

AFTER:

Bumper, taillights, trunk and sideskirt/fender flares

sorry to pic whore... just excited how well the bug is coming together! And just a FYI, baking/blacking headlights is a PITA!! :biggrin:

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MudRunner

· #158 · Mar 28, 2010

Drove it to pick up Jessi for photoshoot, did photoshoot, drove home, then drove Jessi home. lol

Mah personal favorite:

http://hphotos-snc3.fbcdn.net/hs053.snc3/14101_104380009599392_104372686266791_60115_5095560_n.jpg

neoshi

· #159 · Mar 28, 2010

MudRunner said:
Drove it to pick up Jessi for photoshoot, did photoshoot, drove home, then drove Jessi home. lol

Mah personal favorite:

http://hphotos-snc3.fbcdn.net/hs053.snc3/14101_104380009599392_104372686266791_60115_5095560_n.jpg

:lol:

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2.5x_sleeper

· #160 · Mar 28, 2010

MudRunner said:
Drove it to pick up Jessi for photoshoot, did photoshoot, drove home, then drove Jessi home. lol

Mah personal favorite:

http://hphotos-snc3.fbcdn.net/hs053.snc3/14101_104380009599392_104372686266791_60115_5095560_n.jpg

Something wrong with that link... won't scroll up! :wink:

Bobby...

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