F this Forester "Build Thread"

[C-grunt]

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[kpluiten]

It's not for sale. He's building it.

[pddvl1]

Originally Posted by kpluiten

It's not for sale. He's building it.

You know it will be as soon as its done looks good so far

[C-grunt]

Originally Posted by kpluiten

It's not for sale. He's building it.

You're funny.

[Evil Imports]

Originally Posted by C-grunt

You're funny.

Honestly, it would take a very good amount for me to sell this car once it's done, I am building it to have a fun driver, and not thinking about selling

[C-grunt]

Damn.

[Evil Imports]

Old and busted



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[Z0rr0]

what did it cost to have that done?

[Evil Imports]

Originally Posted by Z0rr0

what did it cost to have that done?

$125...

[kpluiten]

Looks great! It's a seriously nice way to dress up your ride for not much money. I'd recommend it to everyone.

[learmiller]

Looks so sick man, Im headed to Washington to pick up a forester XT this weekend, hopefully to end up with something like this!

[SedonaScooby]

I'll keep my eye out for this fozzy to be done and for sale within a year....might get back into a subaru again and I know how Jay is with his cars.

Sorry the deal didnt go through though between our cars but I think its better you got this forester and get a chance to show us what you can do with it. Should be boss.

[Evil Imports]

Originally Posted by SedonaScooby

I'll keep my eye out for this fozzy to be done and for sale within a year....might get back into a subaru again and I know how Jay is with his cars.

Sorry the deal didnt go through though between our cars but I think its better you got this forester and get a chance to show us what you can do with it. Should be boss.

Its not going to be for sale, If someone wanted to give me what i feel it would be worth when its done, i would sell it, but i don't think that is going to happen

[SaabaruMike]

So you took the bolts in to have them cleaned and coated?

[SedonaScooby]

Originally Posted by Evil Imports

Its not going to be for sale, If someone wanted to give me what i feel it would be worth when its done, i would sell it, but i don't think that is going to happen

Gotcha, just have seen your history of dumping cash into cars, making them unique, then selling them to build something else.

Either way I am excited

[Evil Imports]

Originally Posted by SedonaScooby

Gotcha, just have seen your history of dumping cash into cars, making them unique, then selling them to build something else.

Either way I am excited

only car that had money dumped into it and was unique was my 04 STI (purple car) besides that, i am not sure what you are even talking about

[SedonaScooby]

Originally Posted by Evil Imports

only car that had money dumped into it and was unique was my 04 STI (purple car) besides that, i am not sure what you are even talking about

Well I saw the purple monster, guess the GTR was stock? I was newer to the SWIC but remember the purple car and had heard you've done some other cars up before hand. Guess I didnt see it, just heard wrong, that you've built other cars besides your Sti, I apologize

[Evil Imports]

Well, Got my brembos back from powdercoat, Calipers and logos are both powdercoated, Will be rebuilding them sometime in the next week or so



Also decided to get a newer STI steering wheel/airbag, as i like the newer one better and i also like having steering wheel controls

[DerickRyoung]

Seems like Evil does ALL of his own labor so that accounts for a lot of $$$ saved. Super clean work btw, I hope to see this beast in person soon now that my Bugeye is back in action.

[KP]

Originally Posted by Evil Imports

Old and busted

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[Evil Imports]

I didn't like the size of the mirrors that come on the forester, but didn't want to lose the LED blinkers. I decided to buy a set of newer STI mirrors and hope they would work, Here is how to get them to swap on

First take the Mirror off the car (i would hope you could do this, if not you shouldn't do the swap)

I took the wiring pins out of the harness clip next, Release the holders on both sides, then using a tiny screwdriver you can release the pins 1 at a time, You should keep track of what wire is in what slot in the harness clip as it will make it easier later (write it down or take a pic of each side)






Flip the mirror over and you will see 3 screws, take them out



Where the wires run threw the base on the back, move the foam and you will see a small clip holing the wires, just pull that off so you can pull the wires threw so you can take the mirror off the base (do the same with both STI mirrors and forester mirrors)

Now you will have the Base from the forester (and the mirrors from the sti)


Now put the wires threw the base again and put the 3 bottom screws back in to hold them together, You will now notice (if you didn't already) that the STI mirrors have 5 wires and the Forester had 6,

2 wires for the LED and 3 wires for mirror on STI
2 wires for the LED and 4 wires for mirror on FXT

Only difference is the forester runs both wires threw, but the STI has them connected behind the mirror itself and just runs 1 wire out, when looking at the forester plug the yellow and blue wires do the same thing, so when putting the wire pins back in the harness clip you can put the common wire in either slot,

Here is a pic of the wires back in the clip, just make sure you put the wires in the correct slot when putting them back together and everything will work



and how they look on the car, i will need to paint the covers next week but you get the idea

[Evil Imports]

i am lazy and don't feel like working on this car

[Z0rr0]

get your **** together, and start turning wrenches on the car!

you know the work will be worth it.

[SedonaScooby]

anything new?

mirrors look clean

[Z0rr0]

He got a gtr. F this forester. Lol