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12-22-2016, 10:10 AM | #3776 |
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Join Date: Apr 2007
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MAIC
Location: Middle River, Maryland
Vehicle:2015 Honda Accord |
I didn't even realize you brought it to BWW... and I walked past it
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12-22-2016, 12:14 PM | #3777 |
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Member#: 343041
Join Date: Jan 2013
Chapter/Region:
South East
Location: riverview
Vehicle:2013 sti white |
Getting a 2015 steering rack on a 2010 STi. 2010 cracked :/
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12-22-2016, 02:11 PM | #3778 |
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Member#: 164584
Join Date: Nov 2007
Chapter/Region:
MAIC
Location: Virginia Beach, VA
Vehicle:2019 STi Limited Silver |
Fixed my front spoiler last night and drove it to work today. Amazing. So glad to have an STi again. Beautiful weather too.
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12-22-2016, 04:24 PM | #3779 |
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Member#: 426326
Join Date: Jul 2015
Chapter/Region:
MAIC
Location: Rockville, MD
Vehicle:2008 Impreza WRX Dark Grey Metallic |
Installed Cobb SF Intake & loaded TP stage 1 map. Log data looks great so far.
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12-27-2016, 08:52 PM | #3780 |
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Member#: 440354
Join Date: Feb 2016
Chapter/Region:
MAIC
Location: Winchester, VA
Vehicle:2004 STI Blue |
Insurance and tags. She's back on the road. Woot!
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12-28-2016, 07:29 AM | #3781 |
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Member#: 441809
Join Date: Mar 2016
Chapter/Region:
MAIC
Location: SS, Md.
Vehicle:2007 WRX Wagon WRB |
Rebuilt my front Calipers.
I knew they needed it when I bought the car up in April, but I had no idea they were this bad. 5 of the 8 pistons were stuck. Brake feel has improved a bit. |
12-28-2016, 01:31 PM | #3782 |
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Member#: 111819
Join Date: Apr 2006
Chapter/Region:
MAIC
Location: VA
Vehicle:2009 WRX Satin White Pearl |
Cobb stage 2 installed.
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12-28-2016, 07:57 PM | #3783 |
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Member#: 164584
Join Date: Nov 2007
Chapter/Region:
MAIC
Location: Virginia Beach, VA
Vehicle:2019 STi Limited Silver |
Wash, clay bar. Wax tomorrow.
13 year old paint...suprised how good of shape its in depite its small inperfections. |
12-28-2016, 08:42 PM | #3784 |
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Member#: 454620
Join Date: Sep 2016
Location: Maggie Valley, NC
Vehicle:2017 WRX Red |
Went to Lowe's hardware aisle, drawer K6 and bought 3/8 plastic plugs to fill the factory holes in my front bumper. Painted with the free touch up paint provided at purchase (I know, not really free). $1.38 is much better than $25 one of the Subaru aftermarket parts house wants. Thanks NASIOC!
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12-29-2016, 12:23 AM | #3785 |
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Member#: 386070
Join Date: Mar 2014
Location: Northern Virginia
Vehicle:2015 WRX Limited WRB |
OEM rain guards!
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12-29-2016, 09:32 AM | #3786 |
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Member#: 145105
Join Date: Apr 2007
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Location: Middle River, Maryland
Vehicle:2015 Honda Accord |
Dropped it off at the dealership this morning.
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12-31-2016, 07:42 PM | #3787 |
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Member#: 120
Join Date: Jul 1999
Chapter/Region:
AKIC
Location: Where the Navy sends me...
Vehicle:1997 Legacy 2.5GT 1996 Impreza coupe |
Fixing some things on the '96 Brighton coupe that I picked up a couple weeks ago:
- Installed new strut top mounts front and rear. Went with KYB from Rock Auto, they look to be good quality. Time will tell... Old fronts were pretty worn out. Rears may not have needed replacing, but I figured it couldn't hurt. The new mounts definitely makes a noticeable improvement in ride quality, which I wasn't expecting (I just wanted to get rid of the popping and binding in the front top mount bearings). - Threw on my gold V7 STi wheels with Hankook winter tires. Green (well, mostly) and gold looks so damn good! - Removed the kludged together WAI and replaced it with a factory filter box and intake from the junkyard. Also removed two catch cans - one for the PCV, one for the valve cover breathers. Tomorrow I'll be heading to Crazy Ray's for a couple miscellaneous bits and pieces. Most notable is a larger rear swaybar - should be able to grab an 18mm off a Legacy Outback. I'm rockin' a 13mm rear bar now, so the 18mm should be a very noticeable difference! |
01-01-2017, 01:48 PM | #3788 |
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Member#: 23390
Join Date: Aug 2002
Chapter/Region:
MAIC
Location: Maryland
Vehicle:2010 WRX STI SE WRB |
I have a FSB from 06 WRX wagon, if that would be useful. Free for pickup in 20878.
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01-01-2017, 10:29 PM | #3789 | |
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Member#: 120
Join Date: Jul 1999
Chapter/Region:
AKIC
Location: Where the Navy sends me...
Vehicle:1997 Legacy 2.5GT 1996 Impreza coupe |
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Also grabbed some of the clips that hold the grille on, so that is now properly affixed. And a new battery tray and battery hold-down bracket, an HVAC panel, a new hood latch, and a leather steering wheel. Not a bad day! |
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01-03-2017, 11:11 PM | #3790 |
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Member#: 120
Join Date: Jul 1999
Chapter/Region:
AKIC
Location: Where the Navy sends me...
Vehicle:1997 Legacy 2.5GT 1996 Impreza coupe |
Installed the leather steering wheel, battery tray, battery hold-down, some new windshield washer nozzles (that I had also grabbed at the junkyard), and fiddled around with installing some new horns (big boy horns from a Caddy or something like that to replace the single, anemic stock one). Got too late to finish the horns, so I'll have to do that tomorrow.
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01-04-2017, 05:08 PM | #3791 |
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Member#: 295615
Join Date: Sep 2011
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MAIC
Location: SmithVEGAS
Vehicle:2017 WRX Premium Pure Red |
What did you really do to your car today? V3.1
Installed my Subaru rain visors I picked up over the weekend.
Also got my estimate on my front end damage due to flying cardboard on 264. Car is getting fixed beginning of February. Nothing like filing my first claim on my one month old car. Oh and made an appointment for tint for Saturday. Anniversary gift from the gf. |
01-04-2017, 08:14 PM | #3792 |
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Member#: 120
Join Date: Jul 1999
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Location: Where the Navy sends me...
Vehicle:1997 Legacy 2.5GT 1996 Impreza coupe |
Got the big boy horns installed. Nothing special, one in front of the battery (where the weak stock horn was) and one on the opposite site (where the ABS would be on an ABS car).
Also took advantage of the "warm" weather and threw some paint on a new mid-pipe. Flanges on the existing mid-pipe are heavily corroded, to the point the front flange (where the donut gasket is) actually has a big hole in it, and the rear flange is flaking away. The new pipe is just a non-stainless Walker replacement, so nothing special. My experience with non-stainless piping is that it actually holds up pretty well, but the flanges, hangers, and welds rust. So, I put a couple coats of high temp primer and high temp engine paint on those areas. Hopefully I can install the pipe this weekend. |
01-04-2017, 08:27 PM | #3793 | |
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Member#: 74392
Join Date: Nov 2004
Chapter/Region:
MAIC
Location: Virginia
Vehicle:2010 STI DGM |
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Today, I checked my oil level. It's too high, but I'd rather that than be too low on this glass-piston EJ255... |
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01-05-2017, 06:30 AM | #3794 |
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Member#: 295615
Join Date: Sep 2011
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Location: SmithVEGAS
Vehicle:2017 WRX Premium Pure Red |
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01-05-2017, 10:59 AM | #3795 | |
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Member#: 145105
Join Date: Apr 2007
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Location: Middle River, Maryland
Vehicle:2015 Honda Accord |
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didn't think cardboard would mess a car up that bad... |
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01-05-2017, 11:43 AM | #3796 | |
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Join Date: Sep 2011
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Location: SmithVEGAS
Vehicle:2017 WRX Premium Pure Red |
What did you really do to your car today? V3.1
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Well that's what it looked like to me. It was the interstate and I had no time to do anything but hit it while it was in the air. Did look like it had some of those hardcore white box straps around it still too. Of course. I used the authentic JDM ones I had on my 08 Si. Looks hella dope. Waiting on the red Subaru badges to come in. |
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01-06-2017, 03:34 PM | #3797 |
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Join Date: Jan 2017
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Location: Hanover, MD
Vehicle:72 Chevy Nova |
Does it have to be a Subaru?
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01-07-2017, 06:33 PM | #3798 |
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Member#: 120
Join Date: Jul 1999
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Vehicle:1997 Legacy 2.5GT 1996 Impreza coupe |
- Swapped out the rear sway bar with the 18mm bar I grabbed at the junkyard, and installed front and rear Kartboy end links while I was at it.
- Revamped the exhaust, which mostly consisted of installing a new mid-pipe, which I lengthened by ~2" using a pipe adapter from Autozone and a couple band clamps. The mid-pipe was an original 2.5RS piece from a '98, I believe. The axle-back is an STI muffler. When I got the car, the front hanger on the muffler had 2 rubber hangers daisy-chained together: The hanger on the mid-pipe was about 3" too low: The mid-pipe was too short (if I unthreaded that bolt, the flanges would spring apart almost 2"): And the flanges at both ends of the mid-pipe were seriously degraded by rust issues: So, I removed the extra rubber hanger from the front muffler hanger, which got the inlet of the axle-back up where it's supposed to be. That, in turn, allowed the mid-pipe to be up where it's supposed to be. I cut the new mid-pipe aft of the hanger, installed the little extension piece, and clamped it all together. Yeah, I could've paid someone to weld the extension in there, but the band clamps will do the trick just fine. Edit: And no, I did not remove the shipping label that Rock Auto wrapped around the mid-pipe. It'll help protect the steel from road debris! Last edited by Patrick Olsen; 01-07-2017 at 06:42 PM. |
01-07-2017, 06:45 PM | #3799 |
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Join Date: Sep 2011
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Vehicle:2017 WRX Premium Pure Red |
What did you really do to your car today? V3.1
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01-08-2017, 07:43 PM | #3800 |
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Member#: 120
Join Date: Jul 1999
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AKIC
Location: Where the Navy sends me...
Vehicle:1997 Legacy 2.5GT 1996 Impreza coupe |
Today's project was brakes, so back to the auto hobby shop on the base I went. Unfortunately, I only got 1/2 as much done as I wanted, because I failed to do my homework properly ahead of time. I was told the car had '02 WRX brakes, and I knew that was a transition year for front calipers. KNS Brakes has a handy page with pictures of the calipers so you can figure out what you've got - https://www.knsbrakes.com/c/static-wrx-pad-shape.
So, based on their pics I knew I had the D721 style front calipers. The rear calipers don't have quite as obvious a visual cue to look for, but based on the table on KNS's page, silly me assumed that I had the D770 style rear calipers. I bought "H6" caliper brackets and rotors to do the H6 upgrade since I thought I already had the right calipers. Turns out, I don't have the D770 calipers, so the brackets and pads I bought for the rear won't work with the calipers I've got. Need to pick up some of the correct calipers, and then I can do the rears. I did check the left rear, I think the piston was jammed up a bit, but I got it to move. So, today I: - Replaced the front pads. - Flushed and bled the brakes front and rear. The color of the old fluid was about the same as iced tea. - Found a leak from one of the hard lines on the PS rack at a fitting. Looking at the parts diagram for the rack, the hard line is available separately (which is good - don't have to get a whole rack), and there's an o-ring at that fitting, so hopefully that'll be a relatively easy fix. |
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