Who here owns a Subaru?
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Since the arrival of mini me a few weeks ago I’m drawn to a Forester STi.
Current car is an RS3 which is great, but not much boot space and am trying to keep it ‘nice’.
Forester looks like it would be a great utility car with plenty of room, but seems a bit silly thinking of getting one given how the RS also is a do everything car, just with a little less room
Hmm with Torque GT only down the road from me may have to pop and pay them a visit sometime to have a nose around one!
Current car is an RS3 which is great, but not much boot space and am trying to keep it ‘nice’.
Forester looks like it would be a great utility car with plenty of room, but seems a bit silly thinking of getting one given how the RS also is a do everything car, just with a little less room
Hmm with Torque GT only down the road from me may have to pop and pay them a visit sometime to have a nose around one!
Soldato
New headunit fitted, seems quite a good unit so far, has IPS screen, and you can wave at it lol
Soldato
I've got the Atoto A6 Pro. I've had to disable a load of the gestures as the unit sits a lot lower and kept doing stuff when I've changed gear. Only have the volume enabled now.
Soldato
I fitted a generic Android head unit to my car in the week. Made by Bonroad. Was actually a tad larger than Double Din so proved a bit of an arse to fit but got there in the end.
Any of you guys have any experience with the cylinder 4 cooling mod?
It's such a simple mod that surely Subaru would have done it if it had any benefit, but what are the downsides?
Calling @ScoobyDoo69 @ReAPeR101 and others
It's such a simple mod that surely Subaru would have done it if it had any benefit, but what are the downsides?
Calling @ScoobyDoo69 @ReAPeR101 and others
Man of Honour
I thought cylinder 3 was the overheating one?
Soldato
Yeah i thought it was no3, that's why when you install an oil temp gauge you use the blanking plug above that cylinder?
I never heard about a cooling mod though, i'm interested to hear more!
I never heard about a cooling mod though, i'm interested to hear more!
Cyl 3 still runs the hottest cylinder temps or EGT. Thoughts around cyl 4 are due to the shape of the exhaust ports and how the gases can cause additional heating to the head as they flow out to the manifold.
I don't know too much about it tbh, a mate of mine asked me whether it was worthwhile doing while he had his engine apart.
These videos pretty much sum it up though;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jI8t1nRW4Sg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0OLLGSk9TA
It's pretty simple, there's already a bung on the block that can be used. You just fit an M20x1.5 adapter and T into the heater matrix return hose, although from what I've read, you don't want to go too big on the hose bore that you disturb the rest of the coolant flow.
I don't know too much about it tbh, a mate of mine asked me whether it was worthwhile doing while he had his engine apart.
These videos pretty much sum it up though;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jI8t1nRW4Sg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0OLLGSk9TA
It's pretty simple, there's already a bung on the block that can be used. You just fit an M20x1.5 adapter and T into the heater matrix return hose, although from what I've read, you don't want to go too big on the hose bore that you disturb the rest of the coolant flow.
Yeah it's on my to do list to be fair.
Pretty simple but potentially effective mod and fast becoming a "must do" in the states.
Pretty simple but potentially effective mod and fast becoming a "must do" in the states.
Added Whiteline adjustable rear camber arms last week along with Whiteline camber/caster top mounts. Quite a lot more camber and caster going on now, makes the wheels look skinny. Wider wheels and tyres are on the to do list. Also detango'd the front and rear, plus gave it a good clean. I do love this paint (bar the fact that it's so thin of course!)
Also went to Caffeine and Machine last weekend with a quick drive and meet back up at Angel Tuning:
The sun was out and the paint was sparkling
Also went to Caffeine and Machine last weekend with a quick drive and meet back up at Angel Tuning:
The sun was out and the paint was sparkling
Soldato
That looks legit. I’ve always wanted one of these.My Subaru - love it, a proper drivers car with a great engine, rare too - i think only a handful of these type in the country
it for sure gets under your skin, I never had a car over 4 years but this car just delivers and in the wet its in a league of its own - this is remapped (and a full cat back SS exhaust) and its pretty nippy and sounds great, i came across this clip which is an older engine but you get the idea...the newer engines have tweaks to AVCS/AVLS timing at 2k rpm and again @ 4k rpm so it would be probably be more responsive than the one here.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7DaTDhyJ9Y&list=PL_6TbrwTr06df9YziwCHIGJPEtzlKLAR1&index=12&t=0s
Added Whiteline adjustable rear camber arms last week along with Whiteline camber/caster top mounts. Quite a lot more camber and caster going on now, makes the wheels look skinny. Wider wheels and tyres are on the to do list. Also detango'd the front and rear, plus gave it a good clean. I do love this paint (bar the fact that it's so thin of course!)
Nice STi that..
Spotted @Meridian! M65 about 2 hours ago.
First saw you at Sainsburys and was going to wave when I went past on the motorway but I was in the ZT and you probably wouldn't have recognised me.
Car still looking and sounding awesome, how many miles has it done now?
First saw you at Sainsburys and was going to wave when I went past on the motorway but I was in the ZT and you probably wouldn't have recognised me.
Car still looking and sounding awesome, how many miles has it done now?
Man of Honour
Grey/silver ZT?
130k. It's in for a service next month. It has split a rad hose and burst the radiator (separately) but otherwise is working well. Making some odd belt noises though, and the sychromesh is getting twitchy.
130k. It's in for a service next month. It has split a rad hose and burst the radiator (separately) but otherwise is working well. Making some odd belt noises though, and the sychromesh is getting twitchy.
Yep, grey 03 plate.
For some reason I thought it'd done more than that. Mine's done 95k and it never moves I remember you telling me about the rad hose the last time we met up, it's not gone again has it? I knew of an 05 STi with over 185k on the clock, so there's plenty of life left in yours I'm sure!
Do you work over that way then?
For some reason I thought it'd done more than that. Mine's done 95k and it never moves
I remember you telling me about the rad hose the last time we met up, it's not gone again has it? I knew of an 05 STi with over 185k on the clock, so there's plenty of life left in yours I'm sure!Do you work over that way then?
Man of Honour
No, it's the rad hose I told you about. And yes, I work out near Earby.