Who here owns a Subaru?

Rybo89 said:
I am with Greenlight on the vxr. Sure i asked in the past and they fobbed me off saying i haven't had experience with 4WD so they will not insure me?
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I had to have experience of RWD or 4WD before they'd touch me, but as we've owned 2 mx5's and i'd already insured the impreza with Admiral previously they were fine and gave me a good price.
 
ScoobyDoo69 said:
How odd.

I've only ever been asked about experience with a car of this sort when I was 19...
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Keith Michaels do the same, except they want you to have driven for at least a year in car with 200+ (or so) bhp. It keeps premiums down by allowing people to crash, when not used to he vehicle, whilst insured by someone else. Conditions over such cars are getting stricter.
 
Fair enough.

If anyone asks my experience of Subarus then at last I can say for the near 8 years of driving I have owned one, and have experience of driving them at all different models/powers from driving others cars etc.
 
Im missing my induction noise. I get a very slight noise from the K&N panel filter, but nothing to the extent that i had with my old cossie.

I know that i wont get any benefits from having a cone filter over a panel, thats not the aim or point.

I also have read that a remap will needed to be completed. This is the limit of my knowledge, i know about the MAF sensor being very sensitive with regards to fitment of cone airfilters.

Ideally i would prefer to go back to a GGR airfilter. They are big, but no point in having a small airfilter IMO.

I take it a GGR would fit ?? What silicone hose would i need ?

What are the other options ??

I know about the K&N Typhoon cone airfilter system, are there any other options ??
 
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G4ORCE said:
I needed the motivation to have my username changed, thank you! :D

She sold for £8700 with about 42K on clock
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At least you made profit! Good luck with whatever you go to next:)

I was having fun in the snow in an empty car park the other night, playing with the DCCD is a lot of fun:D RWD Scooby FTW!
 
ReAPeR101 said:
Im missing my induction noise. I get a very slight noise from the K&N panel filter, but nothing to the extent that i had with my old cossie.

I know that i wont get any benefits from having a cone filter over a panel, thats not the aim or point.

I also have read that a remap will needed to be completed. This is the limit of my knowledge, i know about the MAF sensor being very sensitive with regards to fitment of cone airfilters.

Ideally i would prefer to go back to a GGR airfilter. They are big, but no point in having a small airfilter IMO.

I take it a GGR would fit ?? What silicone hose would i need ?

What are the other options ??

I know about the K&N Typhoon cone airfilter system, are there any other options ??
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Honestly.. unless you get a big turbo, and blank off the dumpvalve, you will not get much induction noise. No where near old school Cossie noises at least!

But yeah really need a remap with these as it really alters the MAF readings. Find something that doesn't need a different induction hose, as the standard one helps introduce a bit of turbulence which helps keep turbo surge at bay. The VF35 being a very surgey turbo with big induction kits (speaking from my own experience here.)

If you do go the induction kit route, ensure to have a good cold air feed. I even made a heatshield around mine, helps inlet temps for sure.
 
ScoobyDoo69 said:
If you do go the induction kit route, ensure to have a good cold air feed. I even made a heatshield around mine, helps inlet temps for sure.
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I have the Hyperflow intake, which lives in the driver's side wing, in front of the wheel arch. As such, it's getting cold air from outside, and you can really hear the air going in because it's so close - to the point where most first-time passengers want to know what the noise is. This picture shows how it is piped in:

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That's an old pic, from before the front mount, but you can see the pipe running across the top and down into the the old intake hole into the wing. Obviously you need to take the old resonator box out, but then you don't need it anyway.
 
Yes, inner wing ones are great for getting cool air!

Yours surely makes much more noise due to the bigger turbo though?

Don't really have a lot of induction noise on mine. Despite a rather large RCM cone filter.
 
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ScoobyDoo69 said:
Yes, inner wing ones are great for getting cool air!

Yours surely makes much more noise due to the bigger turbo though?

Don't really have a lot of induction noise on mine. Despite a rather large RCM cone filter.
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You can hear it at 3000rpm, when boost is only part-on.
 
Looking to by a new age wrx wagon. What are the running cost / reliability like? also is it worth holding out for a ppp?
 
My last full tank gave me a magical 16.4mpg.

OTT: I'm buying a front splitter for my car. Should finish it off nicely :)
 
Almost done 10k miles in my Scooby now, been great and a lot of fun, servicing time soon. I think I may change and upgrade in the Summer though. I've scratched the itch and think I want to try as many different types of cars whilst I can. Am going on a European trip in June though which will be great fun!

Any ideas of what I should go to next?
 
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