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I used to get pulled regularly when driving home at 3.30 am. Then I just used to see the Police cars in the same spot I got pulled but they would just look up and smile after they got used to the car. Although I have changed car a few times over the years, the type of car hasn't changed and I've not been pulled for a long time. I live in coventry, West Midlands but travel through Warwickshire and Leicestershire to work.

I got a phone call first thing this morning from the machine shop who are going to do my heads. They were just making sure they had the right information and that I was happy with what they were doing. For me, that's great customer service and it also means they probably started work on them today. :)

It's still one of the most stolen cars in the UK. It probably isn't you that they target, it's probably the actual car model. The other thing is that a while ago! a proportion of Subarus were driven by what can best be described as not so caring drivers, if you get my drift. unfortunately, that has left the cars with a bit of a stigma. It's like most things, a very small minority have ruined it for the rest of us.

I've not played with a newer model but on all the older ones you hold the great stick through the gaiter and unscrew the knob.

Welcome along fella. Sorry to hear of the bad luck you have had so far I appreciate the weather you have at the moment, but Subarus are right at home in the snow. Put some pictures up when you get chance. :)

I've spent loads of time in Devon. On Dartmoor particularly. Fantastic scenery and great pubs :)

Good work on the console. Not to my personal taste but I appreciate the work that goes in to things like that. Looks super smooth.

The oil pump is a tough decision. I have heard so many different schools of thought on different sizes. Whichever option I look at, I see arguments for and against. I may just have to go with what I feel is right, which would be the 11mm. The plan at this stage is go fmic from the start. I don't have one yet but I don't have a single entry tmic either so I may as well go front mount. I also need to get an Impreza style radiator and expansion tank. In fact, I still have quite a few smaller items to get.

Hahaha. Yep, plenty of pictures to come. :)

What time I have between now and when the heads come back, I will refresh the short motor and fit the new pistons and head studs. Plenty to be getting on with. I must remember to buy some new valve stem seals too.

It sounds like your rear brakes are sticking. It can be cured by taking the pads out and cleaning the slider mechanism. Grease the rod before putting the caliper back on. I've only ever experienced it on front brakes, but the way you describe it, it sounds like rears.

Yay, Christmas/postman arrived, :) And the contents: Gaskets and heads have been dropped at the machine shop. They are going to fit the work in around other work so it can take up to two weeks. That's fine by me. Over the next two weeks, I won't have a lot of time to work on it anyway, and doing it this way, I'm getting a bit of a discount.

We have booked to go to the states in September. We are going to drive most of old Route 66 and once we get to the west coast, head north on the pacific coast highway to San Francisco. Have to say, I'm really looking forward to it. Also, probably going back to the Nurburgring in May. That's not a holiday though. That's just R&D :)

Those three items: Burning it = blue smoke, Dropping it = oil on the floor under the car and/or car wet with oil Head gaskets= milky, mayonnaise type stuff in the oil filler neck, and oily film in the coolant, Are about all that can happen to oil to make it disappear. Have you got tinted rear windows, would you notice blue smoke over ordinary coloured smoke?

I've gone for the 4032's for exactly that reason. I can't stand piston slap, although it s a different type of sound, every time I hear it, it takes my mind straight to big ends knocking.

Living room time complete. :) Orders placed so I just have to wait for the post for the next few days to see what turns up. Then I can get the heads off to the machine shop. Ooh, getting exciting now To get this moving along, I have ordered some Mahle powerpak pistons, which come with pins and rings. Cosworth head gaskets and ARP head bolt set.

The twin turbo vac system is way over complicated. The simple way is to simply rip it all out and instal the tiny vac system from an Impreza. The twin turbo loom can be very simply converted to single turbo by changing four wires at the ecu. (I have a friendly guru with more knowledge than me on that) The ecu I already have is one that can be readily converted by ESL so that's not a problem.

I've not done one but I have read about a few conversions. Apparently, you can get an adapter plate that mates the subaru engine directly to the VW gearbox. Most of the ones I've heard about are non turbo engines, although I'm sure a turbo version has been done.

You can. Well, you can in a bus anyway. Not sure if you have the room in a beetle.

Well done. Glad to hear it's fixed. If there's one thing I hate working with, it's gearboxes so fair play to you. :)

The standard legacy injectors are 440 which should be ok for the base map. I will need larger ones for the mapping session though. I already have a higher spec fuel pump and am expecting to need a swirl pot/extra pumps when I go to second phase. We'll have to see. It's not that easy finding larger side feed injectors. Converting to top feed may be the way to go, as well as parallel fuel rails. especially as I already have some freshly flowed 660's The SCD should be good for my aims. The problem may be that that my aims get bigger eventually, but I'll cross that bridge much later on :)

It's just the ball joint. You don't need a wishbone

I know it's an advert, but WOW!. What a video.

As promised. Next update time :) First some info before news of the work. I've managed to obtain the rotated up and down pipes required to cope with the GT35. I still need an exhaust manifold to suit and a wastegate. I have now decided to do this build in phases. In the first phase, I will build the long motor and configure it to run a single TD series turbo with standard pipework. Second phase, once the I'm happy with the motor pulling good and strong, I will pull the pipework and turbo off and fit the rotated pipes and the GT35. Whatever I do from here on in, I will need to have the ecu sent away and an ESL board fitting to allow mapping. It will come back from ESL with a base map which will simply allow the car to run off boost. It can then be mapped for the TD series turbo and later, the map can be tweeted for the GT. Doing it this way is a win win situation. It means I get the car on the road this spring, all things being equal. It also gives me time to run the engine without putting excess strain on it from the start. It also gives me more time to find the right parts at the right price. So, onwards to today's work. :) Pulled the EJ25 block out of storage and mounted it on the engine stand. It's still wrapped up to protect it for now though. For the eagle eyed amongst you, the black crank is visible which can only mean one thing. It's a nitrided item :) Next, I unwrapped the heads to be stripped down. I needed to remove everything from them so that they can be sent to the machine shop, so here's the first valve coming out. Here's a shot of the mating face of the head, as it is now. So, the next steps will be done from the comfort of the living room. Ordering bits :) I need to order some forged pistons. The block I have has the original subaru ones in, but I'm reliably informed that these particular ones are about at there limits at 350bhp. Once I have made the decision on which pistons, I can then work out which thickness of head gasket to get. Once I have the head gaskets, the heads will go the machine shop and the heads will be machined to suit the block, all internal sharp edges you can see in the picture will be feathered and smoothed to avoid hotspots and then the heads wil be skimmed, polished and ported. Oh, yeah, I think I forgot to mention. This will be a 2.5 bottom end with 2.0 heads, which is why they need so much machine work.

Hi and welcome along. 40mpg!!!! You are just not trying are you? That car should easily be capable of 20mpg :)