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I haven't shopped about for prices that's just a figure I saw . Tbh after £6k on a van to chuck plaster in the back I think I'd be sleeping in it if I spent anymore cash for a while [emoji23]

Yeah it's better than white or silver and my vdub bud has already offered me a set of freshly painted 19's for peanuts to fill the arches lol

All I can tell you is it's a 1.6 tdi with 102 ps 250flbs as standard . Strangely enough I might have already stumbled across the "flash " map [emoji6] I'd never considered modding my work van and wouldn't normally consider a genric map ....... but I will admit for a £400 flash map you get 140 hp 310 flbs , so I won't say that I'll never get it done on the dirty derv dub [emoji39]

Yeah, ex bg van 66k, fsh ,6 doors . My old combo van was a low milage ex bg and I had it 7 yrs it was as good as gold . Tbh it's probably a bit too nice to chuck my plastering tools in . I just hope the "wheelie bin blue" colour grows on me lol

Too cold to work on the scooby and not enough snow to go out for a pint of milk but I did buy it some company. In the form of a Lwb caddy work van ,i've only done 60 mls in it but i gotta say I'm quite impressed with it [emoji106] It's a 1.6 tdi with weedy 102ps but 250flbs it churns out means it's fairly nippy , well compared to my old combo van anyways [emoji39]

I like the look of preface plastics in black, being unpainted they don't stone chip too . Just spotted a few v1 bits on a f.b page "Bart rocko " the seller There's a esl ecu and apexi resonator delete amongst a few other bits 😉 https://m.facebook.com/groups/493405154066320?view=permalink&id=1411777102229116

Nice find ,bud . with a top entry tdo5 16g as standard you're a fmic , yellow injectors and a remap away from 320hp + If it's a track weapon a v1 wrx ra (Rust Altered ) will be lighter and screaming out for rust to be cut out and wide arches fitted [emoji39]

Havent had the time to investergate this properly but as temporary fix, I marked the position of the icv ,loosened it off and turned it to raise the idle too 900 ish rpm (hot idle) . Ive only Done about 100 mls of town n b road driving but it's not stalled so far . I'll still give the icv a clean at some point and let you know if it improves the idle at the original icv position .

Get some rear camber bolts before getting a geo done , if it hasn't got them on already [emoji6]

I had a bit of a play with mine as the apexi fc was already mapped for 1.5 bar before I used the avcr to control the boost. What do you wanna do bud ? If you just want a low boost setting ,if your getting a bit of overboost in higher gears , lack of boost in lower gears ect I can probably run you through what to do .

There's about 4 or 5 different types of top mount intercooler y pipes and unfortunately I've only seen the 92 to 98 ones . You'd probably be better off looking at a y pipe kit for you version / year and either buy the kit or seeing if you can work it out from what's included in the kit pictures

The small bore pipe connected to the turbo outlet is a vacuum line and pending on year /model will either go directly to the boost control solinoid or 't' into the actuator vac line. Although any bit of "vac line " of the same internal dia will be fine to replace it with, it shouldn't have oil in it . In your pic the big red aftermarket pipe connected to turbo outlet doesn't look pushed on far enough . A air leak from the turbo outlet pipework would cause a lack of boost and bad idle .

Are you fitting a boot install and a "lift pump" ? Swirlpot is on my list but I think I want it mounted in the bay .

Never really give that much thought tbh , cars are for driving imo but gambit posted this top trumps subaru on f.b today [emoji7] I'd still have to drive it though , so it's probably not worth me selling my house to buy it [emoji57]

Washed it yesterday [emoji41] Enjoyed it this morning on a 70 mile round trip [emoji5] Guess I'll be washing it again tomorrow [emoji57] [emoji23]

Nice blue banana [emoji26] Hopefully it only hurt your pride and everyone involved is ok . As said above what are you after and what's your budget ? As we enjoy spending other people's money ,as i certainly get no grief of my mrs for spending your cash.[emoji23] Best of luck with the hunt for a replacement [emoji106]

What about using the model code to see if that turns up any info about what ratio box it should have ?

No bud, it won't need tweeking in. As a newage coilpack conversion just increases spark strength to lessen the chance of a misfire and doesn't alter anything else . It's definitely a worth while mod on a early classic. If your going to get the boost upped get a later my 97 (v3 ) classic map sensor and get the mapper to fit and scale it in . As the v1/v2 map sensor maxes out at 1.2 bar whereas the v3 onwards map sensor maxes at 1.7 [emoji6]

I've got 17" rota boosts on my v1 sti and I think size wise they're ideal . As they fill the arches well enough but don't comprise traction in the twisties or chip my teeth on speed bumps . As if you go up to 18's you have to get a lower profile tyre to keep the rolling radius the same .

Ffs don't use your Mrs dishwasher [emoji15] I dare say she's miffed enough your "slow build" has turned into a gallop for ponies [emoji23] But a normal dishwasher does work [emoji39]

Hopefully one of the legacy or sport boys will know about the n/a legacy boxes . Throughout the impreza turbo range ,well from 92 to to about 07 , all manual 5 speed boxes are compatible with any rear diff of the same ratio . Even the later sti 6 speed box will work with any 5 speed diff of the same ratio as the 6 speed box . So I'd imagine, if the ratio is the same that, they would be compatible but I don't know for sure and don't want you to buy it without someone else confirming it . As I've never seen either of those codes before ,or a legacy gearbox for that matter . Best of luck getting it sorted

My engineer put the block, heads, oil cooler through his "hot wash" . Most machine shops have them ,basically they're just a massive dish washer

That's where I spotted it gaz , just knew there was a few members on here in the south east and thought I'd see how much interest there is . If there's only a few on here I'm sure chez will make room but if there's quite a few from here we could probably get our own stand sorted 😉

This popped up on a face book group and I thought that I'd give you lot the heads up. I could easily get them to squeeze a few extra scoobs on their stand . Or if there's enough interest maybe do a s.o.c stand ? Either way it looks like a cheap'ish day out as I think it's £10 per car entry fee and £25 if you want to run down the strip . Only got a link to the venue ,not the actual event atm but here it is anyways . http://www.northwealdairfield.org/Campaign/Latest_News/Events/events.html

Up to you bud , I normally give mine a coat of wax every month but only clay once in the spring . As claying removes all the polish ,wax and decontamination off the paint leaving it unprotected.