STIBUGEYES

Finally got a decent day with the weather and got a chance to give the car a good going over too see whatstate it was in. Now I have never claimed to be a detailer but I was happy with how it cleaned up within my abilities. I have snow foamed, Clayed polished & sealed the car. There is the usual swirls & minor scratches that will need seeing too at a later date but for the time being I wanted to prevent any further damages. The car will get looked at by someone that knows what they are doing ha ha

Forgive me as I have been having issues getting this up and have been extracting parts from my build thread so it might look a bit mixed up lol My new pride and joy is a type UK not a JDM but I am over the moon with it. I feels worlds apart from the WRX and I had forgotten how much I enjoyed my old STI. For those of you who know your number plates well these are from Ireland and no I didn’t go that far to get the car. I went to have a look at another prodrive STI that turned out to be an absolute dog of a car. I told the guy that I wasn’t happy that I had been all the way to see the car and it was not what I thought It was. Let’s say the pictures did it justice. After a coffee and a chat he asked me what was on my bucket list and he showed me a private collection that he had. Now due to where this guys is and where his collection is I have agreed as gentlemen not to disclose where it is as he is worried about the theft issues. If I was him I would have round the clock security. !Removed! HELL SOME OF THE CARS…… After a bit of haggling and a heavy night on the sauce with the bloke we struck up a deal and I am now the proud new owner. The car has wanted for nothing in it life time. I am the 3rd owner and the car has just hit 80k. It has all the paperwork from its purchase including all the previous MOT papers and recipes of all work carried out. There has been no expense spared on this car and I hope to be able to keep that up. A pic of here when I first got her. The Car then went to the clinic all day for a full blown inspection. They have really been to town on it and I’m over the moon with it. With an oil change some new wiper blades fitted she was pretty much in great nick. Poor Dave had the task of fitting the new steering wheel that turned out to be a mammoth task doing the rewiring and change over from the clock spring. Now for the parts that need to be replaced due to age. I need to get a new Front sub frame as mine is showing signs of rust and age. IMPORTANT but not urgent and my exhaust is blowing in a few places. Again I can live with that. So the plan for the next few months decide where I want to go with power and get an exhaust to accommodate it at the same time get I get it fitted get the sub frame done. Hummmmmm need something new and shiny for the car............. So after taking the car out for a 200 mile round trip to make sure all was good I got the dreaded CEL light................. So limped home off boost and took the car off the road until Sat. Got home and plugged it in found out that I might be a CEL fix needed or an o2 sensor. fingers crossed that it wasn't a £ 300 quid jobby and for a change the ball was in my court and it was a Cel fix that was needed due to the decat. So next on the shopping list as I have now decided what direction im going with the car will be a nice SCR exhaust and some new headers as my current ones are showing a leak. Going to rip them out and put new ones on ''Get it done once and get it done right''

**** that is crap new mate

Sounds good cheers Gambit

hahah completed is there such a thing ?? I got the car in Jan 15 and have been slowly doing bits here and there. I had got a a bug wrx that I did some work to then decided that I was throwing money away so went on the hunt for something a little different :D

I will see if I can do a cut down version of it B)

Hahah brownie point for me adding a picture pmsl. Might even make a project thread if that gets me more points lol

Thanks mate. Yeah I know him lol

Just joined up and am new to the site but not to Subaru's Thought I would say hi some familiar names on here