themanwithnoname

Sorry, I completely forgot about this until now. Usual breakfast meet on Sunday at GT Cars. http://gtcarslimited.co.uk/social/

Hi, I can't be much help on local services - looking into it myself at the moment, but another Manchester import owner here. Welcome and catch you around soon.

Just a quick pic from this morning. A few members from a local club showed up (Manchester Subaru Owners Club, if there are any members here?) With mine and I_MNL's cars up front.

OK, so as you turn right into the industrial estate/Lyncastle Rd. then take the first Right onto Lyncastle way, and keep going straight and through the gates where the road bends 90 degrees left - listen for the sweet sound of dinosaurs being turned into motion! GT Cars 3G4/Barleycastle Trading Est/Barleycastle La Appleton Warrington WA4 4SN Forgive the errrm, special kid drawing... but here's a Google map with Microsoft's finest photo editing suite annotations, assuming you're headed from the M56/M6 and you know roughly where Appleton Thorn is.

I'll be the beardy one with the black FSTI and _all_ of the coffee at that time of the day! Just show up and park, its a friendly bunch.

I'll be the beardy one with the black FSTI and _all_ of the coffee

Hello, another Manchester (very recent) owner here, hope to catch you around the area.

After a week and 500 miles the car was looking a bit grubby, so out came the fairy liquid and scouring pads.

No problems at all! Just sharing the love. Always enjoy meeting other like minded people. We're sadly a dying breed, us petrolheads.

No accounting for taste eh?! :-D

That would have been handy, eh? http://www.stadttechnik.co.uk/ These guys are hosting us

Hi I'm a newbie on here, however I thought I'd share the love a little and make you guys aware of a couple of meets I've been attending regularly for a while. This time round, we have the 1st June which is a Monday night on Guinness Road in Trafford Park, 8-10pm. All makes and models welcome, we see everything from just passed Fiestas through to a few months back a Diablo SV showed up with a couple of Murcis and a Gallardo flanking! Its just up the road from Krispy Kreme and the Trafford Centre, really friendly meet. The other is at GT Cars in Appleton Thorn - this is the first Sunday of every month, so this time on the 7th June, from 8am - 11am. These guys are an italian specialist, so lots of cool metal inside as this is organised by the garage itself here's a quick linky http://gtcarslimited.co.uk/social/ There's a portacabin cafe which is dirt cheap and has bacon. Again, super friendly and we see all sorts there. I'll be the one in the Black Forester STI (unless you're the other black fsti owner I saw a couple of days ago headed in the general direction of Lymm, then I'm the other one in the...)

i'll take a look, see what can be done. I've never run down the strip before either, so quite tempting if there's any chance of a RWYB!

Sounds good to me. I was hoping to make the Big One but I already have plans that weekend. Hopefully something else will match up with the calendar though.

Cheers bud, the last few hundred miles have been a lot of fun!

Hi So I became a Forester owner yesterday. It's quite a nice one. Actually, its a very nice one. It says STi, Litchfield, and 330s on the back. I'm on my second tank of SUL in under 30 hours. I'm just going to let the pictures do the talking now.

Hi Thanks for that. Much appreciated. I'll keep my eye out for meets and shows as well!

I got mine for holiday as well, we had a diving trip to Thailand at the beginning of the year! Good to know about Buttertubs. I'll keep that one in mind. I've no clue at all what group it's in but I'm quite pleased that I'm paying about 750 fully comp, agreed value and all mods declared with acceptable excesses and a whole bunch of other perks like key cover etc. As a comparison, its only costing me about 70 more than the BMW albeit with half the mileage and no business use. All that and in a just-about Manchester postcode!

Oh cool, that's a nice little bit of history there. I've watched that clip so many times in my search. I think the GoPro is going to be expanding the number of FSTi clips on YouTube, however I can't promise they'll be anything like as talented or good, and certainly not as attractive as VBH - I am, after all a fat, bearded, middle aged bloke with barely 5% her talent!

Hairy mother and the baby cheeses that is a bit large! No, mine is the standard STI item - for now.

Cheers Jay I'll get some pics up as soon as I have her home. I have a nice 300 mile trip home planned - the car is 75 miles away! On order so far are: Black STI badges and dark smoke film to tone down the current badging a tad - will review quality of the purchased badges and go from there. Lots of make things shiny things courtesy of AutoGlym, 3m and Poorboys Hopes for a dry BH weekend on the 23rd so I can make really shiny

Oh, none taken at all, the pre-facelift is the far better looking car! Until this one came up I was pretty much closed to the later one, its pretty much the fact its triple black, Litchfield, low miles and 1 owner (and priced way too low - good for me!) which made me take the trip to see it. That said I don't think I've ever owned a 'pretty' car! Hell, I've been rattling round in a BMW 1 series for the last 3 years so the facelift Forester is still an improvement! :D That one really is a bargain, and I did my best to man maths it, but needed to trade in the 1er to make the numbers work. It really will be a complete bargain for the next lucky owner, that is if the current chap can bear to let go of it! He's pretty well attached to the thing, even though it sits in his back yard most of the time being a garden ornament!

Tell me about it! Its taken what feels like a lifetime to get mine! Just for a bit of temptation, I do know of one in North Manchester/Stockport area that is up for sale, its a pre-facelift in champagne metallic with a fairly recent roger clarke rebuild. Sadly it was private sale which ruled me out in the end, but its only a smidge over £8k! Remember: You can live in a car, but you can't drive a house...

Yes, the OBD scanner thing I have - I'll be running through the Torque Pro app - it shows up lots of juicy data in my BMW and my Wife's Civic Type R - I can't imagine the Forester will be missing out, provided the PID outs are readable by ELM or CAN. Thanks Stants! Yes, on the test drive it was a car of two halves - suprisingly refined when just having a tootle about, but an utter beast when a few gears were dropped and the throttle mashed! The power delivery is seriously smooth though, really flat torque all the way through and no discernible boost threshold/lag. I think Iain's team did a superb job! The Performance pack was a three inch turbo back milltek with sport cat, a freer flowing filter and a map, so a nice rounded package. The intercooler is the standard STI unit (for now)...please feel free to tell me more about huge topmounts though, as I've been playing with the idea of a filthy great front mount as well! As a point of interest - is there any chance it was you I saw making some nice progress coming off the M6 at J21 a week or so back from Wigan? If not there is a chap with a very similar SF about the place!

Heheh! Sounds about right! Although from what I've read so far, much more power will require some hardening of engine internals on mine so hopefully the prospect of an engine rebuild/spare engine will keep the mod itch at bay for a while. I can see an Android based carputer being far higher up the list in the short term.