Scooby Pete

Shocks= dampers You can by a complete set of coil overs which is both springs and shocks. Or you can buy just shocks or just springs.

There are basically 2 parts to suspension, springs dampers both these together are a coilover, as the spring (coil) sit over the damper. You can lower you car just by changing the springs keeping you original dampers or you can change both the dampers and springs which would allow you to adjust all aspects of the suspension. How hard it is, camber, rebound rate and loads more. Helps if you know what your doing with these set ups. It depends on what set up you are looking for. If it just looks over adjustability I would save some cash and just lower it by changing the springs to Eibach or H&R.

There's also Eibach, Bilstien, Koni plus quite a few others all depends on budget. http://www.just-subaru.com/suspension-blob-eye-69509-0.html Give ome of the Subaru specialist a call and see what they advise for your budget. As Performance have a good rep. http://asperformance.com/contact/

Only thing with the megs is that you have to have the quick detailing spray to lubricate it. The Bilt Hamber works with just water so saves you the £16 for the spray and the B&H clay cost just under £11 so it better value for money. They also do 3 compounds regular medium and soft. So for the price of the megs kit you can get a regular and soft. http://www.bilthamber.com/clay-bars

Did you replace the pullies and tensioner? If not then there is some slack in the tensioner which puts the teeth off slightly. As Savage said ut could be ok, however I would rather replace the tensioner and pullies as it much cheaper than a rebuild if all goes wrong.

I'd stick with B&H tbh. I have migures at the mo and will be switching to B&H when this one is dead.

There a polish company make them both salsa king and I have the same ones. Can only find 08 onward though http://stores.ebay.co.uk/J-J-automotive/SUBARU-/_i.html?_fsub=630846010&_sid=89134890&_trksid=p4634.c0.m322 This is the companies web site no earlier than 08 again. http://www.e-heko.com/en/Marka/SUBARU/ Not really helping much am I? :(

I remember trying one once, everytime you went past a shop it would go off having detected the security things at the door. They've prob moved on a bit now and aren't as bad. Still you don't seem to see many threads around the forums these days???

Ditto early to mid 40's still think I'm a teenager, which end of that scale varies depending on what im doing at the time

Just ordered some gold carbon dipping stuff, going to try and do the A pillar bits of my wing mirrors this weekend.

The helicoils wouldn't bother me, I know from experience that the steel bolts tend to chew up the alloy thread in the calliper. I had to get mine helicoiled when I swapped discs. It's quite common with alloy callipers.

Ive used EBC turbo grooved and Turrox, Turrox warped on me EBC have not missed a beat imho.

Regards the warped discs. It's hard to see by eye they only have to be slightly warped to cause judder So an easy way to check is to jack the car up off all four wheels if poss. Take the wheel off and hold something like a pencil or the end of a pen against the disc, get a mate to spin the other front wheel and see if the disc moves away or pushes the implement. If it does then I'm afraid you've got a warped disc.

If you fitted them yourself did you clean the hub properly? If there a bit of crud on the hub the discs won't seat properly and will be crooked Possibly causing the wobble. Also have you checked all the bushes and rubbers on the front track rod arms and wish bones? May even be a bearing issue altough both these should be pretty evident weather breaking or not. Wheel balance issues generally only show up at a small range of speed. Say between 50-60mph they either smooth out or get worse depending on how bad out of balance they are. The same as buckled wheels both these issue manifest weather breaking or not.

Warped discs seems the most likely cause especially if it's when brakes applied.

Booked for Sunday only will be doing RYB aswell.

It's Monthly Meet time again! As ever, it's at The Fairmile in Cobham. Sunday 14th September Full address for the pub is: The Fairmile Portsmouth Road Cobham Surrey KT11 1BW Kicks off from 13:00pm onwards! Eveyone with a Scoob is Welcome. Your welcome even if you don't have a Scoob, you just can't park on the grass :) As with the last couple of months, before adding your name to the list, please ensure that you read the following:Meet rules: 1. No idiotic driving on the roads surrounding the Fairmile 2. No damaging the Fairmile grass 3. No leaving litter/cans/pint glasses on the Fairmile grass 4. Do not partake in any other idiotic behaviour that gives Scoobies a bad name In addition we ask that only Japanese cars park on the grass please. Members are more than welcome to come down in non-Jap cars (or bring friends) but please, Japanese only parked on the grass (there is a second car park to the rear of the Fairmile if you don't want to park in the main area).

These are quite rare now not many about best bet would be Jap performance parts £175.

Bit pee'd off, got to the car and notice FNS tyre was flat. There's a dirty screw sticking out the tyre, £101 lighter now :(

Here's the thread Ash is on about..... http://uk.subaruownersclub.com/forums/topic/1619-help-check-guide-buying-1st-subaru/

Shop around. Give Keith Micheals a call as they specialise in performance cars.

try the bolt grips first. Honestly they are the best thing I have used for this job.

I'm still using my paper licence as I refuse to swap a perfectly legal document for their photo licence at my own cost. They should at least replace your licence free the first time and then sting you every ten years.

It's not been mentioned but another cause of wheel wobble is warped discs. I scuppered a brand new set of traox discs after a track day. They were very slightly wrapped and induced steering wheel shake. Good luck with the search for a leggy :)

Easy peasy...... All 5 nuts on my downpipe were corroded, rounded off and generally a pain to remove. Bit of WD40 on them then get a ring or open ended spanner on the back and a Bolt grip on the front. Will come off easy as pie. Irwin Bolt Grips £24.99 screwfix. http://www.screwfix.com/p/irwin-bolt-grip-nut-remover-set-5-pieces/96028?kpid=96028&cm_mmc=Google-_-Product%20Listing%20Ads-_-Sales%20Tracking-_-sales%20tracking%20url&kpid=96028&cm_mmc=Google-_-Shopping%20-%20Auto%20and%20Cleaning-_-Shopping%20-%20Auto%20and%20Cleaning&gclid=CMvvkO3Rs8ACFY_MtAodwEAAtA