Martian

Its time for a little update as I have been very busy for the last month or two, both work wise and car wise. I had my downpipe fitted and I absolutely love it! It has improved the sound no end and im not sure if its just because i was expecting to feel a difference or not but it feels a little bit different, slightly sharper. I bought a toyospeed manifold and up pipe and then read the reviews so cancelled the orders. I am now looking for a harvey manifold and up pipe. My rear brakes had a seized caliper so i put on some slightly larger single pot calipers and vented discs that i won for a tenner on fleabay, they were really minging but i didnt have time to clean them up before fitting them. Then my front brakes seized so i bought some 4 pots with discs and pads second hand off fleabay again. I fitted them and found my original wheels didnt fit on top So i ordered some cheap wheels with tyres off of impboy a seller on ebay and a week later had still not received them, mean while my car is up on stands for nearly a week and half, not happy! Ended up cancelling the order. I splashed out on a set of wheels i really liked with nearly new toyo proxes on and they arrived the next day of another guy on ebay. Well happy now! Fitted everything and still had problems, steering shake at 60mph and the car shaking whenever i brake. Ended up needing new discs as the others were warped and the wheels had the correct weights on in the wrong places lol. I then painted the rear calipers red to match the fronts but the front wheels were a darker red, i still need to paint them to match the rears. Now I am happy again! The car feels really good, handles a lot better and grips like a dream with the tyres and wider wheels. I phoned around about 6 garages around shrewsbury trying to get a decent quote to fix my leaking crank oil seal and fit a new clutch. They all said a minimum of £400 despite me already having the clutch and oil seal sitting in the corner of my room. They said they would follow the guide book which says all day, even if it only takes 3 hours they wont have booked any other work in so will loose money. So I went with my local mechanic who is still fairly new at the game but fairly priced. He said he would only charge what it took him to do the job. Paid £320 which wasnt too bad considering I messed up and bought a front crank seal and the car had to sit on his ramps till 2pm the next day when the rear crank seal turned up I bought a boost gauge and fitted it myself despite my doubts about messing with the wiring, I am not very good with that type of thing, ended up doing a good job despite a bucket load of stress! There are no definitive guides on line that i could find. Plain simple picture guides would of been a bonus, never mind job done! I won some WRX front seats for £26 and they are in good nick, fitted them and pound for pound they are the best mod so far! I am no longer flung around the car when cornering, I remain still and can feel what the car is doing so much better. On my to do list is Harvey manifold and up pipe, ESL, yellow injectors, fuel pump and TD05. Koni adjustables all round with possibly tein springs, not sure what spring to go for. Im guessing i may need to replace a wishbone for my next mot, judging by the rust. I will definitely need new door cards and rear seats at some point in the future to go with my new front seats. And i still need to repair, paint and fit my sti rear spoilers, repair my rear arches. And I just bought some sti rear lights I love this car!!! Below are some pics taken before work was done. And now some pics of the bits ive added on. This picture was taken straight after i fitted the front 4 pots and wheels, but before i painted the rear calipers.

Cheers guys, thats a bit of a relief. Although im not very happy that i have had the car for nearly a year and thats the first time ive spotted that cable! Im going to have a look at it tomorrow.

I'm not in a major rush but will be looking to buy one in the near future. If anyone has one they would like to sell then I'm interested. Thanks

hi, could anyone tell me what this is for, i cant find the other end. I recently had a clutch change and found this when tinkering the other day. The thing is ive been experiencing a weird 'jerk' 'misfire' or 'hesitation' at low revs every now and again since the clutch change. Im wondering if its related.

Ah nice 1 Stants, thanks for replying. Im glad they will just bolt on. I managed to find some 16" subaru 5x100 wheels that came off a car with 4 pots. They should be with me monday aswell. I dont know the make of them but will post some pics when they are on. I put the front on axle stands this afternoon and took a wire brush to the bolts and some wd40. Tomorrow i will crack them all off and make sure its all ready for monday.

Hi, Does anyone happen to know if 2002 WRX 4 pots will be a straight swap onto my 1993/1994 WRX? I have done some research and someone says they should be but I am starting to worry a bit now. They should be with me on monday, so i have a little bit of time to find whatever else i need before then should I need to. Thanks

Think I remember reading about that issue. The difference is Prodrive. The ones you used spacers for were Prodrive Speedline's and the others were standard speedline's. If I remember correctly that is.

Hi, I have a seized front two pot caliper and been quoted the earth for a new caliper and disks and pads, so I have found some second hand 4 pots for sale with disks and pads for a lot less but need some new alloys that will go over them. I have found some speedline alloys but need to know if anyone recognises the style and can advise if they will work or not. They are 16" as I would prefer to avoid 17s at the moment. Thanks in advance.

Cheers Tidgy, good call on popping to a dyno to check the afr. Didnt think about that! Will check out anything local now.

Hi, I have a 1993 Import WRX Wagon. It has the Td04 turbo. I have put an induction kit on it and have a full 2.5" turbo back exhaust system with a sports cat. I would like to get it remapped but dont have enough for the esl and mapping yet. The car runs fine, it seems to be using a lot more fuel but is not lumpy or displaying any faults, I have reset the ecu but i would like to get another ecu and map on it. Is there anything anyone can recommend to do until i can get it mapped. The z4 ecu seems to come up when i search, but that is for the td05. Cheers

Just wanted new pads fitting, didnt have time to do it myself due to work and an interview so had a local garage do it. The top slider had seized on the drivers side wheel, the bolt was turning and there was no way to get it off without cutting and ruining the slider. I was quoted about £40 odd quid for a new slider kit but they couldnt get it today. Also the set of pads they ordered were incorrect. The second time they ordered 3 different sets of pads also all incorrect. Sometimes my reg doesnt bring up any info and sometimes it brings up incorrect info due to it being JDM. Thankfully I had bought a few months ago off the marvelous bay of fleas a 1993 caliper and disc set for a tenner off an old JDM wagon. Old, crusty, chipped and faded white. But working! And all for a tenner! Because of the state of them I did have the idea of cleaning them up but never got around to it, and then was going to upgrade to twin pot in the future so forgot about them altogether. Got a lift home, picked them up and he said he would mix and match to get them working. 5 mins later he ruined my snooze in the sunshine to say he was going to have to swap the complete caliper over on both sides as despite both of them being single pot rear calipers off a jdm Subaru Wagon they were different sizes and didnt fit. The set on the car are Mitsubishi calipers and pads with a thinner non vented disc. Which was a massive suprise! The set now on the car are Mitsubishi calipers and pads with a thicker vented disc. The calipers are quite a bit bigger aswell. Two hours labour just to get my rear brakes working when it was just supposed to be pads and less than an hours labour :( £120 and some change. But it now stops on a dime! I hadnt realised how much stopping power i was missing! Just in time aswell, Im crossing the Welsh mountains tomorrow and heading to the coast... the long way round The roads the WRX was made for Lets just hope its sunny

I remember the days when... Helter Skelter was a fair ground ride. When penny sweets cost a penny. When you could almost fill up a 1.0 litre metro with a fiver. When Helter Skelter was a massive rave. When Max Power magazine was cool. When the word Pirate stopped being applied to a fictional character and became the name for a person who stole digital information and played it back on a tv smarter than at least 50% of the population. When the word Pirate actually meant someone who steals a sea fairing vessel... again. When Helter Skelter yet again means a fair ground ride.

Hehe a few whiskys and i just repeat the word "noise"

On classic wrx's inbetween the airfilter and engine is a big plastic silencer box. It stops you from hearing the turbo noises and intake noise from the airfilter. I got rid of that and now have turbo spooling noises and the standard recirc valve noises. The turbo makes awesome noises! And the lag i had is gone! It wasnt loads of lag but noticeable. I reset my ecu with the dv on but it didnt run perfect. Stuck my hks induction kit on, reset the ecu and its sharp and noisy! LOVE IT. Although im going to buy the Apexi one as I prefer what ive read about that filter. On your car im not sure but there must be a factory silencer somewhere stopping you from hearing the induction and turbo noises?

I had a Baileys on my classic for a while but ended up getting rid of it and getting rid of the silencer box instead. Much better! It sounds exactly like a dump valve and suprisingly very loud.

Absolutely gutting about your boot Stants! Get a boot protecter mat thingy. That will cover up the boot floor and prevent any further injury. Im not sure what to do about the plastics. Took advantage of the good weather to wash and 100% carnuba wax the car. I have found tiny rust spots on the outside of two doors, one of my rear spoilers has rust around one edge and another small rust spot on the boot. Also my two rear arches need doing soon. I have some thinking to do and sooner rather than later. Two second hand doors and a new boot lid will sort the rust, but im going to have to fix the arches and get all the old crappy underseal off, reseal it, and possibly respray the outside.

Ive been looking into dual maps, thats the kind of thing i want, General cruiser and battle wagon maps ;) Just had my diff and gearbox oil changed, reckon by the state of it that it the rear diff had never been changed but the gearbox had a change about 10 years ago. It has made a big difference, but im still getting a little bit of reluctance to go into first and then second. There was no significant metal shavings and no lumps in the oil. On monday im having my new downpipe fitted Can anyone explain why Subaru blank the wastegate on the oem downpipe?

A Subaru hunting Evo owners

Someone put an aftermarket switch in my old car, it was used to switch underseat subs on and off. Took me ages to figure out what it did, i had to take all the plastics off to see where the wires went.

Ive also heard that the TD05 feels more like a kick than the TD04, which should be interesting. On another note, since doing the ecu reset, my mpg has gone up considerably! I reckon im getting about 30mpg which is great Even though i was warned wrx's were fuel guzzlers i had an expectation and mine did not meet it, i was even reluctant to work out an mpg it was that bad, i would guess low to mid 20's, it just dropped out the tank as soon as it went in. Well pleased now! You dont get an impreza for the fuel economy but for 220bhp there is a limit to what is acceptable.

Good luck finding one mate, i'm sure there's one out there with your name on £500! You lads were lucky!

I cant agree more lol, maintenance sucks, the oil filter refused to come off, broke a (admittedly weak plastic) oil filter grip tool, had to use a screwdriver to stab it and wrench it off, only the biggest screwdriver i had worked as the others where ripping it. The spark plugs were a pain, no room to maneuver at all. But once everything was done and the Ecu was reset im sure there is a noticeable difference. But as a disclaimer i havent reset the Ecu since fitting the 2.5" exhaust cat back, replacing the disgusting airfilter etc. So it feels like a new car. Yup, you are correct. There are individual coil packs on top of each spark plug, I gave them a look when changing the plugs. They seem in good nick! But I have some newage coilpacks on top of my wardrobe for a day that I feel confident doing the conversion. The video I found on youtube is better than the guide I found, but still im not too confident with stuff like that, Im planning on organising a few days that I dont need the car, so if i mess it up its no big deal. But I only need to worry about this when im in a position to do the turbo conversion and remap it. From what I have read this will be an easy fit aswell! Which I am pleased about. From ebay searches the top entry turbos are only about £120. But I remember reading that front entry turbos have less air restriction, due to not having a 90 degree bend. I may be wrong about that, and it prob wont matter with my build due to me not chasing mass amounts of power. I will be happy with 280-300.

Well I fixed the radiator as the bottom corner had basically rusted and fallen out, it was dumping water just as quick as I could get it in by the time the radiator I had ordered turned up. Then literally 3 days later on the way to work loooooads of steam pouring out of the bonnet while stopped at some traffic lights, cars behind me started reversing and the car in front pulled forwards, I just acted like nothing was happening and then drove off as soon as traffic started moving, thankfully work wasnt far away so I just drove there. The top hose had split so had to replace that. I didnt do it at the same time as the rad because they hadn't arrived in time. Turns out it was also slightly the wrong shape and needed chopping and the jubilee clip bust a day later and it started leaking and spraying steam, The old clip came out of the bin and problem sorted! The oil and filter where changed and spark plugs done too, that's a full service minus the diff oils and gearbox oil which I hope to get done soon. I haven't been very happy with my dump valve, it leaks air at about 60mph and im concerned about the bore wash people talk about so I took it off, and managed to find a second hand HKS resonator delete and mushroom filter, loving the noises! As soon as I can afford it tho im going to get an Apexi pod filter as I dont like the HKS, but overall I would prefer a resonator delete that allows me to use my original airbox, but until then this will do. The list of immediate jobs, include new clutch and crank oil seal, diff and gearbox oils, STI gear linkage, fixing, spraying and fitting the STI spoilers, new brakes all round, but i am holding out as i would like 17" alloys and to do the four pot conversion on the front and two pot on the rear. The future list contains Td05 turbo upgrade, fuel pump upgrade, fitting my sports cat and turbo downpipe, turbo up pipe, fitting an esl and getting a remap. Also finding a nice interior as this one needs to go.

No i havent. Thanks Stants