Roars

Hey all so a couple of questions I would like some advice on if you would all be so kind about my classic Impreza. 1. Exhaust. When I purchased the car all it had in the ways of performance mods was a remap to 258bhp and your typical 3" exhaust system with a 4" through silencer which had pretty much no sound deadening at all the o.d. of the silencer box was 5" so it was never going to be quiet, it was good to begin with, sounded nice but it was extremely loud, after I stripped out the interior and left nothing but the two front seats and the dashboard behind it was a wee bit too much sat inside, and then my neighbours started to complain about me leaving for work at 6:45am and coming home past midnight. So with there bitching and my ears bleeding everyday I decided to try and quiet it down a bit, I just brought a standard rear box and cobbled it on. It was great being able to drive in comfort again and come home at what ever time I wanted with no hassle but my partners standard 1.1 3 cylinder Mitsubishi colt makes more noise than my Subaru now and I would love that rumble back, and i have lost a few ponies along the way too. My plan was to keep the back box for the sound deadening to keep noise levels down but cut the baffle, exhaust tip and inlet pipe off/out and replace it all with a 3" baffle , tip and inlet. Do you reckon this would still sound Quiet enough to keep my neighbours at bay, give me that infamous rumble again and give me a pony or two back? At a guess I think it's a 1.75" system in the back box. 2. Boot control solenoids. i had a few bits kicking round from a previous build I had going (ca18det powered mx5) and like all unknowledgeable people I though to myself to chuck my gizmo electronic boost control solenoid on it thinking more boost would be a good idea, I have come to realise after a bit of carful reading of the internet that i in actual fact am putting my engine in danger so how much can the stock solenoid actually handle if I were to get it plugged into a computer and put on the rollers? I was looking at better solenoids available to work with the ECU but is it worth spending £125 on one if the stock one will achieve what I want? The gizmo controller I added made a massive difference on power but I don't want to have to rebuild my engine if I can avoid it. 3. Turbos so I have a garret t28 sat in my house doing nothing, I know I would have to have a flange adapter to fit it to the manifold and cut the down pipe flange off and spin it 90 degree but a bit of mechanical work wouldn't faze me, I have been fixing things since I was nee high to a grass hopper, spent a few years of my younger life as a HGV fitter so I can spin nuts and bolts and weld stuff up no problem. Just after a few more bhp and if I can do it for next to nothing myself then bonus thanks in advance

Hey right so soon i will be removing both front and rear windscreens, theres a couple reasons why, one being theres a bit of rust developing along where the roof meets the windscreens and more importantly the front windscreen is actually coming away from the bonding agent (I believe just a cheap crap job done on a previous replacement) so before it decides to fall out im going to attend to it. The issue is i cant find the rubber trims that are at the top of both front and back windows. Im sure this might be a part you can only get if you buy a windscreen too. I reckon with a bit of delicacy and taking it slowly i could cut out the glass without cutting through the exposed rubber so i could just stuff a load of the new glass bonding agent at the top and maybe bond it back into place that way as i would of cut through it at the lower points were it will sit on top/around the glass. I don't particularly want to do a bodge job on it but if it will work fine doing it that way then i will have to bight the bullet and do it or if any of you friendly lot know where to get these that would be great, my closest Subaru dealer is 1.5 hour drive each way so if i could avoid 3 hours of driving for 2 bits of rubber that would be ideal and im not sure they would do it. This wont be my first time fitting a windscreen, done a large number of truck windscreens back a few years ago when i was an apprentice H.G.V. mechanic but you never had to salvage the rubber trims, just remove and replace. cheers Rory (I don't often buy cars but when i do, i make sure there rust buckets)