ViscousSquirrel

I'm a necromancer!!! What are your thoughts on the blast plates after a few years?

Misery, It’s what makes a Subaru, a Subaru.

LGT ranch for injured and disused LGT's?

Nope. Carry on. The only difference I would recommend would be to take the intercooler and intake off and clean the heck out of everything. The further go down the rabbit hole of replacement the more expensive it gets. Don't waste money on "If"s or "Maybe's" you will regret it later. Put another way, if it isn't broke, don't fix it.".

How much for the saggy butt spacers? If it makes you feel any better, I too am too old for lowering springs.

The actual physical marks on the cam gears should still be visible as opposed to the paint marks. Though I guess if it’s still starting to some extent then they must be close.

Do your timing marks still remotely line up on the cams?

Whoa, that looks like something got sucked into the turbo. That doesn't look like it has anything to do with shaft play, which is what I expected to see. I would check for bits of that in the intake piping maybe stuck in the oil film in the throttle body or intercooler. Otherwise none of that would be in the oil. I would assume those bits would be stuck in the intercooler and not have made it to the combustion chamber. If it were my money I would just rebuild or replace the turbo and call it a day.

I had an sti that jumped a few teeth once. After the timing was reset it fired right up so you might be ok!

Good luck! But please stop cranking it OMG!

You can’t appreciate how big those tires are in pictures. You have to see it in person.

Reduce the picture size to 1040 pixels and 512k and it will probably load. Oh, and use the “go advanced” button and click the paper clip to load it as an attachment.

Oh so you too are a fan of bad decision making!? ;P

So it was the cold side that had chips in the compressor blade? Honestly with my personal experience in losing money on these I would rebuild or swap the turbo and enjoy it. There’s a guy on the board selling a used vf52 right now for 450 I think. I mean, if you click my build thread you can see what going down the rabbit hole gets you and it isn’t cheap. Can you post a pic of the turbo blades?

I have a spare short block if you end up needing some case halves or anything.

Oh dear god no. That absolutely sucks!!

Here's the breakdown on all the coolant hoses all over the top of the shortblock as well as the twisty PCV hose from the center of the crank case tot he black steel tubing I forgot which hose this is 807611031 Water Pump Upper Hose 807612011 Hose Clamp 805918010 Water Pump Lower Hose 807615182 Hose Clamp 805922090 Aux Res Coolant Hose 14472AA050 Aux Coolant Hose 14472AA040 Coolant Water Pipe Hose 807611090 Pre-Heater Hose 21204AA900 Pre-Heater Hose 21204AA830 Vacuum Hose 99071AC220

This is great, I hadn't even thought of this. I bet I will have some buckets here shortly.

Out with the old and In with the new... I replaced the lower control arms with Mevotech aluminum units from RockAuto which you can find here: https://www.rockauto.com/en/moreinfo.php?pk=6506952&cc=1432742 https://www.rockauto.com/en/catalog/subaru,2006,legacy,2.5l+h4,1432742,suspension,control+arm,10401 Picked up some new-to-me wheels and tires from FutureFicus whose car looks badass on the new meats I might add. You can find his, much more interesting, thread here: https://legacygt.com/forums/showthread.php/09-obxt-dbm-photo-journal-206005p5.html

Thanks for the help! The answer was to change the color space from Adobe sRGB to regular RGB and shrink the file size well below the minimum to 512k and 1024 pixels on the long edge.

Some assembly required... with the factory three-bond (when did fujibond die?). The shiny new oil pan meeting its new home. A pic of how the engine sits now waiting for the heads to arrive... I have a new thermostat and gasket in there, a new oil cooler and I'm waiting on all new coolant lines from Flat Irons in fact for those that care Jon over there was nice enough to pull out the parts catalog and give me a list and links to all the parts. (If I'm beginning to sound like an advertisement I'm sorry. I'm just super impressed with their customer service. This car looks to ahve been pretty well maintaned mehcnically as the engine mounts have clearly been replaced with factory Subaru units as had the axles speaking of which. Here is the list of the hoses I purchased: https://www.flatironstuning.com/subaru-oem-pre-heater-hose-wrx-08-10-05-09-obxt-05-09-lgt-fxt-09-10 https://www.flatironstuning.com/subaru-oem-pre-heater-hose-08-14-wrx-05-09-lgt-05-09-obxt-09-13-fxt https://www.flatironstuning.com/subaru-oem-coolant-water-pipe-hose-02-07-wrx-04-sti-05-06-lgt https://www.flatironstuning.com/suabur-oem-aux-coolant-hose-08-14-wrx-09-13-fxt-05-09-lgt-obxt https://www.flatironstuning.com/subaru-oem-aux-res-coolant-hose-08-14-wrx-05-09-lgt-obxt-09-13-fxt https://www.flatironstuning.com/subaru-oem-waterpump-hoses-clamps-04-sti-02-14-wrx https://www.flatironstuning.com/subaru-oem-oil-cooler-hoses-02-07-wrx-04-07-sti - You need 3 of these.

This Killer B oil pickup tube is built like a tank!

Here's some of the unsalvageable parts I had planned to reuse.. Take a look at the corrosion on that outlet. Look at that cam gear. One of these exploded and killed my last STI Midlap on the dirt track. I took an extra close look at the ones on this STOCK car after cleaning them and found that SOB crack right there. That could have been disastrous!! I could have re-used this clutch but you know..."While I was in there..."

I cut this down-pipe nut with dremel after using every tool I had and failing to remove it. It still would come off. I beat it with a hammer and chisel after it was cut and got nowhere. I had to cut it into thirds and then beat it with the hammer and chisel and eventually it came off

Some of the reason my Credit Cards are sore... A new from FlatIrons Vf52, New oil lines, New Aisin Timing kit with all Japanese bearings, New 11mm Oil pump, new water pump. The master gasket set from Subaru (thanks for including a list of what the part numbers are there Subaru) The center console cubby surround was destroyed so I picked up a factory fresh one from Subaru. I am trying to keep as much on this car OEM as possible. Here is the gasket set list that I used from 2phless on a certain other Subaru forum. "Gasket set part number 10105AA590 Gasket & Seal Kit - ENG My list key list number/part number/ part name/ quantity/ what it is or where it goes. 1 / 803928010 / GSKT-28.2x33.5x1 / 3 / silver seals for the 14mm allen block access bolts 2 / 806786040 / OIL SEAL-86x103x10 / 3 / Rear main seal. Why 3? I don't know. 3 / 10991AA000 / O RING-CYL BLOCK / 4 / 3 between block halves. 1 behind oil pump. ** Looks similar to pt # 11 ** 4 / 806931020 / O RING-31x2.0 / 1 (but came with 2) / #4 wrist pin access cover gasket (hidden by flywheel) 5 / 806932030 / O RING-32.6x2.7 / 1 / ??? 6 / 11034AA000 / WASH-CYL BLK SLNG 6 / for the 6 internal 12mm 12 point block connecting bolts that contact oil. 7 / 11044AA641 / GSKT-CYL HEAD / 2 / Head gasket pair. 8 / 803912040 / GSKT-12x16x1 / 14 / Copper bango bolt washers (except for the turbo oil feed) 9 / 806910170 / O RING-10x2 / 2 / 2 orange gaskets for the bottom of the dipstick tube. 10 / 806917070 / O RING-17.4x2.4 / 1 / oil fill tube to LH valve cover 11 / 11122AA000 / SEALING-OIL PAN / 1 / This goes between the oil pump pickup and block. ** Looks similar to pt # 3 ** 12 / 11126AA000 / GSKT-DRAIN PLUG / 1 / A crush ring for the drain plug. Nice of them huh? 13 / 805323040 / CIRCLIP-INR 23 / 8 / Wrist pin circlips 14 / 806742160 / OILSEAL-42x55x8 / 2 / Intake cam seals 15 / 806732160 / OILSEAL-32x55x8 / 2 / exhaust cam seals 16 / 13091AA050 / SEALING-TENSIONER / 2 / *** These are the rubber or foam stickies on the tensioner * 17 / 13091AA060 / SEALING-TENSIONER / 2 / * mount plate that keep dust out of the timing belt area ***** 18 / 806939040 / O RING-39.4x3.1 / 2 / AVCR intake cam oil covers (the triangular covers held to the front of each intake cam sprocket by 3 philips/8mm bolts) The next several part numbers are fairly unidentifiable. They are the foam stickies or rubber edges that seal the timing chain covers.They have no dimentions or valid descriptions. They either have obvious spots or don't. I've used RTV for the wishy washy areas before. 19 / 13581AA050 / SEALING-BELT CVR FR / 1 / 20 / 13594AA000 / SLNG-BELT COVER, 2FR / 1 / 21 / 13583AA260 / SEALING-BELT CVR RH / 1 / 22 / 13583AA270 / SEALING-BELT CVR / 1 / 23 / 13583AA280 / SEALING-BELT CVR / 1 / 24 / 13583AA290 / SEALING-BELT CVR RH / 2 / 25 / 13584AA050 / SLNG-BELT COVER, 2RH / 1 / 26 / 13597AA020 / SEALING-BELT CVR / 1 / 27 / 13597AA031 / SEALING-BELT CVR / 1 / See? 28 / 13592AA011 / MOUNT-BELT COVER / 7 / Snap in rubber coated metal spacers for the t-cover-to-block bolts. 29 / 13207AA050 / SEAL-INT VALVE / 8 / intake valve seals (green???) 30 / 13211AA050 / SEAL-EXH VALVE / 8 / exhaust valve seals (black???) I haven't checked the difference yet. 31 / 13210AA020 / COLLET-VALVE / 32 / Small metal wedges. Dip concave side in thick grease to stick to valves during install. 32 / 13270AA190 / GSKT-ROCKER COVERRH / 1 / Right valve cover gasket. 33 / 13272AA140 / GSKT-ROCKER COVERLH / 1 / Left valve cover gasket. 34 / 13293AA050 / GSKT-ROCKER CVR,2 / 4 / Spark plug hole gaskets 35 / 806733030 / OIL SEAL-33x49x8 / 1 / oil pump to crank seal (front main) 36 / 15048AA001 / SEALING-OIL PUMP / 2 / More rubber pads for timing chain dust control. 37 / 806922040 / O RING-22.1x3.5 / 1 / This may be the recirc valve kneck o-ring 38 / 803942010 / GSKT-42x51x8.5 / 1 / Oil fill-tube cap gasket. (This was a puzzler the first time I saw one) 39 / 21114AA051 / GSKT-WATER PUMP / 1 / Water pump gasket. (Coated Metal) 40 / 21116AA010 / SEALING-WATER PUMP / 1 / And another rubber dust gasket for timing chain area. 41 / 21236AA010 / GSKT-THERMO / 1 / Thermostat gasket. Inner rib snaps around radius of the thermostat. 42 / 21370KA001 / GSKT-OIL COOLER / 2 / Orange and 1 goes between oil cooler and block. #2 included for backup? 43 / 806959030 / O RING-59.6x2.4 / 1 / Blue??? Not sure where it goes. 44 / 806932040 / O RING-32.0x1.9 / 1 / Orange and goes between the two block halves. 45 / 14035AA421 / GSKT-INT MANIF / 2 / *** One of these is the intake to tumblers * 46 / 14075AA160 / GSKT-INT COOL / 2 / * and the other is Tumblers to heads ****** 47 / 16608AA040 / SEAL-FUEL INJ / 4 / Lumpy fuel injector seats 48 / 16698AA050 / O RING-INJECTOR / 4 / Lower small diameter injector o-rings ??? 49 / 16698AA060 / O RING-INJECTOR / 4 / Upper large diameter injector o-rings ??? (or reversed) 50 / 14038AA000 / GSKT-EXH MANIF / 2 / head to exhaust manifold metal gaskets. 51 / 14022AA160 / GSKT-MF / 2 / Exhaust crossover gaskets? PN may be a typo as 44022AA160 was listed but I don't believe it. 52 / 803910050 / GSKT-10x14x1 / copper turbo oil feed banjo gaskets 53 / 16175AA241 / GSKT-THROT CHMBR / 1 / Blue paper throttle body gasket. 54 / 806933010 / O RING-33.7x3.5 / Water jacket crossover pipe to right and left blocks. 55 / 21896AA072 / GSKT - INTER COOLER / 2 / *** one pair is for the Y-pipe to TMIC, the other * 56 / 21896AA010 / GSKT - INTER COOLER / 2 / * pair is TMIC to recirculating valve. (2 why?) ****"