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4 hours ago, bobglaub said:

TL;DR if someone knows a good body shop who's willing to fix my front and back end in the portland Maine, let me know.  I could do it myself but i've never done it before and I'd probably screw it up without a mentor.

Nov 30, 2021.  Got Rear ended at a red light and pushed into a lifted jeep in front of me.  Not super bad, but bad enough.  only actual broken engine part was the power steering elbow thing.  

stored the car for the winter, bought a 2022 BRZ.

Brought wagon out of storage and used a hammer to pull out the front end as much as I could.  Looks like garbage and has massive gaps, but the JDM front end bolted on well enough and the hood closes and latches just fine.  

Late July, 2022, sold the BRZ because the wagon was more fun, and i sold it for more than what I paid for it.  I liked the BRZ but my fat old ass didn't really fit too well in it (desk job got me good).  

Early August, switched over from Alaska washer fluid for my water/methanol injection fluid to the snow performance boost juice stuff.  Don't need it much here as we have 93 Octane in Maine vs the 90 up in Alaska, but It's easier to just switch  the juice vs re-tuning the car and plugging the injector nozzle hole.  

I may or may not have raced a mk7 GTI who thought he was fast until he lost to me.  as well as some honda thing, not a type r, assuming an SI.  No idea.  it was a black honda civic.  I did lose to a BMW a month ago, but that's fair.  Didn't expect to win that one anyway. 

It's a lot harder to run with people out here than it was in Alaska.  I kinda miss the Alaska freedom and subaru community up there.  Down here in Maine it's rare to be up against anyone who wants to have a little run, let alone be up against someone who wants to run when there's no traffic. 

I have a Mainer car buddy in the Audi scene who is nuts about his cars.  I'll reach out to see what his body shops of choice are.

As a warning, all good body shops seem to be very busy right now.  My shop of choice when my allroad got hit said they wouldn't be able to touch my car for over 2 months.

There is, a bit.  It's just not local to me at the moment, and I'm slightly concerned getting it back to full health is a long and somewhat expensive road.  But i guess i won't know until i start looking into it.

Sorta have something lined up to replace the allroad, but it's a bit over a month until I would be able to get it if I do...

yeah.  it's been sitting forever.  motor fires up right away with a jump-start and sounds fine, but the brake line ruptured part way down the frame rail on the passenger side (not by the wheel) so it's currently immobile.  letting a great build go to waste.

my goal had been get a place with enough space that i could tinker on it with the allroad as my DD, but life just never went that way (things changed in life, covid hit, moved overseas for the better part of 2 years, etc.), so it's been sitting mostly parked for a while now, getting started and driven by my dad every now and then, but that slowly turned into just getting started.  i don't blame him, it's just another chore.

should've sold it a while back but was never around.

On 8/16/2022 at 9:08 AM, seanyb505 said:

Finished product!

Now to research white wheel cleaning products... 

looks fantastic.  i always wanted to white on black with mine, but never did.

otherwise... i wish i had kept the LGT in better condition.  my allroad has been totaled.  what was a minor, slow speed accident added up to a ton of damage.  got hit directly in the front driver's wheel.

While I do love the CH-Rs (debating about them for the BMW) the wheels are gunmetal Raijins.

Wait... do you have BBS center caps? I looked quickly and it kinda looked like it.

Here's some real CH-Rs on my wagon for my mistake :

Couldn't bare looking at the car with 1.5 years of shop dirt on it so I gave it a decent wash. Sat on the porch for about 30 minutes afterwards just staring at it. I've really missed this car. Happy Wagon Wednesday all!

the CH-R look amazing!

You need to find some local enthusiast who will understand and appreciate what the car is, and what the mods are. You may want to talk to people on local Subie facebook group or some local tuners. Unless you are in a hurry to get rid of it.

Yeah, this would probably be the most fruitful path. I reached out to a local Subaru performance shop to start.

I have no pressing deadline on getting rid of it, but i do want to move it sooner than later

It's does not matter what is done to the car at all, and all the work you did or put into it. it is a 2005 LGT 5EAT /w 175k miles. Also you listed the stuff that is wrong. Fix the batt, EBCS, AC and I would say in that condition with all paper work 6k tops. I have a bunch of money into me 06 LGT 5mt, and I know if I had to sell it it would be a major loss. This is the tuner game we play, and I have all my paper work and receipts for everything and a maintenance log for the car. I am talking down to the batteries and tires bought, hell even 02 sensors. WRX/STI just have that resale value.

Yes, I'm aware that mods do not increase value of the car and know that the sale will be at a loss to the money spent on mods. Nine years of the mod grind and living on this site taught me that very well . The whole point of including the list was for informational purposes and the fact that an enthusiast will look at the car differently than a dealer or "blue book" value (plus a nice trip down memory lane).

I came here, to the one place on the internet where people still care about and think about these cars, to get a rough estimate of the value of the car while being completely up front about its history and current state. You have provided your estimate, so thank you. It's higher than what I was predicting, but you're including fixing all of the issues. I want to get rid of it as-is so I know I'll get much less.

Good luck with the sale, man. I'm sure that's a difficult decision given how much you've put into the car over the years. Wish I could help you with a ballpark value but I don't really know what the market is like these days. Your car was a fun build and will be a great starting point for someone looking for a project.

Thanks, Rick. Yeah... I wish the circumstances were different and i could just hold it, but it's just going to decay and I'd rather get something out of it / have someone make use of it than let it just completely fall off.

I'm hoping for a couple $k, but not sure if it's likely

hello past LGT kin. i added some fluids to the 4th gen and started trying to sort it out to sell it.

it's been a while since i've been here. for a bunch of various reasons (some valid and some not), the LGT has basically been sitting for a while. it still starts, still seems to run fine, but it's time for it to go. main issue right now is while sitting the brake line that runs down the passenger side has given way (found fluid leaking under the rear passenger side door) so it's not able to be moved.

general question, and feel free to tell me to bug off... but what are the value of these things these days? there's probably about 55k on the rebuilt engine and i think around 175k on the overall body, but i had a ton done to it over the years. i've attached my build sheet, it put down 311whp/333wtq on a mustang dyno, and i've attached the full list of mods i've ever done to it. not in the list mods is that the valve body for the 5EAT was modified by ClimberD (HexMods).

Known issues with the car:

• The A/C doesn't work
  
• The seats in the interior are in the shape of a car from 2005, except the driver's side seat has a pretty good tear in the bolster. However, the entire carpet was replaced with black carpet when I had the car rebuilt in 2014
  
• A wire is snipped on the Grimmspeed EBCS causing a CEL and limited boost, but I have a replacement EBCS on hand I just never installed
  
• The rear driver's side door handle needs to be painted. There was a failure of the mechanism and I had it replaced, but the shop that replaced it wouldn't work with me to get it painted
  
• The battery is toast but it jumps and runs when needed (I started it to test the brakes)
  

The car was PDR'd in 2014 and the exterior is in pretty good shape. The front bumper (JDM) could use a respray and it's got that typical fourth gen rust in front of the driver's side wheel well. I also have a ton of the stock parts hanging around and even some BNIB performance parts.

Anyone want to give a swag at what I could get for it? It's still in my possession since buying my Audi in 2017 because I wanted to move into a situation where I could garage the LGT and tinker with it, but life has just not gone in that direction. Honestly it probably needs some more work besides the brakes and the list above (tires, the wheels are in rough shape) so I'm not expecting top dollar.

I hope you all are well. It's good to see some familiar names still active in here.

Build Sheet - Rev.05.pdf

parts_list_pdf.pdf

 

When I was a kid ski racing in Michigan on a 200ft hill, this was my dream vacation. 40years later, I wish I had gone.

still can go!

Mapping for self-driving cars is one application I can think of. But then 50cm is a bit coarse and I'd like a 10cm (4") resolution to get it right.

Yeah that's actually a good one. I guess another would be is the possibility of integrating this with GPS data for other commercial applications.

50cm x 50cm is probably what the government is allowing to be sold commercially. I'm not sure why anyone would need this in a commercial application unless they're just "monitoring" their competitors.

Resolution is mainly a function of signal bandwidth. They say they're running 500 MHz and their press release mentions future generations already having up to 1.2 GHz which effectively halfs the resolution.

Still kinda nuts that they can get that detailed of an image from space in a commercial application.

I was in my infamous minivan.

wait... need deets on this minivan

Gentleman. I've made the difficult choice of selling my Spec B. I now have to decide how I want to price it. No matter how much I think about it I will most certainly lose quite a bit of money. My hope is someone here in the forums will jump at the chance of buying a really well sorted Spec B with top of the line parts. This decision was not made in haste, nor is it an easy one. All this to ask you Legacy gurus what you think its a fair price for my Spec B. Here's a short list of the main components but not all.

About tree fiddy

...couldn't help myself.

Sounds like an awesome setup. Maybe look at what the "book" value of the car is and add on market rarity and some percentage (20%? 30%?) of what you spent on mods?

I wish I was in a position where I could buy it. I already have a built LGT sitting and collecting dust (not in nearly as good of shape as yours, I'm sure)... can't add another one to the pile

https://www.nasa.gov/mp4/654254main_v1220j_H264l.mp4

is that model predicting andromeda and milky way galaxies will merge in 6 billion years?

Question for y'all:

 

- What roof boxes do people prefer?

 

I have been looking at thule and yakima, and i din't think i can see a real difference that sways me one way or the other. All opinions welcome. Just getting it to extend the stuff we can pack for trips, as we are always stuffing the car full and then jamming two kids and a dog on top of it.

I have a Thule Motion XT Alpine. It's not that tall but long for skis. The lock and latch system doesn't hang up and it can be opened from both sides. I happened to get it 40% off using a Thule pro deal. Now that I think about it, I think my pro deal is about to expire... gonna go look at what they have to offer.

I’m just getting back around to it after a couple years, so I totally know what you mean about them sitting and aging. The Audi sounds fun as hell though! I got a new Accord 2.0T sport last year as a daily, when it looked like I’d be going back to working for someone else, but then Covid happened. I started driving the Legacy again recently after coming to terms with the thought of selling it, and fell in love all over again. It’s been fun tinkering on it and finishing some projects I had been meaning to get around to for years.

Glad to hear it's still around! Yeah, that's my feeling whenever I see the LGT again, too. Can't escape the history!

What’s up Alex! Good to see you still on here. Still driving your LGT?

Hiya Rick! Argh, it pains me but it stays most of its time parked at my parents' place in RI. It gets some drives but not as much as it needs. I have concerns about it aging poorly while sitting most of the time. Still pulls like a champ, though.

When I eventually own a place where I can park multiple cars, I'll bring it back in and start to use it as a little project car just to play around with for my own learning / tinkering.

I drive a 2015 Audi allroad as my daily now. Loving it... beautiful wagon with some wheels and lowered and the 2.0T has some power. It was supposed to be all show no go, but my local buddy dropped a V8 from an RS5 into his same generation allroad and sold me his K04 turbo upgrade with the intercooler and high flow cat, so here I am now around 330whp on pump ... but, they're stout motors and are supposed to be pretty reliable even with this moderate power increase.

I'm hoping you're still driving that gorgeous red beast!

Anyone ever installed the self-tensioning A/C belt with a fluidampr pulley? I’ve had a grimmspeed LWCP for a while, and might make the switch to smooth things out a bit.

I've got nothing to add, other than... hey man!

Damn. I lost the touch. lol

Looks good!

Damn I want a spec b espresso machine. Cobbled together from blown ejs vf-46 and trimmed in Alcantara.

Can't use cylinder 4. It won't have enough compression to make the espresso...

...I'll see myself out.

Doing a cross-country road trip in two weeks in the spec.B. Should I be doing this on winter tires or 350tw summer tires?

 

More or less going to be following I80, but will be making a detour through St. Louis and Kansas City. Once we hit the Rockies, will likely make our way through CO, UT, WY, visiting national parks.

At the very least you want all seasons, and something good like a Conti DWS06. This is basically the start of winter for most of the country that gets snow (we just got like 4 to 6 inches in MA last Friday).

Personally, I'd probably go snows to be on the safer side. It'll be a squishier ride but worth it for the peace of mind. I've been hit by some very sudden storms out there that end up being huge.