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I think almost everyone gets that spot in the rear fender area above the tire.

I feel like frank_ster did this on his car, but I could be mistaken. Here's his big thread, which has a wealth of information: https://legacygt.com/forums/showthread.php/my-subaru-beat-buick-heart-140053.html You could also search for posts by him.

Thanks!

It's a 2015. It looks kind of like this right now, but without the box. I recently had some vinyl accent coloring to it: Then it'll be going back to this for a few months:

I am in Somerville. I'll keep an eye out for you, though I'm driving a white allroad now instead of the LGT. What color?

Same thing happened to me when I ended up getting the allroad. The front calipers shouldn't matter for the recall. They're kinda unrelated parts of the system. I believe there were two brake recalls that occurred.

Oh shite. Heavily modded is an understatement. I'm guessing you were pushing a bit more than my BNR HTA68 given the E85, 9:1, and manual trans... besides that we had somewhat similar mod lists. I know the feeling of loss as well, my friend. These things die in the top end very quickly in stock form, and mine is only an A4 base. Looking forward to getting it tuned next year if I can wait that long (warranty). Stage 1 is as far as I'll go, most likely. Stage 2 just requires a high flow cat on top of Stage 1 but the gains are like 12 WHP and 2 WTQ (looking at APR's marketing stuff, anyway). What happened to it? Did it pop? Or just become unreliable DD?

woah... sorry to hear of that SubOperator. Turkeylord I don't know the history of your LGT. Heavily modded?

Nice score! Join up at audizine.com. You'll be unnecessarily spending more money in no time!

I got mine (way-back-when) for $620 from autopartswarehouse. It doesn't seem to be that cheap anymore. If you do go with Borla make sure it looks like this one, with the mid-pipe resonator and the T shaped Y-pipe: https://www.borla.com/products/legacy_gt_catback_exhaust_stype_part__140123.html

@Infosecdad - that wiring setup looks great. Maybe I'll install the one I have hanging around... Borla is definitely the quietest exhaust for the LGT.

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The Hawk HPS I used to buy are still less than $100 for a set (front or rear) on Amazon.

In the very few videos I've seen of pro shops wrapping they use one big sheet over sections and then cut out what should be voids.

Are you calculating it yourself or using the dash readout? The dash readout becomes inaccurate once you upgrade to larger injectors. It uses injector pulse width to determine MPG and the IPW for the larger injectors is smaller for the same amount of fuel, so it tricks the car into thinking you're using less fuel (less pulse width). I think someone might have figured out a way to fix it in the ECU somewhere. The prior option was doing some sort of mod in the data between the ECU and the dash computer, I think.

Maybe I'm not remembering correctly, but I thought a bad gas cap can trigger that EVAP cell as well?

I'm finding most shops these days just want straightforward wrenching. Anything that's diagnostic or seems like a "project" has a really tough time getting someone to agree to the work. On one side, I don't get it because whatever just charge me the labor for the work you do, you're still getting paid. On the other side, I get they want to crank through other jobs and can probably make more on jobs where they can charge for the full kit and caboodle of parts, labor, etc.. Just seems like they'd prefer the high volume turnover versus a job that needs more hours.

You sure that's Throttle Position Sensor? Seems odd that a sensor would have a duty cycle...

I think the brass bushings were meant to protect the spindle thing they replaced, right? Not necessarily the gear teeth?

I got huge laugh out of this when I first saw it. Then I read somewhere you can see someone throwing the cat through the snow and sure enough, it looks tossed...

Found this on Brembo's site: https://www.brembo.com/en/company/news/5-reasons-not-to-use-repainted-brake-calipers-brembo None of it really calls to a materials problem. If they truly thought it was a safety issue, it would be way up top in a big flashing banner. There are various other people out there saying it's a bad idea, but most of their points have to do with shops doing it wrong, such as not removing the pistons or the various seals and o-rings, or getting powder coat in the pistons or passages, etc.. Seems to be a "bad at their job" thing more than anything else.

... I know the feeling. Been brutal up here lately. This week got better. There's an easy brake upgrade for the B8 Audi series (A4/S4/allroad, maybe even A5/S5) where you can replace the front single pot (at least on my allroad) with a 4 pot from the Q5 3.0T. It has the same knuckle, I guess, and you just have to upsize the rotor. It's also the same part as the Porsche Macan and I ended up buying the Macan versions for less than half the price of the Q5 versions (who'd of thought?). We've been disassembling them so I can get them powder coated (they say PORSCHE on them ) and, damn, even brand new the pistons are a tight pull and took us some serious finagling to get out. Then we had to disassemble some S4 rear calipers I got cheap which were not nearly as painful because everything is screwed together. Going in for PC this week and then have to reassemble...

where did you go for this? or did you do it yourself?

I think buying used valve bodies is pretty common, but you have to buy for your exact model year, I think.

Centric Cryo blanks and Hawk HPS were always my go-to and I liked the feel.