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I dream about those seats. Haha. I have a set in my radar right now... Possibly the whole car with them. heh

Nice!

Congrats! Just got what?!

forgot to mention... turned over 120k on my 96 today. Still a young 2nd gen.

My Legacy shifts really nice, actually. It's just my 89GL with a bajillion miles that has a sloppy shifter..

You shouldn't really be shifting into first when you're moving. 2nd is pretty low on these, most of the time if you're moving 2nd is fine.

Putting it into 3rd not 1st... classic. I do it sometimes in my GL because the bushings are SOOO shot. The stick moves back and forth in any gear as much as neutral the shifter bushings are so shot...

Not sure if I mentioned it, but I had to replace an inner tie rod end to pass inspection. Wasn't a big deal, a little bit of a pita, but I got it done.

I'm gonna hit 120k in my 96 on my way home from class today. Started right up and purred along like a kitten... a retarded kitten... in the -20 weather this morning. Had a couple backfires and almost stalled, but after a bit of warming up it acted normal again.

Ouch! that's terrible I'd be very sad if that happened to mie.

What happened to your JDMs?

really nice car..... HOLY EXPENSIVE!

119k on my legacy. Just got it back running today. I calculated that next year, just in commuting to school, I have about 35k of driving! And I know I'm going to have a few looong road trips. Although seeing all these high mileage subarus I'm not really too worried, mine is just a youngster.

The DOHC can be a handful to get the timing set right on.

I'd definitely go to that guy instead of the dealer!! Independent subaru gurus always do better work than dealers. I'd do the belt for you for a wicked steal... But I don't live near you...

There's a guy where I live on a local forum who does awesome subaru work. Does timing belts for something like $90 in labor, you supply parts. There's gotta be someone on the forum near you who'll help you out.

It would be a shame to blow that low mileage engine! The 4-5k RPM thing.... meh. I wouldn't run on that.

I replaced timing belt and water pump at 92k. My water pump seized and made a big mess of everything three hours away from home.

About 116k still. Haven't driven my Legacy in 3 weeks. I miss it

$5k?!?!? That's a steal!

Same here. In Maine it isn't uncommon to see subarus with over 300k on them. I know a bunch of people with 07 and 08 with around 130k-140k!!! Maine is big and spread out so wide miles rack up like crazy.

I got my 96 with 87k miles and thought that was low!!

For lifting a subaru I'd look at the offroad section of http://www.ultimatesubaru.org/ Everything has been done on there, tranny swaps, engine swaps, lifts, you name it. You'll definitely find your answer there.

At 166k it could still be running the original Tbelt.... It's a non-interference engine, so if it breaks it won't kill the car at least. My family has a 99 outback with the DOHC. We didn't do the timing belt until about 160k...... Running in borrowed time for sure!