ChicagoSam

The lip arrived with a pretty good crack in it. Im no CF repair specialist. Anyone have a similar break that you fixed? Good repair shop in the NE area?

09 DGM getting an S402 overhaul. Thanks for the thread-(picked up the specB last year-I’m the seventh and final owner:)

Miss the shine of the black.( '08 5eat I recently sold-grey specB is the 'new' car. wish I could have kept them both..)

I couldn't help myself. Hopefully it'll see the sun this year.

So far so good taking everything off the undercarriage. There’s an apparent leak in the stock steering rack so in goes a STI 15+ rack( wasn’t planning on doing it now but it was in the general plan since the S402 used a similar ratio). Previous owners added some whiteline rod ends, look nice but I’ll probably stick with the new ones. Thanks to online videos about this installation, I’ll have to cut the ends 3-4 threads worth to fit in the Legacy. ( you can see the slight length difference below)

Hello- I started building an S402 clone with a 2009 specB as the base car and figured I'd share the ride. A little history: I joined LegacyGT back in 2010 when I purchased my first LGT. It was a black '08 5eat and it served my family well for years. Thanks to this forum, I of course started to fiddle around with the car and ran it on a stage 2 tune/supporting until I sold it last year with just over 100k miles. The family runs around town in other vehicles these days and our LGT became more of a (my)project car. (I had the full intention of doing a 6-speed swap on the '08 5EAT and making it into one of my dream cars. Early last year though, I found an '09 specB in good condition- so I sold the '08) If you own one of these cars you've probably heard of the Legacy STI S402 made exclusively for Japan( obviously everyone on this forum knows about it-just covering all the bases for any new members into the community). The S402 was the only Legacy to roll down STI's factory line- receiving all sorts of upgrades to create a limited run of 402 wagons and sedans. I always wanted to own one, and so I started to plot my demise and began to buy up S402 parts as they became available thru various auction houses, overseas friends and even eBay. As you probably know, the "Imported Safety Alliance Act" doesn't let the US import a Japanese car until it's 25 years old. Lucky me not all S402's are driven lightly and some end up in pieces which started to accumulate in my garage. The progress I can share has taken years to come together. I'm not necessarily doing a 1-1 clone. I pretending I bought an S402, then lightly 'modded' it to achieve its full potential. The S402's VF-51 twin scroll turbo feels like it's got a lot to give when given the right supporting characters around it (the s402's engine is an EJ255 just like our USDM ones). The grey car in the pic below is the specB as it came when I bought it. Hopefully it'll be a cover girl in the not too distant future..we'll see.

Looking good! Subscribed my friend

Shiny blue n/a(no hood scoop) 08'-09' sedan with tinted windows heading into downtown Cleveland Sunday, Dec.27th mid morning. No spoiler and yellow fogs. Love the blue in the sea of silver/grey/black cars on the roads these days...( mine included...)

Black '07/no badging/tinted windows/GT. Around 5:30pm on 90/94 West. I pulled up next to you as I was taking the Division St exit( right before North ave exit). Nice car. Follow the ChicagoFrapper thread?

I'm in- this Sunday(or next) where?

Silver spec B (just the Spec b badge)/rims/rear lip- off Division and North Noble(across from the Polish Church) between the BP and Shell early-around 7am. I've seen your car a few times before- looks nice who-ever you are-

keeping my ear to the rail

Silver/Gray? LGT pulling out of the Shell station on Division between Ashland and 94 Monday morning around 7am. You had what looked like a RREV grill with no suby emblem and different wheels in the front and back.

Anyone from Cincinnati on here? Your light blue/ yellow fogs/ loud BOV LGT went by the downtown Westin around 9pm on Tuesday night. I think the A8 in-front of you was wondering what was going 'whoosh-psssst' behind him as he/you goosed it for the yellow light-

I should check the forum more often- I missed yet again the chance hang out with other Subarus and Owls...

" Subaruing...because football, basketball and baseball take only one ball?" I don't think that would fit on my windshield...

Let's go '08 tranny's- you can do it!

Gray Spec B rolling down Division around 1pm last Saturday (west of Ashland with a Chicago's finest Tahoe in tow)

I'm in if you ever in the Chicago area for an 08'

DGM SpecB in a downtown Parking lot on Monroe this morning. (Your licenses plate tipped off your anticipation for the new "Transformers" movie...)

Of course I did'nt go back and check out your earlier post describing in detail the shifting/long term strength benefits- I was just riding the train and the question came to mind( I got lazy and just asked-everthing is on the site/with a little digging I think there's a thread describing how to make a Legacy corkscrew through a tunnel) Thanks for clarifying (again) and looking forward to the results.

Just to clarify- If and when this happens- this will mean quicker shifts but not opening the gate for a 18g/20g option? (will this mod will make the auto tranny stronger?able to handle more pow-wa?)

PM sent- commence countdown...

That makes sense now- I thought my old Perrin end links ran out of grease in their ball and socket joints- I replaced with kartboys- added the "bils" as you call 'em and still the "creaky-id-yee-creek" over bumps and out of driveways.( thats not the reason I replaced everything- but I thought it would help). Now it makes sense to grease the bushings( they are polyurethane ). Thanks B Monkey!