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Is it bad forum etiquette to start lining up for the GS?

Thanks for reply. Realized I was likely having a brain fart. I was talking about the rear suspension bushings as in the rear of my car. Didn't occur to me at the time there are probably no year of STI that has the trailing arm type setup like the LGT's, so there would be no such thing as STI equivalents.

Thank you so much! This is going to look sweet. I can't believe I waded into the CF bling pool. I guess I'll have to stop giving side eye to the stock 350Z with a CF hood I see running around town.

Same here, never thought I'd lust so hard after some CF bling but Madrig should have mine ready soon! It's "blue carbon", I am hoping it matches my Atlantic Blue Pearl good enough.

Thanks for bringing this thread back up to the top! What an, um, interesting read! Thank you OP, I am humored in a really weird way by all of this. In the end though, I am firmly in the "you picked the wrong car" camp. Hope you find what you're looking for eventually, sliding around is one of my favorite activities too. Just have to wait until some snow is on the ground and that car of yours will be the right amount of fun. Bravo too if this is a troll thread, that electronic pedal comment was pretty good. I've got me one of those too!

Do you think it would be ok to run around with STI front bushings and my shot stock rear bushings or would it mess up the dynamics real bad to have the front and rear so different? Eventually I want to replace like everything - front and rear subframe bushings, diff/trans bushings, rear suspension components with nice shiny aluminum things but for this summer I am trying to keep my OCD under control so I can actually enjoy the damn thing before it becomes winter again.

Max Capacity, You say you're running stock pump and injectors with vf52 @ 21psi? That's awesome, I didn't realize it was possible to increase pressure so much with stock injectors. I was considering vf52 but decided not to because I was worried about costs getting carried away with fuel pump and injectors, and all the things I would break and have to replace along the way. I've also had my eyes on that GS intercooler. Have you ever tried and been happy with an E-tune from either of the two tuners you mentioned above? I am interested in if e-tunes are generally almost-as-good as a dyno tunes. Next summer or so once I get things really buttoned up the way I want them to be I think I'll probably get an actual dyno tune but I have been considering an e-tune to get me by. There are no tuners right that I've been able to find right around me. Thanks

Calipers : I already have some remans coming in from Rock Auto. Can let BoozeRS have them if he's interested. Thanks though! Tie rods : Already have MOOG inner and outers on hand, thanks though! Guess I should post on here before buying. Will take note. I'll have a bunch more stuff when I get to the rear end of the car I am assuming.

Has anyone used these knuckles? I am in the market for at least one knuckle but I'm drawn between junkyard knuckle and these. The price is sort of too good to be true, but it is a simple part, but it is also a very important one. Having hard time.

Got my car back on jack stands tonight. After joyriding my new turbo/downpipe stage 2 thing for a couple weeks and 1k miles I noticed how aged everything really is. LCA bushings shot, one of the tie rods had a little play. Then I remembered I have Bilsteins from some JDM Legacy in my shed, along with some aluminum control arms (also with shot bushings it turns out). Then I broke some stuff, so now it looks like basically everything will be replaced. Knuckle(s?), wheel bearing(s?), tie rods, control arms, control arm bushings, ball joints, caliper(s?), ummm I'm sure I'm missing something. It kinda sucks you can't buy just the caliper bracket for a decent price. So, question...OEM or aftermarket bushings? Wouldn't want to increase noise much, if there is something that has some handling gain without giving up much comfort. Need to do some reading, feel free to leave any input though.

I had a similar issue years back and after some forum digging concluded the first thing I should do is replace the knock sensor. It is easy to get to and not very expensive. In my case it cleared the issue right up. For what it's worth, my valve train is pretty darn "clicky" too. Planning on having clearances measured/adjusted if needed soon.

Part number on the brackets by any chance? I see a few different WRX bracket options at the link below. Wondering which one they might be. They all have different lengths listed. Maybe we could work backwards from there? I am interested in doing this upgrade down the road, maybe next summer. https://www.wilwood.com/Hardware/Bracket

I was able to find them thankfully, should have updated this thread. I was hesitant to reach out to COBB just because they seem to be pushing people pretty hard to the v400 tunes because of the "unnecessary" DTC suppression in the v300 tunes. I haven't been able to find a good local tuner just yet, although my search has only started. What do you mean a matched tune? Is the OTS Stg 2 tune from COBB considered matched if I use their down-pipe and have everything else stock?

Does anyone have or have access to the CPBB AP v300 Stg 2 91 and 93 octane maps? I don't see anyway to download past versions from them unless you downloaded them at the time v300 was the newest. Unfortunately I only have the Stg 1 v300's. Thanks!

I can imagine so! I hope to be able to follow your example in the next couple years, unless I impulse buy another one from out west to give me a better starting point. She's been with me over a decade now though, so she kind deserves it. Putting on just my shiny exhaust components is making it more painful the rest of mine looks the way it looks.

You are my hero with that shiny underside of yours. Sent from my SM-G892A using Tapatalk

Aluminum control arms from Rock Auto?! I had no idea! Awesome, I'm glad I came across your post.

I see that! It's a nice car, even a bit crunched up. Seems like there are other people in line, I'll take my ticket for now but I'm interested to see where this goes. Six speed swap has been a dream of mine for well over a decade now. I feel it coming sooooometime. Or I'll find a mint Spec B

Yep, something like 22 miles on the manifolds! Bought the manifolds, center pipe thing, and up-pipe for something less than 300$. Came off 2014 STI. Had to get the heatshields separate. Mmmmm. Brembo's. That is awesome! Edit : Some more shiny heatshield porn

Found it! I should have spent a few more minutes looking before I posted.

Does anyone happen to know where I can find the settings to make the forums light again? I've tried clearing all my cookies/site cache etc. No other websites are affected, don't think it's a browser setting.

Do you have any pics?

If you do end up doing downpipe and don't already have a heatshield that will fit, I found this gem of a post below today (see link). I heard of a lot of people do it but not many pics to show where to cut. https://legacygt.com/forums/showpost.php?p=711156&postcount=2

Well, your engine runs under temp every time you start up. It's not the best for it, but I'm sure it won't hurt to take it out for a few minutes. If it can't get all the way to normal temp = your radiator is fine? Edit : Do thermostats like sort of crap out? Like they will open, just not all the way? If it is absolutely stuck shut I would think your car would overheat just about instantly.

Trimmed heatshield for new downpipe. Wire brushed it while I was at it. Some high temp enamel perhaps?