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I'm still intending on this, will work on a firm rsvp and integration into the timeline. Pm me if I don't respond by end of this weekend.

Picked up these free bilstiens and top hats with tein springs, I believe h techs. These shocks are really crusty, are they worth saving or pretty much garbage? I only have them as a solution to use when I need my KWs need rebuilding in 4-5 years.

Yeah I've had some fun there. Had a dodge charger rental for a work trip, hotel was about an hour and 45 away from the airport. I woke up at 430 for a 6am return flight, but made it up in the dark on switch backs. One of my favorite non track driving experiences.

S2000 post Ugh. What a beautiful and gracefully aged car. Design is what, 20 years old now?

State: SC Distance willing to drive: 11 miles. Odds of attendance: 75% Picture of Car(s) attending:

Ugh, those cam caps. Had to redo mine and the cam seals a few times. Getting those cam seals wrong means as soon as you get to temp your engine pukes oil out the front and conveniently all over the also up to temp exhaust.

Ah, I'm looking for 2007 and up. I know the seat belt arrangement on the passenger front seat is different - one mounts to the seat and one mounts to the B pillar. Not sure about other trim pieces.

Ugh. Looks like I need to troubleshoot my new seat.

I forget, do our seat backs have heaters or is it just the butt portion?

What year was the donor? I might be interested in a lot of the small bits. Already have carpet and seats. I'm guessing door cards will be cost prohibitive to ship across the country.

I used to moroso pickup on my build. I also got what I thought was a generic ej25 oil pan. Haven't had any issues coming up on 7 years. Not sure why people pay the killer B price.

Gauges should only be to help you get out of the car when the oil pressure fails. If the oil pressure fails, ynasb and you need to exit the situation immediately. I'm an idiot

I want to say I installed a dw65c prior to rebuilding my engine and tuning for the new combination. I probably didn't run it very long, maybe a few weeks or months. I wanted to verify the fuel pump replacement worked rather than tuning on an old oem pump, then upgrading to aftermarket and retuning.

Finally calling my diy grill refurb done, mostly because I'm tired of fixing small imperfections. Looks like I'm due for a headlight clearing too. Hopefully a new job comes to fruition this week and I can start blowing money on carbon fiber bits.

I know there's nothing super special about yours, but man is that a pretty face. Any details on headlights?

You can step down to the Michelin as4s from the ps4s. Still expensive, but I had a grippier experience on the as4s than my current conti all season dws06 (extreme contact). For sane daily driving the conti is fine though.

Attach the ground. Inspect the wiring for the maf sensor. Maf doesn't have a dedicated ground, but I know things get weird when grounds aren't connected. Which ground do you see not connected?

Ship car to Aussie, do cross country trip there! Subarus are from Australia after all lol

If the damage is cosmetic you may be able to sand and refinish if it's just that one you highlighted. Might save you a few hundred Good luck!

Maybe to help get you and potential buyers get closer to the same page... If all the tires look like the one picturing the tread, those tires are no good. The inner shoulder has dangerous levels of wear. So now there's 4 oem wheels needing tires replaced, and let's ignore the cosmetic damage for now. At 600 most buyers are getting closer to just buying an aftermarket set in terms of overall investment. You're listing what equates to a full set as $1,400 (your listing+new tires @ $200 each installed). Though decent new tires will likely be more than that. That's a decent price, and for someone to run oem wheels. Again, at that level most would go aftermarket for the upgrade. Not trying discourage or troll the thread, but again trying to get you closer to the price range of potential buyers. I've got an extra set of oem wheels albeit 17s. I can't imagine those being worth anything so I'm painting them different colors just for lolz. Granted you're are 18s, but that would still make them worth only slightly more than the oem lolz I have.

You're probably feeling a freshly bedded system and a different pedal feel rather than a shorting stopping distance outright. Maybe the effort required is less to stop as quickly as you desire. If you can engage abs you don't need bigger brakes to stop sooner, you need better tires. Correctly functioning stock lgt brakes can engage abs. I'm pretty sure shralp tracks his wagon with stock calipers. Not sure many are running at those limits for longer periods to truly get to a point where heat is killing braking performance of a correctly functioning oem system. But yeah the heat resistance and bling factors are legit.

Replaced the battery tonight. The car had to live outside during a cold snap earlier this winter and I noticed much slower cranking those weeks. The last two days living in the garage were slow too. It was a Walmart gold battery, lasted just over 5 years. $120 later and there's another one in it's place. I hate repair work that doesn't improve the actual driving experience lol

Try to find someone with a set of Michelin all season 4s installed. (They're available as a c8 oem tire if that helps direct you). When you say a 3 season tire, they're pretty high up the top of that list. I ran the ps4s predecessor and thought I don't want to be driving this fast on the street, in my only car. But, they were hockey pucks in ice. I think the ps4s would be fine in most warm wet situations. They're probably better than the Michelin super sport in winter precipitation, but also probably still not good compared to a dedicated winter tire. I ran the as4s through 2-3 winters in upstate SC. Lots of 40° rain, and one 3-4 inch snow. I would have bought them again but supply chain limited my options last year. I went back to the continental, having done several years on that tire too. After both Michelins, I can definitely tell the continental is an all season that warrants the eye rolls from tire snobs and the "no season" crowd. Straight line wise I don't think the as4s would let you down. Though the ps4s would definitely perform better laterally if that's how you go about dusting cars above your weight class. At the expense of colder weather performance and wear. Edit: Thinking through it a little more, perhaps this frame of reference helps. I've been on track in super cars with the ps4s and street driven plenty ranging from the c8 to huge bmw m cars to Ecoboost mustangs. Knowing how hard I pushed my stock suspension legacy on the super sports, I know I'd never drive as fast or hard on the way to work M-F compared to what those tires could handle. Those exotics are unbelievable on the ps4s, or any cream of the crop uhp tire really. The more frequent track rats will definitely have a better feel for good and bad tires that they have experienced. I'm a relative newby but I still feel like I can tell the difference in the conti and Michelin all seasons. Fun fact: one of the as4s launch events included wrxs in New Orleans. They wore enkei raijins at my recommendation.

Do you want best or budget? My immediate thoughts - bestest - Michelin ps4s. Summer, incredible performance. Pricey. - don't need best but still want a good tire - Michelin as4s. If you're concerned about all seasons, try to get a ride on some. Very good tire unless you're doing track days. They won't replace the dedicated snows, but they'll work decently enough in the bookends of winter Budget - toss up between conti dws06 and bfg comp 2as. They hold a little more than most touring tires. Bfg has ugly shoulder tread blocks. Hankook and Yokohama probably have cheaper options that are more reputable than Chinese stuff. But, how important is the first 5 feet of your car in a panic stop? This is my approach to tires, I don't really get outside that box so my opinion is limited.

So with max out, who's still pushing toward 300k? I see hd was at 314k up there. I'm at 259k. Projecting to hit 300k in 2026-2027.