Dre617

I will also follow this thread and see where Covert takes it.

Yeah, no problem. The DIY options aren't as bad, just a bit more time-consuming. If I had time and space, I would have run it outside instead of through the interior and a single longer piece instead of multiple connection points.

7 hours ago, SubOperator said:

Glad wife made it to parking safe. Exact same thing happened to my middle son's 2010 Outback. I was able to talk SOA into covering $500 towards all brake lines swap as a good will gesture, the car was long out of warranty.

Do you mind sharing how much did it cost you to get all brake lines, fuel tank and filler neck replaced? I have to do the same thing as my tank got smelly. Did the garage put OEM parts on it?

My local dealer is not feeling hot about doing the job for some reason.

So I had the same issue a couple of years ago, took it to the dealer near me and I think the quote was like $5k for just the brake lines. The reasoning was it was pretty labor intensive and I do not disagree with them. Subaru ran the brake lines through the interior of the car so to replace it, you have to remove the rear seats, carpet, and drop the gas tank also I believe.

There is a post by another member here in the forum where they went the alternate route and spliced in a new line by just buying brake lines and additional tools from Amazon. I took that route, called up my boy who I worked with at Toyota and we tackled it. I am a bit rusty in flaring brake lines so his help was great.

I will see if I can find the post on the brake line repair for ya.

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Found the post by @covertrussian who detailed their brake line fix and I mostly followed it..I say mostly cuz I missed one of the pics and had a longer brake line from the inside to the wheel. which led to more work on my end but this has held solid for 3 yrs so far
 

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I think Max is pointing out that someone commented in that thread there is a shop in Sterling, MA. Enhanced Street Performance

Depending on "Boston area", you have 3 options I know off the top of my head and I am listing them based on distance from Downtown Boston. I know some have traveled further to a specific person.

• If you are north of Boston, there is Wicked Performance Group, I think they were called Wicked Innovations before but I may be incorrect. They in Manchester, NH about 1hr north of DT (Downtown) Boston without traffic.
• If you more towards Worcester county then ESP in Sterling, is what has been recommended in that other thread. They also about an hour from DT Boston.
• If you are South of Boston, then it would be Wicked Matt, he is in Exeter, RI. About 1.5hrs from DT Boston.

I known other owners who have gotten worked done by Wicked Matt or Wicked Performance Group. None have complained.

From my experience, Wicket Matt is a complete tuner gear head, I have had him do some work on my car when my clutch fork gave away and he was super communicative, responded quickly by emails and explained things he found including shooting me over a video of the issue he saw.

There was a saying when I used to roll around with the import kids, most subbies were probably tuned by Wicked Matt in the NE area.

This is not to discount the other 2 shops as I do have a personal friend who had work done by Wicked Perfomance, brand new engine and they rebuild his tranny with all spur gears, and Wicked Matt tuned it .

I know I also been thinking of getting more work done but this is my dd without trying to take over the wife's car.

Taking the plunge and have contacted Matt Miner about tuning my car, been overdue. Going to have to tow it to him and get clutch work done also as I have been procrastinating the replacement of the clutch fork when it broke a couple of months back.

11 hours ago, solidxsnake said:

Tagging @Dre617

Thanks and holy crap I missed a lot . Thanks for the heads up on the meet, unlucky too far for the drive.

Currently looking to buy a v3 version of the Accessport and may consider v2 depending on price. Would be nice if one with all the accessories would be available. Planned to look at NASIOC also in their FS section

Maybe inquire if Madrig would be interested in making for the drivers side, wonder if no one ever asked before so it never came up

@seanyb505Tried Plasti dip with the glossy coating? I have done mine in black and kept it matte.

Should work for me, I am 40 mins away. You pick the spot, 10 am-ish okay?

I can work around your schedule, Saturday would be best to ignore any traffic situation. iirc you aint that far from me

This still available? I can grab at the end of this week

Driver side knuckle still available?

I put sockets in the ceiling. Made it easy to plug in power tools without running cords on the floor.

Also put one individual circuit with #10 wire to a quad outlet on each wall. Electrician bitched about doing it, but has allowed for high draw tools to be plugged in that weren't planned for.

 

 

Great idea, I know i been places there there was conduits that came down from the ceilings and an a quad outlet which was great for keeping cords off the ground

lol you never know engine rebuild with some sports in the background with friends over..idk I am i guess younger and hope to do something with my son when he gets older

Looking good, not sure if this might be something of interest on your end but I know when I get the chance to get my garage built up I plan to get a tv mounted to be able to watch sports or youtube videos when I am working on my car so I plan to ask the electricians to give me some outlets installed higher up so I can hide the cables and whatnot. Also plan on routing some audio cables for multi-zone configurations between the garage and backyard

Good point, updated main post. A little over an hour outside Boston, but willing to meet part way. Front axle is still available, send me a PM if interested

 

 

Will PM and see whats up

Where in MA are you at or can meet? interested in the Front Axle

what is the proposed size of the garage? Thinking of getting a 2-car also, got about 25ft or so before I will need to ask permission from the town as there is a 15ft rule from property lines for new contructions

Yup that looks pretty similar, if you want to be more correct go with the Metric sizes

 

 

 

Cool, thanks for checking it out. Good thing I had all those Credit Card reward points so it really cost my like $15 out of pocket for everything

Are these similar to the connectors you bought for your brake line fix?

Brake Line Adapters

Planning to buy everything and fix it myself, here is what I priced out so far, hoping that it lines up with the items you grabbed:

Brake Lines

Brake Line Unions and Nuts

Brake Line Flaring Tool Kit

Brake Line Bender

Fog light install is new - Diode Dynamics SS3 LED kit.. Keeping in mind it'll fit the 08-09 Legacy, but not 05-07 model years.

 

 

 

 

RIP, looks nice. wonder if there is a version that fits mine. My foggies keep killing bulbs

I have a nexus 7 and assorted hardware sitting in a box. I'll never use it. make offer

 

 

Damn Boxkita really know how to make life choices hard lol

Saw this recently:

 

 

Might do this instead of the Nexus 7 install since finding one cheap is tough and their age might start to show.

Much better.. I'm ok with them as aux/bling lights, bc they look nice.

 

 

 

 

Sorry, missed the previous thread. What did you add? the fogs or headlights?

 

 

 

Also, what fogs are those?