Thor294

Lots of stuff been happening... Took apart the engine to do ARP studs and head gaskets and found scoring on the cylinder walls. Going to do AVCS EJ205 (but don't enable AVCS so i can use USDM ECU, etc.) longblock. Fitted PS and EBCS didn't need this but I did it anyway. picked up some STI front lower arms and a WRX whiteline front swaybar. Found a possible new set of summer wheels The fun begins! went a little ham on the exhaust coating and powder coating. Smacking myself for not trying to find a good ELH to run. DP bung for a/f sensor Bay nice and fresh Found a scoop extender, rfrb grille (not pictured)... and the one and only... ZERO SPORTS RAD SHROUD

Also took some old parts off. exhaust going to someone local. MSD coil/intake tube going to a 2nd gen facebook friend. stock TD04 going back to turbo guy i bought the vf48 for and TGVs going to the guy I bought deletes from

Slow and steady... Some fun with panorama shots plop Like playing a crane game move to the other side of the shop prepping bay for paints thought this was funny rad support straightened out. might re attach bumper support this time. debating on doing ARP studs and head gaskets. Currently cleaning up the block

Vf48 pnp, billet wheel and ball bearing upgrade

Got some fun new front seats... Loaded it up to get it ready to change literally everything. Dropped everything off, went to drive back home and... rip Just shut off, no noise. CEL came on for a second before it stalled, thinking Crank sensor but didn't bother to investigate. Pump primes. It knew it was time... Had to drop off the last piece of the puzzle: Tearing it down to replace every seal. Compression test 145-150-150-150 Teardown begins Thanks Mr. UPS man! (yes, im replacing the filter) Since I am going 4 pots in the future, I wanted to stick with 16" wheels for better everything in the winter. So I got some cheap XT wheels and got some new skins on them. The blizzaks I had on my steelies are now on my stock ford focus wheels for my focus. Pile of parts in the corner, still waiting for some parts to come in. Going to be fun

Getting ready for some fun

5x100 bbs wheels always pop up on facebook. they are $$$ though

I agree. I think the H6 brake upgrade is a great upgrade, because it is not a complicated upgrade. When my rear brakes go, I am going to go that route for sure.

I was lucky till about a year ago. driver's quarter has a... quarter... sized rust spot. passenger is clean. My friend is going to go over both and fix them up real good. The "white" from my rear bumper will probably spread to the quarters now Nice. Classic

yeah I had someone at costco ask what year it was because it looked brand new. lol, guess he missed the rust spot on the drivers quarter

All fixed up. car is now 2 different shades of white unfortunately lol

as mentioned before, the 14" wheels won't clear. You need at least 15s. Also, if you just get reman calipers, they usually come with the brackets already. That is what I did. huge upgrade and easy to do.

I have a compressor and a painter friend who did it professionally. Just no time to setup a paint booth and such. I am debating on just prepping the whole car myself for paint and just pay for it to be painted. I need to fix the rust spots that are now starting to form. The front bumper is fresh painted and isn't too bad looking lol. Just not something I wanted to do

Yeah not fun. The bumper "protector" has a lip that goes under the liftgate. It peeled off a bunch of paint in doing so. They quoted for repainting the bottom of the liftgate/tailgate/hatch/whatever, so total is around $1600

Last week the HVAC decided to make love to it with his truck, so it's at the body shop right now. AC also quit working so gotta find the leak *again*.

Finally got around to working on the car. Replaced all brakes with hawk HPS pads and installed the other 3 stainless brake lines. had to replace drivers rear caliper as it was frozen, wasn't actually doing anything lol. Same as the passenger rear one when I got the car. Also took the snows off and put my BRZ wheels that I got for a steal on. Still need to re-assemble my STI struts and RCE yellows to throw into the car. Also need to swap the engine/trans. Lots of stuff to do. A "summer project"...

You and me both! I also got his "j pipe" or downpipe or whatever and I also sent him a center section from rockauto - hopefully he will have a stainless portion for us soon

I love my hawk HPS pads on my 98 wagon. I would also upgrade to the outback 2 piston front calipers if you haven't already.

I had single piston front brakes and rear disc on my 98 legacy when I got the car. God those brakes were garbage. First, I did outback front calipers and all newpads/rotors all around with autozone stuff. My pass rear caliper froze, so I replaced it. Fast forward a year, and my drivers rear caliper froze, and my front rotors were shot. I decided to get stainless steel brake lines, master cylinder brace, new drivers rear caliper, hawk HPS pads, and wagner painted blank rotors all around. The car feels 1000000000x better braking now. I can probably say it is the Hawk HPS pads, and I feel confident with it now. Makes me think how the WRX/H6 setup would feel. I think the big pain point is pad material and MC brace. Question is, do you REALLY need that big of a brake in the rear?

Re-attached wheels, and they are fine now. I think it was cause all the brakes were new and rotors weren't "seated". Car rides fine going from 16s to 17s. Stops nice and good now with hawk HPS pads all around. Just waiting to assemble my STI struts/RCE yellows, install outback sway bars, and strut bars. Also, waiting to swap my deltacam 2.2L 80k mile engine and trans.

http://i.imgur.com/R6PCzYn.jpg Finally installed all my stainless brake lines and hawk HPS brakes all around. Also finally threw on the Brz Wheels. I think the lugs are different.. Each time I tightened a lug the wheel kept going in. They were same pitch I just think mine has a longer cup?

Waiting for my inferno fab EL header so I can do my engine and trans swap. Fixed the coil wires and redid tint on window.

Nice. I always liked the blue ones. get some 16" wheels first for sure and polish those lights!

Forgot to ask deltacam what they do. Cams should be with me next week. Much better tinted. Hate the damn decals on the hatch. They will be gone when I paint the car in the summer.