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That's pretty much what I have been doing for the past 40 years of doing my own oil changes. Don't forget about how hard you drive the car, summer traffic is worst then winter driving. Think about the type driving do. I'll go longer oci during the winter. I go to VT every winter weekend. Lot's of highway miles during the cold dry months. Summer time I change it around 3-3500 miles and use 10-30 where in Winter I use 5-30. Right now I have 15-40 in there. I also use only conventional oil. 129,000 miles on the oem turbo.

Come on, the Dealership told that. It has to be true. No one there would tell you something the wasn't true. If you can't trust the dealer who can you trust. LOL Try saying that with a straight face.

Just go buy some 2" long 3/8 bolts, nuts and washers at the local hardware store. Use anti-seize compound and install them. Or do what I did, just remove the mufflers. I had pipes and nice tips fab'ed up to replace them. Muffler free since Easter weekend.

My son removed my silencer back in the late summer of 04 when he installed the Perrin panel filter. It's still removed. I have 130,800 + miles on the car mist of them with the silencer removed. Oh, I removed the mufflers on Good Friday 2010.

Why would he use the Subaru automatic ? Is he planning on keeping the AWD ? I would just make it a RWD car with the tranny that came with the engine.

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Don't waste your money for SS bolts. Just buy a bottle of anti-seize compound and use it on all the nut's and bolts, I use it on my lug nuts too. I'm telling you guy's just remove the mufflers and start the car, drive it, you may want to leave them off. I've been muffler free for over 2 months now.

If you like the exhaust with the leaks, just finish removing the muffles and drive the car. I did that and never put mine back on. That was about 5 weeks ago.

For all those who mention clutch chatter...the fix is easy. Mine will chatter if a drive the car like an old lady. To fix it, I get the car rolling a bit in first gear, may roll about 10 feet, push in the clutch give the engine about 5000rpm and dump the clutch, run the engine up to red line in first, shift into 2nd as fast as you can. You can go to red line if you want. shift into 3rd and repeat.The next time you take off the chatter should be gone. Seems to work for me. Oh yea, the smell of tire smoke is a good thing.

I think like it was said a few post up, he didn't post interior colors, that's why there seems to be doubles. I have 1 of 108 Black 5 speed wagons...I thought I was special. Oh yea, real close to 126,000 miles. Purchased late June 04 I think it was around the 27th. My records show the 1st oil change was July 19 04 at 1800 miles.

I think no but with enough money you can do anything. I think you can use a 06 WRX flywheel, but I'm no expert. Contact Danny Smith at http://honda-tech.com/member.php?u=2910 He works for Spec and goes to lots of the race's as a Rep for them.

Just found this thread again. I have over 53,000 miles on my Spec 2+ and still love this thing. Yes it's a high performance clutch. If your not willing to put up with a little chatter every now and then, stay stock. Oh wait OEM ones chatter every now and then too and oh yea OEM's slip with any hint of power or stress on them. This thing still grabs as good as it did when new. ^ I know this is a old thread now, but what is this guy talking about, "i had a spec stage two that would chatter almost all the time on the highway." I've never heard of a clutch chattering when your driving at 70mph.

The pop your hearing is just the exhaust in the tubing. It's not a true back fire. Don't worry about it. B-BGT great videos, I have always liked those cars. Wish Chevy still made them. You should contact Mike at TuningAlliance.com and have him do a reflash and may be adjust some things for you. He's done his magic on my car twice. I just order Parin end links from him. tuningalliance@gmail.com He's in W.Springfield MA.

I'll have to wait until I get home to view the vid's. On a side note the other day while walking into a store in a plaza, a G8 was pulling out from a stop light. That thing sounded alot like my old 1970 GTO 4 speed, nice burbble when the car shifted. With my muffler deletes my son say's the car doesn't sound like a Subby going down the road.

Mine still has a little popping when I rev it after it has been idling for a few seconds sitting at a stop light even with the new pipes and tips, (muffler deletes). I think it sounds nice, like a muscle car from the 60's. I enjoy having no mufflers better then the Hog-zawt system.

http://legacygt.com/forums/showthread.php/oem-online-subaru-parts-vendors-42243.html You may want to look at the sticky's at the top of this forum.

Here's some photo's and video's with out mufflers or deletes. I'll have to wait until the weekend to have my son drive it again while I get a video of the sound. I like the noise. I don't find it bad on the highway or around town. Before http://i185.photobucket.com/albums/x40/92Si/DSCN4150.jpg DSCN4154.flv video by 92Si - Photobucket@@AMEPARAM@@http://vid185.photobucket.com/player.swf?file=http://vid185.photobucket.com/albums/x40/92Si/DSCN4154.flv@@AMEPARAM@@vid185@@AMEPARAM@@185@@AMEPARAM@@x40/92Si/DSCN4154 DSCN4155.flv video by 92Si - Photobucket@@AMEPARAM@@http://vid185.photobucket.com/player.swf?file=http://vid185.photobucket.com/albums/x40/92Si/DSCN4155.flv@@AMEPARAM@@vid185@@AMEPARAM@@185@@AMEPARAM@@x40/92Si/DSCN4155 After pictures. http://i185.photobucket.com/albums/x40/92Si/DSCN4158.jpg http://i185.photobucket.com/albums/x40/92Si/DSCN4159.jpg

Remember...it is an exhaust leak. That's what you are hearing. I fixed mine yesterday. Went and had muffler deletes made. I will post pictures when I get home tonight if it's not raining. I spent the extra bucks and had them flange the pipes instead of going cheap and just welding the pipes and tips to the Y pipe. They used the OEM rubber hangers to support the pipes and tips.

No ! It doesn't change the compression.

The louder the better. I plan to come up with a bracket to level the mufflers and drop the Y pipe a bit and get the gap bigger as soon as warm weather get here.

Well, may be just buy them beer and pizza.

It can't be very hard, my 16 y/o did mine in a few minutes back in the summer of 04. I didn't even know he was doing it.

I think back around page 75 or so, I said I have a 9/16" gap. I have thick washers. I put a sound bit in somewhere too. I'm not an Engineer, I'm a Assembly Technician that tells the Engineers they got it wrong before I assemble something they tell me to. And, yes I used to built rockets for satellites. I now build Oxygen Generators for the Space Station and Navy Sub's. The wider the gap the better.

Great job, make sure you do videos of anything else you do.

^^ what he said, sure is worth it though.