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CR - Where did you source your SP Bushes? Decent prices, v-a-v the OEM versions? Getting ready to add Bilsteins, and springs, so figured as long as I'm in there, I'd just replace what I know are aging, compromised bushes.

Dang brother.

https://giphy.com/gifs/horse-has-enough-ncy0k1HaTSz72 Get off me

2006 Spec B is the same 5MT that is in the 2005-2009 Legacy GT, so no 6MT upgrade path that way. You need a 2007-2009 Spec B IOT take advantage of their Spec B "6MT" drivetrain. I swapped in a full 08 Spec B drivetrain on my 05 Legacy GT Wagon. Perfect fit, looks like factory. If you're just replacing the 5MT in your wagon with the 5MT in the 06Spec B it's just one for the other.

I read this with Robin William's voice in my head.

Locational coincidence?

Who knew?

And the rest of the time it just loafs along

Cute

I have a branch in my family tree that does this kind of stuff all the time. Non stop hillarity until it isn't.

They've just exchanged organic gold for the real thing. In reality that's probably worth more than the real thing.

Not as it seems.

Ever see a lightning bolt hit a rainbow?

Two young boys were sitting patiently through a wedding. One asked the other, "How many wives can a man have?" The other replied, "Sixteen. Four better, four worse, four richer, four poorer."

Not quite Palindrome Thursday

Hidden In Plain Sight. Canadian Gray Owl. Photo by Alan Murphy.

Lightly spray some carb cleaner around your intake manifold gasket areas at the base of your IM, while your engine is idling. At that mileage, you could have old, failing seals, and if so, you'll notice an immediate change in engine idle RPM, and misfires if not replaced. Recommend the other thing you do, is to do a Sea Foam cleaning of your intake manifold and your valves. Also, check and clean your throttle body plate. When was the last valve lash adjustment on this? At 198K, you should be planning your second TB change at 210K. I do a VLA each timing belt replacement interval, which is which is typically 105K unless severe driving conditions, or non-California specifications.

I was jonesying pretty hard for an S6 when we were still in SoCal, and nearly pulled the trigger. So glad I didn't, especially with the relo to SoCar. I know that I made the right decision then, and am still convinced of that today, the gorgeous silk Napa leather interior, and the Lamborghini-derived V10 nothwithstanding.

Practice makes perfect.

Is the S6 a transverse mount engine or longitudinal the way God Himself intended?

And they look even better with the 08+ USDM or any of the Rev A-E JDM rear bumpers