jcole05

Mileage a bit lower than I thought. So a bit under 95K. Just wanted to demonstrate things working once I got the juice back. Glare kinda blocks my cubby boost and AFR gauges but hopefully you can basically tell what's up.

By the way, very willing to discuss everything I know about the car; bottom line is it has to go before we move across the country in a few weeks. So I'd take 2-3K.

Having trouble with getting size correct on many of the iphone shots I took. Here are a couple though. At least you can see the basic outside of the car plus the cubby gauges, etc.

More to come!

Justin

Hey bud. I remember you from the old days - glad you're still around.

Mileage is definitely under 100K - need to jump the car to see exact. It was driven as my DD forever and even went cross country but my commute was never long; thus low mileage.

Pics are not an issue but wanted to see if there was any interest first. They'll show a car which needs a good cleaning but which is in surprisingly good shape for its age (only a few small body dings). Never been in any sort of dust-up / accident.

Price....??? Don't even know what to ask. It's worth a decent bit in parts IF anyone is still building up the 4th gens. I'm under some time pressure though so I'd let it go cheap (well under 5K) especially to the right buyer.

Got the CF drive shaft from PRE (they had it made from somewhere across the river in SW WA...I can look at the receipt). Had a good job back then lol.

Put her up for sale. Favorite car I've ever owned.

CAR IS SOLD. THANKS TO EVERYONE FOR THEIR INTEREST

Forgive duplicate post in 2005-2009 (parts only??) thread...haven't been here in a while

2005 Subaru Legacy GT LTD with <100K total miles. A great way to see my car is via this blog from PRE in Portland Oregon -(https://www.preracing.com/articles/turbo-showdown).

For this particular blog post / project, PRE mounted 9 different stock location turbos and tried various conditions to determine the best combo of spool up and power (this car was my DD for over 10 years); the winner by far was the Blouch 1.5XTR with a 10CM housing.

Dyno proven to produce over 470 wHP and 470 wTQ (472.8/472.0) on E85; please see the blog for many more details.

New engine build to handle this power; these parts have only ~10K miles on it. Specifically:

CP 9.0:1 forged pistons

Manley H-beam rods

Manley 37mm intake valves

Manley 33mm exhaust valves

Manley springs and retainer kit

GSC s1 cams

In addition:

Extensive headwork was done to assist with power goals

Tomioka Racing Unequal Length Header

ETS FMIC kit

Tomioka Racing turbo inlet tube

TGV deletes

700whp fuel system

K&N 2.75” intake

Cobb access port - speed density tuning

Performance Radiator (forgotten brand)

Carbon Fiber drive shaft

6 speed transmission swap (2008 Spec B I think...first used one was a dud so I lost some cash there)

Lightweight flywheel

Clutch Masters FX350 clutch

Whiteline sway bar end links

Engine block heater

Cobb CBE with midpipe resonator

Hotchki sway bars

Dash mounted AFR and boost monitors

External wastegate (forgotten brand).

And more….I’ve spent so much over so many years I’m forgetting things. For example it has a common (at the time) workaround to allow an aux-in using a 3.5mm jack but I don’t recall the name of the guy who nicely made these for those of us with the last LGT model year lacking an aux-in jack. However, beyond the basics I freely admit I went for acceleration / power and only did minimal upgrades for handling (sways, better pads, etc.).

Like for many of us, this car was a labor of love. I know I'm going to lose like 75K in selling but it is time. Would let it go very cheaply because, while the only active issue of which I'm aware is the fact the battery needs replacement, it has not been driven a lot for the last 3-4 years. I'd be so happy if an enthusiast wanted to keep her alive and running!

Thanks for looking!

Considering very seriously going for spec B 6MT swap in my 2005 LGT. Was wondering if people worry about the quality of the used pieces out there. I know that to go new is VERY costly but with install and all it seems risky to me to drop 5k+ for a pretty used tranny whose history is unknown.

Am I worrying over nothing?

Hard to answer...depends so much on your specific car, tuner, etc. From your numbers, you were doing very well with what I assume is the stock turbo. For comparison, my car was very knock limited and on a 16g with fuel mods I only was getting ~240 whp by airboy. This is not ~350 whp by airboy on E85. Absolutely an enormous difference. Peak torque also jumped almost 100 ft/lbs.

What I was told when I was deciding between these two was that, yes, the 16g, at least the larger 16g offered by BNR, WILL run out of fuel up top with stock pump / injectors. I don't want to quote a specific number but something in the 10-20 whp range would be my guess. People with more tuning experience may be able to refine this.

With an 18g, you will certainly have a small hit to spool compared to the 16g but this turbo IMHO would NOT make sense without upgraded fuel system. Leaving too much on the table up top for the hit in boost threshold.

I will be purchasing a turbo here in the very near future and I am trying to decide between the 16g and the 18g. I have a built engine and my mods are EL header, catless UP and DP and a tune from Church automotive. With my current set up I am getting 263 HP at 17.2 PSI. Where, approximately will the 16g with stock fueling get me, how much more of a difference will upgrading the fueling do? And what would the outcome be with the 18g? I noticed an earlier post here that listed the dyno chart for an 18g with fueling and it was about 234 HP. I know that different dynos produce different numbers so I'm not looking for an outright number, but seeing as the dyno that I used gave me 263, I'm wondering what I should expect to see.

Just saying hi. Long time Georgian, moved to west coast for 3 years and now back in Decatur.

2005 Legacy GT with MT, Mike Sprank just did a stage 3 build for me in So Cal using one of Bryan's 16g turbos.

Anybody have experience with Topspeed? Mike had heard good things about them. Thanks.

Question for Christian (if he's still monitoring this thread) or for anyone else. Thinking of going the AP route, but trying to understand the graphs posted on Cobb's website. Under "stage 1 power pkg" for the legacy GT, you see a beautiful graph clearly showing a nice increase in power throughout the rpm range.

But looking at the map notes for v1.15, the curve isn't quite so pretty. You get NO increase in power until above 3200rpm or so, and the overall increase looks more minimal.

Any reason for the difference in these graphs? Power down low in the rpm range is important to me, as I often stay in the 2500-3500 range for daily commuting. If I go stage 1, will I see any difference down here? As I say, one of Cobb's graphs says I will, the other says I won't.

My guess is, a lot of you will say go to stage 2 w/ up and dp to get quicker spool and much more overall power. I may do this, but was still thinking about starting at stage 1.

Thanks for any input.