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I can't wait to get the hell out of dealership life where I'm always booked Saturdays. Can never do events like these. One of these days, I promise Drew!

Got the car up on the lift. It's some squeaky poly bushings. Looks like my right front Koni is leaking though :/ Two and a half years and 20K on it and it's already leaking. Bummer. Hopefully under warranty.

I guess it could be the top hats, but they're both as new as the struts are and they're OEM Subaru. I replaced everything except for the shock towers from the KYBs when I did the suspension. I'll see if I can get it up on a lift at work today to check things out. Wondering if the control arm bushings I replaced 3 and a bit years ago are already tossed.

The smell of a catless exhaust is reason enough to not buy one. That shit isn't good for you. There's a reason you don't see incredible amounts of smog in LA now like you did in the 70s!

Hey all, need some advice. I got a pre-dyno inspection back in April at Surgeline. They noted a suspension squeak in the car was caused by a bad strut bushing at the front left strut. I have Koni shocks, which use the cut-a-strut method of installing the Koni shock absorber into the casing of a factory KYB strut. First off, what exactly is a strut bushing? Is it the bottom portion of the strut where the control arm connects? Second, how would I go about replacing that bushing? The Konis are just out of warranty but I don't believe this part would be a Koni part. I'm fairly certain that reusing the housings of my 10-year old struts is the culprit here. Are those bushings easily replaceable? The right side one is now squeaking like mad and it's driving me crazy

275 WHP should hold fine on a stock clutch, if the heft is a concern to you. Yes, you'll get some clutch slip in snow in reverse or with a mildly clumsy first gear engagement, but might be worth the trade offs and cost.

FWIW, my VF52 got 322 WHP on Surgeline's dyno in April. I'd be willing to bet 400 WHP would be cake with a 1.5 XTR! Good luck with the whole... money thing. Every time I think about tracking my car, even once, I think about the cost up front and the cost down the line as everything gets chewed up.

I was gonna say, a blown transmission on an 08 XT would warrant me selling it, but we all like our toys, or daily driver toys. Is the wagon on daily duty for now? Bummer about your engine starting to let go. I've always held the belief that, if your car is running enough power over stock that it requires a built motor, that you should just get a car with a bigger engine and not deal with the headache of a built motor. All it does is induce headaches at the benefit of improved resistance to knock. If your car is tuned right to begin with and your turbo is small enough, to me it makes most sense to just put a normal engine in it. However... for your track car? Maybe it's time to get a nice rotated setup and forged engine going? You've already got most of the supporting mods for something like a Dom 1.5XT, right?

Gutting the downpipe and running an OTS tune is a no-go. The OTS tune is for a Cobb downpipe which is a much wider diameter pipe. Just gutting the cat from your car won't net you a ton of power because of the restrictive factory exhaust.

Our forum uses an extremely antiquated system for uploading photos, so modern smartphone photos won't upload without compressing them 75%. I can see the Google Drive link just fine though. I can't say that I know what that part is though. Good luck!

New Subarus still have issues with axle boots cooking due to the hot exhaust being there. Why they can't figure out some other solution, I'll never know.

Hmm, interesting. So the solution is a flywheel from our 5-speeds then?

Is that not just damage to the film?

I bought mine from Amazon. https://www.amazon.com/320-1113L-AS2-Subaru-Replacement-Headlight-Assembly/dp/B004I1B8X0

I've had to deal with my fair share of awful headlights on these cars. I'd just recommend replacing them. I have DEPO reps on my car and they seem alright.

Different gauges read differently, too. When I got my engine compression tested on the old block I saw 120 as my lowest and 140 as my highest. I'd bet your engine is in near-perfect health tbh.

Wastegate rattle?

Thanks! Don't forget to drink water!

Hey all, sorry about being a day late. Here's the "new" car! I love how it looks! Little subtle things go a long way. Not really sure why the photos are sideways as they're the right way up in Windows, but oh well.

Wheels are Enkei Raijins! I love them too. Thanks all. Car got back from the body shop yesterday, I'll post pics when I get a chance.

Car is off at the body shop! Should have her back by tomorrow.

If you're burning a noticable amount of oil on the dipstick within 1K miles your engine is probably not long for this world. My old engine burned a quart every 1K when I bought it with 202K on it and a quart every 500 miles when the engine came out at 214K. The car made a ton more power just having a new motor in it once everything was swapped, like 20 WHP per piston more.

They removed a lot of old data to speed the site up and a lot of the data wasn't that useful. What was the archive of?

IP Board is very fast. Even if the site isn't to your taste, just make an account on linustechtips.com and navigate around for a good example of a well-fleshed out IP board design. Collated notifications, status updates on a personal page, way better personal page customization, better organization of threads with new posts given a front page sidebar, moderating staff as a sidebar on the main page, better sharing integration with other sites, better private messages, reactions to posts without hacky third-party integration as mentioned before, better picture uploading, etc, etc etc.

My friend had to kinda push me to shove on going since I always work Saturdays but I think it's a good use of PTO to go to it! I'll see ya there, just send me a text before you go.