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Uhhh yeah... those are totally Enkeis on my car. *waves hand* Pay no attention to the center caps.

I do I just haven’t gotten to editing any more yet. Soon.

I didn’t even notice the Enkei stickers. Nice touch!

Little preview of pictures from WagonFest.

Work sent me to PA last week for a nice little working weekend, so any plans I had of getting new bushings in went out the window. I at least managed an early oil change and swapped onto the winter tires today. Tomorrow I take off for WagonFest and to visit my parents while I’m over there.

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Thanks for organizing that Febreze Mee! Now to decide if I put on the winters for the trip over.

Third pic makes me miss my RPF1s. Might have to shell out for what would be my third set of them...

That really sucks! I hope you can get it sorted.

Are you converted to 5x114.3? Or are those some special 5x100 sti wheels I've never seen before?

Like the spec-b aluminum front arms? Yeah I'm pretty sure it's the same bushing part numbers. KCA334 (offset/added caster) & W0506. I'm still debating if I want hold off and go that route as well. Either the mevotech ones or just keep an eye out for used ones.

I think last I checked in I had just installed the catless upppipe I had laying around. Had to replace the front O2 sensor because of all that. Also had to do the driver's side front wheel bearing, as it was starting to hum at freeway speeds. During all that I looked at the front suspension bushings. So now I've got a pile of Whiteline goodies to get on, hopefully before Wagonfest. Oh, I also took the wagon to it's yearly autocross a couple weekends ago. One of these days I'm going to get back onto decent tires. Top tip, if you haven't done any of these bushings yet (Front LCA, steering rack, and positive shift kit), whiteline # WEK079 is a kit with all of them included. Import Image Racing has that kit for $192, and the cost of KCA334 is generally around $160 alone, so it's definitely a good deal. It's listed for 08-14 WRX/09-13 Forester, but it's all the same parts for (at least) the BL/BP Legacy

Looks like you can buy it straight from Torque Solutions. http://www.torquesolution.com/Solid-Linkage-U-Joint-5-Speed-p/ts-su-473.htm

Alright, ticket bought. Guess I'm doing this thing.

Wagonfest you say? I might have to go see what this is all about.

Especially given how most of the comments are along the lines of "These were the greatest sleepers of their day, I regret selling mine". *EDIT* Well it went for 10k.

I definitely also remember seeing this either on here or in cars/autotrader searches I was doing fall 2019 when I was looking for mine. The BaT sold for 8600 so probably around there, maybe 9k in this market?

This guy? (pardon the mess)

I used Muteki SR48s on my autox BRZ, which had longer ARP studs. They held up to 6 years of very frequent wheel swaps. Personally I stick with steel lug nuts.

I finally got around to swapping the up pipe for a catless one I bought like a year ago. Some HKS or Perrin, one of the solid ones. No pics because I was too busy fighting everything on the car to get it done. Probably should have just fully taken out the downpipe to do it, but I figured losening it would be fine. It did not want to go back into place and trying to wrestle it up after crawling in and out from under the car for 4 hours was not fun. Eventually everything came back together and it started up with no CELs (did the resistor mod). Still have some buttoning up to do, as I got too eager and pluged the header O2 sensor back in before putting the heat shield on. Hopefully work doesn't need me to come in this week and I can just leave the car on stands for now. Also confirmed that the front driver's wheel bearing is on it's way out, so I've got an SKF one of those coming soon. We'll see when I get to do that, the weather is turning hot again with another set of 100+ deg days next weekend.

Curious to hear your thoughts, this is the combo I wanted to do eventually.

ZII star specs? Those haven't been manufactured in years, I would steer clear of those. Even the ZIII I have a feeling dunlop hasn't made any in a while, so they'd be old date codes. Falken RT660s are a good, current 200TW offering, and much cheaper than the alternatives.

Very last pane on this thread has two great posts. The originator, Seeeeeya, will still send out the plans to anyone who asks. (Post #625) Assuming that sourcing material and doing the minor fabrication is up to you now. And another member, Outback2.5XT-05, has taken up the selling of the kits see post 627. He was the one selling on eBay for a while, but decided to open their own storefront. On a whim I bought the kit from the site yesterday figuring I’d see it in a couple weeks or so. Nope! Arrived on my porch this morning. Helps that it shipped from a town 1.5 hours away. So I can testify that http://www.bulletproofme.net is legit.

Took off the intercooler and inspected vacuum lines while I did an oil change this morning. Vacuum lines all appeared to be fine. TMIC is showing signs of separating near the turbo. Would this be enough to cause max 10psi of boost? Otherwise I need to start looking into the boost controller and/or wastegate actuation, right? (Exit side also shown for comparison) *EDIT* No. Restrictor. Pill. Decided to pull that t and check the two hoses (turbo to t and t to wastegate). Daylight through both. Looks like my next step is sourcing a restrictor pill.

Bought an AP in anticipation of doing a DP & tune at some point in the future. In the mean time loaded up the cobb stage 1 tune. Only seeing ~10psi peak boost. I popped the hood when I got back from the office, and looked around but it was too hot to go poking around. I did hear what sounded like the coolant boiling in the expansion tank? It's 90+ degrees out today, but the dash temp gague read normal, right in the middle. Sooooo I've got some exploring in the engine bay to do this weekend.