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replace the timing belt idlers since they won't make it to the next timing belt/water pump service. I've never used any sort of a tool to put the timing belt on. Turn the driver intake cam with a wrench to put the belt on, pull the belt downward to hold the gear in place, rotate the exhaust cam to line up the marks, slip the belt on. Once the belt is over both gears it shouldn't take much to hold them in place, and the gears on the other side line up without any load on the valve springs. jamal fucked around with this message at 22:12 on Feb 8, 2010 |
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Slow is Fast posted:Jackson Rally's impreza is nuts. Greatly improved lift and departure angles over stock. ha ha hahahaha holy crap. That is exactly what I want to do and I have no idea or funds how to go about doing it. I think I'm just going to play more DiRT2 and save up for some swaybars in the future.
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Just Another XY posted:I think I'm just going to play more DiRT2 quote:and save up for some swaybars in the future.
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Feb 8, 2010 23:06
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a bigger rear bar helps for rallyx, especially in a low-power car. I'm turning my rear bar to full stiff before the next event. As it is, a little braking on turn in gets the car to go sideways pretty well, but under power it pushes unless I can get enough wheelspin.
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Feb 9, 2010 00:33
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kimbo305 posted:You don't necessarily need swaybars to do well in rallycross or rally driving in general. But I don't know that's what you were saying. You dont need sway bars at ALL for gravel. The front on my car waves like a dick in the wind (needs to be there for the rules, but a link is disconnected) and the rear is the smallest bar possible. Despite being not the most powerful car out there, it tends to win. We're batting 4th, 1st, 2nd, 1st, 1st and leading before a driver wrong direction. quote:a bigger rear bar helps for rallyx, especially in a low-power car. I'm turning my rear bar to full stiff before the next event. As it is, a little braking on turn in gets the car to go sideways pretty well, but under power it pushes unless I can get enough wheelspin. Soften the front up, reducing grip on the rear is simply covering the real problem. Your car is not weight shifting right - wheel spin a symtom of it. Either that or if you have coilovers, raise the rear a few mm. And also use the Latvala school of handling thought. Throw it in harder.
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Cat Terrist posted:Soften the front up, reducing grip on the rear is simply covering the real problem. Your car is not weight shifting right Isn't that how the torsion bar VWs handle naturally? e: gently caress I thought this was the rally thread.
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Apparently one of my wheels got messed up when I loaned my car to my brother. He hit a curb, the tire is fine but the rim is slightly bent and air was leaking out. (firestone caulked it, so it's holding the air fine now) I'm using this as an excuse to get new wheels anyway (I get one free now), so my question: I've got Brigestone Potenza RE960's with less than 10K miles on them. Would the Enkei EKM3 17" wheels be able to use the same tires? Is there anything I should be looking out for when getting new wheels (such as tire pressure gauge stuff?), any recomendations for wheels or warnings? The car is a '08 Legacy GT in Diamond Grey. I'm thinking the gunmetal wheels will look awesome with the car color. AFewBricksShy fucked around with this message at 20:20 on Feb 9, 2010 |
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Feb 9, 2010 20:17
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Here's the grill I finished making. Total cost was $130 or so. $60 for the grill, $30 for the mesh, and $40 for the STi badge (laugh). Parts:  Completed:   No pics of it installed yet, because I just finished it tonight. 
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Feb 10, 2010 01:35
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Doesn't the original grill come with a Subaru badge?
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Feb 10, 2010 01:49
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Since I knew I'd just be cutting the guts out of it, I decided to spend $60 on an off-brand replacement instead of a Subaru 'official' one. edit: I also didn't want to use my stock one just in case I made a horrible mess of this one.
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Getting a slightly weird, but minor, electrical quirk in my '09 2.5i: The rear wiper occasionally ignores the intermittent setting and runs constantly while it's not supposed to. Usually see this if it's set to the intermittent position while starting the car, though not every time so I'm not able to generate a specific way to reproduce the error. Can be fixed by turning the rear wiper off for a few seconds then back to intermittent. It seems minor but is it worth mentioning when I take it in for 7.5 month service in a few weeks just to see if it's a known problem?
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Feb 10, 2010 03:25
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I would mention it. Is something like that covered under warranty?
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It's not even 7.5 months old so yeah, definitely.
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Feb 10, 2010 05:10
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Cuntpunch posted:Getting a slightly weird, but minor, electrical quirk in my '09 2.5i: Does it happen while in reverse? If so, that's a feature.
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CharlesM posted:Does it happen while in reverse? If so, that's a feature. Next time it happens I'll try and do a mental snapshot of everything's settings in the car, but I want to say that I've been in neutral waiting for the car to warm up while this has happened.
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Feb 10, 2010 06:14
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If anyone is interested in the lifted 2001 Outback I posted a few days ago, I can link you to a crapload of pics I took last weekend (25mb download, not posting it in public.. on my personal host but I'll probably put it on rapidshare/etc soon). This weekend I'll have it put on a lift at a shop so I can shoot the underside. I will make a Greatest Hits compilation to post for those who want to see how the lift kit works, and so I don't have to post 40mb of photos for people who aren't actually considering buying it. PM me if you want the download link, and drive safe!
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Got my parts today, waiting on the gallon of Lightweight Shockproof. $700 in parts alone  , C'mon Labor!
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toplitzin posted:Got my parts today, waiting on the gallon of Lightweight Shockproof. $150 for a timing belt? As in, just the belt?  Holy poo poo.
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Black88GTA posted:$150 for a timing belt? As in, just the belt? Think about it though, its a 100,000 mile belt.
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toplitzin posted:Think about it though, its a 100,000 mile belt. Right, but the last timing belt I bought (Prelude) cost me $40 or so, IIRC. I would have figured about the same or a bit higher, maybe $50 - $60 tops for the Subaru belt. I guess the nice thing about the SVX is that I can run the belt till it snaps without really worrying about it.  Although when I had the front end apart over the summer, the belt looked like it had been replaced relatively recently anyway.
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Black88GTA posted:Right, but the last timing belt I bought (Prelude) cost me $40 or so, IIRC. I would have figured about the same or a bit higher, maybe $50 - $60 tops for the Subaru belt. Its about $55 for a Gates timing belt at Rockauto. If I remember correctly Gates makes the OEM belts as well.
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Wrong thread, jeez.
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Feb 11, 2010 08:11
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on subaru genuine parts it's $110. You can expect the same % discount on everything else from there.
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Newb question. We got just over a foot of snowfall yesterday and I have a 40 foot driveway. I've got a NA 09 forester and it really hasn't ever seen so much snow. Anyway, I had a doctor's appointment to go to and I didn't have the time to shovel. So I just sort of hit the gas and plowwed my way 40-50 feet in snow that was wway above my wheel wells. It worked pretty beautifully and I didn't have to dig myself out. Question: Do I have to worry about underside damage from scraping on the snow? It was sort of ideal snowwball type snow, not the fluffy stuff. Anyone havve experience with this?
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Vladimir Putin posted:Question: Do I have to worry about underside damage from scraping on the snow? It was sort of ideal snowwball type snow, not the fluffy stuff. Anyone havve experience with this? I would say you have no worries. Even though you probably heard scraping, I highly doubt even with some hefty ice chunks in it that it did any damage. Times when I don't have my driveway plowed, I drive right through the snow/ice mixture that the county plows leave. I haven't noticed any damage at all this winter. (Aside from snow getting packed into the grill)
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Vladimir Putin posted:Question: Do I have to worry about underside damage from scraping on the snow? It was sort of ideal snowwball type snow, not the fluffy stuff. Anyone havve experience with this? I've done this pretty much every day during the winter for the past two years. I only shovel a little section at the end of my driveway for guest cars, and then a little area around my Subaru so I can open the doors. When the plow leaves a big pile of snow at the end of the driveway I just crawl the car back and forth over it until its sort of flat. So far no damage to speak of, but I have had some days where I have a ton of snow stuck to the wheels giving me vibration at highway speeds. Also my front lower control arms are pretty rusty. Everything else on the underside of the car has been undercoated and is holding up well. Also leaving for work and just smashing your car through the wall of snow blocking your driveway while your neighbours are out with shovels trying to dig out is pretty
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8ender posted:
Haha yeah, this is what I did. The plow pushed all of the snow in front of my driveway and made a little wall. I just accelerated from several feet away and flew right through that thing. Wee! But then this morning I got stuck.  . I'm not exactly sure how it even happened. I think I hit an icy patch that was under the snow and the snow was really deep. It was a bit high for my Forester to clear so it might have been teetering a bit and not been able to get full grip on an already icy surface. So I spent 15 minutes digging myself out alternating with rocking the car back and forth.Should have gotten a car with a locking differential. 
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Vladimir Putin posted:Should have gotten a car with a locking differential. Next time this happens try applying a little brake while you accelerate slowly. This "tricks" the open diff into putting some power to the other wheel.
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AFewBricksShy posted:Apparently one of my wheels got messed up when I loaned my car to my brother. He hit a curb, the tire is fine but the rim is slightly bent and air was leaking out. (firestone caulked it, so it's holding the air fine now) I'm using this as an excuse to get new wheels anyway (I get one free now), so my question: Bump to see if anyone can weigh in on this.
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As long as the stock wheels and the Bridgestones you have on there are 17" you should not really have a problem going to another 17" wheel. Also, caulking to prevent an air leak from a bent wheel?  Does your car have TPMS?
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Feb 11, 2010 18:52
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all 07+ legacies have TPMS. Let me tell you how excited I am about that wonderful piece of automotive regulation/legislation.
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TurboLuvah posted:As long as the stock wheels and the Bridgestones you have on there are 17" you should not really have a problem going to another 17" wheel. Also, caulking to prevent an air leak from a bent wheel? It's not a bent wheel, it's just got a slight jag in it. (It looks like it ground on the curb a bit). The leak wasn't that bad until we started having the really cold mornings (teens) warming up to high 30's and low 40's by the afternoon. I was losing about 5 psi per week until then (it happened a month and a half ago), then I started losing 5psi per night or more. The caulking is holding pretty well for a temporary fix. Yes, I have the TPMS as well. Other than the EKM3's does anyone have any other 17" wheel recommendations?
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Baby's first snow!
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Is it best to turn of the VDC when driving in deep snow? I recall the dealer mentioning something like that right before he handed my keys over to me, but I wasn't listening.
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Cuntpunch posted:Getting a slightly weird, but minor, electrical quirk in my '09 2.5i: I thought the same thing was happening with my '09 STi. I realized it only happens when you shift in reverse and that it is a feature. I felt kinda stupid. It happens when you shift into reverse, not just when you are actually reversing, so you could be sitting in the car with your brakes on and it will be wiping all the time as long as the shifter is in reverse.
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I've got a 2006 Impreza (non-turbo) with 77,000 miles on it. I noticed it was leaking oil so I took it in for service. They said the cylinder gaskets need to be replaced and it'll cost me $2400. How the gently caress does a meticulously maintained Subaru with that few miles on it need that kind of major service? I've taken it to the dealership every time for service, never missed an oil change, and I saved all the invoices to back that up. I don't know a drat thing about cars, just that I needed to keep mine properly maintained, and I thought I did that. I definitely don't have $2400 to pay for this so I'm not sure what the hell I'm gonna do. My warranty ran out at 60,000 miles. Anybody have any suggestions? Am I screwed? 
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8ender posted:Also leaving for work and just smashing your car through the wall of snow blocking your driveway while your neighbours are out with shovels trying to dig out is pretty I did the opposite in an old piece of poo poo cavalier I had in high school. I parked on the street, and the plow had left a big pile of snow where I park. I achieved ramming speed  and slammed over it, essentially beaching my car on a pile of snow. I really hated that car. I hated myself when it didn't warm up that day like it was supposed to and I had to lower my car to the ground through very careful shoveling of the snow that was supporting its weight.
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fletcher posted:I've got a 2006 Impreza (non-turbo) with 77,000 miles on it. I noticed it was leaking oil so I took it in for service. They said the cylinder gaskets need to be replaced and it'll cost me $2400. Get a second opinion
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CharlesM posted:Get a second opinion Yeah I agree with this. Subarus can leak oil from a ton of different places, like mine. I think I have about three different tiny oil leaks.
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fletcher posted:I've got a 2006 Impreza (non-turbo) with 77,000 miles on it. I noticed it was leaking oil so I took it in for service. They said the cylinder gaskets need to be replaced and it'll cost me $2400. if it's not a warranty repair, don't have it done at the dealership. Find a good subaru mechanic/ subaru performance shop in your area, and you can get it done for less than half that. Additionally, I would go back and bitch and complain that the car is a piece of poo poo and that it should be covered under warranty. On some models the headgasket warranty was extended to 100k miles. jamal fucked around with this message at 07:41 on Feb 12, 2010 |
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