legacycentral bbs

My old car, glad it's still in the "family"

Heres something for you all to drool at.



Try to find a RHD Mail Legacy and do it

dzx wrote:He was probably thinking of the head gaskets lol.

Actually yeah, now that I recall he was talking about the head gaskets.

Well Im exicted to do the VCG's. Prolly the end of this week.

Pull the engine??? Whatever tech told you to do that, tell his service manager. He has no business under a hood. You can do valve cover gaskets on these cars in 30 minutes if you hustle. If they're leaking they're probably pretty nasty-looking, so you can clean them while they're off if you want; t...

Going to do my valve cover gaskets but Im not sure which way to do them. One tech said I could do them in the car while another said pull the engine. Also....

Where are some places that I could buy rings, pistons and all the goodies for a rebuild?

Ok, so I found my boost problem. The line coming from the compressor housing nipple to the boost solenoid was undone and that caused my high boost levels. So now I am boosting fine.

Thanks for the help guys.

So I just put a 1/4" vacuum line from those nipples and the boost will be at 6 or do I need to disconnect for the boost solenoid too?

I hate to say it but I havent been intercooled since August. I rarely ever boost 18psi. Im barely in boost.

Sorry for asking for a picture. I was looking at the All Data picture of the turbo and couldnt find them.

Dont remember the numbers but they were high leakage. Im going to be redoing both tests tomorrow and doing the boost down to 6 like you said. VRG3, do you have a pic of both inlets that I'll be connecting?

Stupid me, I think the schrader valve was messed up. Im going to do it again tomorrow.

As for intercooler/management/etc..... none My boost solenoid is stuck open and I havent gotten around to getting a newer one or an MBC.

If it's consistant across all cylinders, that is kinda weird. Put some oil in the spark plug hole, and re-check. If the compression is better, then it's likely the rings. If not, likely the valves. You'll have to tear down the engine anyway, so just check it out when you get the engine open. How do...

So I did a compression test yesterday and it read that Im at 60 psi at all 4 cylinders. I dont know how that could be as my car is running. At 60psi, wouldnt the car have trouble starting and running. Well, I also did a leakdown and Im having High Leakage %. Do you think I need to rebuild the heads ...

I was throwing around the idea of doing an 04 STi scoop on my 93 SS, but Im going front mount so its really no need.

Well went to a rally-x on sunday and this is what resulted from it. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v510/Spud-GT/MVC-001F.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v510/Spud-GT/MVC-002F.jpg Damaged the muffler so I just cut it off until I get a replacement. Kinda sounds like a V8 at times. But this is...

Im on 01 RS wheels. Thinking about going 205/45/16's till I can order some STi wheels. Was thinking about going 225/45's but that'd be crazy rubbing me thinks.

I actually dont think I'm going to buy some. Ima just see what my friends look like on my car. Just gonna get new tires for the RS wheels.

Might buy a friend set of 18" Enkei so I can use the RS wheels for only track/rally-x days. Has anyone tried 18's in or around this size 225/40?

I would actually like to do a downpipe into the wrx or even our stock exhaust. I am still not sure what I wanna do.

Will the tops on the WRX Strut/Spring combo work as well? As in its just a complete swap and done?

No goals really, just a better looking exhaust. I like both the Carbon Ti and the Blitz Nur Spec. Im thinking since I already have a 3 inch catback i can do the downpipe, use my existing piping and put the axle back on.

Well Im wanting to go with an HKS Downpipe and Carbon Ti Exhaust but Im concerned about fitting. How different is the wrx exhaust plumbing to ours? I know I'll have to rebung the 02 sensor location but thats fine. Or actually, I might just do a Blitz nur spec axle back.

I have the same problem. You get the smell of burning oil and the smoke rising out from the hood? Im going to fix this soon as its starting to get worse.

Cool. Maybe I'll do these soon then. Then I just gotta fix my tranny leak and get a new turbo and downpipe then I'll be good along with tires and breaks.

Could this solve oil on the valve covers? Replacing the cover gaskets that is.

I think I'll just clear up my lights then. I would like to go HID but I know that it wont really work with our cars. Hmmm, so much to decide.