I got the title and insurance stuff in the mail yesterday, so all the paperwork is officially done.
I do have a stumble down low, which is acting like a minor boost leak on the primary turbo (only does it intermittently and it still pulls really hard past 5k). I've got a few things I need to eliminate, like plugs (I haven't had a chance to do anything except change the oil), and I also know I have a very slight exhaust leak, which sucks because I'm hearing that up/downpipe gaskets are completely different than USDM models
But Friday was a bit more eventful than I'd have liked it to be: the radiator sprung a leak and I had to get towed home. A pinhole leak in the actual core, not an endtank. I had a radiator shop fix it and it seems to be holding, although I only ran it long enough to do a coolant sniff test. The last time I overheated a Subaru, the headgaskets blew
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so I wanted to be sure that didn't happen again. It didn't; from what I can see, this car has MLS headgaskets already, so I don't think I have to worry about that.
I'm going to eventually replace it anyway, as it's a freakin' single-row! My reasoning is that Japan doesn't have 100º summers like we do in FL, so they don't need as high-capacity of cooling systems. From what I'm reading on UK/down under B4 forums, and from my own visual inspection, a bugeye WRX radiator is a direct replacement. So I'll likely be getting one of those soon.
I've gotten a couple bodyshop estimates, some of them expensive, some of them downright astronomical. The car looks okay from afar, but there are so many different areas that need work (including the left quarter which has lousy bondo work done on it) that it's adding up to be a lot of money. I plan on getting it in the shop within the next couple weeks.
But, in spite of the aggravation thus far, I'm still enjoying the hell out of it.