What did you do to your Subie today?

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Re: What did you do to your Subie today?

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What does sea foam accomplish?
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Thesubielover wrote:What does sea foam accomplish?
-It's a petroleum liquid thats suppose to eat up carbon deposites in your motor. You can put it in your oil (not recommended for turbo cars) in your gas tank as an additive and thru your throttle body or vaccum line. It really is a difference you notice see and feel. Feels like I have more power, car runs smoother and idles better. Seafoam does everything the can says it does!

-Joe
-I'd rather loose by a mile because I built my own car, than win by an inch cause someone else built it for me. Your car, is your story, so don't let someone else write the book. ~Moog
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So can you use it anywhere with a turbo car. I bought some today, so ver interseted but ill wait and see what others say.
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Thesubielover wrote:So can you use it anywhere with a turbo car. I bought some today, so ver interseted but ill wait and see what others say.
-There's plenty of threads here on it, and I watched quite a few youtube videos also!

-Btw, washed the car today for the sonic's, friday night car show.

-Joe
-I'd rather loose by a mile because I built my own car, than win by an inch cause someone else built it for me. Your car, is your story, so don't let someone else write the book. ~Moog
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decided to try the new bridgestone RE-11's , diggen them so far, nice and sticky!
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I replaced the radiator, cleaned the interior & washed the exterior on the Impreza last Friday and did some electrical troubleshooting on the Legacy.
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Installed my front stock rotors, replaced driver's front axle, did some tests on some stuff under the hood and found out i fried another fuel cut defender. Back to stock-ish boost.
gonna build another one tonight maybe.
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I cut a car in half over the weekend. It was fun. It was the Legacy SS donor for my project car. Sold the motor and trans as a half cut. The guy who bought it told me of his project plans, and showed me his project car. I've gotta say though, I'm kinda jealous and nostalgic for working on my old project car.

The donor car itself would never have been able to be road worthy anyway. It was smashed, slightly rolled and had the rear wheel almost ripped off. I bought it for parts only. The guy who bought it is swapping in into an Impreza, so it's going to a great cause.

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It's kind of funny to think our cars are pretty much just sheet metal.....kind of scary too.
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Yup. Only went through 6 or so sawzall blades to cut the whole thing apart. The A pillar, and the frame horns under the driver and passenger floor were the thickest. the frame horns looked like 2 layers of 1/8" steel. Sandwiched together with a mastic or something. Very gummy, and cutting through undercoating was gummy and slow too.

It was a cool weekend project.
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I want that hoist. And that looks fun :D
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Discovered the crank pully in the sedan is wobbling...
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biggreen96 wrote:well get out there and smash that geo around and get comfy.
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^^ Obviously check the tightness on the crank bolt. If it's loose, more than likely the back side of the pulley has been wallowed out by the woodruff key in the crank. If that key is still good, you can swap the pulley with any of the EJ motor crank pulleys. I had the same thing (I'm assuming) happen to my Impreza.

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Tried to tighten the crank pully bolt today, no good. So I've parked the sedan, taken the light bar off, and swapped gauge clusters between the wagon and sedan but kept the speedo in the right car. I'm gonna miss buying regular gas and driving anywhere I wanted to. I'm planning on taking the pully off tomorrow to see how the back of it looks.
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biggreen96 wrote:well get out there and smash that geo around and get comfy.
1993 Legacy LS Awd: lifted, 4eat, higher mileage, and dirty.
1994 Legacy Turbo wagon: rwd, 4eat, and a faint knock..
1992 Legacy postal: bone stock, 4eat, blown reverse.
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It'll look like barf, probably. You'll have to pull the pulley
and see if the key's eaten that slot. And if it hasn't I'd still
go behind the crank pulley and pull out that gear (I've always
called it a timing gear) behind it and see how the key looks.
If the woodruff key's screwed up go find one in a junk yard
and get the timing gear, crank pulley and woodruff key and
you shouldn't have any more problems with that. I've had
that problem on two Legacy's so far.

Dominator: Whaaaat? Yours was that bad?
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I bought a '98 Legacy wagon with 98k miles and a 2.2 and a bad crank pulley where the key was completely gone to nothing and the woodruff slot in the crank was wallowed out to maybe 3 times it's normal size. It wouldn't start since only the crank would turn, not the cams. I ended up putting everything back together and timing it right, then filling the completely worn out woodruff space with weld. It ran like a top and saved me from splitting the case and putting a new crank in. Probably good for 100,000+ miles that way, since the only thing you couldn't get to with the crank gear welded on was the oil pump and those rarely fail. You could still change the timing belt, even.
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Grinded, metal to metal filler, sanded, repeat...babys getting new paint next month! With only 115k miles on it...its was just too much to bear to watch the car eat itself with rust.
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Re: What did you do to your Subie today?

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Sputtered, misfired, died, and wouldn't start. Cam shaft positioning sensor seems to be going out. Another $200 into my baby.

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200? Why not buy a used one from me for 30 shipped
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92 SS Prefaced, GD dash swapped, 22T/205 Hybrid 20 psi - BEAST!
93 SS Bone Stock Gone!
94 TW Bone Stock Gone!
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98 LGT 4EAT
98 LGT Wagon 4EAT
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-Changed my gear oil yesterday!

-Joe
-I'd rather loose by a mile because I built my own car, than win by an inch cause someone else built it for me. Your car, is your story, so don't let someone else write the book. ~Moog
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Grabbed a hatch, fender and grill for the white wagon

Fumbling around inside a wagon in this heat trying to unlock it from the inside, is not cool. This happened at junkyard.

Hatch is on, not amazing, but its looking much better.

230 paint code ftw
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-Put some new stickers on the car today lol!

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-Joe
-I'd rather loose by a mile because I built my own car, than win by an inch cause someone else built it for me. Your car, is your story, so don't let someone else write the book. ~Moog
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SWRT wrote:Dominator: Whaaaat? Yours was that bad?
Yup, on my 95 Impreza 1.8l. My symptom was it was throwing the belts off.

What I did to my car lately...

I drove nearly 400 miles one way to Palmer, Alaska (Alaska Raceway Park), to put the car on the drag strip to see how it did as stock. It was a test and tune night, and I wanted to get a timeslip for it. Not great by any means, but it sure was a lot of fun. After trying to learn a technique and get my reaction time dialed in I had my fastest lap on my last run.

15.965 @ 83.63mph
Reaction time: 0.031
Breaking into the 15's on the last run felt awesome.

I've got the timeslips, but haven't scanned them into the computer yet.

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Also got this and a rebuild kit for my TD05 last week.
It's a stock small 16G, but it'll wake it up I'm sure!

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installed some 02-03 wrx fronts, kept the black leather rears. comfy, but i have the black leather fronts for sale. rears to come, when i just take them out and run no rear seats
93ss 3inch tbe, Hallman mbc,06 wrx td04, tmic, bov, bugeye seatsStolen x2, sold
93ss Stroker,440cc inj, VF39, '06 TMIC, EJ20G heads & intake, EJ25 crank, 4.11Traded
93ss 4eat, coils, stanced, wraped, flat black, stock show car
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