What did you do to your Subie today?

[silver03]

May I ask how much u invested in paint job?

Sent from your bathroom closet

I took it to a Maaco (friend knows owner) and got their $700 single stage with the urethane additive. I had them touch up some of our bodywork as well. All in all, I'm probably in for about a grand. I went to pick it back up last Saturday. Several runs...made them do it over. Overall, it looked pretty good.

[Dominator]

Maaco is not known for a quality paint job, but if you want it to be all one color, for fairly cheap, they can do it. If we had one up here in Alaska I'd probably take my Impreza there. It's going to be 3 or 4 different colors when I'm done replacing the dented body panels. Do you have any pics you can share of the new paint job?

[Alphius]

Maaco does a very fair job if you do all the prep and bodywork for them. The problem is, it's a volume shop, meaning they try to run as many cars as possible through as fast as possible in most cases. That doesn't leave a whole lot of room for prep. Any monkey can run a paint gun with basic single stage paint, it's the prep that gives you a good, long-lasting paint job.

Also, take any "Maaco sucks!" bellyaching with a grain of salt. Every Maaco shop is a privately owned franchise, so the rules are different for each one depending on how much the owner cares about doing a good job. Some care more than others, and can give you a really quality job at a low price, whereas others just do the bare minimum.

I'm looking forward to seeing how the paint job turns out!

[randomiam]

strange things growing on my sedan.. sitting for too long!



couldn't pass these up

[Danny-G]

Where to start? I hooked my neon tube trunk light to the factory wiring, now I have that tube and the stock light. Then, I went on to see how much work it would be to put a wagon rear seat in a sedan, everything for the bottom is bolt in, and its a tight fit when you close the bottom of the seat. The sedan seat back has side bolsering that the wagon doesn't, and thats what the wagon bottom catches on first in the sedan, then you have to manually tuck the back edge of the seat under the sedan seat back. As for fitting the wagon seat back, it also bolts in, but you have to take the sedan seat back latch points off, and the rear quarter window trim, and there are no bolt holes in the sedan body for the wagon seat back latch points. The wagon seat back also hits on the sedan shoulder belt spool and as far as I can see, you can't just swa the wagon one over, due to one mount. To sum it up, physically, the wagon rear seat will bolt in and fit but it won't have any latch points and there will be some required fabrication around the shoulder belt area. I think I'm just gonna go for the wagon seat bottom and just deal with the tight fitment and gap it leaves.
Yes, I realize that was more like a D.I.Y write up, but I didn't actually get the wagon rear seat to work 100%

[sqc151]

cleaned house today.
say good bye...

[kimokalihi]

Oh man. Looks like good doors, wing, trim, windows I need the rear drivers side triangle trim. And the straight trim above the windows. My paint is flakig off.

[sqc151]

I had these cars here for awhile. Both cars are at the scrapyard now.
After doing this for years now. There's just no market for that stuff.

[cj91legss]

Dammit, I would have been all over that shell if it was local...

[mike-tracy]

With huge help from Alphius, installed a td05! Managed to break the knock sensor right at the harness side plug, so I was able to limp home, but not able to enjoy my new found power. The less restrictive turbo changed how the car sounds - it's way more boxer grumbly now.

This week I had also installed the 06-07 WRX style tmic (upgraded from a wrx slanty). Much bigger, and by watching my gauges, it is way less restrictive than the slanty. Spooled up the td04 a couple hundred rpm sooner, as well as a crisper throttle response (less psi drop?).

[northcoast]

Finished the D/R install yesterday. Drive test was a blast. I have to be careful and drive like a granny now in FWD. If I drop the clutch like I used too with the 5MT I end up roasting the tires for half a block. Expensive proposition considering I've got 28" mudders on her right now.

[sqc151]

Pics or a journal link?...^^^^

[sqc151]

[QUOTE=AncientRS;38225279]"Gasoline fuels horse power, beer + cigarettes fuel manpower." - AncientRS, 2012[/QUOTE]


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkPJDhKdJYU

[northcoast]

That's where I set my drinks too. What I couldn't figure out is why you needed two guys.... j/k

No pics or journal link yet. I'll post one when I put journal together. I took pics throughout the project so it should be soon.

[originalcyn]

pulled the two wrx front calipers apart. two more to go, then cleaning, then sandblasting, then powdercoating, then installation....

[Danny-G]

I finally put the digi compass temperature sensor back in the sedan after about a month of being too lazy to move it, and I figured out my highbeam issue I was having. Due to the highbeams being seprate lights and having metal bodies, they were grounding through the light bar and that was causing them to come on everytime I turned the headlights on, so I had them unhooked to be road legal. I'm either gonna switch the lights with different ones or fab up some sort of insulator for the current ones.

[originalcyn]

One rear caliper apart, the second one is being a jerk face.

[cj91legss]

ordered a carbon fiber wrap for my roof

[originalcyn]

Oo, that's gonna look nice cj.

finally got that second rear caliper apart. Hit everything with brake cleaner a couple times. Tomorrow hopefully sand blasting. Friday maybe get them to the powdercoater.

[cj91legss]

Yes Keon, I'm pretty stoked about it. I also bought a paint gun last week too, i'm Zero'ing in a a couple color options for the rest of the car. Gonna try and source a whole 91 front end when i can afford it or piece it together from pick & pull.

[originalcyn]

I'm assuming an ss front end. Or are you ok with the l or ls front end?

[Danny-G]

My attempts at fixing my highbeams worked great with one light on the car and hooked up, but once I put the other one on, I was back at square one! I'm getting so fucking sick of not having working highbeams!!! If I can't get the current lights to work, I'm putting my 500 comets back on and moving a set of 500ffs down to the highbeam spot. I really want the current lights to work cause they are a spot/flood combo light and thats perfect for highbeams. But I'm not facing fall rain without highbeams.
I also picked up a '99 2.2 with bad bearing and no alternator for free on friday, I still need to get that longblock outta the trunk before it bashes the latch area in again...
And, after a few years, I finally found a facelift sedan in a junkyard here! I'm gonna get the outer tail lights, drivers visor, and gauge cluster surround for my sedan and I'm gonna get the single din box and a light from the PRND tree for my wagon. Theres probably something I'm forgetting but I'm gonna get anything I need for either of my cars this tuesday when the yard opens. Its really uncommon to see facelifts in any of the three junkyards here so this sedan is one hell of a find for me. I will be posting here again on tuesday, with a list of what all I got.

[Danny-G]

Herp derp double post.

[cj91legss]

Any front end panels they're all the same, But of course a turbo bumper. No hood scoop tho unless the hood is cheap

[originalcyn]

Right, yeah, the fenders are the same, i guess i just meant the bumper lol.

Sandblasted today. Powdercoating and installation to go!