What did you do to your Subie today?

[mike-tracy]

Your car is gonna be so sweet, Florin!

[kimokalihi]

My car is going to be up and running soon Florin. We gotta meet up and compare.

[cj91legss]

Started my car yesterday... dohc conversion, seems fine. im going to run it for awhile today and make sure it's good on oil and coolant and bleed the brake caliper.

[Florin1]

Thanks guys! Heck yeah, i'd be down to meet up. Seems like there are a few of us seeing the light at the end of the tunnel.

[Legacy777]

My engine made me mad this weekend....

[Grayguy]

I found a new shell for all my good subie parts!

[Legacy777]

Cut off rusted exhaust bolts on the Impreza and had one of the spring bolts hit my forehead....doh!

[Florin1]

haha, i just did that two weeks ago. Took my cut off wheel to it. Stupid thing was frozen solid. It just laughed at my PB Blast. I showed it who's boss though. It was very satisfying watching the sparks fly. I was killing it. >:)

[Legacy777]

This one left a little gash and bump in my forehead. I usually wear a full face shield when I'm grinding/cutting, but since it was under the car I didn't think there was going to be room.....should have put the damn thing on. Learned my lesson.

[cj91legss]

yesterday i spray painted my hood.... realized i don't have the patience for spray paint anymore and became upset @ wasting money on it. i think im just going to take it to maaco

[HappyFrog]

Mounted bumper and support yesterday, it almost looks like a car again. Also did something for myself, got some subaru clothes from an ex subaru rally team for free, nioe

[cj91legss]

Put 100 miles on my dohc swap yesterday, Went to PacSun at the mall and baught the last Monster Medium Grey T-Shirt with Block 43 on it. Had to buy that all the others were ford or mirra....

[familydad]

went to the autoparts store and looked up the paintpen for my car only to find out the paint they told me to get was darker then mine. then treated my totely stock subee to a honda lunch down 520 heading to 405, poor honda started pasing me looked over with a thumbs up and honked 3 times, good thing i watch youtube and knew what he wanted, so i gave it to him, and he lost, i think he broke something at 109.

[evolutionmovement]

Nearly finished the rewiring for the lighting but for a damn piece of heat shrink tube. I wouldn't be as pissed if I didn't just buy a 4' piece that completely disappeared from my living room. On a better note: I found zinc chromate green in a spray can. Nothing for Duchess, but it's exactly what I've been looking for for the interior panels of Tigershark (that or zinc chromate yellow).

[TooSlo]

I know it's just little things getting the car up and running well, but found this at a pull apart yard here in the Seattle area.



Slowly robbing a few things from it. Sadly the door was pretty mangled (passenger side front) so I haven't been able to find a donor door just yet to replace mine. (I'd like to keep the same color, but that's mostly a pipe dream)

Also had an awesome experience on the way back. Rolled my passenger window down and the damn thing wouldn't roll back up with either switch. Thankfully I'd pulled a driver's side panel earlier, but didn't resolve the issue when I'd replaced it.

Ended up pulling my rear passenger side skin off, snagging the switch from it, then testing it in the front door. I'm left with this and some busted up knuckles.



Also pulled a driver's side chest belt from a parts car since mine needed replaced. Definitely not the most fun thing to replace since I'm still a bit unsure of how to properly disassemble the center console. Any tips on this? I feel retarded.

[jake15]

wrapped my roof in gloss black vinyl and also wrapped the headliner in black microsuede

[evolutionmovement]

How hard was it to do the headliner? I was planning to do the same thing in blue. Did you just go over the vinyl, or rip it off first?

[Redlined]

wrapped my roof in gloss black vinyl

[dscoobydoo]

wrapped my roof in gloss black vinyl and also wrapped the headliner in black microsuede

You actually did it.

Pics or it did not happen.

[cj91legss]

wrapped my roof in gloss black vinyl and also wrapped the headliner in black microsuede

You actually did it.

Pics or it did not happen.

i can assure you he did it, saw his legacy yesterday.

[jake15]

How hard was it to do the headliner? I was planning to do the same thing in blue. Did you just go over the vinyl, or rip it off first?

the headliner was actually pretty easy. The hardest part was taking the car apart to get the headliner out, and that's not difficult either lol. i went over the vinyl

the gloss black roof actually looks pretty fucking cool

[kleinkid]

I'm gonna copy that. No, wait, my roof is already gloss black!

[evolutionmovement]

Two more questions, then: how did you get the trim off without breaking it (like I did the trim around the rear window)? And what did you use for adhesive? I plan on doing some metal bars across the back Chevy Nomad-style, but I still want to make sure it stays up there.

[magicmike]

looked for a "What did you do to your Subie yesterday?" thread but was not able to find one. I finally fixed the ABS problem I've had for 2 plus years.

Today, after taking apart the center console and removing the shift knob to access the shift lock solenoid I found the problem to be in the shift lock control unit. I was happy to see it was not the brake switch nor the sol. After futzing around with the control unit I found that holding the unit a certain way would energize the system. Its easy to take the circuit board out of the protective box. After doing so I noticed cold solder joints on the main relay on the circuit board. Used my solder sucker to remove the 2 bad joints and added some fresh solder. She's good as new and now I dont have to have a screwdriver jammed in that hole all the time.

Also fixed my kinked power antenna that was not going down all the way due to a car wash mishap.

[jake15]

Two more questions, then: how did you get the trim off without breaking it (like I did the trim around the rear window)? And what did you use for adhesive? I plan on doing some metal bars across the back Chevy Nomad-style, but I still want to make sure it stays up there.

luck is what got the trim off without destroying it, i just tried to yank on it right on the clip points are and that seemed to work for the most part. I am unsure as to what the adhesive was since i borrowed it from a buddy, but it did require a compressor and paint gun to apply it. i'll see if i can figure out the exact name of it.