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I purchased this Ruby Mica L sedan in April of 2006. Prior to my purchase I had been consuming our family's '95 Legacy L wagon for a little over a year. The wagon was the first car I ever got to drive, although I had already owned a few cars before purchasing my sedan. I really love that wagon, but I wanted something a bit more sporty and certainly a car with a manual transmission. Too many dollars spent and hours laboring, it is still a work in progress. 210,000 on the original engine and tranny.

April '06 -153K!



January '07


I began sourcing a lot of JDM & GT bits


I put on some fresh suspension with some help from RalliTEK

I also had sourced a very rare zenki JDM front lip that I got painted to match. I also tried some '98-'99 2 piece headlights that were regrettably not an upgrade. I also put in the JDM tail lights



I got the GT rear wing, rear bumper lip and side skirts all installed. I also went to a zenki JDM grill and JDM projector head lights as well as the zenki JDM fogs. I added an STi axle back and am quite pleased with the sound. I found some original ADVAN Touring Competitions on Craigslist that I use during the summer





Note: Power folding & heated JDM mirrors





I found my wagon a set of low mileage GT-B Bilstein's. It handles so nicely


Over a year ago I found a very rare kouki JDM bumper being offered by J-HOT. This is the only one I know of in the United States with the optional OEM parking poll. Its going to be used only during the summer months.




Soon I found some '04 WRX heated seats to replace the crappy, nonsupporting seats. I also put in the leather door cards and a leather rear seat. I have since replaced these with leather front seats as they sat too high. My plan is to save up for some Recaro SRD's or EVO IX MR Recaro's



Late model JDM MOMO wheel with cruise control stock perfectly cut in

MOMO knob, redlinegoods.com shift boot, RalliTEK short shifter. Note the STi mats

I had this '04 Black WRX carpet waiting around forever

Finally got it installed! I felt it really cleaned up the interior, especialy with the light colored dash.

10" Infinity Kappa Series Perfect





Chassis & suspension:
GT-B Bilsteins
H&R sport 2nd gen (sedan specific) springs
Eibach camber bolts
RalliTEK:
22mm front sway bar
Adj. rear sway bar
Rear end links
F&R heavy duty mounting brackets & poly bushings
Whiteline:
alloy front end links
Steering rack bushings
Locking rear subframe bolts
Rear differential Bushings
STi:
Group N Tophats
motor mounts
pitch stop mount

Wheels & Tires
17"x7.5 et48 Rota Tarmac II in steel grey
16"x7 et48 Advan TC - Touring Competition
Pirelli Pzero Nero 225/45/17
Pirelli Pzero Nero 205/55 - Exceptional tires!
Rays red anodized locking lug nuts

Brakes
Goodridge Stainless steel braided brake lines
'02 WRX Rotors
WRX Calipers & Brackets
'04 WRX Brake booster
'91 SS Turbo rear proportioning valve
complete rear drum-to-disc conversion
rear vented SS Brembo blanks
Gransport 6 rear pads

Engine & Tranny:
STi axle back
Cusco shift bushings
RalliTEK short shift kit
RalliTEK shifter bushings
Redline Synthetic gear & differential oil
AVO Gearbox mount set

Exterior:
L bumper (winter mode) with projector fogs
Legacy GT rear underlip- color matched
Legacy GT rear spoiler - color matched
Legacy GT side skirts - color matched
Gold limited Legacy rear badge


JDM Goodies
JDM kouki bumper w/ OE bumper poll
JDM kouki glass fog lights
JDM kouki projector headlights
JDM Red L7 grill
JDM power folding heated mirrors
JDM tail lights
JDM side markers
JDM MOMO steering wheel (v.6/7 STi)

Interior:
Limited black leather front & rear
Black leather door cards
STi embroidered floor mats
WRX carpet
WRX pedals
Alpine 9856 w/ iPod interface
OEM tweeters (added)
Infinity Reference speakers F & R
Infinity Kappa series perfect 10" subwoofer
Rockford Fostgate 325w monoblock amp
MOMO optional OE shift knob
RedLineGoods.com shift boot
Bell Radar/Laser detector

Sure is a nice looking car. Good work.

hey dude hows that amp working out for you

The amp is working out pretty well. Chip are you coming to the meet next weekend?

wow i didnt even know there was one . uh my car is kind disassembled right now . i got 2005 wrx front seats , and i have a 05 wrx rear seat to install . what happened to sl-i . i can log on anymore

where is the meet ?

chiplrx-sli wrote:wow i didnt even know there was one . uh my car is kind disassembled right now . i got 2005 wrx front seats , and i have a 05 wrx rear seat to install . what happened to sl-i . i can log on anymore

where is the meet ?

Weird, I'll PM Shane and get a new password made up for you. Then I'll PM you back on here with the new password. Here's all the details for the meet. I posted all the important info at the bottom. The last Legacy meet was bar none the best meet/drive I have ever been on. Hope lots of you will join us!
http://bbs.legacycentral.org/viewtopic. ... 410#280410

chiplrx-sli wrote:wow i didnt even know there was one . uh my car is kind disassembled right now . i got 2005 wrx front seats , and i have a 05 wrx rear seat to install . what happened to sl-i . i can log on anymore

where is the meet ?

Chips is the wagon - Just a couple from our last meet


Weird, I'll PM Shane and get a new password made up for you. Then I'll PM you back on here with the new password. Here's all the details for the meet. I posted all the important info at the bottom. The last Legacy meet was bar none the best meet/drive I have ever been on. Hope lots of you will join us!
http://bbs.legacycentral.org/viewtopic. ... 410#280410

thanks toby .
ya that wagon is mine . " its a very nice " " not "
well sometimes she looks good for me

the color matched side skirts and lips look really great.

How much of an upgrade were the JDM projector headlights?

If this is a build thread you've got in the wrong section.

I like the stock skirts and rear lip with the JDM lip much better than the JDM side skirts and rear lip. They look too bulky and out of place.

Other than that though that's a nice car. I really like those front seats, how much were they?

kimokalihi wrote:If this is a build thread you've got in the wrong section.

I like the stock skirts and rear lip with the JDM lip much better than the JDM side skirts and rear lip. They look too bulky and out of place.

Other than that though that's a nice car. I really like those front seats, how much were they?

Its not much of a build journal, more just to present my car on this site.

I'm not sure I understood your comment about the skirts. The GT sideskirts are identical to the Japanese market ones. The rear GT bumper lip is also identical to its JDM counterpart on 2nd gens. I added all the skirts (F,Side&R) as the L model came fairly bare.

I paid $200 for the heated limited WRX seats - in my opinion a steal.

wow all those cars are really nice.

there's even an ss represented.

i like the blacked out tails on the wagon in the lower pictures

L-Tuned BD wrote:

kimokalihi wrote:If this is a build thread you've got in the wrong section.

I like the stock skirts and rear lip with the JDM lip much better than the JDM side skirts and rear lip. They look too bulky and out of place.

Other than that though that's a nice car. I really like those front seats, how much were they?

Its not much of a build journal, more just to present my car on this site.

I'm not sure I understood your comment about the skirts. The GT sideskirts are identical to the Japanese market ones. The rear GT bumper lip is also identical to its JDM counterpart on 2nd gens. I added all the skirts (F,Side&R) as the L model came fairly bare.

I paid $200 for the heated limited WRX seats - in my opinion a steal.

I was saying I like the stock skirts in this picture along with the JDM front lip you were talking about.




But these ones look too big and bulky and they don't fit the car very well. In my opinion the stock skirts looked better but the front lip you put on goes well with the stock skirts.

Got some UK17's / JDM Legacy B4 wheels. 225/45 Dunlop Direzza DZ101's to come.


Installed my kouki bumper with factory parking poll. I also got some polished aluminum STi embroidered license plate frames. The correct, kouki grill is coming soon along with some Hella Supertones to mount behind the grill.





Let me know what you guys think.

Looks amazing. I think those are the hottest Subaru rims ever!

SubaruNation wrote:wow all those cars are really nice.

there's even an ss represented.

i like the blacked out tails on the wagon in the lower pictures

That SS would be mine

And I remember that drive... Your car sure is looking good!!

Looks alright...for a 2nd-gen Legacy, that is.









Just kidding, your car looks awesome!

When you rock a 14 year old Subaru with 206,350 miles, its all about the details

Momo factory shift knob w. redlingoods.com shift boot


Momo Japanese market wheel w. US cruise control perfectly cut in


JDM power folding and heated mirror switch


Black WRX carpet, WRX pedals, STi black embroidered floor mats (new set)




16x7 +48 Advan TC, Pirelli PZero Nero, 2 piston WRX calipers painted black


STi exhaust, GT rear bumper lip painted to match


STi polished aluminum license plate frames front & rear


Gold Limited Legacy badge, JDM tail lights


JDM kouki front bumper, projector fog lights, headlights & zenki JDM grill

that car looks so much different from the original, very nice work. i love subaru but the original wouldnt have made me turn my head

wow that car looks great! its come along way for sure haha

I love your car!!!

Looks great! very clean, very well put together. Props!

Wow that´s one of the coolest Legacies I've ever seen!

What does the parking poll do?

Thanks for the kind words everyone!!!

The parking poll (not that I use it) retracts and is used for tight parking spots in crowded cities in Japan. Its simply a marker for where the edge of your vehicle is so that you can park ridiculously close to other cars. Its a rare factory option that is of no use to me. Although, it does add mad extra JDM points at car shows!