What have you done to your car today?

I installed a new keyring the other day. Mysteriously showed up in my mailbox the other day. Added at least 20hp at the wheels and gave me 3" more ground clearance.:iconwink:

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I finally got a sump guard. On my way to Canberra this week, I dropped in at Goulburn and purchased it. The installation took all of 5 minutes.
 
Got the Subie out for its first coat of mud this morning with the boy. Wow that little Forester gets around good!

I must say I sure feel better too!

Have a good one,

Dean
 
Just ordered a uhf pack to fit in the subie, once i recieve it ill install it in the roof console i have hopefully before the saturday trip :ebiggrin:
 
Bloody oath mate. Looking forward to it
 
What a difference an inch makes!!!!!!!!!!

Ever since I fitted the new Dobinson springs to the car the torque steer feel I had under the slightest acceleration & deceleration just got worse to the point I didn't enjoy driving the car, it was all over the place & pretty scary on the freeway so first I tried a wheel alignment...No difference, 60mm lift to the front of the lateral? arms instead of 25mm...No difference, 50mm lift to rear mount points instead of 25mm to front swing arms...No difference, another wheel alignment & disconnect all sway bars...No difference but the wheel aligner suggested I try to get the rear wheels back as all the arms were pointing forward instead of straight out so I talked Seagull into lengthening a spare set he had by 25mm & at the same time lengthening the front sway bar links by 25mm.........tirst I fitted the longer front links, they are the steel ones with knuckles off a later GD Impreza...No difference so before & after spending a week in hospital I fitted the rear arms & just finished...IT WORKS, car feels just like driving a WRX again, absolutely perfect so if you are having problems after a lift this is probably the cause.


Depending on front clearance I should be able to go much bigger in the tyre department too.

Before..... after fitting the new springs the tyres were rubbing on the back of the skirts lol.
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Just tested YIPPEE,
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Just installed mirrors that fit and a rear view that doesnt hang.
The uhf doesnt want to fit into my console no matter what i do so looks like that might take a while..
 
Between today and last night, i added another 1,000 or so km to the odometer, driving to Murrumburrah (Harden) for a job interview.

Regards,

Joel
 
joel_57 said:
Mirrors that fit??? What were you using before? Truck mirrors or something...?
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I was using the original mirrors (I swapped the front two doors for doors with speaker holes..they were from a 1982 model apparently, originals are 1983..)

Now they sit flush instead of hanging on. (they were NOT in danger of falling, just looked like they were)
 
$275USD for the Subtle Solutions 1" strut top lift kit. So about $270AU. Then when that comes I will ring up and book in for the raised springs. Will be getting the blocks installed with the springs :biggrin: to save an extra wheel alignment.
 
I thought there was a general "post pictures of your Subaru" thread here somewhere, but I can't seem to find it right.. So, I guess I'll post these here..

I've been slowly starting to explore the area near a local lake, to try to find the off-road trails that I see on Google Maps that lead from an overlook down to the lakeside.. or at least closer to the lakeside.. I will admit that I haven't gotten too far on that quest yet. But, here are a few pics from after dinner last night..

I found one trail down, but I'm not going to try it. That right-hand side looks a little too washed out for me, especially after you go down a little ways..

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And I found a trail that I hadn't noticed before. It kind of "drops off," so I thought it was more of a bike trail than anything else. So, I hadn't looked down there until last night..
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I think I need to walk that a ways before I try to go down through there.. I don't want to get 100 yds down, find out it's washed out, and have to backup all that way.. :lol:

Here is one back up to where I had parked my OB. You can kind of see part of the drop-off, I mentioned..

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And here are two from up top that I liked the best.. Unfortunately, I had a lot of glare from the sun. So, I had to do some heavy post-processing on them..

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Well, yesterday I drove through a river that was as deep as the bonnet...with no snorkel. Haha. made it through but the aircon compressor is ****ed. Might pull it out today as I don't want aircon in the car anyway. Never use it.
 
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