What have you done to your car today?

^ bummer about the damage, but I hope the cooling issues stay sorted.
 
Skidplate

Got a "Primitive" Front end 3/16in thick skidplate, plus the rear diff protection plate (havent installed that yet) So excited to take it on some adventures next weekend with the added protection!

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^ nice looking bash plate. I had a look at their website, and they have some interesting stuff. their range of suspension products is better than what's available here, and the prices look pretty good.
 
Today... I was supposed to get my new rear springs and strut blocks fitted, as well as have my front and rear brake pads replaced. However, due to a technical error on my part, the springs couldn't be ordered, and the distributor didn't bother calling the tyre shop about the error. I ordered the King Springs, order code (I thought) KSR-43, turns out its KSR R43. I missed one little R! So while getting the pads replaced, the mechanic found my rotors needed replacing... So all in all, 4x DBA rotors, 2x Bendix offroad pads, 2x Bendix rear pads, plus labour = $800. Plus I still haven't paid for the springs, nor had them fitted. Next week, all will be good!

Regards,

Joel
 
Hey joel_57 don't forget to get some before & after pics when you get the springs fitted too. I assume the springs are of the heavy duty / raised variety :cool:

Regards
Mr Turbo
 
mr turbo said:
Hey joel_57 don't forget to get some before & after pics when you get the springs fitted too. I assume the springs are of the heavy duty / raised variety :cool:

Regards
Mr Turbo
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Yeah I forgot to take photos today, so now I can take some before/ after photos. Yeah they're the Raised Heavy Duty variety. I have got about 60,000 of heavy weight/ rough off road kilometres out of the last set of king springs.

Regards,

Joel
 
joel_57 said:
Yeah I forgot to take photos today, so now I can take some before/ after photos. Yeah they're the Raised Heavy Duty variety. I have got about 60,000 of heavy weight/ rough off road kilometres out of the last set of king springs.

Regards,

Joel
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Wow, I would of thought about 150,000km :surprised:
 
Dulagarl said:
^ nice looking bash plate. I had a look at their website, and they have some interesting stuff. their range of suspension products is better than what's available here, and the prices look pretty good.
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yeah im really happy with it so far, so easy to install. they do have some great looking stuff and a huge variety of mods. my next project will be to order the king springs and struts from them since they lift the car almost two inches with would be fantastic!
 
Did the timing belt, water pump, front oil seal, reinstalled intake manifold, started building custom fuel rail.

Busy....
 
Meanwhile, while one Subaru has been away offroading, the other Subaru is off the road as it receives a new turbo.

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taza said:
Wow, I would of thought about 150,000km :surprised:
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Yeah you would normally expect to get about that on a normal road driven car. However, given Wanda (my Forester) has been driven on all sorts of roads from bitumen, to gravel, mud and sand, it all acts a bit like sand paper and wears the rotors out more quickly.

Regards,

Joel
 
Dulagarl said:
^ nice!

I did this today...

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Damn those headers hang low, I just looked at a pic of both my Turbo's and the factory cast ones sit above the sump and oil filter, were they made by Al or is it just normal for the 6 to hang so low...........I can see why you keep bending the jacking plate now with that tube going across it, my bash plate actually replaces it it sits that flush, you must have been losing a good couple of inches.

Old pic but you can see both setup's if you enlarge it.

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d_generate said:
Damn those headers hang low, I just looked at a pic of both my Turbo's and the factory cast ones sit above the sump and oil filter, were they made by Al or is it just normal for the 6 to hang so low...........I can see why you keep bending the jacking plate now with that tube going across it, my bash plate actually replaces it it sits that flush, you must have been losing a good couple of inches.

Old pic but you can see both setup's if you enlarge it.

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Low alright. They are the factory headers for the ez30R H6. The new pics show them cut down, but yeah they are still below the sump.

the bar on the jacking plate is now gone.

I can see how you could piss off the jacking plate completely if you had the ability to mount flush to the cross member.

basically how I'm gonna do it now is to mount to the jacking plate, but have the centre section of the bashplate higher than the bits at the side to accommodate the headers. I really couldn't get any more taken off the headers because the cats would have ended up hitting the cross member. I could have resolved this by spending a lot of money, but I'm happy with this for now.
 
Were they cast?? I know the 4cyl ones are but I didn't think it could be welded, or is that pig iron??? hence why I asked if Al made them, you must still be losing 65-75mm, could you cut the plate around them or is protection of the headers more important....we cut mine around my dump pipe but that's mild steel & pretty level with the plate so reasonably safe.

Nice turbs Rally, VF34 - 20G?
 
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d_generate said:
Were they cast?? I know the 4cyl ones are but I didn't think it could be welded, or is that pig iron??? hence why I asked if Al made them, you must still be losing 65-75mm, could you cut the plate around them or is protection of the headers more important....we cut mine around my dump pipe but that's mild steel & pretty level with the plate so reasonably safe.

Nice turbs Rally, VF34 - 20G?
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What you see is actually an outer boot or protective shell for the headers, which is factory. Inside that are the headers themselves, consisting of one pipe per cylinder. the outer shell is a thin metal, while I think the headers are stainless steel.

The headers are in turn surrounded in mesh, and the outer shell is pressed on by heat pressing the seam.

This is why I reckon Exhaust Brothers did such a good job of the modification: they had to move the outer shell, cut the headers, weld them to the flange plate, and then weld the outer shell to the flange plate.

I could cut the bash plate around the outer shell, as seems to be the case with the plates made by primitive for the EZ30R fitted outback and Tribeca:

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What I will do though is bens the plate so it sits higher in the middle and lower underneath the headers. This will still give me about 25 - 26 cm of clearance under the lowest part of the bash plate.
 
Sounds like they did a great job then, interesting how they are made too, I guess you could always wrap them like they do on a lot of WRX's with aftermarket headers then do away with the pressing but I think that may shorten their life span and make them more vulnerable to damage.
 
After last weekends trip through the water I thought it best to drain the rear diff and gearbox oils. Glad I did- the rear diff oil did not look all that good. Guess I better put in a breather extension- must be cheaper than changing oil
 
Finally replaced my radiator & all the hoses to go along with it. All better! Thanks to the help of the good people on this forum, i was able to perform the task without any issues.My biggest concern was mostly getting all the air out, but that was a pretty simple process. Boy did it take forever for that thermostat to kick on the first time!
 
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