2006 Outback 3.0R 180kw VDC project

so new car , new project m new plans for it , and gathering new info what could be done witt it and choosing what fits me

what i bought
OXMsQ80.jpg


how it looked in my yard next day
oiuFyuUl.jpg


changing inside and some outside bulbs to led's
VVOwFlNl.jpg


2bqsM2Kl.jpg


examples for myself how lift would look with my rims and how bumper cut would look
xKiztQ7.jpg


so normal steps for me do lift at least as much as in that pic, and then maybe cut bumper
kKYYJSo.jpg


car how its sits now, how +5cm would look and then +7cm wheel is in the air
would need bigger tires for better look there.
r793dPS.jpg


checked front arches for rust and how it looks, and put some bitumen spray over there , and then put back that plastic cover back
EhSPSDH.jpg


front grill plasti dipped to black
gd8FK4g.jpg


how it looks in dark with some lights
9EkAKza.jpg
 
And what if....it's a head gasket issue ? Is the coolant level in the radiator still right or is there any oil in the coolant ?
 
No oil on level radiator was leaking some but no oil in it. Used some radiator leak stop and its not leaking anymore.

Today on injector case No 4.
Will i succeed or will i fail.
Cleaned again all injectors 246 same result.
Removed again and put one of those used ones into cyl 2 place. So now drives better o petrol and ok on lpg before was on lpg. Now its usable on lph little vibrates on low revs but when get on revs pulls much better. So injectors. Its mystery stuff with them.

Reseting ecu two time didint changed anything.
So now witj other injector on cyl 2 getting only cyl 2 missfire. No more cyl 4 missfire and no more cyl 6 missfire that i was getting before with lpg. Strange.

Those retainer rings on injectors not ment to be removed so i broke one. Was lucky that day before could remove other one.
h2WMBwT.jpg


So drove some more on lpg and petrol now with that other injector it kinda shakes vibrates on low revs when slow speed when braking but then when it pulls it pulls great on both fuel. Not like yesterday was bad. So just that one injector changing to another changed so much.
And people said that driving with missfire destroys catalyst is that true i drove with missfires now for long time.
But this now is best version how car drives i like it. Maybe i need to change those other 2 injectors in this line too. Though dont have retainer rings for those now.
 
Last edited:
Yh not sure is it good now for engine or im just driving with detonation again but it drives some better . Will order that injectors repair kit with nee filters for them and such. Or will take another pair of injectors maybe used and try change more. That cyl2 missfire still stick to car , but at least i can drive it.
Can do myself now lpg diagnostic with cable i bought, think will buy open port cable tio but ill try chinese cheap one. Should work just cant update it.
 
got back to original sound . put back that oem mufflers as i will do now more longer trips on highways and so , so its better to be silent drive.
made there little option to make it loud, i cut hole there and cover it with little larger metal tube so now it covered and not leaks sound but if i want it louder i just release that put to side and i got big hole there in tube
gm5ddKe.jpg


went swim on lake near by , was great driving on LPG , in day we had like really hot and tomoroow will be even hotter up to 30 celcious, so tomorrow will drive to far away lakes about 150km ther eand beack to swim and cook something on fire like camping just without sleeping over, will test bike carier too, and maybe i will change back to those larger tires in morning just before trip, because those look not good at all.
no money yet for proper AT tires , so will use those winter ones nokian hakepelita for now.
 
small trip to lakes , cooking causages , driving bikes around and lots swiming in lake.
errors came cyl 2 and couple time too rich fuel mix with it . so that must be something about that cyl 2 injector , maybe. allmost great everything just those errors.
and just before goin put back those large tires . looks good now again.
rvJsqkS.jpg
 
As some people said bad things about driving with missfires and i get it, but is it really bad in my situation too depends why i get missfires i guess, but if it valves then its bad i think.
But can it be bad valves on cyl 2 but car drives good and pulls nice same time or is it need to be that you loosing power when bad valves car vibrates and doesnt go . So i wonder is it still my injectors or is it just injectors make some changes how it reacts but valves still not ok and if i continue to drive like this will be worse. Not sure and dont have money to do valves adjustments now or will ever have as i dont have any savings just living from salary to salary spending everything.
Now car drives good and its more fuel saving then before in last 280km mpg is really good better then before so im happy for those numbers fo sure. But even easy driving on petrol alone brings that cyl2 missfire on. And its some vibrations on idle revs there too , likr very little but its there. And then more vibrations on lpg on lw revs but it pulls good when i rev it more.
Should i still try those injectors. Its funny how those mechanics even cant tell whos fault it is. They just guessing same as me here, like if its this then must be valves but if its that then maybe its not ... so its strange are there no way to tell is ir valves or something else?
 
Should i still try those injectors. Its funny how those mechanics even cant tell whos fault it is. They just guessing same as me here, like if its this then must be valves but if its that then maybe its not ... so its strange are there no way to tell is ir valves or something else?
Do you still have a broken retainer ring on the cyl 2 injector?

A compression test can still tell whether or not a valve is OK. If there is poor compression in a cylinder and the car doesn't blow blue smoke at the tailpipe, the valve is usually involved. Cheers.
 
No all injectors now good with good o rings . No leaks . Just when i change injector to other or change them places car starts work differently.
Compression might show valves but might not if say exhaust valve is bad then compression will still be good.
And if bad compression car should drive badly now it drives good it pulls good though with lag maybe but its nice. No smoke any kind white or blue.
It drove badly with oem injectors then i chaned cyl2 injector to another used one and it changed to good drive but vibrates on low revs specially on lpg. But its now better then before for sure. Better then before i started all this with injector cleaners in petrol as i was using like double dossage of it. I usee like bottle injector cleaner on 20 l petrol and it was said on bottle it needs to go on 40l petrol.
 
No all injectors now good with good o rings . No leaks . Just when i change injector to other or change them places car starts work differently.
Compression might show valves but might not if say exhaust valve is bad then compression will still be good.
And if bad compression car should drive badly now it drives good it pulls good though with lag maybe but its nice. No smoke any kind white or blue.
It drove badly with oem injectors then i chaned cyl2 injector to another used one and it changed to good drive but vibrates on low revs specially on lpg. But its now better then before for sure. Better then before i started all this with injector cleaners in petrol as i was using like double dossage of it. I usee like bottle injector cleaner on 20 l petrol and it was said on bottle it needs to go on 40l petrol.
I agree. Bad compression on a cylinder can be felt properly inside a vehicle as the engine will vibrate erratically.

It's really good to know you are having a much better run after you changed your injectors.
 
Yh better pull better overtaking cars and such but then it can vibrate on lower revs like that fuel mix still not good there .or its not making it good for some reason.
Duno more experiment like change that injector to other cyl maybe and see what that does. When i cleaned those used injectors some where spraying more then others so i think they have those filters on injectors that might be clogged still and any carb cleaner wont clean those proper you just need to change them i guess.
Thats why they sell those no? With those new filters that you change
612KioLZYmL._AC_SX355_.jpg

So im still thinking that carb cleaner can clean most sure but not all there is it?
 
Yh better pull better overtaking cars and such but then it can vibrate on lower revs like that fuel mix still not good there .or its not making it good for some reason.
Duno more experiment like change that injector to other cyl maybe and see what that does. When i cleaned those used injectors some where spraying more then others so i think they have those filters on injectors that might be clogged still and any carb cleaner wont clean those proper you just need to change them i guess.
Thats why they sell those no? With those new filters that you change
612KioLZYmL._AC_SX355_.jpg

So im still thinking that carb cleaner can clean most sure but not all there is it?
Are those carb o-rings and jets? Did they come with your carb cleaner? Yes, some carb cleaners eat rubber and that's a huge drawback.

Carb cleaners will cut all the gunk and goo. I am not sure, though, if they can dissolve larger particles derived from harder materials.
 
I mean i used o rings for injectors on injectors as you need to. But that carb cleaner can be rough i guess on rubber, when i bought those 3 used injectors and tried to clean them with carb cleaner and battery those injectors sprayed differently meaning one was very good spraying on carb cleaner and one was very small amount and it didint changed from carb cleaner meaning something else was there blocking or i needed do that longer.
 
Once more removed injectors , cleaned once more and changed places put cyl2 injector to cyl4 and now im getting again errors 2 and 4 cyl missfire. So yh if its valves problem the why it reacts to injectors changed.
and as i do this job now 50 times as i tried to bolt on thta fuel line with those 2 bolts one of them came loose , but because they so short i thought what if i put there longer bolt, so i measured is longer bolt will fit there and it is fitting so you can just put there longer bolts much longer and handbag will be fine. so then it all again went tight and good with longer bolt .
wLJ0uEo.jpg
 
Last edited:
Now it drives worse so maybe ill try buy another 3 used injectors and try change them. Or at least put that one used back to cyl 2 because now im getting cyl 2 and cyl 6 missfires again and before i had just cyl 2
 
if i might buy new tires , now i dont know what to pick, AT ones again and then well not go into mud with them as AT wont work in mud anyways , or go with MT ones even. now is it true what people saying that MT tires are ok for those low range manuals even with weak engines they can spin those larger tires, we have here in forester club some old imprezas 2.0 and same engine foresters that are just on stock stuff just lifted and they going on some MT tires. and they say for AT subarus no matter what engine its better to go with AT tires not MT as it will be even harder for it to spin those heavy and grippy MT tires, so like better use AT ones that car could spin then more grippy MT ones. but is that like real deal? i get it that foresters on 2.0 engines and auto gearbox might have hard time to spin any tire there, i remember i was much better with my 2001 outback and those heavy Ko2's then other foresters with auto's .
so like could i try those MT tires , i duno there are some pretty cheap ones like maxxis MT bighorn 764 , they pretty aggressive and maybe loud too, but like why not to try ..maybe if its even worth it . as my car still has those problems with pulling in reverse , still dont know reasons, maybe its really valves so why spend money at all on tires now ... so i duno myself . but just as thought some MT tires they would look cool there
MT-762-BIGHORN-Padango-Paras.lt-1.jpg


or go for some even cheaper Roadcruza RA 1100 , they AT tires , looks like copies from bfg ta pattern there, looks really like ko2's that i had ,
5769769957.jpg


just those chinese tires same as comforser same maker. and some people here using comforsers cf1000 AT tires as well and pretty happy with them.
so then roadcruza
E6E3Ey1vY8NMW_JYPa9kphWGXelwX42mpq9Lgruwi3xcmtSux1t4kFpfj9LXLUOH_yyQ7PHwuoENuZvGfSeHHVAcHW_rnGNk8yKhIdCkycYub-FxUbPl


or comforser cf1000
product-500x500.jpeg


roadzcurza i would need to take 16 size so means buying extra rims too, where comforsers comes on 17 size and allmost my size at 225/60R17
those chinese ones are about 70-80 euros one tire here.
then again when i think about it , might never even go to mud in all summer or not much at autumn who knows, i dont have any friends to go with anyway so , as i used those ko2 tires most on asphalt it was kinda waste for sure, so yh i might just want then but then wont use it very much. so yh many thought and many rethinking and such.
if i need to do valve job it will cost a lot like double price for tires and i dont have either money anyway now . or will have in next half year or year, i just dont see any ways i could save money on that its just go with flow pay if i need and then kinda squeze , live small so you could pay for that thing, meaning no trips no fun no nothing.

today i was just backing up from my garden area so its almost no hill just some step that its simple to drive and i was on lpg and was like pedal to metal whats going on car didint moved , then i drove some forward switched to petrol and drove off, so i mean thats so bad there thats even not funny. oh and it seems its worse when turning wheel with that. on straight its easier , when turn wheel its like double worse for it . and all happeneing on low revs because its like doesnt have any power there, well errors of course and then i delete them then they appear then i delete them again sometimes i just leave them but ecm is allways on some bad mode there i think , i delete errors so often now that it does not even have time to adapt properly there. sometimes i delete it like 4 times in minute so its pretty happy there im sure.
and any other person would say me so what you doing just go fix it dont drive ..and so on and so on, but its easier to say take it to mechanic, it would be bad and for long time for lots money.
 
Last edited:
I wouldn't put MT on a Forester; I have MT on my Triton / L200.
 
Your BP may already be limping, @scalman. Check out how the people on this thread on ClubSub are diagnosing the EZ30 of a club member (https://www.clubsub.org.nz/forum/in...very-well/page/4/&tab=comments#comment-666262). It's still ongoing but it's interesting how on the 86th post, the other member is already looking at things that are much simpler.

Regarding tyre, I have an EJ203 and a 4EAT and my tyres still spin on the dirt.

You may be better off with a good brand AT once you sort out the engine issue. Be cautious with those cheap tyres from the east. There was an article here that was released correlating 28% of our road incidents to those cheap tyres. They are not stress-tested and have at least one component missing. Even my neighbours who are originally from that country won't buy those tyres.
 
Well those cheap comforser/ roadcruza tires are long used in russia and some here too so they tested allready for some time and people are ok with them thats why im thinking of those too. And they where used and tested by teams in dakar rallys. They not so cheap as cheap those maxxis tires are cheap too consider and they are allready famous all over.
 
Last edited:
So what about this leak then. Its coming from top for some reason. So thats from when car was cold there standing and botom pic is later when i filled liquid and started car and turned wheels to sides a little. So and then it runs from there even ehe i leave car after some driving its still leaks from there for some time.
jMyNoin.jpg

But this part top is solid i found that lower there are 2 bolts that disconnects that top part, so is there like some selant inside there?
But with all those tubęs there i think it would need to be removed to do anything to it there.

Bad luck i guess why its even goes up there its like highest point why you leake there?
 
Last edited by a moderator:
Back
Top