If there is a difference in the oils, you won't notice it in oil consumption. Normal oils that people use do not typically change oil consumption. If there is a difference, it would be noticed in higher wear of parts.

 

First sentence was sarcasm.

Its a 13 year old Subaru, of course it going to use oil. My point is that with the T6 it generally uses LESS oil than it did when I tried offerings from Mobil/Castrol/Valvoline. I'm curious to see if that remains consistent now that its been reformulated. This isn't the BITOG forum, I'm not going to waste my time sending samples to Blackstone to quantify wear rates. My goalpost is simply consumption.

 

All subarus consume oil. i dont care if they have no miles on them. They all lose oil somehow. I love my six stars but they are a massive pain in the ***.

 

So I did a ton of touch up. I hate paint touch up and suck at it, but actually came out ok'ish after the detail.
Then got the paint cleaned up and polished.



Almost done cleaning and re-assembling the interior. I took THE WHOLE INTERIOR out, literally every single part aside from the dashboard, washed everything, then washed/cleaned the tub of the car.
It's an absurd amount of work, and I very frequently question my sanity for doing things like this, but the previous owner was a sloppy pig and I just cannot drive a car with coffee infused carpet as well as all sorts of nastiness from never really cleaning it for 8 years.

Bought Sonax alcantara cleaner for the seats, smells amazing, and used oxy-clean for the carpet.
I really should have taken a "before" picture of the interior

After that's all done I will be putting the car on a lift and pressure washing/cleaning the wheel wells, underbelly, and basically every single crevice. Then finishing all the maint.
After this much work, I'm gonna keep the car for a while. LOL

 

Two weeks?

 

3

 

Care to describe your process? I've tried this in the past with a bucket and a brush and I just end up with a mountain of wet carpet that takes days to dry and ended up smelling musty

 

I got the tub of powder, not the spray on stuff. Literally sprinkled the powder all over the carpet after vacuuming it.
Then sprayed with water from hose. Let sink in for 10-15 min. Then bucket of water and brush just like you, scrubbing the daylights out of it. Then, and I think this is the important part: 3100psi of pressure washer fury. Very slowly and thoroughly. Then hung it to dry for a couple hours in 100F heat. Then vacuumed it one last time. Let dry overnight, voila.

Basically wayyyy too much work, but I'm a glutton for punishment like that.

 

I think you may have inadvertently identified the flaw in my process

But I hadn't tried that with the powder. Definitely going to give this a shot with my dinky pressure washer the next time we expect some actual heat. I appreciate the tips

 

Or you could just be cool like those youtube videos and pressure wash the interior without even taking it out

 

Hmm, I have yet to do an oil change on the frs. No idea what's in it and contemplated going to the dealer for their recommended oil.

Then again, I'd rather use amsoil in it

 

Factory fill for the Twins is Mobil 1 0w-20. 6k intervals. The first few model years they were using a 7500 mile interval.

The dealership has done all my oil changes, including switching the Trans and Diff over to Motul............which are about to be due again. And now that I've crested 30k miles, I need to let them flush the brakes and clutch.

 

So, uh, what exactly would make my lil' EJ intermittently idle at like, 1200~1500 rpm when it gets hot sitting in traffic, but then drop back down later.

(please don't say vacuum leak..)

 

Voodoo

 

I mean, I assumed sorcery would be involved. That's generally how things work.

But really, is this a super heatsoak thing because top mounted intercooler or something I should actually be worried about?

 

definitely not normal regardless of heatsoak.
I'd guess iacv

 

Boogers. It only happens when its super duper heatsoaked, like stuck in traffic and I can see heat lines boiling out of the hood scoop. So I guess there is that. Maybe I'll look around for a replacement IACV and see if its worth worrying about.

If I ever figure out what to do with the Tactrix, what should I look for that would indicate its the IACV?

 

That's just weird behavior from a subaru, imo. Even ones that were overheating in front of me never had the idle jump up. Maybe faulty water temperature sensor ? That would certainly explain why it would go up like that if it was telling the car that it's cold, then the warmup idle table would bump up idle speed.

If you (finally) started logging, yes it would help diagnose.

In other news, here's the cabin filter from the Sti to perfectly represent how rarely it was cleaned

 

Yum.

 

a family of wild blouch dom 1.5xtr's has nested in my garage and are starting to procreate