What color is that?

Also, as you said, RIP 5 speed

Do you have an STI intercooler to go with those, and several extra 5 speeds?

 

03+ got slightly stronger boxes than the original 02-mid03 "glass box"
I've done dozens of vf setups and the only ones that grenaded the trans were seriously abused ones. And by abused I mean street raced every other day, 5k clutch dumps and banging gears like a boss.
So it's not that bad, really.

I really love how simple and straightforward those setups are though. Everything fits, everything works together, car passes smog urry time, etc.

 

Speaking of, my hose thing showed up today. Time to try again.

 

put some electrical tape on it

 

It's an 02'.

I picked a silver 02' last December as a beater and I've just loved it. Unfortunately it's got hail an rust issues, so it will likely find a new home once the black one is up and going.

It sounds like you've got more of Subaru hoarding issue than I do! It's a little early on, but shoot me a PM on what you might want for the parts.

 

There is a disassembled 5spd that needs reassembly and an RA gearset to go in it that came with my silver car. I'm guessing it'll need to be put together at the same time as these other shenanigans.

I've actually accumulated a header, up-pipe, and turbo from a 16' STI as well as a pair of GR Top Mounts. If you're sticking with the 2.0L on 91, the 48 seems like a little too large of a turbo. Add a little bit of corn juice in and it's a whole other ballgame.

 

If I had access to corn I'd stick it in the Miata.

 

why would the 48 be too large? it's basically perfect for a 2L
vf34
vf39
vf43
vf48
vf52
and many mannnny more vf's are all the same size basically

 

There's a bugeye wagon with just under 100k miles on it for sale an hour from me.

Me wants it suhhhh bad :(

He wants silly money for it though.

 

Another local goofball that I shenanigan with quite often has a bugeye sedan and did the 48 with a GR TMIC and was fairly underwhelmed (as was I) in comparison to the stocker. Once we through the corn juice at it, it was quite a different story. Being autox nutswingers, we may be a little more adverse to lag than some. The turbo isn't too large, but on 91 the power output available didn't seem worth the price of lag.

 

If you auto-x and want the maximum amount of lowend grunt, yeah I guess stick to the td04. You're trading around 300 rpm of spool for 50-60hp up top.
I'll try to dig up some plots later. But it's far from underwhelming. You go from 220-230hp to 270-280, it's a pretty significant increase.

 

Tuning these bad boys. One has 350ish, one has 450ish, and one has 550ish.

Can you guess which is which? (one is easy cause it's my car )

 

My car passed smog on Saturday

I took it to the crazy oldschool Chinese guy and let him do it. His English isn't perfect, but he's a riot to talk to.

"DMV say you fail smog. Why?"

This tube might have had a leak, so I replaced it with a new one.

"Did you have code? Check engine light?"

No, it failed a visual.

"They fail you for that? They make you pay?"

They sure did.

"What *******! Why you no come here first time? You no pass you no pay for first check here next time, got it?"

Yes sir, thank you.

"Two years you come back."

Sounds like a plan, I'll put it in my calendar.

 

You shoulda got it on camera

And ask him if I could bring the above 07 in for a visual too





those lines..........are..........all...........stock... .......ish

 

Oh man, that's frightening

 

This. Even though I know its not necessarily a bad thing, the amount of hoses and messiness under the hoods of modded Subarus stresses me out.
Even my mostly stock STI stresses me out.

 

FML. I knew I shouldn't have bought tires. DTD just put a $75 rebate on the tires I bought earlier this week. fffffffuuuuuuuuuuuu....

It's ok, I really needed tires.



Well, that's probably the least responsible I've been about tires in a long, long time.


Ok, lets talk alignment.

First things first: this is a DAILY DRIVER with STOCK springs, STOCK sways, STOCK ride height, STOCK suspension and I expect some life out of the new tires. Please take your autocross and trackdaybro alignment recomendations with you and go **** your hat.

Now that we have that out of the way, lets talk about other things I can **** up. Specifically, alignment.

The "factory" specs I keep finding on the internet have an alignment "range" that is "acceptable" listing things like "Front Camber .3 to -1.3" and as far as I'm concerned, that's bullshit. lol. The problem is that I don't have experience with an AWD platform, let alone a wagon, so separating the buckwheat from the bullshit in the general urabus fuckery smeared all over the internet has been a challenge.

Who wants to spoonfeed me alignment specs for my ridiculously stock 04 wagon?

 

Those tires look straight up scary

As for alignment, as always all my opinions are #BECAUSESTREETCAR and I have absolutely zero racetrack alignment knowledge. I usually tell them to set each side identical to the other, keeping the front camber -.5 to -1 and caster even between the two. zero toe everywhere if you want maximum tire life. That's about it as the rear's aren't camber or caster adjustable. Just don't go to a similar place to the one that failed your smog and you'll be fine

 

Those look like the Star Specs I took off the BRZ after my dad and I did a 600 mile roadtrip, in the rain, for a concert.

 

Yeah, not exactly my proudest moment

That's pretty much what I was thinking: zero toe, matching caster, matching left to right. Good to know the rears are not adjustable, I was unaware of that.

I know what caster does to a Miata without PS, but is there ever "too much" considering this is AWD and has PS?

Mr Funny Guy over here