My Car

[jamesm]

The car is looking cracking Marko

[Baz man]

Been keeping a wee eye on this from the start and keep getting the same thought - Should i get the credit card out lol.

Cars looking great mate. Well done.

[subarucraig]

and better mate

[marko72]

Cheers folks. I took her up the hills for a run on sunday and took a few pics. Here they are. You can see the front better now its out and about.

Thanks.

[wulsey]

Shes looking good bud.

Like the black fog covers.

[marko72]

Shes looking good bud.

Like the black fog covers.

Cheers mate. I have had some inspiration from certain places

Still may have to sort the headlights out. Have an idea, but will have to try it out to see if it works or not.

[marko72]

Update time, have had a few things done. After mot/service time last nov, it was noticed that I needed new pads and one of my pistons was sticking also. Spoke to CraigMcD and agreed to get new front discs and pads in.

Godspeed discs.

Hel braided lines.

Craig sorted me out with a new seal kit from Subaru and he went to work removing the front calipers. Both front calipers had one piston sticking. Craig took the calipers apart, removed the pistons, cleaned and polished them up and put them back together with the new seal kit.

Carig took his time doing a top job. New discs, new kevlar pads on with recon calipers. ( will paint them at a later date )

Craig then fitted the new brake lines and replaced the brake fluid, you can see them above as well.

I had a good informative a'noon and Craig done a top job, the brakes are going strong 5 months later. Will update more tmw. Cheers.

[marko72]

Thats good, at least you'll get to see the old dear as you whizz around in the WR1 lol.

I didnt mention before that at mot time I had a Whiteline rear adjustable bar fitted. Dont think I took any pics of the fitting. Have to say that its a real difference IMO to the handling. Would really recommend this as a def handling mod, and have done so in other discussions on handling.

I was really lucky to win a Meercat voucher at the Santa Cruise xmas meal in Dec, so I called them up and had a wee chat, so decided to go for their snakehead downpipe with 100cell sportscat. Got booked in for jan and headed over one cold morning, day off work etc. Willie and his nephew welcomed me and I was soon holed up in the portakabin with my coffee and playstation.

Here she is on the ramp.

Another shot up on the ramp. Sorry about the ol' banger in the way, had to wait til this was off the ramp to get mine in lol.

Yep, mine is the one in the distance, in case anyone gets mixed up . Now thats a nice fat scooby!!

Intercooler off to start with. With my uppipe having been replaced for a H & S one previously it was easier for willie to get in about the engine and downpipe as the bolts werent seized up or as tough to get out as they could have been.

I popped in to the workshop now and again to see how the work was getting on. Willie kept me updated and showed me the work as it went on. Heres my snakehead downpipe next to old standard downpipe with the H & S 2nd cat delete pipe. The snakehead goes right back to the centre pipe. The sportscat has been placed at the bottom of the pipe to allow for less restriction at the mouth and maximum flow.

It has obviously been made to fit my car perfectly, I think Willie said there had been an issue on some bugs with downpipes touching another part of the car when driving/steering, something like that in the past, but no probs here.

Fitted to the car

All good, was a good day. Left the engine running for a while to heat the cat and they headed off home, but due to traffic it was a crawl home that day. The next day or so took the car out for a good drive. I defo felt the car being more responsive than before and prob felt a bit quicker, Now, you really have got to love the sound of that turbo which you can clearly hear spooling up bigtime, windows down here we go lol. The car with the sportcat on has stopped banging as much, but is still popping away. Since getting it fitted I didnt think the car was any louder, something I had hoped for, but as the months have gone by I do think its bedding in and the car does have more of a rumble and with the sound of the turbo ( which I did hear before but no way as loud/clear as now ) and the pops it is feckin great fun.

Big shout to Meercat.

More later. Thanks.

If the owner of the fat scoob doesnt want the pic of their car on here, then mods take it away. Dont worry I have passed the cars details on to WBAC.com and they will be in touch.

Edited May 2, 2011 by marko72

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Lol my white RA has spent a fair bit of time on that ramp, looking good.

[x444wrx]

looking good mate, love seeing the progress

[rallyfever]

Is that Wilky's old fat blobeye in those pics????

Gary

[marko72]

Is that Wilky's old fat blobeye in those pics????

Gary

Hi mate. No, it belongs to Colin Greer.

Cheers.