Heretik

Bottom ends blown... darn it. I dont want to get just anywhere to sort it... Best place in Kent for a rebuild/repair? Its a '98 STI.. Any suggestions welcome! I'm guessing looking at previous posts, I should really be looking at around £2-3K to get it done.. If I am going to get it done, I may as well add some more power ~ so any suggestions on sensible modifications welcome too! Cheers

3 today, 1 Blue Newage in Ashford Borough Council's car park Blue classic with rally graphics, which I seen before parked up at Ashford's Eureaka Park (loud exhaust mate!) I sorta caught you up in the que at the round about just up the road from there.. And another blue newage going round the same roundabout...

Ya got a reply! Cheers

Tonight around 5.45pm, spotted a dark blue classic coming off at the roundabout off the M20 onto the A20 towards Lenham, you turned off right at the 2nd roundabout and I gave you a flash from behind (that sounded wrong but ya know what I mean!).

Heya, Nice litte haul you've go for sale! How much fo the Zerosports induction kit? Cheers

Thanks for the welcomes Yeah Barretts in Canterbury do still service Subaru's. The mech down there (I forget his name) was really knowledgable and soon sorted me out. Infact I had been to 3 other garages with the same problem several months back- which it took him 2 minutes to fix. Basically one of my struts was a little loose and making a slight banging noise- and the 3 garages before me had told me that they couldnt find anything wrong with it only to saying there "was a noise" !!?? This guy sorted it within minutes, amazing what a difference a good mechanic makes. I dont know if they take on other jobs down there I didnt enquire, but he even took a short drive with me to see what he thought of my motor and give me a (very favourable!) oppinion on my buy. He worked on WRC cars at any rate and I would highly recommend using them.. though I dunno if they do anything other than servicing.. maybe I will ask in the next few days. And anyone know of any good (and cheap!?) bodyshop/scratch dent repair places? A lorry just caught my rear drivers side door whilst I was on the slip road getting onto the M26 this evening to my complete and utter disbelief... I'm still kinda confused as to how it happened, think it was a foriegn lorry- didnt feel like much contact, but having looked at it I got a little scratch I'm looking into gettin Chips away to take a look at it... but if anyone has any better suggestions... Cheers

Awesome, thanks- I'll check that out. Thanks for the welcome too, I'm based in Wye and work just outside Maidstone so maybe I will try and get along to a meet sometime. I've been down to Subaru/Barretts before, I saw one of the mech's who used to work on the WRC cars; helped sort out a small suspension issue I had before for free, was well pleased. Nice guys down there- very helpful. Thanks again for the info. Cheers

Hey folks, A few Questions for ya.. I gota nicely lowered Silver '98 Sti, (standard shocks, super stiff Ohlins springs) and although handling is great- I wana improve it. I recently noticed an ad for ABP motorsport that offered a "fast road geometry- wheel alignment and camber check/set up", @ £120- saying that they will give you a better turn in- hopefully helping to dial out a bit of the famed impretza understeer; reckon this is worth the money? - Or does anyone have any other suggestions? (If only I got a type RA with the selectable Diff!). I heard the anti lift kits are good too - and uprating the anti roll bars.. Anyone had these done? Anyway- if anyone has had any experience of tinkering in this area I'd appriciate suggestions> And more to the point, is there anywhere in Kent that are any good at tuning impretza's in this sort of way? Something closer to home would be good as ABP are way up Cheshire! Cheers