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Now this looks like something i want to do, the missus sort of said yes, so looks promising for me too go!, sat/sun i assume, camping sat night, how much will it cost?

Well then, where shall i start?, my car has been limping since december, i have tried allsorts to get it sorted, except for one thing, and that was my biggest mistake, took the car to Ian tonight which is what i should have done about 8 months ago!, and i estimate he had it sorted within 20 mins!, feck me he knows these cars!, and now he has offfered to help me get it up and ready for santa pod!, cheers dude.

I have got a couple of those in my garage, cut out to that template, and bent, just never got round to fitting it, prob will do after i have visited Bob Rawle tomorrow!.

Will be swapping the inlet tomorrow, so fingers crossed i will be in action for sunday!

Hi mate, i might pay you a visit sunday hopefully, would be nice to meet some of the sidc lot!, i have just tidied my garage so i can get the front of the car in saturday morning, so i can swap the inlets over, will be on it all day if you are at a loose end!

Hi mate, i vented the catch can to air, you can smell it a bit, under bonnet mainly, doesnt come into the car. The insulators are from roger clark. i found my air leak to be a crack in the inlet manifold, must have overtightened a bolt by hand!, going to order a new inlet on monday, with new insulators and bolts. all i can say is BALLS!!!

Thaks for all the replies!, she was flying until she developed an air leak somewhere which is really bugging me and i cant find it, causing 2300 revs on idle, could be rail to IM seal, not sure yet, will try and sort it at the weekend.

it looked like this when i got it!

I have had this wagon just over 2 years, it started life as a 220ps auto wrx my94, it was converted to a manual by pennine subaru before i bought it, i put a v2 sti engine in last winter, and over the last couple of months put in a new AF20G turbo with just about all supporting mods, was mapped by Bob Rawle last saturday to an estimated 380/360 at 1.5 bar!, will be doing a power run in the new year to get the real figures, very pleased with the result, smooth good power from it now. There have been a few ups and downs getting here though!. Some mods include, 3" exhaust straight through, GT Spec 2 headers DEI wrapped, AF20G Turbo, fmic, Aeromotive fpr, parallel fuel rails, inlet manifold insulators, coolant tank insulators, Simtex ecu with switchable maps, while driving!, warlbro 255, catch can, carbon can removal, mafless (just need to get a replacement pipe for it!), no BOV at all, 2004 gearbox, samcos throughout, simota induction kit, etc. Will need to fit an anti lift kit, and have just managed to source some near new P1 suspension to go on, still need to sort ABS removal, and induction heatshield, also new clutch!. Let me know what you think! Cheers

Balls!!!, that is the day i get my car mapped, and i really want to do a power run!!

Looks good mate, dont know what you were worried about!, i knew you would get it right in the end! (ps i started her tonight!)

That is brave mate!, have you done it before?, on the drive i mean? easier engine out on the drive, on ramps it is easier to pull the engine, what do you think? was considering getting a garage to pop it in , but i hate doing that!

I need to swap my gearbox, rear diff, and clutch in the next week or two, does anyone want to get dirty?, it would be a tough job on my own! Thanks Brent

cheers mate, i am still waiting for mt fpr to be delivered so i can crack on, headers and turbo are on, inlet is off and refurbed!, will be putting on the sti gearbox, new clutch amd new lightened flywheel asap! The windows would be a nice touch dude, but the weather is a bit pants!

I will make it to a meet asap mate, but the car is taking up all my time at the moment!

it should be ok dude, did you get my number?

Hi mate, did you want to have a look at this zorst?

your inbox is full mate? i will send you my mobile number and ring me tomorrow? cheers Brent

hi mate i do have a spare system, i just found the receipt, a stainless Magnex back box 3.5", and a Magnex de cat centre section, in good condition, was £300 quid to buy 3 years ago!, fits well and i dont need it anymore, is that of interest to you?

Should be able to run 400/380 if all is healthy, but for obvious reasons and driveability something more like 380/350 will be slightly kinder on the gearbox and drivetrain, i do have a spare box and engine, but i am certainly not out to break my car, Bob will map it for the best drive hopefully, and i cant wait!

4 new bloody coil packs as well, £300!!!!

Hi matty how are your internal organs? I have already done countless things to it like front mount, warlbro fuel pump samoto ind kit, 3 bar map sensor, four pots, full samco set, straight thru exhaust, but over the next month the sti v2 engine is gonna get an andy forrest 20g bolted on with wrapped stainless tubular exhaust manifold, aeromotive fpr with parallel fuel rails, 550cc injectors, inlet manifold insulating spacers, induction heat shield with cold air feed, esl daughter board booked in to be mapped on the 29th nov by bob rawle aiming at 1.5 bar boost, so in the hope to have all supporting mods to get the most out of the 20G (and my gearbox!). Sorry to hijack thread!

Hehe, well is "transformation" more like it?

Cheers mate, probably not, i do want to for sure, but if all goes to plan my car will be off the road from friday till the end of november, with some modifications going on.

You chose the best colour for a wagon mate hehe