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This was how I spent my weekend, fitting Seibon Carbon Grill. I nearly sold it as it wasn't a straight fit, had no fitting kit with it, just didn't know whether to bother trying to get it to fit..........But then thought sod it, it looks nice give it a go. So £15 later spent on brackets clear lacquer nuts & bolts self tappers its on. Although it came with some mesh, it was silver and didn't match the bottom grill, so I took it off the old grill which was just the right size, so happy with that bit. Then it was time spent painting the brackets and screw heads to match, Brackets made, painted, fitted mmmm now I need a Carbon Splitter

The Type UK's didnt come with tints as standard prob an optional extra, or like you say the last owner had them done. I believe the JDM STI's had the rear 3 all tinted but very dark though.

Baz, nice pics again . Have you get your parcel yet?

Wow, thats a compliment an a half Ace, thanks very much for that Like to think that all my little touchs have brought together a nice looking car, visual or performance tweeks.

After some help from various members on here posting pics up, I had my car booked in today for some window tints. Front 2 sides are a light smoke, rear 3 are a medium smoke. Wanted a subtle look rather than limo black rears, which I think look best on the 3Door Imprezas. Even got a lift to and from the shop from the owner whilst he did the tints in his very smart A6, what a service. All done Mark from Tintman in Clacton-Essex. In the direct sunlight they appear a lot lighter, as you can see. Even still the cars a LOT cooler inside, from this expected heat wave we're about to get

Yeah it pointing up through the inner wing, no real need for it to be routed anywhere, so its just done for looks.

No, it never had fog lights to begin with, just the normal STI covers. see below:- Offside was needed for air filter, nearside just to balance it up. Mesh painted black, blue alu funnel and 85mm flexi hose behind.

Just fancied balancing up the front end by adding another fog light surround unit to match the offside. Thinking it looks pretty good and I'll live with it for a while, the old cover can soon be popped back on. Heres how it was, this is a feed straight to the air box:- Added nearside unit, air being ducted to engine bay:- ps:- offside fog light unit is on ebay one day left if anyone fancies doing this mod.

Jonesy, Thats look real good, the fronts look fine I'd say for what the law allows. Thanks for posting

Could I ask you guys to post up some pics of your window tints please? I'm due to have mine done next week, and have semi asked for light smoke for the fronts and medium for the rears and a sun strip. I'm just wondering if the different shades will go well or should I go for light smoke all round, light smoke is on the legal limit so I wont be going any darker on the fronts. I've seen lots of Scoobys with darker rears and they look pretty good. This is on my 05 Impreza STI in wr blue, just for info. As many pics as you can suplly if you please Thanks in advance Daz.

I'm after some new number plates with Sonic The Hedgehog on for the badge, search loads of sites but no joy. So anyone know of sa site that does them?. By the way they are not for my car, it for me neice's first car Thanks in advance Daz

Firstly I had some Black Diamond Predator pads from and rear, they worked fine for the road, these sell for around £80 front bit less for the rears. Since I changed to grooved discs I changed to Ferrodo pads all round the DS2500, these seemed to be very highly rated for fast road/track use, but they come at a price of £160 fronts, £80 rears. They are now fully bedded in and work excellently, but do give off slightly more dust than the Preds did.

Thanks for that. Its the standard STI spoiler with x2 Perrin Wing Stiffis added. I use Meguiars NXT Gen glass cleaner, gives great results the windscreen water just beads off, so minimal wiper use.

Made use of a free space in the double garage over the weekend, as the Trans'am had gone to a car show, so washed and clayed outside, then using a range of Blackfire products inside, really nice to have loads of room and out of the sun. Got some different reflections, so out came the camera again Our new family member now "Sam", he wasn't too impressed with the time on the car, hence the cheeky tongue lol

This was today little project, fit the Diff Guard I had for a while on the shelf . Just another part to polish up weekly, more the merrier All washed and tucked up for another day Thanks for looking, Daz

Well i've started the bedding in process now, few hundred miles will come and go, then put them through a few hard stops to proper sort the pads out. Even in these early stages the pedal feels rock solid and very sharpe.

Received this little lot the other week from Ian Godney of Godspeed Brakes, was going to fit the Disc's and Pads myself but didnt fancy doing the hoses and bleeding the system , so its booked in at my local specialist on Thursday. I would have done pics as I installed them, but as thats not going to happen thought I'd do a little photoshoot of them. Fronts are the 2 piece, standard size for all 4, rears are 1 piece, pads are Ferodo DS2500, Hel Braided lines, and finally some dot5.1 fluid. Give them a good 300 miles of boring driving , before going through some braking cycles, that seems to be the right way so I've been told. So just like to say thanks again to Ian, he's a real nice guy to do business with, and he answered all my 1000 questions too

They look very smart behind the grill, they are a bit louder aren't they lol

As Ace has already said, dead easy to fit, remove front grill thats it, few holes to choose from to mount them. They are pretty hidden from view, but if you wanted to spend time at a later date modding the brackets so as they are shown off more you could quite easly.

You know you want to Heres my few shots, dam icey under snow though, nearly broke my neck getting out of the car!

Good god man, reading what happened to you was horrid!. Hope today your feeling slightly better. Wise words........very wise words about being prepared, large winter coat and thick gloves always in my boot.

Here are a few pics during the re-mapping, I found it very interesting how they do it, all clever stuff on the laptop, then after a few runs on the dyno, it was finalised on the road to make sure everything was in order, James(GRD) driving, Pat Herborn on the PC doing his magic. My print out

Massive thanks to James of GRD in Surrey for fitting my Prodrive cat, uprated fuel pump and the cold air feed mod, and an oil change, all done within the morning, then of we went to Surrey Dyno Specialists for its re-map. Gained a very healthy increase through out the rev range, with it peaking out at 332bhp. Car feels different to drive now, much more power lower down the rev range turbo comes in at 3k rather than 3.5k, and pulls like mad in every gear. Guess its a bigger turbo for the next step, think this will do me, start looking into the chassis tuning now. Thanks again James.

Oh for sure the Defi are lovely gauges, but they are do cost the earth, they have just had a price increase so now they are something like £200+ per gauge then you need a the controller unit, then a pod, then fitting, just way too much (for me at least). The Prosports are by no means a cheap gauge, they have been proven on road and track to be 100% accurate and reliable, thats good enough for me. I truely believe you are now paying for the Defi name more than anything, yes are made well and look good thats its, nothing that the Prosports dont do. Even driving home tonight looking at them, Im thinking god these are nice lol, really pleased with them, very clear and bright, just look fantastic in the car. Now even thing of getting one or two more the the a-pillar .

Yeah, they were set for red with lights on, but as the needles are red too it was a bit much, they are less dazzling at night in red, just the white contrasts a bit better, so I changed them tonight. The installer Neil did me a faviour as I wasn't sure on the colour, so he wired it in so I could change it dead easy, so it can even go back as it was at a later date if I wish.