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You can buy the seal kits from subaru, and do it yourself Fee its not that expensive, about £30 for the seals and the bits and bobs. Use compressed air to blow the pistons out and clamp the ones you want to stay in etc etc. The way the seals go in is pretty self explanatory. If the actual pistons are corroded once you blow them out you can polish them smooth again with autosol and a drill buffer etc,but dont go mad... Alternativley you could pay someone to do it for you.................. Callum W

Woops! Your quite right Russell thank you for pointing that out. Thats what andy recommends when you up the injector size as a "LIMP HERE AND ILL SORT IT OUT" pressure. the pressure you should set it to is about 46 psi Andy will adjust it accordingly. Had a senior moment, original post edited. Callum

1. PFR7Bs ,set the gap to .65 they will last you 10 000 miles at a time. 2. For fuelling issues peace of mind is a walbro 255 and a FPR either SX or Sard SJ. Set the pressure to 46psi until you get to Andy, if he maxes your injectors he can give himself a bit of headroom with the pressure on the FPR. 3. Keep your temp as low as you can. some say keep the standard intake and go panel filter upgrade, I say go CAI, the lower the better. Every degree of them you can lower potentally gives you 1 HP. 4. Leading off of that, an STI 8 or higher intercooler is a good buy, means Andys magic will be all the more effective, if funds allow. 5. Dont map with OB for your type of needs, keep it VMAX. 6. Put some decent oil in your gearbox and fill it just above the full mark so that second always has oil. Callum W

ooooh yes!!! [] Oi! Leave it alone. Its mine. []

Im glad its all worked out. Callum W

Craig, Keep your house locked and dont feed your dogs, otherwise you will have DCI Lee doing a Jim Rockford when your in your bed, desperate to get to the bottom of it all, lol.

Not sure, the densos I put in Peddles' car are indeed safe enough. Im quite sure they are similar but its worth pulling one just to check. Callum W

This is the turbo I have on my car. http://www.owendevelopments.co.uk/products....asp?prodId=617 Owens said I would make at least 450 bhp @ 1.6 bar and it did just that. It showed 424 at dastek but I monged the geometry set up and she was lifting a wheel on the rollers, Gerry said that she had at least another 20bhp to show as my runs were inconclusive. You can telephone him to confirm this as he will remember the car. I never mapped over 1.6 bar with andy as the coilpacks started letting me down and I needed to get new ones, having closed my plug gaps down I turned the boost up to ensure I hit target boost on the rollers and ended up running her at 1.8 bar. I imagine Andy anticipated me doing this and ensured a safe map at the top, not ideal but safe. Plenty fuel, easy on the ignition advance. I like this turbo as it has an internal wastegate and a subaru style flange on the hot side housing, I rotated it towards the inner wing but it will sit in the normal position no problem. Lateral performance do a similar spec turbo, I spoke to Mark at lateral and Lee at Owens at great length, they were both identical in thier advice and help which made the decision harder. I chose Owens simply because they were recommended to me by someone who has worked on Gp B rally cars and swears by them, and also they were recommended by Prodrive, both officially and unofficially and that swayed my decision. I telephoned Mark and thanked him anyway as he was one of the most helpful guys ive ever delt with. I see a bar of boost by 3800 and by 4000rpm its "hold onto your hat" time, its absolutley ferotious. This is good on a prodrive s2 gearbox on 4.4441 diffs as I never dip below 4000 rpm on gearchanges, but on a car who will, I would recommend the smaller exhaust housing turbo to ensure lower down spool up. My final word is this, any company that can make a garret hybrid turbo with its own exhaust housing castings to fit a subaru uppipe, and which with an internal wastegate that can deal with 2bar of boost without so much as a flutter, gets my vote anyday. Just look at the torque climb!! Sorry about the crap photo, this is the best of my inconclusive runs. Callum W

A friend has just informed me that a car running 10% methanol has just suffered from the corrosive effect of this now fairly popular additive. His car had the injectors that have the little plastic cap on the injector nozzle, phase one and phase two injectors have these OE if my memory serves me correctly. many aftermarket ones such as denso have metal ends and a different spray pattern, however I am talking about the ones with plastic covered spray nozzles. I am unsure about the more modern ones, im sure someone will post up. What happened is that over time the methanol has corroded the injector until the plastic end fell off. When the car was started fuel poured into the cylinder hydro locking it.(ie filling it with fuel) This can be disasterous as you can imagine. I saw a modded sti3 being towed to start it and it hydrolocked due to ill fitting injectors and it wasnt a pretty sight when the engine was opened up. There is a solution if your injectors are of the plastic type, Lateral Performance can convert them. I would not disregard this message, and as soon as the snow clears my venoms will be out and inspected. Fot those of you who dont "abla" injector types, if you look at a set of the phase one 380cc injectors, (grey tops) they have plastic ends. If you know if the later types are similar on the nozzles ie, Bugeye and newage then please post up. Callum W

Yup gotta go with the audi Quattro but my fav was the S2 specially prepared for Pikes Peak for uncle Volter in 1987. They were big, heavy had a 50/50 diff you had to LFB to unlock, and were only on top of Gp B because no one else was doing turbo 4wd when they came along in 1981. Walter stepped off the plane, jetlagged never having set foot on the route in his life before and took 2 min of the world record stating afterwards that he made too many mistakes and it was worth another 25 seconds to him. Pugeot studied his in car footage for a year and preped a Ti16 gp B quattro slayer for the 88 run. Ari Vatanen only managed to take a second off walters record despite his preperation. He refused the prize stating the Mountain belonged to Walter.

Anyway, watch this its much better. http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1...;q=ac+dc+videos

Stop being so fatuous Douglas.

Oh ffs leave it alone, there is better days around the corner according to the Hong Kong book of kung Fu. So sit back, shut up and wait until the boffins get it sorted. As the film says "Couldna agree on the colour of s h i t e etc etc"

Some people like to polish every crevas of thier car some polish thier exhaust. Horses for courses. The Impreza was designed and built with one thing in mind. Winning rallies. low centre of gravity. Very easy to work on (once you remove all the nonsense) Handling without electronic assistance. I like to think my car is fairly quick. Thats what I modded it for, there are much faster cars around but I stay with subaru because of the above. Look under my bonnet its not very clean. However its very well maintained and it goes like feck. The car always needs a polish and the stone chip freaks recoil in anguish at one look at my bonnet. But thats not why I love it. I drive it filthy and I still phone the squirrel every time and tell him how astonished I am it could be caked in muck and I still thinks its brilliant. I see people in dirty cars every day enjoying driving. It doent bother me one iota. Callum W

Cheers Gav.

I havent told her about my problem with high energy dance music yet. I suspect she would have exited stage left if I had tried that one, lol. However she does like Rhino Bucket, which is a bonus. Callum

This is an old problem, but its the first time Ive encountered it. Just a word of warning to those who dont know or who perhapes are ignorant. As some of you know The Leggy estate is experiencing an electrical drama so my friend Steve Whitson who is helping me with it kindly loaned me his P1 on a "If you like it Ill do you a deal we both dont understand" basis. Out in the car with my new found girlfriend we went Xmas shopping at McArthur Glen, and I parked in the carpark overlooked by the Police Station radio mast. Got out the car, alarm fails to function. "Thats odd!" I think and locks the car manually doing a very good impersonation of a man switching an alarm on as I walked away. Got back a couple of hours later and unlocked the car manually. Alarm wont work. Car imobilised. Its freezing cold and the Burd is feeling chilly. Windows steam up. The Wilky rage starts building inside me and Im ready to start acting like Dark Man.the voice in my head says "Your with the new Gilfriend Callum, play the whiteman" I we go back inside, grab a hot chocolate and I call Steve, he says its a common subaru alarm fault am I near a police station, fire station ambulance station or radio mast?" then I remeber all the posts on here and SN years ago. Called the RAC and the nice man towed me 200m down the road behind a building where the alarm was screened from the tower of Livingston police station and the car worked first go. Cheers RAC man!!!! So if you have one of these year cars with an alarm, just watch where you park, lol. Callum W

Is it an auto box and are you trying to put the engine back in with the torque converter bolted on?

Im happy with my little lot, im happy with my little lot, im happy with my little lot..................................(Repeat after every kneejerk reaction) [] Good luck Colin. Callum

Without actually hearing the noise and where it originates from its hard to tell. Does it come from the drivers side? I imagine it does. Under partial throttle where your only sitting at say 0.4 or 0.6 bar the screaming is more than likely your boost solinoid. I experienced this, the solinoid was gunked up a bit by an oil overfill and oil being blown around the pipework. This is sorted by finding the boost solinoid which is on your drivers side strut tower, taking all the pipes off (labelling them so you know where they all go back to) and scooshing brake cleaners through the solinoid to clean it then the pipes, bearing in mind both ends of the pipes will need taken off to ensure a clean run through. If its more or a mooing noise and I mean that, the sound of a feckin cow mooing, then its a buggered standard dump valve. I think I have a buck shee one sitting about here somewhere if its thats. The chirping is more of a need to hear one but I suspect its your waste gate having the big metal plate removed and a pipe there now its a noise you have never heard but one which shouldnt alarm you. Maybe your arm from the actuator is a bit slack? The actuator is the thing on the turbo that is a cylinder with an arm coming off the back and goes to a wee lever, this is the thing that is pressure controlled and when you get the desired boost pressure, opens the wastegate to ensure the pressure is not exceeded. Give it a wiggle and see. Mind you you would be losing boost but its worth a look anyway. If you are near stirling PM me and you can come over, but shout at me when Im under your bonnet as Im likely to forget what year your car is, have a senior moment and pull the wrong hose off scalding us both whith coolant as happened once before, lol[] Callum W

Sounds great brother!!!

in that case my portly friend your house is not going to be as safe as a house! Lube it and ram it!! [] You will find it difficult doing M of E with broken legs you hippy throw back. Ease it right through there!!! []

Adrew, yer burbun us safe as houses. In ma belly, lol. Work it right in there. burp, hic.[]

Lost count of the amount of times Ive been sent wrong stuff. It doesnt bother me now, its almost like its part of the routine. 1. Order stuff 2. Always a supply drama 3.Arrives a week after promised 4. Wrong stuff 5. Phonecalls 6.Send it back 7. Another drama 8. Right bit arrives, wrong colour 9. You discover your mate had a spare one all along.

Very sad. Wont be forgotten. Callum W