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Seems the rack seals are pretty poorly made and they start to fail after about 7 years. Rebuild cost here is around $700 after you send them the rack. Someone else may want to save themselves some $$$ The rack is a pain to reconnect apparently with the hydraulic lines and there is a few braces to remove (more if you have the cusco H braces or lower arm supports) Someone could get creative and almost do this on the car. top and bottom seals only USD$16 34191AG050 (old) 34191VA000 (new) Full seal kits - even new clamps for the rack boots USD $33 34190AG000 (likely the old original crap) 34190AG001(newer current kit)

Genuine timing kits and engine seals are usually only marginally more expensive than aftermarket. I'd recommend pricing up both. There's a TradeMe user called ejparts that has sourced me genuine parts for less than the dealer prices.

What dyno was that on? Some read considerably higher than others. Mine made 225wkw/506nm but that was on the DTech dyno which reads considerably lower than the PBMS rolling road one. Mods are essentially just a decatted downpipe and an intake, everything else was done for future proofing and not to make more power now. The aggressive torque drop off is pretty standard for these as they can't hold the 20+psi peak boost for long so it's a quick rise and fall. A stock location 3071 is a decent choice depending on end goal. You’ll make somewhere around 250+wkw depending on accompanying mods.

Have a DMH-Z5350BT in my car, couple with a CPLAY2air adapter. Super expensive compared to what the US get, and have to add the adapter as we don't get wireless carplay headunits. The screen is capacitive which is great, the buttons are a bit meh though... prefer them being on the bottom. It's also a pain if you don't have steering wheel controls for changing songs/volume.

I have a feeling the newer ones have thinner head gaskets? Not 100% certain on that though.

Yeah by still same bore and EJ engine. likely just a few more holes for oils and avcs etc in the newer ones. won’t be direct parts match unless you had MLS originally. nz gaskets likely has the outlines of you want to look them up. also go with the cast impeller water pump. i got the cast one for mine. Most aftermarket were pressed steel and they don’t pump as well.

No but I have been seriously tossing up getting the Sony AX8000, dig the big screen but can't help thinking it looks kinda out of place hanging in front of the dash. The W650E is kinda cool too but think those buttons might not be as user friendly as proper separate physical one's like the AX5500 or AX7000 that I'm more inclined to get.