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    What have you done to your car today?

    in General Vehicle Discussion

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    On 14/09/2021 at 6:45 PM, EJGOD said:

    Done my first wheel bearing/hub today. Rear passenger side wheel bearing on my 2016 STi gave up at 98,000km.

    Must have worn out prematurely from all the AWD burnouts on the Taupo skidpad!

    Sorry for the poor quality pictures, they were taken on Snapchat and then saved…


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    Well technically speaking you didn't change the bearing... you just swapped out the whole hub :)

     

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    What have you done to your car today?

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    16 minutes ago, ADIKT said:

    Installed a bunch of bushes and started putting s*** back on the car 

     

    The car now has three wheels on it! The fourth hub will be put on tomorrow afternoon in anticipation for its move to a new home (pictured below) 

     

    Also ordered a bunch of random s*** to help things along 

     

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    STi or painted pink?

     

    What have you done to your car today?

    in General Vehicle Discussion

    Posted · Edited by Loren

    19 minutes ago, Andy_Mac said:

     

    How much smaller than the old ones?

     

    That is a good question. I don't know what spec the current cams are. They came in the car... no markings and are a bit on the weird side. Without dialling them in they caused #2/#4 to run very lean,

    and #1/#3 to run very rich. It lead to a great deal of head scratching to figure it out before I had adjustable cam gears. Once dialled in, that problem was solved to a degree, but they are still just bad.

    Good power once spooled (at 5k rpm)... but s*** everywhere else. Very sluggish to get off idle... chronic fuel smell at idle... chronic fuel consumption all round. They are not high lift because the

    heads haven't been modified to fit them and there is plenty of clearance... but I think they have a moderately large duration and a s*** load of overlap.

     

    New cams are Kelford 199-j... short duration, high lift and almost no overlap. Should be night and day. 

     

     

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    What have people done with blown engines?

    in General Vehicle Discussion

    Posted · Edited by Loren

    Or you could buy a running wrecker motor and pull it apart and refresh at your leisure... and then hopefully by the time your motor goes... you have a drop in replacement.

    If your motor does not blow... you have a motor up your sleeve to sell if you decide to sell the car. 

     

    That's potentially a lot of money sitting around in your garage doing nothing though... might be better in an investment fund.

    What have people done with blown engines?

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    I have used a new sti short block in the past.

     

    Also rebuilt once and in the process of doing that again.

     

    The first motor I blew was a stock standard v5 sti motor... so the replacement sti short block was a no brainer for me.

     

    The second motor had forged internals... so rebuilding is the only option really. Forged crate motors are way way too expensive.

     

    5k is not realistic for either of theses options. If you are doing everything properly and using a mechanic... up to 10k is more realistic.

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    Subaru SSM

    in Impreza, Crosstrek and XV

    Posted · Edited by Loren

    It will probably come right back on... you hadn't actually said what problems you had previously though.

     

    A small work around might be to adjust the throttle so that it's open very slightly... there's a small adjustment screw just under where the throttle cable attaches.

    It might mean the ICV has a bit less work to do and might improve things a bit.

    Subaru SSM

    in Impreza, Crosstrek and XV

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    1 hour ago, nzlowie said:

     

    My questions are:

    Do I need to connect the 2 green plugs under the dash before trying to connect the scanner?

     

     

    Have you tried it? 

     

    You can always just read the codes from the dash... rather than try and connect a device.

    3 inch vs 2.5inch exhaust system

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    Posted · Edited by Loren

    1 hour ago, Dairusire said:

    I dunno. If I were in your shoes, unless its hitting the ground or sounds bad etc I probably wouldn't change? 

    I do not rate the rage exhaust systems tbh. For what you pay and what you get and need to do it's a bit 'meh'. 

    At this point it's a case of 'Do as you want' but there very likely will be some power loss. 

     

    What don't you like about them? 

     

    I had one of their 3 inch downpipes once... what annoyed the hell out of me was that it wasn't designed to fit with the existing oem mid pipe... they made it about an inch too short and put the flange on a different angle.

    Infuriating.

     

    It was also was made from mild steel which was covered in surface rust in a short period of time.

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