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Hmm ok was gonna say Pioneer headunit but I see you're using the high level inputs...
Probably speaker wire grounding out somewhere, as mentioned above. Check the speaker terminals aren't touching the door metal.
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Rego plate still would be really good.
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Did you run some Subaru Upper Engine Cleaner through it yet?
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Nobody wants to spend the money for NOS + C16 + the ECU and tune to run it... considering they are all useless for the street.
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I looked into doing this.
Conclusions I reached...
-Don't get a used motor, you have little to no idea of the history
-Building a motor is rudely expensive, generally speaking
-Buy a closed deck block and build it on the side, that way you can do it bit by bit because you haven't killed your car... yet
Although the final conclusion was that after all that, I still would have to do a hell of a lot more conversions and when all was said and done all I would have is basically an STi that isn't worth as much as an STi because it technically isn't one, with a built motor.
So instead I sold the car and bought a V7 STi. So much stuff already done from the factory - forged bottom end, HUGE brakes, blah blah blah. Plus you get goodies like VVT. And realistically, for less money than I would have spent converting my V3 WRX.
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He means a man's GPS, not a woman's supermarket finder ;D
Most decent GPS' will show you your velocity, although it depends on the road being very flat since even a slight incline will mean your road speed vs your positional velocity will be different...
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I opened up the box in my V7 (I believe it's the BCM?) and de-soldered the little speaker that does the various chimes. So no more ding ding if I have the door open or when I'm in reverse.
I HATE little beeping sounds. My family's old Corona used to go DING DING DING at over 104kmh, hammer quickly fixed that.
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What's the speed cut based on? My V7 definitely has the '180kmh' speed cut but the needle goes well off the end before it does. So I wonder there's a second, accurate 'speedo' that the car uses internally, while reading ~10% or whatever over on the dash?
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Damn, so I'm meant to check these every service? What a pain in the ass ;/
EDIT: Hold on, so I can just pull them out and not replace them because the oil filter is doing the same job anyway?
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Ok, this one may seem a bit random...
I have a V7 sedan. I never, ever, ever use the center seat in the back.
How hard/possible would it be to install a pair of V7 bucket seats in the back? I assume it would require a cert but I'm getting one fairly soon anyway for some other modifications.
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Sorted, thanks very much everyone involved
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bring back capital punishment. Car thieves you take a hand.
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word.
anyone ever watch that target show where they had the jazzed up civic type r left in dodgy locales in Akl?
They video camera'd them trying to break in.
IMO it would have made better tv if there were 3 guys with baseball bats waiting to pwn the thieves and THEN RECORD THAT!!
I have always thought it would be an idea to leave a car parked up somewhere dodgy, leave an empty laptop bag on the back seat and have the car fitted with a high end paging alarm with the siren disconnected. Go hang out around the corner with a few mates and a few bats, wait for the pager to start bleeping, then use 'reasonable force' to 'affect a citizens arrest'....
EDIT: As for steering wheel locks... there's a bit of a saying in car security... it takes 5 minutes to saw through a Club lock, or 30 seconds to saw through a steering wheel. Although as you say, it does stop the useless ones. What was your alarm doing the whole time?
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The last jump was what, 9c a litre for 98 octane at BP?
I haven't heard a damn thing that would justify a leap like that. I know currency fluctuations take a little while to get through to the consumer but didn't we just have a record HIGH against the greenback? When is that going to work its way through?
I mean yeah, I know you have to pay to play but where did that leap come from?
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Hurry up and put a new tag up you dick ;D
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[quote name='QRAF said:
my subaru valve caps arrived and are on they look the part
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Nooo! Why did you do it!
Thats what I was thinking!!!
Filled up car today for first time ever, although stopped at 49L for some reason seeing I thought it was a 60L tank but meh.
$1.99.99 a Litre for 95
My subey also takes ~50L to 'fill' but I suspect you get quite a bit of mileage on the big E. Something about ej20t's getting severely raped if you ever run them dry.
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Yeah my km's go backwards at some point cos the guy entered 2 numbers the wrong way around ;/ Not sure what I can do about it since it was a couple of years ago now and I have no idea which garage.
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As above, no installer will put one in a manual. And I don't entirely recommend you try to, either.
If you really really want it, get an alarm that has it built in and for the love of god, put a neutral + park brake kill on it.
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A 4wd truck is no fun on the 3 hour drive there and back though
Oh, and I've also put a Cusco brake cylinder stopper on it already, excellent investment, firmed up the pedal no end.
Ok, so on the shopping list:
Walbro fuel pump
Reflash
Rear swaybar - 22mm?
Anti-lift kit
Roll center adjuster (err, what is this?)
K braces
Braided brake lines
EBC?
How many of these require a wheel alignment? I haven't put my coilovers on yet (haven't actually taken delivery quite yet!) and since they'll require an alignment (and cert, sigh) I want to get as many things done that will change the geometry as possible so I can kill all the birds with one stone, proverbially speaking.
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Ok so I'm heading down that terrible path of modifying what is already a pretty nice car.
I've done a bunch of mods and I'm not exactly sure what to do next.
Car: 2001 GDB STi Sedan
Mods so far:
3" Rage Siamese downpipe, heatwrapped
2.5" Zerosports "Cat back" exhaust
VF34 Turbo
Apexi Panel filter
Zerosports Winning S Adjustable suspension
Version 10 Spec C back seat (for the ski hole) - lightweight fabric, yo.
On the to-do list:
Larger in-tank fuel pump
ECU reflash
The car is my 'daily driver' - that said, I drive maybe a couple of times a week. It's more of a weekend cruiser.
In the winter it goes Welly -> Ruapehu nearly every weekend so good highway performance is important, but really I just want to make it more fun to drive. It might get to see a track once a year.
Suggestions on what to do next? Paramount importance is reliability and excellent drivability.
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we can do it next week.
will be there on monday - heading back to aucks on wedz, so if anyone needs anything taken the other way feel free.
can you PM me the details for pickup of coilovers etc...
anyone else need anything bought down?
Sweet - to simplify things, do you want to just PM Simon C and sort out pickup with him?
Cheers.
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Bumping it up... anyone got any firm plans yet? Cheers.
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Cmon you facker. I took both of mine on the same drive!
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Could also be the mobs towtruck... just throwing that out there.
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Subaru has published Service Bulletin # 02-103-07
in Impreza, Crosstrek and XV
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Presumably, if it's AVCS it'll have these in the banjo fittings.