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Meh i have my dream
1989 Brumby, stock standard, fun to drive only owes me $1000 so I guess it all depends on what is your dream car -
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Holy Crap, the lux is $183,brumby $ 148
Interesting the brumby is 5 seats SUBARU MPV 1.8 4WD
5 SEATER 1800cc PETROL (1989)
$98 for the Missus' Estima,
To be honest the information is pretty sketchy at best
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Coolant is necessary, it has a life span, usually about 5 years and do we know when it was last changed ?
Once again a few dollars to change the brake fluid ( also has a life span and is anhydrous so sucks water out of the air) is cheaper than caliper rebuilds
Just now, willisnz said:I guess you just need to work out what you can do yourself and what it is worth paying someone else to do. I try and distinguish being "paying for expertise" and "paying for time". I've made a point of learning to do oil changes myself as that is just time. I personally don't feel comfortable touching the trans at the moment, as too much/too little oil can do funny things in auto.
Personally I would do oil + upper engine + cabin filter myself. If you do coolant yourself, it's a bitch to dispose of legally from memory (there is another thread on here about that). Brakes/coolant/trans are out of my current comfort zone but at the very least brakes and diff are things I plan on learning to do eventually.
And RE cabin filters, it also depends on whether it is an activated carbon one or not. If it is, they are expensive, if it isn't, $70 is way to much.
Going on that getting rid of your waste engine oil is getting harder as well ( I will take as much as I can get as I heat my house with it )
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The quoted price seems reasonable, oil quality is the big thing, if you cheap out on the quality of oil why even change it.
$95 an hour for a car tech is pretty much the going rate,You want to get big bills try heavy diesel tech
( I am one )
servicing takes time to do right, and you want it done right, which of course brings up another reason to get a dealer to do it WARRANTY, the work will come with a warranty.
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I have a complete BC/BF water to air setup spare if thats what you are going to intercool it with
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or a trick the old school guys do
double up the sway bars
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Your insurance should pay for it
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other than fitting spring from a different subaru you will be buggered, ( you think suspension mods on an SVX are difficult you should try Brumby/Leone)
The only downside to using springs from a legacy/impreza are these cars are no where near as heavy especially on the front end so the springs could easily end up having the wrong spring rate for the SVX and ruin its ride/handling, it may take a bit of investigation and trial and error.
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10 hours ago, FlyinAWD said:
Does anyone know someone with an old vortex they could potentially part with?
I have parts
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I got BNT to special order in a set of front rotors for the brumby, DBA had them listed so I said thats what I want, took awhile but i got them
does help that I spend a few grand a month with them
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I wonder how the Fark i first found that
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not sure what plans are for weekend yet ( most likely working) BUT if I am not needed may turn up on Saturday, can we pay on day and as i will be alone do i need a co driver ? will be in brumbeast if I do come ( and no I dont think brumbeast will be any good on the track only maybe as mobile chicane
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Anything happening next week ? will be in the area !
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Checked by parts haul, could only find my rear crossmember dont even know where the front one is, so no front rotors sorry, if I find it I will let you know
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What could work is finding out which brand of phone is better in marginal areas, some have better aerial setups than others ( I know sony does)
if you get that aerial setup, try and find a phone that has an external aerial jack ( The Spark ruggedised one use to not sure if it still does, the CAT phones do as well)
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I will give you 3 guesses as to mine ( I dont think I have actually posted a photo
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I do not think that the ECU in the SVX is tuneable.
Any sort of tuning will help regardless of the induction. the gains may not be noticeble in a NA is all, but they will be there
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Yeah same as mine, NZ new
The EJ repower although sounding good would cut the resell to almost nothing
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I have nothing suitable, and i am in the NI,
Only engine I have that I would be willing to part with has been sitting outside under a cover for 5 years so dont know how good it is.
5-6k seems high,could be a burnt valve causing low compression I would be investigating further
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Hahaha I cheated
I brought my partner a V6 Estima when we had our first baby ( I already have 2 older kids so we already out grew anything "normal") which is lucky as we now have 2 and a 1/2 so that brings kids upto 5
this leaves me with my hilux, my RX11 coupe and the Brumby with no carseats Ya me
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The Brumbeast got some loving
New front rotors, and Pads and calipers cleaned and painted,
New LHF outer CV, new LHF inner CV boot and a clean and repack ( also flipped the inner ball holder thing to give the balls a new surface as I found that inner CV's for these are very hard to find)
New Spark Plugs,Rotor and dizzy cap ( one of the 2 new ones I have in stock)
Reset the tappets to try and quiet them down
and lastly fix a couple if exhaust leaks
RHF front rotor, this is what happens when some one previous puts the carrier bolts back in without the spring washers and the end of the bolt is ground away by the rotor
MMMM new shiney rotors
All fitted back up, painted the backing plates and hubs as well
MMmm yellow, the overspray was from a wee touch up they had 2 coats done on them
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could well be the case
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I have the VIRM for light and heavy and PSV on Tabs
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1989 Brumby, stock standard, fun to drive 
Interesting the brumby is 5 seats -
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