What have you done to your car today?

[Marky]

So confused, why do I have an intake leak

Oh wait

Fixed that problem by installing a new gasket, or so I thought

That then continued to leak, reason for that it turns out was one of the bolts I used (the one in the most bastard location at the back) was the wrong one and had grabbed maybe a single turn of thread.... Before stripping the thread in the block. Unbeknownst to me.

Longer bolt found, problem solved, inlet manifold clamped down evenly, no more pheeeeeEEEEEEEEEEEp noise on boost, yuss

Also made a proper pipe for air filter (replacing skody corrugated one)

Edited October 21, 2015 by Marky

[Jono24]

 evowrx said:

Good result and bet its safe as a church.

You seen the Chch Cathedral lately?

Edited October 21, 2015 by Jono24

[AdamOst]

Loaded it up with all the wheels and tools for mx5. Off to taupo tomorrow for trackday on friday. Hopefully I can sneak in a session in the legacy at the end of the day.

[hijacka]

 94 Leone said:

did my last service on the wrx before the cambelt change, also only 800 of the loan to go now. checked the cv's as to my knocking noise: no play of cv's, pretty sure it might be poked struts. or on their way.

now: do I go coilovers and cert... or new struts, dont really wanna get coilovers before ive got the 17x8's I want though, as im not overly keen on the re-cert cost lol

I have a set of struts they look to be good condition red ones in the front and standard black in the rear i won't be using seeing i have bc's going in the Wagon pm me if you get stuck!

Painted the roof vent

[Guest]

 Jono24 said:

You seen the Chch Cathedral lately?

Ok maybe not that puppy.

[pedro]

Replaced smokey vf23 with vf22 that Johnnynz kindly picked up for me from auckland..

Took it for a 100 k drive around the pohangina valley..

Laid down a solid smoke screen for first 50 k as the exhaust burnt out the oil and crap..

Came clean and is running well and boosting fine..

Nice to have it back on the road again..

[McDoof]

Changed the oil and filter. Installed fumoto oil drain plug to make these things easier in the future

[Andy_Mac]

 McDoof said:

Changed the oil and filter. Oil fumoto oil drain plug to make these things easier in the future

Didn't Matt mention a while back he prefers to tune for oil thats had a bit of use so the tune isn't done for a car with perfect condition oil which it'll hardly ever be in?

[Guest]

 Andy_Mac said:

Didn't Matt mention a while back he prefers to tune for oil thats had a bit of use so the tune isn't done for a car with perfect condition oil which it'll hardly ever be in?

Lol because oil goes from good to bad in the 10000km between changes. Sounds like john deere oh any competitors oil only meets spec for a week use ours. Yea because thats how oil specs are measured on a 7 day interval...

[Andy_Mac]

Highly doubt it but only repeating what the tuner said elsewhere

[Guest]

Wasnt aimed at you more wtf. People dont understand engine oil.

[McDoof]

It needed a change.

So I changed it. I'm sure it will be fine

[Marky]

WHAT IF YOU CHANGED IT EARLY

[Guest]

 Marky said:

WHAT IF YOU CHANGED IT EARLY

Thats me change it with each engine...hopefully put an end to that now. Unless i put in the forgies then ill be ripping myself off again. Am i a hypocrite?

[McDoof]

[Guest]

Fitted new gaskets to header and collector. Bloody collector ones leaking like a sieve shouldve stuck with the horrible custom one i cut out with a screwdriver..

[GC8E2DD]

 McDoof said:

Installed fumoto oil drain plug to make these things easier in the future

F105? F105N/S? Was thinking of getting an S for the Impreza. Did you get it from Manon or overseas?

[McDoof]

 GC8E2DD said:

F105? F105N/S? Was thinking of getting an S for the Impreza. Did you get it from Manon or overseas?

Got the 105N off Amazon. Didn't know anyone did them locally

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003VCEV0Y

[GC8E2DD]

Are you worried about it catching on anything?

[McDoof]

The oil drain on the 3.0R is at an angle so it doesn't really stick out that far. Plus once the plastic covers are back on the bottom it's pretty well out of the way. I'd have to be pretty unlucky to catch it.

[DRFVDR]

Removed the fuel tank from the RX, will give it a good clean out today, trying to fix a fueling issue, new pump and relay and still same issue, there was some crap in the tank so i am hoping that it was blocking the pickup

[DacerX]

 DRFVDR said:

Removed the fuel tank from the RX, will give it a good clean out today, trying to fix a fueling issue, new pump and relay and still same issue, there was some crap in the tank so i am hoping that it was blocking the pickup

Ya rx lives again!

[lachlan]

New boost gauge

Edited October 22, 2015 by lachlan

[McDoof]

Airbox resonator deleted and a final fine tune on the dyno. Not bad for a NA car. 163 atw

Not much difference in peak power from stock tune but a very different curve

Edited October 22, 2015 by McDoof

[Guest]

 McDoof said:

Airbox resonator deleted and a final fine tune on the dyno. Not bad for a NA car. 163 atw

Looks laggy