What have you done to your car today?

[Guitar_Guy]

 Rosssub said:

Have you got a spare machined flywheel ready to go?

Yep, well hopefully. Buying Clint's kit from him and aiming to have it machined this week. If not will be doing it all another weekend.

[loner]

 Munkvy said:

On the plus side, your car sure isn't slow:

Looked like a handful to keep in a straight line!

It's not slow, just a smokey POS. STM assured me it's not rich and have shown me the AFR graphs which show it runs at 0.78 to .80 lamba.

So not really sure what's going on but have decided to pull the motor this weekend and rebuild the short block this time.

[Guest]

Put a tow bar on the forester. By all accounts in the uk they are rated to 1800kg towing and a lot of guys tow race cars with them.

[Percy]

 ballsrburning said:

Put a tow bar on the forester. By all accounts in the uk they are rated to 1800kg towing and a lot of guys tow race cars with them.

1800kg is a lot!

I'd check here clicky clicky see if those dudes agree.

[Guest]

I know over here it's only rated to 1400 kg, but after using a terrano rated to a lot more and it being a bloody terrible tow vehicle, I tried the forester and it's just way better.

http://www.parkers.co.uk/cars/reviews/facts-and-figures/subaru/forester/estate-1997/15724/

The legacy we used to take the car to Mansfield was way better too.

[Percy]

 ballsrburning said:

I know over here it's only rated to 1400 kg, but after using a terrano rated to a lot more and it being a bloody terrible tow vehicle, I tried the forester and it's just way better.

http://www.parkers.co.uk/cars/reviews/facts-and-figures/subaru/forester/estate-1997/15724/

The legacy we used to take the car to Mansfield was way better too.

Hmmm, Im not sure I'd want to tow 1800kg with a 1450kg vehicle, also it may be illegal here, which would void any insurance etc if anything happens.

[Jono24]

Manufacturer tow ratings aren't enforceable:

https://www.nzta.govt.nz/resources/glovebox-guide-safe-loading-towing/guide-safe-loading-towing.html#howmuch

"Most vehicles have tow ratings given to them by the manufacturer specifying the gross trailer weight braked, unbraked, or both, that the vehicle can safely tow. Although the law does not require these tow ratings to be followed, the NZ Transport Agency recommends that they be taken into account."

The only enforceable law for lightweight towing vehicle I know of is this:

"the law requires that every light vehicle and trailer combination must be capable of stopping within a distance of seven metres from a speed of 30km/h."

Further reading:

https://www.nzta.govt.nz/resources/roadcode/about-your-vehicle/light-trailer-requirements/

Edit: Insurance may open a different can or worms

[Percy]

 Jono24 said:

Manufacturer tow ratings aren't enforceable:

https://www.nzta.govt.nz/resources/glovebox-guide-safe-loading-towing/guide-safe-loading-towing.html#howmuch

"Most vehicles have tow ratings given to them by the manufacturer specifying the gross trailer weight braked, unbraked, or both, that the vehicle can safely tow. Although the law does not require these tow ratings to be followed, the NZ Transport Agency recommends that they be taken into account."

The only enforceable law for lightweight towing vehicle I know of is this:

"the law requires that every light vehicle and trailer combination must be capable of stopping within a distance of seven metres from a speed of 30km/h."

Further reading:

https://www.nzta.govt.nz/resources/roadcode/about-your-vehicle/light-trailer-requirements/

Edit: Insurance may open a different can or worms

Interesting...

7m is a long way at 30kph.

[Zenki]

What Jono24 said.

As long as:

- the combination of tow vehicle + trailer + load doesn't weigh enough to require anything beyond a Class 1 license;

- you don't exceed structural limitations of the tow vehicle or towbar (usually max tongue weight);

- the combination can stop within 7m at 30kph;

...you can go nuts.

[SpeedySub]

Managed to get 9.8l/100kms from a normal weeks driving (well not quite normal did over 400kms this week, usually just over 250). fuel usage usually in the high 10's low 11's.

[Technikhaus]

Fuel pump for the RA arrived yesterday, hopefully throw it in this weekend sometime and see if it fixes any issues.

Still need to sort the grounds for the ECU too....

[les666]

Gave the rev D a clean and installed a genome strut brace up front and a zerosports one in the rear.

[B4 I was 250T]

Spark plugs changed out along with weight reduction (read scraped a whole lot of crap off top of coil pack and removed some useless broken clips) with Percy. Thanks James, you the man! First step in hard start diagnosis. Problems tomorrow will mean step 2

[Technikhaus]

The RA's turbine wheel decided that it no longer wanted to have a long distance relationship with the housing, and decided on cold start this afternoon to finally give the housing the kiss it's been dreaming of.

Now to find a replacement turbo, or get this one rebuilt...

[jsan083]

Changed headlights to crystal ones and orange ambers

[GC8E2DD]

Time for a new bonnet and grille?

[loner]

pulled the motor in order to fix the clutch and high oil usage. The ring that holds the release bearing has come off and is floating around between the pressure plate and clutch disk. I will take to Rick to figure out why it failed. I hope it wasn't that I adjusted the clutch

pedal incorrectly when trying to fix the bad slave cylinder... allowing the fork to be pushed in too far :0

[Guitar_Guy]

Installed a new clutch, flywheel etc over the last couple of days. Also replaced the rear main seal and oil separator plate while the box was off.

Was pretty filthy inside so suspecting it was the factory clutch still after 212xxxkms. Safe to say it was pretty rooted and the replacement is so much nicer!

Also no more rattling release bearing which has made the car so much more enjoyable to drive.

[boon]

Legacy got a new left rear hub, replacement ABS pump/computer, all new brake pads, brake fluid flush and bleed.

Impreza is about to get a new AC belt idler after the bearing on it collapsed and made me **** my pants thinking the turbo had died.

[Andy_Mac]

You know if its finally solved the ABS issue yet?

[El_Chado]

Upgraded factory 12mm sway bar to an STI 19mm sway bar, Cheers to Scoobydoo.

[Nachoooo]

 Andy_Mac said:

You know if its finally solved the ABS issue yet?

+1 Haha. Interested to see the outcome too. I've seen another case where simply replacing the sensors was unsuccessful, 2005 3.0 outback, auto. Have you replaced the brake pedal switch yet?

[Kiwi_Fozze]

listed it on tardme

http://www.trademe.co.nz/Browse/Listing.aspx?id=1100305299&ed=true

[Guest]

Pulled the engine one last time...

[loner]

Retiring from having a fast car?