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Hey, all right! You finally got the garage you deserve. I'm guessing the forklift didn't get to come, though.
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Sep 26, 2008 07:28
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Sounds pretty good, honestly. I'm constantly impressed by this little 323. I've caught myself noticing them on the road now, even the weird lumpy "shelf" ones.
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Nov 8, 2008 21:06
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I kinda like the bumper you've already got more than the three-hole one, but it is your car after all. Maybe it will look better after the paintjob. Nice spoilers, though. I can't wait to see it turbocharged.
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Feb 10, 2009 22:56
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Sockington posted:
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Mar 6, 2009 03:40
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Good choice, and a nice example. You should keep the silver/red hackjob style and build a rat-rod MR2 like the Bucket Golf. Get some plastic zip ties...
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Mar 10, 2009 22:58
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drat, that thing looks great with a new bumper slotted into place. What colour are you going to paint the whole deal once it's done?
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Mar 15, 2009 04:41
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I didn't realize the MR2 tranny was so small. Are you going to resurface the flywheel yourself or just send it out?
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Apr 5, 2009 21:09
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I see that the nice new weather has resulted in a productivity increase, as it does in all Canadians. I've been in and out of the garage for the last two weekends working on fixing my cracked windshield washer reservoir (which GM moulded and friction-fitted into the intake tube and bolted into the intake condensation tank with a melted rubber o-ring  ) and Canuckistani Tire and the local pick & pull were just packed today with guys looking for parts.That mitre saw looks great. My dad always swears at his old 1970s mitre box so maybe it's an idea for a fathers' day present. What model is it?
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Apr 18, 2009 23:36
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My buddy in high school got a pristine silver Delta 88 from his grandmother. I have many fond memories of tooling around in the back of that gigantic land yacht. From the way you were stacking stuff on it I figured it was beat to poo poo, but I guess the tarp is pretty thick or the paint is tough as hell. 
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Apr 25, 2009 20:27
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Sock is a busy guy. That GTX is going to be a monster when it's done. I like how they had to label the engine overheating icon with "HEAT." It's almost so simple, people will misinterpret it as part of the climate control system.CharlesM posted:I forgot, how'd you end up with a U.S. gauge cluster? Also, that replacement only goes up to 180! My Cavalier's speedo goes up to 220 kph but it's electronically limited to 108mph/173kph along with a lot of GMs of the time (their OEM tires aren't rated for more, and apparently consumers should not be trusted to change out their stock tires for V-rated ones before trying to do a buck eighty in a four-banger econobox).
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May 7, 2009 14:56
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Looking good; the first image made me depressed since I just had a really tiny snowstorm blow through. It's gonna be fun getting home from work with every Range Rover for miles trying to lock up its brakes while pulling a 180. It's supposed to get up to 18'C tomorrow, though, so  Nice Grassroots Motorsports sticker - the next issue will have an article about fiberglass bodies! No longer will you have to put up with rust but instead an itchy feeling that won't go away.
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May 20, 2009 22:38
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We have the same little spiders in Alberta, but I don't know what kind they are. Once a rather large brown one ran back and forth on my desk waving its mandibles at me, which resulted in a vicious squishing.8ender posted:I hate winter mess. My shop has poo poo everywhere from doing the "work until my balls freeze and then drop everything and run inside" bit all winter. I ended up cleaning up a bunch of junk today in the garage and I might go buy one of those tire stands from Canadian Tire that are on sale this week to try and take care of my wheel clutter.
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May 24, 2009 07:56
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Sockington posted:Those $75 things? Jesus, $30 in 2x4s would have one kickass tire stand versus that piece of poo poo that only holds like four tires (TYRES, pie). I was at the pick-and-pull today and saw an 86 MR2 that was pretty picked clean but had a very nice exterior. There were two guys who stood over its corpse and argued in the hot sun about frunk rust for the entire four hours I was there. I thought of this thread immediately.
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May 25, 2009 03:16
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leica posted:I remember my dad making me park his spanking new IROC in the shade as far back as possible about a half mile from the mall entrance. I imagined you doing it with your 323 and it made me giggle. I grew up with my parents always parking as far away from both other cars and the actual objective as possible. I figured it was natural until I got called on it a few times driving friends around.
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Jul 28, 2009 13:58
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leica posted:So I'm assuming it costs some big bucks to build a 4AGE for boost then.......It's just funny how anemic the Z is without boost, I would have never guessed it. edit: yep, lower compression - the 4AGZE seems to have an 8.0:1 compression ratio, and the (super hot) 4AGE 20v has 10.5:1. edit edit: I should really read the links I post; later 4AGZEs went up to 8.9:1 (although that was in AE91s, not AW11s) Seat Safety Switch fucked around with this message at 00:22 on Mar 24, 2010 |
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Mar 24, 2010 00:18
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Poor little Subaru. At least it's in good hands; I'm looking forward to Sock working his magic on an EJ25. I'm glad that your business is going well, at least. Hopefully when it's calmed down a bit you can get another Subie, or even get this one back when Sockington discovers there aren't enough problems with it to keep him occupied and kicks it outside in a rage before taking an angle grinder to a passing Camry.
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Apr 12, 2010 07:31
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Man, after driving my lowered WRX with 17" wheels, that seems like a boatload of wheel gap. Still a sexy colour though.
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Apr 14, 2010 17:00
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MonkeyNutZ posted:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_XUZH2pk3dQ Is piston slap really "okay?" I've seen a late-90s OBS that had to have part of the bottom end replaced for it after repeated dealership/SoC denials.
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Apr 18, 2010 18:57
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leica posted:You guys actually use a/c up there? I'm shocked.
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May 22, 2010 16:26
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If you're already screwing around with the control arms, you might as well add an anti-lift kit to move the lower mounting points for better cornering. WRX control arms should be compatible - 06 WRX control arms are aluminum, but they went back to steel in 07.
Seat Safety Switch fucked around with this message at 00:39 on May 24, 2010 |
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May 24, 2010 00:37
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IsaacNewton posted:Harbor Freight need to open a few places in Canada, damnit. Looks awesome. Seat Safety Switch fucked around with this message at 18:06 on Jun 2, 2010 |
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Jun 2, 2010 18:03
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Man, this thread makes me all kinds of worried about what the inside of my turbo bullshit station wagon has from the previous owners.  At least my oil is pretty clean.
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Jun 17, 2010 20:13
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Oh holy hell. That poor motor. This thread is making me check my oil and coolant every fillup.
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Jun 25, 2010 18:18
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H110Hawk posted:I have a strange desire to have this done to my previous vehicle. Sockington, want to buy a Jetta4 2.0l? You have to promise to show all of its terrible secrets. Maybe he could set up a pre-purchase inspection business.
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Jun 26, 2010 18:01
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How many owners has this car had before 8ender? I'm kind of surprised this EJ sludged so badly especially considering what he says about the previous oil changes. Could it have sprung an internal coolant leak from the head gasket problems early on in its life and just wasn't obvious about it for 200k km? How did it get transported from 8ender to you? It's like an engine postmortem. What stories could you tell, little Subaru?  I bet Blackstone's UOA report is just "AAAAAAAAAAAAA."
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Jun 27, 2010 17:42
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Someone sent me this video but I don't know what's up with it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2PgkfsGEZAY
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Jul 2, 2010 18:32
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Toyota wheels with bad curb rash. I'm guessing that second one was abused pretty badly, probably starved of oil. Rod knock is really weird in these 02s. I haven't seen a similar problem in 03s, even though they supposedly had the same head gasket issues. Maybe something to do with the first generation of the EJ25 in the Imprezas? Did it happen in the Foresters too?
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Jul 8, 2010 19:59
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You seem to already have gauges, but if I were you, I'd get some of those fairly classy white-faced "Pro-Comp" gauges with the thick red needle. They look like throwbacks from drag-strip Camaros but they look really good in 80s Japanese cars if you get them in the smaller size.
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Jul 21, 2010 07:28
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Congratulations, Sock! You're gonna be one heck of a dad.
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Jul 25, 2010 05:06
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8ender posted:You can't just hand them the keys to boost like that. You have to give them something that would be great with boost but sucks NA. They have to earn the boost
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Jul 25, 2010 17:37
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Why would they even make a four-door version of this? It's just making it worse.
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Aug 7, 2010 17:59
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Congratulations, Sock.
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Aug 14, 2010 18:01
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That Mike Holmes show where he goes around inspecting homes for people (usually in ON) almost always has weeping tile problems leading to weird temperature differentials or mould problems inside the house. Maybe quickly blast the remaining walls with an infrared thermometer to see if you can figure out if that's hosed anything up in the walls, unless you don't have a basement (instead just a crawlspace). Beats me how people gently caress up a weeping tile install. It's not rocket science, assholes. There might be a class action going on against your builder for doing so, too - so check to see if you can get in on that.
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Aug 21, 2010 04:56
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Looks pretty good now. I'm not looking forward to doing major home maintenance, but I do want a big garage.  Are you doing the roof this season? Don't seem to have much time left if so. Seat Safety Switch fucked around with this message at 07:13 on Aug 23, 2010 |
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Aug 23, 2010 07:09
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Sockington posted:STi aluminium lower control arms (used on NASIOC for $250) Since I have to pull both control arms to shove in the control arm bushings anyway, I might as well replace them with sexy wagon control arms. I'm always looking for something I can throw into the suspension setup to make the car more badass for cheap. Whose swaybar endlinks are you using? I just ordered from Mississauga:
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Oct 20, 2010 16:19
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Sockington posted:Wagon arms? No sir, that's what the sedan axles are for.
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Oct 20, 2010 17:46
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Hey, gold-wheeled wagon buddy. 8ender, why don't you just cycle a hit or two of CLR through the dishwasher and sell it on? If you leave it waiting for as long as you did this bugeye it'd probably clump right up and turn into another fourteen-hour-oil-change Benny Hill video. I'm curious how the wagon control arms and axles work. What are the downsides? If there aren't any downsides, I'm wondering why Subaru kept using the GC front axles and control arms on the wagon and jacked up the track for the sedan.
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Did you swing the GC STI control arms off NASIOC? I've had not a huge amount of luck sourcing them locally, as my Japanese importer will close shop at the end of the month. I think Touge Tuning has a few aftermarket "tube frame" subframes that are basically drop in and maintain your factory jacking points, but I'm not sure how sane they are for street use, or how appropriate they are for a TS. They ship out of Mississauga so you could probably phone them and ask in person without having to incur long distance charges. I'm kind of surprised how much cars rust in Ontario. I guess the increased humidity must be significant; here in AB we don't really have horrible rust problems because it's too cold for us to use traditional road salt (we have to use a custom chemical salt with some other bullshit mixed in, plus tons of gravel). We do buy a lot of windshields, though. Seat Safety Switch fucked around with this message at 16:38 on Oct 25, 2010 |
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Oct 25, 2010 16:35
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NoSpoon posted:Has anyone invented a car wash that gets the underside of your car too? Doesn't seem like it'd be too hard, and would be handy as for people who live places with salted roads. The 4x4 guys just park over a lawn sprinkler.
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Would you be interested in a set of Epic Engineering lowering springs? I have them on my 06 wagon and I'm getting rid of them for Racecomp Engineering wagon springs. They should give you about a 24mm drop and a little rear end sagging which you can clean up with a spacer. You might have to wait a few weeks to a month for them as I don't yet have the struts for the new springs built. I'd offer up my stock springs, but you never know if I'll have to restore the car to its absolutely stock ride height - I think that even the burly RCE springs give it a little drop which might still get the car to scrape. I think I have some other crap lying around, like a V-Limited lip which would be absurdly expensive to ship. Seat Safety Switch fucked around with this message at 20:23 on Oct 26, 2010 |
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