I changed all the std clips on mine to jubilee clips when I did the motor last year as mine was making a ***** of a mess round the steering rack

 

Just started some rear lips for you Hatchback lads and lasses







BTW. Nearly completed the side extensions

Also gonna make a front lip similar to below for the 08-10



Mark @ HTAutos

 

You get all the measurements of my car the other day? would of popped down myself, but was busy.

 

Yea, nice one Immy. Cheers mate!

 

If any of you Guys are after any Pro-R Products drop me an email on Rob.ostle@btopenworld.com

Can offer discount on these.

 

cheers rob

 

I'm very sorry Immy, but I'm going to have to pull out of the GB as my inlet manifold is off at iain Litchfields,as part of the investigation into the clouds of oil problem, so he is fitting one of his plastic spacers (IIRC a Scoobyclinic typre, for about £60).
At least we'll know if there are any clearance/fitting issues !

The oil/breather problem seems to have been caused by a sticking breather valve under the main air intake on the manifold, causing boost pressurised air/mixture into the breather system
The breather system is now modified so it is non recirculating - just to the catch tank. Update on the GR journal

 

OOps! Sorry, moved pic's to the correct thread.

 

KpWRX, there is a thread for the saloons;

https://www.scoobynet.com/members-ga...-and-chat.html

Nice car BTW

 

Jacked the car up and got under to find the annoying rattle
A rusted f•••d jubilee clip had snapped and let the heat shield flap about

Sorted now with s/steel clip

 

christ that looks fairly well rusted.

 

Just make sure you retain the crankcase to PCV valve route, unless the car is purely for the track (otherwise you won't have the beneficial crankcase scavenging effect under cruise / vacuum)

 

Rob,

I was in my subaru dealer (westaways), and we looked up the STH10-001 and it is regarding some rust that shows at the bottom of the rear window, above the light cluster where the glass/rubber hits the body work.

They could not find a bulletin for the roof rail rust problem (at the rear of the rail) where the sealant cracks and goes rusty. Do you have any ideas? They are sending some photos of mine off to IM as it is cracked and is going rusty.

Richie.

 

Thanks for that
I have pipes from each cam cover and crankcase to the catch tank.
Where is the pcv valve ?

 

If you look at what I wrote it clearly states rust on rear gate at welded joint, I didn't mention the roof lol

 

I think it the one you have blocked off under the throttle body. Rob posted pics on the hatch forum, see link below.

http://subaruhatch.forumotion.com/t4...-oil-separator

 

Ooops my bad. This and this had me confused. Any idea if there is a bulletin or anything for this crack in the seam Rob? My bro's car has the same problem too.

Cheers.

 

No worries mate My apologise if my reply was a bit short this morning

I have seen something in our file at work about the roof seams but for the life of me I cant find it again haha sods law when you need something I can never find it again

 

Thanks for that Paul, (and Rob !!)

Checked turbo, oil feed pipe to the turbo (it appears if its bent to fit a larger turbo, its possible for it to rub on a bracket causing a pinhole in it), and cylinder compressions and they were all OK, my problems have been through the PCV sticking - which has happened to others. So the plan is to not use it in the system, as when it does stick, the consequences are not good.
I hope the breather system to the catch tank will be sufficient, along with getting rid of the rest of the std breather system. I did this on the Classic and it worked OK!!! I think I'd rather have this breather system without the risk of the b****y PCV sticking

 

Personally I have both head breathers to a catch can and then to atmosphere. I've kept the crankcase to pcv valve (under throttle body) connected (but disconnected the t piece going to the turbo intakd) as this is used off boost to suck on crankcase and remove bad polllutants. In my opinion if your pcv valve was sticking it's because it got clogged up with blow by, which is usually a sign that your rings need looking at. I'd just replace the valve, cheap and easy. Another alternative is to run a second catch can just on the crankcase to pcv valve line (in an effort to stop the valve clogging). I've seen an engine where the crankcase was full of crap because the pcv valve had been deleted - however speak to some other engine builders, I'm just giving you my opinion :-)

 

I have to agree to be honest, I have piped my cam covers and crank into a baffle controlled catch tank which is then vented to atmosphere, However I did block the pcv valve up initially and to be honest it was causing no end of issues milky discharge in the cam covers and the oil filler cap was gunked up due to the fact the moisture which would have been extracted through the Positive Crankcase ventilation valve couldn't escape as there was no vacuum pressure exerted on the crankcase. I then proceeded to refit the PCV Valve in place & since then Ive had no issues to report, no nasty gunk in the pipes or covers and the intake system is nice and clean and oil free.

The trouble is this country is too damp to block it off and unless your seriously flogging the car hard it will never get hot enough to evaporate the crankcase vapours.
for the sake of an £8 valve its not work buggering your engine up mate & as nullfork suggested about the valve I'd get another fitted to it.

Entirely my own opinion at the end of the day I can only share my experiences as with everyone else.

 

So do you have the PCV connected to the inlet to let the vac suck the dead / moist air out of the crankcae, or just to a catch can?

I have all 3 to atmos at the moment... 'till I find space to fit the catch can. Thats one off each cam cover and one under the throttle body ... have I found the PCV there??

For more info there is a very good piece on the Andy F web site on PCVs!

http://andyforrestperformance.co.uk/26001.html

 

bluudy hell , though a big bit of the car had snapped and fell off... then you said it was j/clip
just how good is Macro zoom on camera's these days

 

Here's how mine is setup, which is the same as Andy F describes, also sounds the same as Rob's setup

 

Yep exactly the same here

 

Hi fellas,

I'm looking for JDM twin scroll headers and up-pipe, anybody help with this?

Cheers, Neil

 

Try TEG - Towns End Garage, they strip hatches to make them into rally cars and usually have unwanted parts going.

Else try Litchfield, perhaps?

 

I think that's how mine goes - I **think** I have taken the feed off the T-piece , not the PCV itself so should be OK.

 

Try www.japperformanceparts.co.uk they have a hatch in for breaking.

 

After owning the car for over a year and not doing any thing to it my self(already has AST suspension, full milltek exhaust and whiteline arb`s. Thought i should spend some on it.So got a set of Rota P1 s in gunmetal from the nice folks at Revolution