winston69

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Spotless

prodriverules

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But mines better

winston69

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It has potential I'll give you that much....

Cannon Fodder

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Good to see you earlier Ryan and many thanks for sorting out the leaking drive shaft seal, plus of course carrying out the machine polish and wax.

The car is looking fantastic albeit that it's now plastered with around 1,000,000 dead bugs plastered all over the front end.

I'm going to take it out early tomorrow and take some nice pics of my own.

Cannon Fodder

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Thanks, she's not looking too bad if I say so myself.

Of course it is, you just keep on telling yourself that.

That made me laugh.

-G-

Lovely car. Glad it's finished to enjoy now.

One thing I have to say though, those mud flaps do no joys for the car.
Obviously they have a purpose, but I'd have to put up with the consiquences of not having them lol. Apart from that, everything is perfect.

Cannon Fodder

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I've been wanting to change the mud flaps for a set of Rally Armor items for a while now as I'm not a massive fan myself, with the expense of what has already been done I've put them on the back burner until now.

The good thing about the flaps that are fitted is that they are very flexible and won't get trapped under my wheels when I reverse off my drive, as it's a slight downhill gradient the standard flaps can get trapped under the rear wheels.

On my S202 I nearly ripped my back bumper off so any flaps have to be very flexible but I'm going to get a set of the Rally Armor very shortly.

-G-

What are the rally amour ones?

I think you had those small carbon ones before, they were nice and subtle.

Something similar would be nice.

Cannon Fodder

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I had the mini Kaylan flaps, they were ok but didn't do a great deal.

Rally Armor are about the best you can buy.

http://www.rallyarmor.com/index.php/...rx-sti-c-60_66

Cannon Fodder

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Nearly forgot, here is a link to some pics I took early this morning.

https://www.scoobynet.com/members-ga...my-spec-c.html

Cannon Fodder

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I think my heater motor may be on it's way out.

I noticed yesterday that when I put the heater motor above the first speed setting that it makes an annoying metallic 'tingling' noise, not like a screech it's lower pitched than that.

I dare say this will involve a full dash strip down to investigate and repair the fault.

prodriverules

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When you coming down then

The Sheep Worrier

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Stop talking about it, get your aldis/lidls screwdriver set out and fix it then!

With your new figure you might be able to lube up with a bit of KY and slide into one of the vents....simples!

Cannon Fodder

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Not for a while, I'll let it develop until it gets a lot worse.

It's just bloody annoying, get the AC re-installed and now the bloody heater motor starts to fail.

******* cars, they are more trouble (at times) than they are worth.

Sod that Rob, I've seen how much work there is in stripping down a truck dashboard that has far better access.

I will just turn up the tunes to drown out the noise for the moment, until it stops working altogether at which point I will get it sorted.

-G-

I'm so glad your not tackling that job straight away. Glad to hear. Leave it, it's summer! Lol

Don't need a heater at the moment.

Leave it squeal! Lol

Cannon Fodder

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Things aren't going well with this f***ing car, I may be faced with a decision later on about what to do with it.

Once the initial diagnosis has been confirmed or disproved I'll post up further details.

Emmaroids

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Ffs mate that's a bummer hope you get it sorted and chin up

Cannon Fodder

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Thanks Emma.

I'm resigned to it being bad news if I'm honest, I've seen the same signs before.

If it isn't fairly terminal then I'll be very surprised.

Hammer man

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Cannot believe the luck your having Ty. Lets hope it aint that bad and you get it sorted..

The Stitcher

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Sorry to read this mate, I have learnt the hard way that the more you mess about with these cars the quicker they blow one way or another and running big power is a time bomb just waiting to go off , sold my 350z and been looking for a nice standard sti and that's the way it will be staying standard but then it can still have problems lol

I'm gutted for you mate but hope its not as bad as you think fingers crossed and I'm sure everyone else has them crossed too

If I can help you in anyway just let me know

Infected by sti

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hope its not shìt news Ty really I do

Not to take anything away from yours here but you will be glad to know I started mine yesterday, the tear down has begun

prodriverules

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Sorry to inform you but the engine is most definately not happy and Ty has some serious thinking to do about the options in front of him,ill let Ty say the rest.
I feel very sad for him after the money poured in and also with how much work I've put into the car.

Cannon Fodder

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Unfortunately Cliff, all my luck is bad luck - mind you if I didn't have bad luck then I wouldn't have any luck at all.

Thanks Lee, unfortunately in my case the sum of the components does not equal the anticipated end result.

It couldn't be much worse other than dropping a piston or similar catastrophic engine failure - but regardless of the failure the end result was always going to end up being the same.

Glad to hear that yours will be back soon.

Cannon Fodder

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Thanks for having a look at the car earlier Ryan, I had already prepared myself for what the reason and end result would be, it still doesn't make it any easier to hear though.

I have three choices in front of me now, I have some serious thinking to do:

1. Enginetuner 2.1 engine build, drive in and drive out - fully mapped and ready for the road.
2. Break the car and sell off as much as possible (obviously not the engine).
3. Sell the car as is and let someone else sort out the engine issue.

To say I am cheesed off is an understatement.

Cannon Fodder

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A little message to those who will have a wry smile on their faces upon reading these latest posts please remember that I said all along that this engine was on borrowed time.

True I was hoping to get this summer out of the way before deciding what to do with the car next BUT as I have said all along the sum of the components should allow a far better result than what I have ended up with.

So to those that believe that 'maybe he's (as in me) a liar' remember that this engine lasted just about 500 miles after the mapping session, so the end result of 502.3bhp (on methanol remember not on straight pump fuel) isn't quite as great as some painted it to be.

bluerigster

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Finish what you started and get a fully built Enginetuner 2.1 engine fitted and mapped with 12 month warranty, as it's a too nicer car to break.

tubbytommy

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I feel for you mate.
you cant break it after all the work.
a 2.1 will make it an awesome machine

The Stitcher

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Yes don't break it mate I'm sure there are other options to take as its such a nice car, personally myself but this is me I would sell all the trick bits and get a standard spec c engine built back in it and leave it as a Subaru spec c was intended to be built with just light tuning mod

I know people are saying to have it built by a good company but running big bhp you must expect that no matter how good a build it can still let go at any time as the engine was not made to run such big power through a little 2ltr

If it was back as a spec c should be it would also be easier to sell in the future

prodriverules

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I do agree to a point lee but in this day and age 500 is not that high of a power output and there are many out there running 450-500 comfortably and for many years and miles.

DannyBoy007

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Gutted to hear this Ty, When you showed some pictures of the previous work I had a horrible feeling it wouldn't last long on that bigger turbo.

I'm a firm believer in using one of the top boys when it comes to engine rebuilds. Thats what they do, day after day and know everything inside and out.

Park it up and leave it for a while, Mule over the options and then progress with what YOU want to do