Hi guys..... I am new to the boxer scene. got my forester from Japan as My Mrs was expecting Twins and I like a bit of speed (Sold a 1.9 TDi Auto Passat) so I thought yea, plenty of space and power.

pics in Japan

 

the day I picked it from Southampton Docks





As I am an MOT tester I always have access to ramps so First thing I did was......popped it on a ramp

 

I was over the moon to see these bad boys




and the Fujitsubo exhaust. It also had factory Xenon

 

Just bought a fozzy myself that does look nice though how much to import that ?

 

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Is yours the 2.5 XT ? Mine is you have some nice additions there too tell me more

 

was about £900 freight, and another £600 for taxes, duties and reg.

its a 2.0 XT and looking at it, the guy who owned it in Japan looked after it very well.

started with basic items, Full service (took an hour just to do the plugs), then changed all the bulbs to LEDs, changed the Jap satnav to a clarion NX700E, changed all the speakers (old speakers were knackered), fitted a reversing camera.

a lot of cleaning up been done, machine polished......and got rid of the extra go faster badges on the back



during changing rear light bulbs




we actually got 2 fozzies. my brother-in-law got a LL-BEAN edition

 

then i polished the headlights



bought some wheels of ebay and had em refurbed


after



after fitting the new wheels i spent a good few hours adjusting the suspension and decided i needed to bottom the coilovers. gave it a -2 degree camber



then i had the front grill and rear view mirror bases colour coded





am going to paint the verticles strips in the grill black.

 

Very nice.
Take a look at subaruforester.org for forester specific info.

 

Lovely example and nice work so far!

 

Looks bloody awesome!
Did you literally just polish your headlights?

 

Not often you see a JDM XT

As above pop over to the European forum on Subaruforester.org

 

Nice car and very clean underneath but if you plan on driving it on anything other than total smooth roads you will be bottomming out the suspension very often with this ride height.

It's nice to see it has alloy front control arms. Are these standard in JDM XTs then?

 

Cracking looking car mate

 

Yes

 

That sir ....


Looks awesome

I'm becoming partial to the fozzy these days

 

Very nice

 

I like that very nice

 

That's cool!
Shame they didn't put them in the european or american ones!

 

thanks for all the comments guys


wet sand and buff @ 2500 rpm with 3 different compounds. took about an hour to do the pair.

painted the brakes today......before



after

 

also fitted a BLITZ dump valve

 

Nice

 

Very nice, fog lamp covers are v cool...just need to satin black the chrome on the grill to match the lights

 

Looks very nice

 

Nice motor, I like a Foggy.

Just wondering why you did not get an STi version?

 

This purchase was totally un planned mate. My brother showed me this on the net and i said get it. Will import an STI next year 😉

 

Does anyone know if there is a cat in the up pipe. Engine code is EJ205

 

No cat in the classic up pipe.

 

Niceeee. So just have to decat the down pipe than. Them getting it mapped from subaruforesterparts.co.uk. Any ome have any experience with them

 

Thats not a classic though. The UK XT's have an up pipe cat, whether the JDM's do I don't know. Don will most probably have the answer.

 

Whos don ?