Hi all, after selling my classic around two years ago, I have returned to the scooby side of things with a version 7 jdm sti.

The car entered the uk in around 2004 with about 3900 miles on the clock. In Japan it was a subaru demo/show car

It has had 4 uk owners, one being a garage.

I picked up the car with 48000 miles on, and so far have done around 400 miles.

The very first thing I done to the car was give it a oil and filter change, as I do this with all my cars, and it is a bit of a habit.

As it was due on age for a cambelt change, but no where near the miles, I thought it would best be on the safe side of things and get it changed.

Tim Farmer (subbus) aka ex zen and top bloke, fitted a full timing belt kit with all the rollers and tensioner, changed the gearbox and rear diff oil.



The car is all most standard, mods are..

- TSL pulse extraction exhaust with a sports cat
- whiteline roll centre steer kit
- alloy radiator
- cosworth panel filter

I have fitted so far
- vta bov
- hella supertones.

Things that I have got planned for it are..
- walbro fuel pump
- remap
- a small boot lip spoiler to replace the standard one.
- lowering springs

anyway, some pictures

Pics from when it was about to come into the uk






And a quick couple i snapped on the phone










thanks
Ian

 

Looks Good.SJ.

 

good choice bud.

 

Nice. !

 

Not a fan of Bug's, that's tidy though mate.

 

Looks mint mate welcome back

 

I had the scoob in the garage today to give her some more protection with a good coat of underseal

before



half way


finish



there was some more bits sprayed after this last picture was taken

I think there was around 4.5-5L of airgun underseal used in this making :-)


sorry for the poor phone pictures

thanks
ian

 

a bit of beading

 

next thing on the list was a walbro 255 fuel pump, ready for a remap (prob 2015)

 

Hi all

next thing on the to do list was to lose the arch gap.

I picked up a set of HSD dualtech coilovers.


How it sits on standard sti shocks and springs





How I received the coilovers






I stpipped all the rings and other bits off, cleaned all down and greases up with white lithium grease.
The only problem I had was with the bottom locking rings on the two rear struts. I cut them off and ordered new rings.

Once they had arrived, I set the pre tension for the spring and put them all back together.




When fitting I had a problem with the bolts that hold the shock onto the hub as they had been done up by some unnatural force.
I tried plusgas, but that did not work, So I got some heat onto the nuts and that worked.

I got a set of extended adjusters for the rear also



A few pictures of the shock fitted






It took me a couple of goes to set the height.

a quick before and after shot







Next to do is get the tracking etc done and I also might buy some coilover socks to help protect them more

I went out for a short drive to see if anything rubbed, and all was fine.

Compared to the standard shocks and springs, they are a less crashy ride and I would say they take the bumps and holes in the road with more comfort. I have got them all set to the softest setting so far.

thanks
Ian

 

A very nice bug you've bagged yourself there fella, you keeping the standard wheels or changing them??

 

Thank you, i'm going to keep the standard ones for now, I have seen a silver bug with white works emotions on, and it looked very good, so might do a white wheel in the future

 

Whatever you decide on personally I'd make sure you choose a rim size that'll fit the car without the need of arch rolling, be such a shame to that to such a nice example. Keep up the good work.

 

next up is a set of coilover socks.

if there are parts of the threaded shock left on show, I am going to wrap them tight with the gaffer tape.
(found doing it this way on nasioc)



A quick link to chat they do

http://www.toronto-subaru-club.com/f...ks-review.html

 

I fitted the coilover socks today

front strut



On the rear strut, I covered the thread in waterproof gaffer tape over the top of the white lithium grease, this is to help keep the grease in and the rubbish off. then the cover over the rest of it.




and a few more random pictures from the underside

 

I got some of this Japanese car wax the other day. It is called Fusso Soft99



I have the car a wash with autoglym, polished with AG super resin polish, then went over with the wax.

not to bad I think.

 

Wax has done a great job, where did you here about that?

 

thank you.

I saw it on the detailing world forum

 

I had the scoob on the rollers today to get a bench mark to see what is what before I change anything.

Also the boost needs to be controlled better, again a remap should sort this out.

Lets say a remap is needed (was on the cards to be done anyway) as it is over fueling like a ****!!

 

next couple of mods in the pipeline is a jdm boot lip spoiler. just got to get the lip and boot sprayed.

do i fix the spoiler first to the boot then paint, or paint both on there own then fix to boot?

 

Paint both, then fix.

 

Liking your work Ian, nice thread!

I used to love the big spoilers on Scoobies, but my tastes are changing, think I would go the same spoiler route as you if I had a saloon, one reason why I got a wagon...

 

I had a bonus today.
I went to fit my walbro 225 pump, and look what I found!!!

 

Hi there, firstly nice car

I thought I saw this car a while back in Norwich driving, I have my spec c mapped and maintain by Clive atthowe ( highly recommend )

Looking forward to see the spoiler on

 

I was on a rolling road day at Clives, So might of been then.

I do like the spoilerless/lip spoiler look. i went that way also with my old classic

 

Think it was then, who you getting to map it?

Any other plans after the spoiler ?

 

I am getting a new clutch, have got a skimmed flywheel ready. Normally Zen does my mapping.

There is another small rear window lip that I like from the states, so might add that to the list

 

some new bits turned up today

competition clutch stage 2, and a flywheel skimmed my Alyn as AS performance

 

images not working mate

 

anyone else got problems with the pictures? ok from my pc