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Had a bit of an experiment with some offcuts of Dynok 3M Carbon I had lying about.
During: https://i.imgur.com/M5TCtu3.jpg?2 After: https://i.imgur.com/cMaSenO.jpg Mean and Moody (With LED sidelights): https://i.imgur.com/qXevLny.jpg |
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Nice little touches, I find myself looking at Legacies more on the usual for sale sites then I do Imprezas, they are great looking cars certainly worthy of a good tinkering.
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Coming along nice
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Fitted the Incartech 26-677 steering wheel remote adapter today thanks to the instructions from UKLegacy only took 20mins or so I've used bullets for the splice so I can reattach the original wiring easily if I put the old stereo back in (You never know when a manual facelift twinscroll will fall into my price range!).
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STI Pinks now fitted
Front Before 380mm centre to arch After 350mm centre to arch Difference -30mm Rear Before 350mm centre to arch Rear 320mm cetre to arch Difference -30mm Not the best pic but.... https://i.imgur.com/4nhAg6m.jpg Also had the new radiator and cooler thermostat fitted at the same time |
Looks smart nick
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Just need to drive it now! Springs were fitted while we were away!
Booked in on Saturday for a full track Geo and adjustable rear camber bushes at NadUK |
Alignment all sorted with the addition of Rear camber Bushes
http://www.whiteline.com.au/images/t.../tn_KCA399.jpg Resulting in: https://i.imgur.com/BvNZPT7.jpg Ignore Right front it's actually -0.58 the batteries on the hunter were giving out! |
KiDO tune version 1 uploaded today - definite improvement in low end pick up, Without changes to the DBW map. Delivery also feels slightly more linear without the dip before 4k that was always present.
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Really coming along this ,
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Quick update - all the tuning is completed and car is running around 260-70BHp depending on how calculated! Much better throttle response and a real noticeable surge when the AVCS kicks in.
Just ordered a 'new' gearbox as the centre Diff has gone in mine and was able to get a very low milage box from Japan for not much more than a replacement centre Diff would cost fitted so I'll be getting the clutch replaced at the same time. |
Sounds good the engine.
Shame your diff issue be nice to see your ontop of sorting it.. is a jdm box the Shame ratio ? |
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Picked the car up with the ‘new box’ and new OE clutch and flywheel along with uprated shifter bushes.
Clutch is much lighter than before - the old one was down to the rivets even though it wasn’t slipping. Box feels tighter than the old one 52000km verses 130000miles! The drive to the Xmas meal will be the real test as the box will get hot enough to show any diff issues! |
New gearbox is now in along with the std clutch and flywheel. The new clutch is much lighter than the old one which was down to the rivets but not showing any signs of slipping or significant juddering when driven!
The gearshift is much lighter and also more positive even though my local garage didn't replace the rear mounting bush for the shift linkage as they were only looking at the box for where to put the bushes - so this will be a job for later in the year. I'll be picking the old box up early next year and may take the rear diff out for a look to see how bad it looks unless anybody wants a broken box! Car also starts better (much quieter) now, I assume because the starter motor will have been cleaned and greased while out. |
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That'll teach you to copy and paste from an older post on UKLegacy :p :lol: |
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Another bit ordered!
https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/xLEAA...tA/s-l1600.jpg Will be fitting on arrival hopefully with HIDs and LED high beams. |
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Nice , is that a beat rush brace and brake stopper?
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Try again it's the big blue thing! I already have a whiteline brace but the brake stoppers not a bad idea!
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lol i meant is that a beat rush parts i can spot fitted already?
i can see the samco intake pipe lol.. |
The pictures not my car - the hose is a special order part - took a bit of digging to find a UK supplier even though they are made here as I didn't fancy paying for a hose to travel to Japan and back!
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ahh i see , understand now, i was going to ask you a question on the stopper if they was worth it?
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I had a CDF one on the Impreza and yes you could feel the difference.
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Just a minor cosmetic touch.
https://i.imgur.com/PvNqMgD.jpg https://i.imgur.com/CFM2IAM.jpg https://i.imgur.com/jw162mH.jpg |
Just fitted the Samco intake hose - should be a bit less restrictive now the old hose had a resonator and corrugations in it - also noticed when I removed it that it had been pinched at the airbag possibly causing an air leak post MAF.. In the next couple of weeks I'm also going to swap the K & N for a Cosworth filter, clean the MAF and remove the airbag resonator to try and clean up the intake route.
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No longer and oily K & N filter as I’ve now fitted the Cosworth dry version - car already feels better with the MAF cleaned as well - the old filter was also filthy (think it’s been 2 years since last cleaned) so not helping things. Only bugger is I broke the engine cover taking it off so now running without!
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Hi Nick,bad news on the engine cover,does changing the standard air filter for a cosworth one make much difference?
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There was a definite improvement when I went dirty OE to K & N, this time again there feels to have been an improvement between the dirty (2 years since the last clean I think) K & N and the Cosworth. Not sure if it’s the filter or the fact it’s clean that’s made the difference but I’m definitely happier not having an oiled filter now as the MAF again was looking very dirty. As I cleaned the MAF when doing the filter it may be that that has improved the running as Id developed a bit of a flat spot/judder when coming off or accelerating after a period of light throttle running. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk |
Having a bit of a play with a spare grille has resulted in this - need to properly attach the mesh and paint the inside. Probably going to paint the chrome (it’s chrome paint) the same gunmetal as the roof rails. I did consider trying to wrap it carbon but don’t think it’ll Work as the edge will be exposed.
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more airflowz!
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Been a while since anything’s happened but I’ve swapped the front bumper for a less buggered one (still not 100% happy with it tbh). Replaced the square plate with a UK plate and replaced the eyebrows due to an incident on the motorway (note to self cheap knock off 3M tape is not good over 70mph).
I’m in the process of getting the rear Brembos ready for fitting then it’s just a full cosmetic sort out which will have to involve pretty much a full respray or I may go with a wrap (although I think the paints too bad for a decent wrap. https://i.imgur.com/EzF6xa1l.jpg |
Plate looks so much better:ok:.
You lost your shoes?:p:p |
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Car looks good Nick. Well spotted Alfa Male, bit concerned he may have lost his trousers aswell.
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Having given up replacing the lower ball joint the garage also had issues having to remove the whole hub and the extract the broken pinch bolt! All back together with no knocks/rattles now! They also had to patch up the brake backing plate with a bit of weld before it fell off! Unfortunately due to the design on the legacy to remove the backing plat you have to remove the bearing as well and the fact the pinch bolt was corroded solid means the bearing is probably in the same state!
So on the way to me is a set of JDM front hubs and Alloy wishbones which I will refurbish with new bearings and fully poly bush before swapping over. Anybody got any tips for paints for the hub/steering knuckle? |
Any possibility you could get them powder coated, would be a lot better finish and hard wearing, just depends on how much of a rush you're in?
I was cleaning up the piston on the rear caliper of mine earlier and noticed the stone guard was a little worse for wear as I was putting it back together. |
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