Durania

Well said man. I put my silverstars back in the other day when I was pulling the HID kit from my car at the Subaru shop. The kit was bought for me as a Christmas present and I wasn't going to be a BRAT and gripe too much about getting 8000ks. I am probably going to end up going with either 6000k or 4300k with yellow skins on my fogs.

You tell the guy he smoked the clutch in your car and he should come over and help you replace it?

Here in Tennessee we got enough problems with prescription drug abuse for the police to care about what headlights Kyle has in his Subaru. To prove a point. Back in the summer when I was getting my windows tinted I called over to the police department (work IT for the City) and inquired about the legal tint law. They were under the impression that as long as the front two windows were 35%. Upon further web searching I discovered that its 35% all around. Also, who are they to tell me my headlights aren't OEM? 04-05 STi has HIDs in a non-projector housing, along with the idiots in the Prius.

I am just shipping them back to the company from which they came. I am not exporting the package so it shouldn't be a problem.

Jordan, I appreciate the offer. I got the wife chauffeuring me around for a while. I am just glad it broke when it did, not on the side of the road going to school.

Got it ready to go back tomorrow morning, both kits are packed up. I wonder what kind of crap they will give me when they are delivered. Was it that hard?!

More than likely you will have an external head gasket leak and will leak coolant or like I did, spew coolant all over your engine bay.

It will be legal after this evening. I got to go pull my old ones off my car that is in the shop getting the head gaskets and water pump replaced. I am shipping both the kits back to them and putting the old ones in, I will get a new kit from someone locally eventually. I am not worried about them being road legal as the police here are very uninformed.

DO NOT BUY FROM http://www.hidxenonheadlights.com/ Here are the replacement parts I got sent in the mail, to the wrong address. The website shows a pretty enclosure, this is what you will get. I am sending both kits back and going with someone else, this is downright crap. This is my $160 screw over. What their website shows:

You sure its not an EA82? Never heard of an EA86.

Bumping this because we all want to see pics.

I had to break this out.

Look for Miles' great youtube tutorials on EA82 maintenance. They helped me kill a slow afternoon at work.

Great place for a great car. Love the pics.

I think the bearing is a 6207 too.

I can't wait to do this fix as well. Did you use two of the anti-foulers or just one?

Yeah, damn thing blows 2 days before tuition is due.

Just dropped her off at my buddy's shop. Hope to have her back in a few days.

Thanks man, I'm just trying to not get my hopes up.

Thank you guys. I am probably going to run it to my mechanic tomorrow and let him replace these. I have to drive 90 miles a day to school and the semester is about to start back up. After this I will have all the major maintenance items taken care of. Clutch, timing belt, head gaskets.

I always figured that when my gaskets went it would be overheating and leaking coolant from the heads with the dark milky crap in the radiator, this aint the case. Would a bad radiator cap still allow it to blow heat out the vents but still not overheat?

Talked to my buddy who is a mechanic. He said it may be the radiator cap going or the gasket. I remember when the cap went on my BRAT that I would be overheating and have zero heat, this aint the case. Too bad this didn't blow before Christmas, would have made a good gift.

Re-thought my post.

I have not had to top it off before. I did add some last night before my drive this morning. I did hear a slight gurgling the other day. Up until yesterday, it had never leaked a drop of fluids. Power output is still the same and also no check engine lights.

I prepared myself for that before I even posted a thread. I also checked the dipstick and there are no signs of coolant in the oil.