[Anyone from Georgia or the surrounding states?]

Hey.. just wondering if there are any people in the southeast area? I was thinking if there was a few, we could do a GTG somewhere... perhaps in the mountains.

[HID's for Old Subies?]

Hehe. If you guys are interested.. I've actually started importing HID kits. I'd like to get information on the headlight bulb sizes on the subies...

 

If you guys want... drop me an email of your bulb size and I can check on the price of the kit. Since I usually bring them in in group buys.. I can get them to those interested for a pretty decent price... and the bulbs are sized for the housing... instead of retro-fitting other oem units into the housing. If you have a sealed beam incandescent headlight.. I would recommend switching to like a H4-style housing. It makes installing the HID's much easier and also helps with lighting.

 

The bi-xenons are a little bit more than the regular ones... $230 for the regular and then $320 for the bi-xenons. Honestly the non-dual beams ones work fine enough for me.

 

They work good off-road too.

 

Drop me a line on bulb size if you guys are interested or have any questions.

 

eugene@manchesterhid.co.uk

[scored 8 inch Bosch Rallye lights for $10.00]

So I on my way home from work and the gas light came on in my car. Pulled off at the nearest exit and went looking for a gas station. I noticed a off-road store near the exit. After gasing up stopped in to take a look. I notice this basket in the back of the store and buried amongst a bunch of stuff was two sets of Bosch Rallye lights. I just need to get a 150wt H3 bulb for them and make a bracket and its good to go.

can't wait to see how that look on the BRAt.

 

 

Great score!

[Courtney's strut mess thread]

no he did not say where i coudl get the kit, i am curious too, i will ask

 

ok zapar so you think i should do both the struts and springs, i am just needing to get some clearance for dirt roads and washes , i am not doing rally stuff or anything, i do have to go thru some mud different times of the year

 

my thought was to do the struts and then the ozified people said they have a lift coming out soon for my car but they said it is designed to be put on with the ob struts, he did not say springs just struts but i am going to clarify that with him

so i was going to try just struts and then add the lift if i need it

 

can someone explain to me if there is any difference in how the car is lifted using struts vs a lift, will the entire car including frame/trans/rear end get higher with a lift vs just the body being higher with a strut?

 

thanks for all your help everyone

 

if you lift the car via springs and struts.. all your components will definitely sit higher... if you lift the car via a spacer style lift kit.. it will actually space subframe away from the body and those components won't be higher. its similar to the effects of a suspension lift vs. a body lift in a jeep. body lifts on jeeps are generally done by the dealers to accommodate bigger tires.

 

also going to a taller tire will also provide more ground clearance.

 

well the thing is.. if you do the ozified lift.. you're probably doing the typical lifting of the body/spacing down the subframe and putting the lifts on top of the strut/spring perches. from a normal legacy wagon.. you will probably sit similar or slightly higher than a normal outback... that's if the ozified lift is not a lift spring kit. several outback owners.. both 1g and 2g have lifted their outbacks via king/scorpion springs and they have massive ground clearance.

 

i could imagine your car lifted with outback struts with lift springs and a spacer-style lift kit.. your car would be super tall.. i'd worry about the camber adjustment in the front.. unless you get some ecentric(sp?) camber bolts to help bring the camber back in line.

 

a few guys have lift springs on their outbacks on subaruoutback.org on both generations of legacy outbacks.

 

here's a thread with the stock-spec outback kyb shocks and scorpion springs.

http://www.subaruoutback.org/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=3687&highlight=lift+springs

 

here's a pic of my friend's 1995 Legacy Outback (which originally sat the same height as the regular Legacy's) on 1997 LOB springs and kyb shocks with slightly oversized tires.

 

 

hope it helps you get an idea...

 

your car with lift springs.. ob shocks and a full lift kit will be taller than both of these cars.

[Courtney's strut mess thread]

if you do all stock outback springs and shocks.. the ride will be like stock.

good luck on it man.

[Courtney's strut mess thread]

on the legacy the springs and the struts both lift..

 

i can confirm this because we lifted my friend's 1995 Legacy Outback (which is just a stock legacy with some outback trim) to the later model.. 1997+ Outback height with KYB GR2 Legacy Outback struts and 97 Legacy Outback springs.

[Courtney's strut mess thread]

trying to get my ob struts for my 99 legacy to lift it, the tire rack wants to know what model ob i have?? there are diff part numbers for diff ob in 99

i do not know what to tell them, does anybody here know

 

thanks

 

the Outback and regular Legacy struts are different lengths.

 

here's a link to my other Subaru home that has the correct part numbers for the Kybs.. which from what i've heard are the OEM struts.

 

http://www.subaruoutback.org/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=3674

 

hope it helps