carfreak85

I recently picked up a car that has the dealer installed cruise control and would like to double check the vacuum routing, since I have been replacing old, brittle vacuum hoses. Does anyone have the diagram or installation instructions floating around somewhere?

Don't put stop leak in the A/C system, or any other system for that matter. Not only are they bad for the system, they generally don't work very well. Find the root cause and fix that.

Make a note to your self to check back in with us in ~30k miles to let us know if there is any oil consumption from doing it "your way."

Yes, I've done it.

Some people like that look though!

Keep an eye out for the supplement on eBay, I've seen a few pop up here and there in the recent past.

The frames and seatback upholstery are LH and RH specific, the cushions and seat-bottom upholstery are not.

I've swapped passenger side foam and upholstery to the driver's side on several cars now and it's a great way to freshen an old driver's seat. I tend to snip the hog rings, recycle them and replace them with small zip-ties to make installation simpler. If you have a nice, spare passenger's seat there is no reason not to give it a try!

That sounds like a terrible idea, especially anywhere it rains, snows or where they salt the roads.

An Outback is just a trim level, essentially. Any coilover or lowering spring that fits a 1996 Legacy will fit your car.

I'd bank on the Rallispec spreadsheet being correct... https://legacypic.uk/transmission/search.php?code=ty752vbbaa - 4.11 https://www.rallispec.com/downloads/Transmission ID Chart_Public.pdf - 4.11 https://www.surrealmirage.com/subaru/trans_spec.html - N/A http://www.gearhack.com/myink/ViewPage.php?file=docs/Subaru Transmission Chart - 3.900

Wow, that would be an absolute steal at that price!

OP last visited this site in November 2015...

Don't do that, it's a temporary jack for quickly changing tires, not for lifting the entire front end of the car off the ground.

I bought a lot of about 30 of the black, made-in-Japan Tokyo Roki filters for my WRX, Dad's STI and the EJ20G in the RX-RA. The cars may rust away before I finish off the last one.

I can only speak to the transmission I have: TY752VB3AA Looking at the chart below it looks like the '93 WRX RA has even shorter ratios. Be aware that many of the 4.44 gearboxes will have longer gears and the combined ratio may not be as numerically high as the '93 boxes. http://www.rallispec.com/downloads/Transmission ID Chart_Public.pdf

If you have a budget of only $1k, don't even consider swapping gearsets. The EJ 5-speed is pretty labor intensive to rebuild and honestly, not something that most DIYers should tackle. Lots of tolerance stack up that will quickly ruin the trans if you get it wrong. Our 2002 WRX has 152k miles on the original transmission. It's had a lightweight flywheel and Exedy Stage 1 clutch for the last 63k miles. Before that it was raced by dual-drivers in as many as 15 autocrosses per year. The center differential is finally starting to show signs of age. I don't for one second think these are "glass" transmissions, then again, we never side-stepped the clutch, just soft but quick launches. Each year after 2002 got incremental improvements, so the '07 USDM 5-speeds are as strong as the JDM boxes. The FD in these boxes is pretty low and the gearing is long. I might try to find a '93 WRX transmission. 4.11 FD and really short gears, shorter than any 4.44 JDM box.

You can swap oil filters without releasing all the engine's oil. You will lose some oil while changing the filter, so be sure to top up the engine after the filter swap.

SPT pinks are just USDM STI springs painted pink, IIRC. JDM STI-catalog pink springs are a whole 'nother beast. I've got a set on my WRX that I bought from Gary Sheehan and they are lower yet and STIFF (but the stance is great!).

Anything that fits a WRX wagon of similar vintage will fit your car. Coilovers generally don't ride very well and the ones that most folks can afford wear out very quickly and have awful dampening curves. I would recommend FEAL struts with take-off STI springs if you just want to lower it slightly, RCE Black springs for a little lower stance.

Those aren't still available from the dealership?

I got some good feedback from Mike at Feal Suspension, sounds like I can move forward with my next phase of part design!

Shot you a payment.

Wow. Wasn't someone just saying the market for BRATs had gone flat? Guess not...

Willing to produce a run for folks here?