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Spent a long time on this today. Got the roof sanding down completely. I have never seen so much paint dust in my life. I also primed it.

Congrats! Looks great for 300! These early legacys are great cars. I've had a couple over the last few years, and loved all of them. They have never let me down. I've seen these well over 300k, as long as it was well maintained, it should have plenty of life left

Good idea polishing the headlights. It was the first thing I did to my 92. These headlights were never that good. I added hella lights to mine just to help out. Made a huge difference.

Another sweet pic thread, nice :cool: My current 92 legacy My old 92 LS outbacked legacy My SVX 54k five speed swap (now sold) And my current WRX And one of my favorite foresters ever. Bratman18's

Looks like it is going to be white I think I'll go with a factory Subaru color, the same as my 92 legacy (pure white) I ordered a new sander today so I can finish sanding it. My other one started spitting out oil (bearings were shot after 6 cars :-p ) So I decided that was not good for painting purposes. I also have more sand paper on the way. I need to sand down the roof to bare metal this weekend as the paints doing the same thing as the hood. I have three weeks off after next week. I hoping to get this painted and back together in that time. After that's all done, it goes lower

That would a be a second gen legacy. Looks like a 97ish GT wagon. Looks like it has quite a bit of mods judging by the brembos and bbs wheels This is a first gen legacy (mine to be exact ) The rally car above is also a first gen legacy sedan. Too add to the old gen awesomeness I found a pic of my car on google maps

Spent the weekend trying to adjust the VR ports of my ecu, but got nothing I adjusted them all the way up and all the way down, and everywhere in between. There's still absolutely no output signals to my ignitor or anything else. I don't know my next move.

Just had to do the same repairs to my 84. And it does look solid for up here. Pretty much all of my ea82s were worse than the one you have. Should be a good start for what you are planing to do with it!

I know I have said this before, but I love your wagon. As for me I put my ea81 up for the winter, and have been doing body work to my other one. I also have been working on my standalone on the brat trying to get that running!

Seeing this makes me want to rebuild mine as well. I'd need a harness though, that or standalone I'm keeping an eye on this for sure.

It's looking good Pete, I like it much better without the roo-guard as well. I love my wing mirrors. I can't wait until my cars back together enough to put them on.

For the first time in a long time I feel like I'm heading in a positive direction with this I'm getting spark when I test the MS outputs, which leads me to believe I misadjusted the VR trim ports on initial assembly. I still have a bunch to do, like get the tach signal reading, calibrate some sensors, figure out values of things like my CTS, and the flow of my injectors, I also need to figure out how to program my IAC and get that working like it should. But now that i know it has the ability of putting out spark I'm hopeful.

They are super hard to find. I got lucky and found an A style one at a pick-in-pull local to me. They had no idea how rare it was $35

I need new speakers for my first gen, I noticed they were bad when I changed my rear struts, I just haven't gotten around to changing them it's on one of my todo list. For all weather mats I got some from an 02 wrx, they fit surprisingly well and they say subaru on them

I agree 100%. Those prices are from the dealer, we have gotten some cheeper ones, but it's hard to find much good around here.

I think around $230 or so, they come with a ball joint (that's our shops cost) it's over $300 a side to replace, and that front U subframe the newer ones have rot out at the same time so that is another $330+ at the same time because it has to come off to change them. Those are just prices from memory, I haven't worked at the shop now for a few months due to being back in school.

I just got that pic off from google as an example of where they rust. When they break, they snap in two pieces, usually with rusty bits hanging down,tearing metal, with sharp edges everywhere. It's good stuff I've also seen them rust in the larger section of the control arms but usually pinholes start to form in that section from dirt/debris sitting in there. Here's an example of a broken one I found on google as well.

We've had quite a few come into the shop that would have needed the recall long before it came out... A couple of wrx we work on were towed in because the control arms snapped in two. Another we went to back it out of the shop and the front tire did something funny, we put it up on the lift and noticed it had broken right off. Makes me glad that I don't drive my 02 WRX in the salt. The 92 legacy gets winter duty. The newer ones seem to be rusting far worse over the 90's stuff I drive.... This is were they rot off.

Yesterday we had no snow at all. Today I woke up to this. My 82 and 92 wagons.... Glad I put my wrx away for the winter yesterday. Now I have to put my GL up somewhere.

I'm not 100% sure on the color yet. I was thinking of painting the whole car white, silver, or maybe the original color. That's the one thing I haven't decided with it yet the color....

Spent all day sanding the hood down, but it's done now. I primed it to keep it from rusting, but it will get another layer of primer when the rest of the car gets primed. Then paint. It's getting there

That's odd when I did my five lug, I called the local parts store and they had them in two days.

Welcome aboard you will love it here a ton of good info and great people. That being said, wow it looks very nice. I like the patina it has. Looks like a great first project, very solid and a ton of potential. Keep us posted on how it's coming along!

I love my I-pikes. I've had them on a few different cars throughout the last 4 winters, and they have been awesome. I've only gotten stuck due to my own stupidity. The wear has been good for snow tires, and they are pretty quite on my newer stuff (I have them on a 92 legacy and my mom has them on her 99 forester) I have studded, because we get a lot of ice up here, so the noise is kind of expected, but as far as studded snows go I don't find them that bad.

Alright, I cracked back into this one tonight. I need to get this running for my own sanity. I brought home the snap-on modis (scan tool) from work to use its Oscilloscope function. I have so far determined that the cam and crank signals are getting to the ECU, but there's no signal to the ignitor, fuel pump, or pretty much anything else because of this. Therefor my issue is in the ECu. It's programing, or there is a problem in the way it was put together (me) I'll be e-mailing Matt at DIYAutotune so I can get this figured out. I need to drive this next summer.