jboymechanic

You've been a busy boy Thomas, nice work man.

It's been a while Tom, where you been?

Can't wait to see it back together, looking good Tom.

Holy balls.

You been busy, more rust in the Loyale than I would have ever guessed. I think I have some FatMat left over from the Imperial, I'll check and if so you can have it if you haven't already purchased a bunch.

Do yourself a favor and skip brake parts from the junk yard, saving a few bucks isn't worth the potential hazard. Always do brake parts in pairs, so if you replace one caliper you better replace both. Otherwise you will find your car pulling one way or the other when you apply the brakes.

I would have just drilled out the old bolt, did it on both sides of 3 old Lego wagons I've owned, common problem. Also, if the shop broke the bolt they should have finished the job.

So you swapped the 2.2 heads onto a 2001 SOHC 2.5? Why? I put 2.2 heads on a DOHC 2.5 to get away from the "troublesome" DOHC heads and head gaskets and for more power in my Legacy that originally had a 2.2. Are you doing this purely to gain compression?

So is this car making the trip to CA?

Man, I need to see this thing before summer is over.

That's why he's the Fox.

Check that damn resistor on the coil bracket. I'll never forget when mine went bad, what a pain to find. Sounds like your crank or cam sensor might have gone bad or got unplugged.

New struts, Baja springs and Subtle Solutions 1" aluminum spacers on all four corners of my 2003 Outback. Also added new tires and a set of White Line camber bushings so the rear tires could be kept within factory alignment specs. New front axles and a four wheel alignment. Gained about 2.5 inches of ride height all around and still have perfect alignment. Rides and handles great too, really happy with the setup.

I'm dissappointed that you can't get the fun motor (Turbo) with the fun transmission (6 speed manual). Pretty soon all Subarus will just have CVTs, seems to be the route they're going. Getting to the point where you have to buy a base model/stripped car if you want to keep stick shift.