Andyjo
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Take another look. It says caver. I think he uses that heavy duty bumper to lower the whole car down into the caves to go 4x4 spelunking.
Lower the front end down? it only weighs like 20lbs more than stock :-p
I use it.. for running into things.. and whatever people use tube bumper for
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Man, I want a push bar too! Where'd you get it?
Made it
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No overheating here, and i'm not exactly running a stock setup. I've never had any problems in traffic, running it hot, and hard, temp gauge never moves from the middle :-p
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Front mount intercooler
20g turbo
meth/water injection
paint your brake calipers red (at least +11whp)
and... how about this
http://legacygt.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=12
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hrmmmmmm
what kind of highway ride do they give?
try tire rack or your redneck 4wd shop bob. He may know better then any of us.
nipper
i've ridden in jeeps w/ swampers on the highway... let's just say it's sort of like one of those massage chairs :-p
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Serious pain meds make writing instructional technical writing better
hope all is well nippster, car looks HOTT!!!
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I guess it's better then getting an STD.
I'm not so sure about that :-p
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Alright, so i don't really like the 08 OB, but the girlfriend had to go out and get one... so i did my best to make it shiney.. i must say.. they do clean up pretty nice!
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here's your answer:
Make them fit
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so, i just ordered a new set of tires for my legacy that should be in tomorrow. i think they might be too big, and i'm nervous about the hassle at the garage.
215/75r15 goodyear wrangler rt/s on a 96 legacy sedan with an OB lift.
anyone have experience with this size on this model?
Dude, aren't you like the only one around here w/ a lifted legy' sedan? :-p
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There's a TSB for the 05 OBXT MT's... they'll 1st re-flash your cruise, and if it still happens, then they have to add a spacer on the neutral position sensor.
Mine does it.. but i'm also out of warrenty...
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Alright, so one of the control wires poped off the circuit board in the control unit of my radio, for the aux in mod. I left my soldering iron & heat gun back up in NH... I'd rather not take a lighter to the circuit board... any ideas? it's sort of current sensive in there... and i can't stand driving w/o music... so...
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Nice work!
that's like.. exactly how we built mine, except there was some bending and messing up involved with mine
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see the offroad section... there might be some better answers there... actually, you might have an answer in the FAQ :-p
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Damn!!
Thanks AndyJo, that's all great info....
http://legacygt.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=30
they're not super expensive, i got mine there, you need to make sure you get the proper tranny type, because one for an auto won't work for a 5spd.
there's alot of good tuning info on there too, it's where i got all my info from :-p
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You know, you could go in to business charging a *nominal* fee for "upgrading" the fuel maps for other owner's vehicles
..... I suppose there is a licensing issue though.Any plans to come and visit Minnesota?
;) - were kinda like relatives you know, owning the same type of vehicle and all .... :-pHaha, you know if you can't plug the accessport into your odbII port, and hit a few buttons you might want to have some stuff checked out
Honestly, it's SUPER easy, you open up the box, plug the AP into your computer, download the newest maps, upload them to the AP, take it out to your car, plug it in, and hit 'go' the 1st time will take ~30 mins (v1.0), and then you're good to go! at first you might not notice anything at all, i didn't... but then after about 100 or so miles (after it 'learns') you really start to feel the difference.
As for long term considerations.... no? i change my oil on a regular basis (3-4000) miles... run synthetic oil...
I do actually have relitives in MI... weird.. not sure exactly where they live though...
If you're drooling over the AP, you should slap some megan racing coilovers under there
OHHH yeah, and you know that studder you get sometimes when you shift, and the revs are ~ 2000 rpm? (the thing subaru should have put out a tech service bulliten about.. but didn't..) well the fuel maps fix that.
oh yeah, and a single accessport 'marries' itself to a single ECU, so you can't just go around upgrading everyone else's cars (yeah tried it, no dice.)
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I've been running it tuned since December i believe (there was alot of snow out...).
It's a 5spd (come on, it has a turbo, what else would it have?
)I have had to run 87 octane before, in an emergency in the middle of nowhere Illinois, i just dropped the fuel map back to stock and drove it real easy until i found a gas station w/ higher octane gas.
I've been running the 93 octane maps since i got it, mainly because most places around here sell 93, not 91, and if i'm going to be paying for 93, i'd better get all the power i can out of it
I have the base map set to 91 oct, but the realtime maps at 93 (if i disconnect battery or something, it'll drop itself down to 91). If i can only find 91 oct.. i'll change the map, takes less than 30 seconds to swap the realtime maps around. As for gas milage... i'm not very good at keeping my foot off the gas.. so around town, back & forth to work and stuff i get about 22.2mpg, straight highway if i'm really good i can get 26.1mpg, and those are both with the 93 oct maps.
If you think about it really, the higher octane maps are going to be more efficient than the stock ones...
as for the 'economy' fuel maps, i tried them once on a trip out to Illinois for a few tanks, i got ~ 25-26 out of it, but you really have to drive it for the economy more (econo mode = no boost control).
I believe i get ~ 17-18psi on the higher maps, but i haven't checked it in a while. (i usually run out of road, and don't have time to look at the gauge..)
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Umm... they make tuning stuff for the LGT and OBXT, you don't have to use wrx stuff, because not everything is the same, especailly the ECUs'
I have an Accessport (cobb) for my OBXT, pushed it up to ~ 295hp @ 305ft-lbs, with all stock exhaust & TMIC. So, i'm at 'stage1' you can push it up to stage 2 by throwing a new up & dwn pipe in there, on the stock turbo, i think the high octane stage2 fuel mapps will put you at like... 305hp? i can took up the figures if you're really interested.
If you're just planning on swaping the maps once, and leaving it, it's really not worth going for the accessport v2.0, it's the same thing as v1.0, just alot faster.. but if you're not swapping maps all the time, it doesn't really matter.
and yes, there is a HUGE difference between the stock config & the tuned ones...
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Get a OBXT MT, and lower it with some coilovers, and then get a LGT hood... and there you go!
and you know, you can debadge it, and swap some rims/tires around.
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you want more power...hmmm... a bov isn't going to give you that much gain in anything with that car.
You should waste your money on bigger ingectors, water/meth injection, UP/DWN pipes, port out everything, bigger turbo, FMIC, and finnally get it pro tuned
you'll be destroying those wrx kiddies
but that stuff is expensive... you could just get it tuned as is and yield a huge performance gain.
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im looking, trust me
nipper
you might be able to fix the stiff steering if you can find a way to lengthen the steering yoke a little more, i'm pretty sure that's what's making it stiff.
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Looks sexy nippster, good job!
and yeah, the tranny, when i manage to get under the car again i'll fix it.. :-p
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WTF WAS SUBARU THINKING?! )(*!^#(*^(*@^$@!^%#@^%@
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the story, went to the dealer the other day w/ the woman, we were looking at some 03-05 impreza wagons, and i noticed something odd in the corner of the lot... it was an 08 WRX.... UHG! at first i saw the pics, and you know.. i was like, you know.. i could be ok, whatever, i'll wait till i see it in person... and BARF! it looks like a freaking Vibe with a hood scoop.... or a mazda 3... come on subaru, get a grib... gross....
they also had a regular impreza there... and.. ewww same deal...
i don't think i'm ever going to own an 08+ impreza.....
sorry if i hurt your feelings, but gross!!!
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05 Outback xt, CD player dead,
in 1990 to Present Legacy, Impreza, Outback, Forester, Baja, WRX&WrxSTI, SVX
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the 06's deff. fit in the 05... how are you breaking radios?
i've beat the crap out of mine... soldered on it, dropped it, craceked it around... weird...