Anyone seen or heard of anyone lowriding a subaru? I dont mean to offend anyone.....plan on offroading an 87 suby wagon soon but was curious if the opposite has been done? My main problem is im a poor college student working at a cafe doing a job I hate to get by ....dont have alot of money to spare, have saved up enough for a few things but was thinking....it would just be a whole lot cheaper to find some airbags or hydralics kit and lowride it, put on a nice custom paintjob at school, redo the interior myself, clean it up real nice, powdercoat a set of pugs..............not to shabby and would probably take me a fraction of the time to finish and feel good and happy when im rolling around. any comments?

Subystyle is the guy your looking for, and yes we gave him a lot of heck at first but his car turned out nice. Welcome aboard, Tim

I kinda lowered my RX.

 

Here's some pix of the car after I installed some front struts from a 2WD XT:

 

 

Now it has a rake to it, and I havent done anything to the rear. You can see some damage to the tire from the fender rubbing in that 2nd pic, and I have since changed to 13" alloys to solve all the rubbing.

 

-Brian

did you do anything to the back too or leave the rx springs on there?

It has the RX springs in the rear still. It has KYB GR2's front and rear as well. The front springs are still XT and they are really soft.

 

-Brian

subystyle? couldn't find that name on the members list, any idea how to get in contact with them? Nice RX, I desperately need to change the rear struts in my loyale, if I have more than one person in the back my tires smack the wheelwells every little bump....so nervewracking.

I just lowered my RX another inch in the rear and got Ecstas mounted on steel wheels for autocrossing . I'm trying to get the roll center low enough where it won't jack the rear up in the air during heavy trail braking( Rotation, rotation). I may be able to snap some current pictures if anyone cares.

 

Jay

I believe his name is Subaru_Styles. I will tell him to check here next time I see him online. He has done the 5 lug swap on his Wagon and his Coupe is lowered just like mine.

 

I would like to lower the rear a hair, but alittle rake doesnt bother me.

 

-Brian

heres a pic of my lowrider subaru, its lowered about 2 inches front and rear, with a RX body kit on it.

 

 

http://www.suberdave.com/subaru/1988wagon/1988.htm

you can even do it to a brat....

http://www.ultimatesubaru.org/brats/cbrat/cbrat.html

I want to lower my brumby, stick some 17"s on it and get a custom bodykit made up for it that i saw on a WRX. do a ej25 turbo swap etc etc.. i could go on for hours. But then i want to build a second one taking after subaru brats, brat. 12" lift etc etc then i can have the best of both worlds of subaru!!

Granted my loweriding Suby is a gen 1 but here's a pic of it still...

I've always had the quandry in my head.

 

"To lift or to lower, that is the question."

My L series touring wagon has seen both. currently working on dumping it, as I now have the EA 82T conversion complete, and plenty of good roads to chase rex's. And rear wheel drive just to keep it interesting.

theres a few lowered old school subs around the board that I can see so far

So XT struts are the go?

hey superdave ,that car is lookin sharp! I like the cold air intake, I did something very similar. I have a question about spider intake on ea82, I see in the cold air intake pictures, the regular heads you would find on an ea82 (along with the dreaded EGR<-it got personal). Did you do anything else for that 4-tubed intake to mount?

inteersting.. my xt spider intake has not the provisions for the egr .. not complaining.. but interesting

blasphemy serously go with the 4x4 it will get more respect when finished

Not true. I have a 3" lifted wagon as well, and i get even less respect from the Jeepers than I do from the riceboys when they see my RX.

 

-Brian

has anyone tried to install an aftermarket sunroof kit on a suby with no sunroof? Was looking online and noticed some kits with rather large openings that would be really fun... like 40" by 70" and such.

Im sure you can. Any professional shop would be able to do it as well. ive seen plenty of aftermarket moon-roofs in Subarus at the yards.

 

Not sure if it will lower the car tho.

 

-Brian

 

p.s.

No wait, im pretty sure it WONT lower the car any

Mines kinda low:drunk:

lol it is suberdave.lol anyway i think subaru styles' wagon is awsum

do it!

i gotta a little flack for doing having a lowered soob when i first joined here, but i think it grew on alot of people.

 

outside(click for bigger pics)

 

and when you get to the point you should stop, but can't

styles...ready for some n00b questions? so you swapped all 4 of the original struts for an RX's? How much of a difference in height did that bring? How does it handle speed bumps and potholes? What all did you have to do to convert it to 5 lug and how would you reccomend getting the supplies to do it and about how much will it cost? More questions to come...sorry to bug you.

....was paying attention to the taillights of other vehicles on the way to san antonio and got to thinking.....anyone ever thing about molding another vehicles tail lights to their subie? saw some 93ish jeep taillights that looked fairly close in size...really like the look of the new trail blazer taillights...look smoked but still legal...like the subie lights well enough but shooting to stand out from the pack right?

When i get my brumby painted im going to get the pannel shop to modify the rear to accept the clear lights off a new style side mazda bravo. it should look cool and different!!