Being -20C outside (but a nice balmy -18.5C in my garage) it seemed like a good time to start some wrenching. Because really, who doesn't want to have cold fingers while turning a ratchet?
The car has been CELing, complaining about something to do with the front o2 sensor.
We (and by "we" I mean Airboy) figured it was either a bad front o2 sensor, or a leak somewhere in the header/UP flow.
Seemed like a good excuse to take it all apart since I need to wrap it anyways.
Ordered new gaskets for the entire exhaust system, pre and post turbo.
Ordered a new o2 sensor, just because I know if I didn't I would need one.
They'll all be here in a week, maybe 2 depending on customs.
Since I'm tired of looking at a CEL, I don't have a problem putting the car on stands for a couple weeks.
So let's get started.
Just for reference, this is how it looked when I started. If it doesn't look like this when I'm done, I can still probably get the going rate of about $30k for it.
Pretty standard I/Cless engine.
Mmmm... tasty!
On to the good stuff.
Driver side flange looked good and sealed.
Decently sized bolt used as an EGT plug. Go big or go home.
Sleeves look alright.
I'm disappointed with the blue filter, but the PO didn't seem like much a "forum guy" so how could he know that subaru sells itshay for its own cars?
Passenger side flange looks fine.
Seems to be the smallest amount of exhaust fluff around the header > UP flange.
Hopefully this is the source of the CEL.
The gasket didn't look like there was an obviously leak, but there was a bit of black on it where there shouldn't be.
I forgot to get a pic of the gasket, and now it's outside and I'm on my couch, all warm and toasty.
Over the next days/weeks, the UP and DP will come off (DP mostly out of necessity in order to get to the UP bolts, but it needs to be wrapped anyways)
This concludes today's episode of What's That Mod.
No wrenches were thrown into the wall during the filming of this episode.
All swears were kept out of the ears of innocent children, because it's minus uckfaying 20 degrees out and they're all inside staying warm.