Current: Stage 2 Cobb OTS
Well I decided that I should start one of these since i need a place to write everything I've done down or ill probably forget, haha.
I bought my car on March 19/11 after looking since late 2010. I wanted something with a turbo
, that was easy to get more power and wasn't FWD like my last car (protege5, fun car but not much power and i got bored of the fwd after a year and a half). i had heard some things about the wrx and there mystic ability to actually accelerate faster than a turtle so i decided to start looking into them and decided i wanted one
. So on March 18th after work on friday i hopped on a bus and started out on one of the most boring uncomfortable trips of my life and headed to winnipeg, to go pick up my 2005 WRX Wagon with 127,XXX KM's.
If you just want the short version and to see pics and mods/plans go down to the dashed line and continue reading after that. to get the full experience haha, continue on from here. It seemed like the perfect buy. All maintenance history, always taken to Frontier Subaru, never modified (so i thought) and it was a Wagon
. So i drove it home and ended up getting home around midnight. i had gotten a few rocks on my windshield on the way home but nothing out of the ordinary, and the first morning of owning the car i walk out to look at my prized new possession and i see a crack in the windshield
.
So i take it to work to give it a good look over and i see that one valve cover is leaking one is seeping and there is a tiny bit of wetness around some spots of the timing cover (which had all recently been resealed at the subaru dealership. i also see aground cable that is supposed to be on the starter that is not hooked up. then some other minor things like seeping axle seals and a couple other minor easy fix things. o ya it also had a minor case of piston slap (figured it just gave it character, haha).
So besides the crack in the windshield and the few leaks that aren't too bad and i figure i'll get around too, everything is going awesome. im loving the car, finding all the wonderful noises it makes. clunking while shifting a little harder than normal (in goes the TIC klunk killer) and the wonderful grinding when slowing down with the clutch engaged (exedy replacement clutch that was put in not too long before i bought it, i have since found out that the spring design on the clutch can cause them too rattle).
so we are having a Saskatoon/Regina meet @ a small town in between them. i decide to go for a super awesome rally shot and bend a rim (which was all part of a master plan too get the wheels i really wanted
) so now i'm on a donut for the rest of the day and at the end have a fun hour long drive limited to 80km/hr ahead of me. on the way back something starts to feel a bit wierd in the back end like it is holding me back. i check the e-brake but it isn't on, and then i feel a pop and it frees up but now im hearing a rattling. i touch the e-brake handle again and i can feel the rattle in it so i figure there was a stone jammed in the brakes from my awesome rally driving
and it is not rattling around in there.so i get back home and go to work to check for damage from the bent rim (which turns out to be just the bent rim. but i realize that i can shake my axles at the diff quite a bit. and long story short my car came with extended warranty and i now have a new rear diff in my car (spider gear broke into 6 pieces and wrecked some of the other gears).
So the new rear diff is in and im on winter tires since one tire and rim is wrecked. I've really been wanting to do autox so i decide to buy new wheels and tires since i cant geat a replacement rim anymore and mine cant be fixed. so i get some 17x8 +48 gold ultraleggaras in 225/45 hankook ventus v12 blah blah blah long name tires. not the best but they were pretty cheap for what they are. so i get out to the autox track and i am marshalling the first heat then my heat comes up and im getting excited. i finish my run and get back in line. then i notice white steam coming from my hood. i take a look and there is coolant everywhere after only 1 run. so again it is back to work to take a look. and it ends up being that my engine moved arounf enough that my alternator pulley had been slicing my rad hose and on that run finally got through it. so on goes a new rad hose trimmed to give more than enough clearance and a kartboy pitch stop mount (love it).
Again all is going good and so i decide to order a Cobb Ap and go stg 1. and 2 days after ordering it and just at the beginning of cruise weekend when we are having the boxer battle my car decides it wants to spin a bearing,
. that was just over 2 weeks ago now and we are still sorting out with warranty what is going to happen, hopefully a new short block. This is where i find out that my car had been modifies before, as it has a Cobb uppipe on it.
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SHORT VERSION
-not the best work done by previous dealer
-cracked windshield
-bent rim (my fault obviously)
-rear diff broke (new one put in by warranty)
-Alternator sliced rad hose
-engine spun a bearing (replaced shortblock and cleaned and grinded heads under warranty along with a new turbo)
So right now my car is just sitting around with no engine in it and i figure why not do a few upgrades while it's out and hopefully make sure the loss of oil supply doesn't happen again. so just a few moments ago i ordered a killerB pick up and baffle and im getting an '06 STI oil pan and dipstick tube/dipstick also but haven't order them yet. and i also ordered a invidia catless downpipe the extra 02 bung, a Grimmspeed heat-shield, group N engine mounts and hella supertones. and im also going to get rid of that crap exedy rattle clutch and get an oem clutch.
So i will be updating this as i order and put stuff on my car and of course everyone really only wants to see pics so hear they are