Hey all welcome and join me as I document the epic life of my car and photograph every moment... :woocow:
I purchased her Memorial Day Weekend 2012 or MDW12 Bro, with a mear 6 miles on the odometer and fell in love ever since!
41k miles
Exterior
-Dark Grey Metallic Paint
-20% Tints all around
-Red tails with/ smoked reverse
-Grimmspeed License plate relocater
-Gold and carbon fiber "I" badges
-Dual Color LED turn signals
-APR Carbon Fiber Front Wind Splitter
-STI JDM Black R205 Badges
-LED trunk, license plate, Reverse lights
-DGM Vortex Generator
-Rear STI fog light
-Gold Hella Horns
-Red Rally Armor Polyurethane Mudflaps (winter mode)
-Bayson R front lip (winter mode)
-TRICO Onyx wiper bladezzz
Interior
-Whelen Slim lighter light bar (blue)
-5SPD STI Duracon Shift knob
-LED Dome, Overhead lights
-All weather floor mats
Drivetrain
-Kartboy Short Shifter
Engine bay
-Turbosmart Recirculating Blow Off Valve
-Cobb Battery Tie Down
-Mishimoto Red Throttle body hose
Exhaust
-Invidia N1 Street
-Invidia Catless Downpipe
Tuning
-Accessport Stage 2 93 octane
Wheels/Tires/Suspension
-XXR 530 18x8.75 +33
-Hankook V12 Ventus Evo 245/35/18
-Eibach Pro-kit lowering springs
-Cusco Front Strut bar
Future Mod Path
-Dom 1.5XTR or 20G?
-DW65 Fuel Pump
-850cc or 1000cc injectors
-Process West Top Mount Intercooler
-STI Transmission Mount
-Rear shifter bushings
-SMY Dual Gauge pod cluster
(with gauges!!)
-Coils or different springs
-DGM headlights to match car paint
-HIDs
-Fog lights (OEM, Light bar or Large bug eye style?)
Definitely open to advice as to which route to take with the turbo heard plenty of advice so far the dom seems to be the best way to take as to building an awesome street wrx / future racecar
Had a very small boost leak coming from my throttle body hose so I have been off my boost fix for quite some time finally after ordering the new hose from RSD weeks ago it finally shipped and I threw it on my car as well as two 5/16 bolts and nuts for the turbo/TMIC because I had snapped a bolt there once and wasn't gonna let that happen again not a chance of getting a leak from there!
Check out that tear in the hose after pulling it off! #boostproblems
new Mishimoto hose installed looking pretty and providing me a little piece of mind under load.
Installation is super simple just place the mishimoto labeled side on the TMIC facing up with the dimple underneath!
Hey Sage, i changed to a mishimoto hose and i think RSD sent me the wrong size. It just does not line up correctly. I followed the instructions from the youtube video stating the label should be up and i did just that but it just was not right. Now my car runs like ****. Im thinking of putting the OEM back on but that thing is a POS. It was so loose when i removed it. RSD emailed Mishimoto about my complaints. I even took pictures of the hose with a ruler next to it. I think they sent me a wrong size. How is your hose holding up?
Happy two year anniversary to me and Emily! I fell in love the moment we first met! Even though she has a severe boo boo from hitting a pothole last rain storm
Impressively lucky. I hit a pot hole this winter and it too a chunk of my sidewall out bigger than a quarter and deep enough to go all the way to the inner wall of the tire. I got lucky the tire didn't blow, as I didn't even find out about it until just a few weeks ago.
Cleaned and detailed the inside of Emily today seeing its our 2 year anniversary weekend to say
Changed back to my OEM blinkers and to my surprise the passenger side still doesn't work so I'm guessing its something wrong with the wires maybe? Really disappointed to see this happen to a relatively new car.
In Emily's recent journey she hit 29,000 miles my girl is getting old at 2 years since we met.
Finally heard back from mishimoto and they approved me for a sponsorship!! So hopefully they release their TMIC for 08-14 wrx soon but what I really want and isn't very practical is their limited edition gold Eat Sleep Race intercooler which I can grab at a great price now but the piping is where the cost will be.
Nice I was looking at the gold does look nice but may need some custom pipe work. I was looking at the TMIC and though im sure it will be good it looks to be similar to the perrin design. Now just fix the bulb issue
Only associate for now gonna be tracking my car this summer hopefully so I can get some good publicity.
Emily goes to the dealership next week to figure out what is wrong with the blinker and I think my throw out bearing is starting to go so I will have them check the firewall welds.
I'm trading my exhaust for an invidia q300 so the stock one is going back on tomorrow, I honestly don't remember how quiet it was but atleast I'll have my downpipe still for the powaaaa
So emily is in the hospital (dealership) and I've been loaned a 2015 Forester. There are a few things I like the massive sunroof, comfy ride, ground clearance! Some things that surprised me were the manual handbrake as opposed to most new cars having an electronic one, the lack of Tip-tronic was also weird seeing as the last loaner I had 2012 Outback had paddle shifters (THAT SUCKED). It doesn't handle too bad for the size but the size is huge compared to an older forester this feels like a boat although the steering feels nice and direct.
She went to the dealer under warranty work for the blinker to be repaired I get a call today saying I have a bill for $600 can someone give me some help they said they replaced some electronics and only charging me for a few hours of labor but I never got a call saying id be paying for this repair otherwise I wouldn't have gotten it, help!!!
Well, did they tell you the repairs were going to be covered under warranty? and is it in writing? Also, did they fix more than what they had told you they were going to in the first place? Because if they did that without your authorization and are now charging you for it, I would be having an absolute sh!t fit if I was in your position.
I was under the impression this was going to be covered under warranty I've had a stupid loaner car the week missing my car while I've been outta work but there was no authorization on my part saying I'd agree to pay X amount of money, there is no way I can even come up with that tomorrow I just paid my school tuition.
There is your proof right there. No charges on the work order and no authorization from you that would give them the authority to do more work outside of the work you approved on the original order. You have a clear cut case, I would be back into the dealer tomorrow and raise hell with the service manager about this matter.
It's been awhile not much is new with Emily I got gold lug nuts, and gold quick bumper releases so the gold is running strong. I also have a gf now so there goes car part money but the sad part to this story is I am going to try hard to sell her she is barely over 30k just got all that maintenance done but I am going to be buying a truck from a friend GMC Sierra 2500HD with 110k miles sounds like a strange move but it is a diesel with a plow so I'd be making good use of it seeing as I tow often enough with my other truck and have a good set of contacts already if not I'm going to look at a 2500hd cummins with only 60k on the clock but for 30k not too pricey for a diesel let alone with those miles so if they buy my car I'm sold.
Any and all parts are now for sale off Emily really hard to say I'll start a build thread in the Tri-State section
It's been awhile not much is new with Emily I got gold lug nuts, and gold quick bumper releases so the gold is running strong. I also have a gf now so there goes car part money but the sad part to this story is I am going to try hard to sell her she is barely over 30k just got all that maintenance done but I am going to be buying a truck from a friend GMC Sierra 2500HD with 110k miles sounds like a strange move but it is a diesel with a plow so I'd be making good use of it seeing as I tow often enough with my other truck and have a good set of contacts already if not I'm going to look at a 2500hd cummins with only 60k on the clock but for 30k not too pricey for a diesel let alone with those miles so if they buy my car I'm sold.
Any and all parts are now for sale off Emily really hard to say I'll start a build thread in the Tri-State section
Hit these spots already but that was back when my car was very much stock so had to give it another shot! Hopefully getting a new and very good job soon and I'm going to refinance my car for its final set of payments so I got big things coming soon!