^ which would be countered by the cooler. Exhaust does a great got and warming the pan up. Think about warming up the car and waiting for the oil to warm up when your coolant is just as cold as the oil to start.
not if you have thermostat that starts to open once oil is warmed up
I used to run Spec C thermostat/oil cooler and I can tell you by experience it took longer for the oil to warm up, than when you have the stock oil cooler connected
your exhaust manifold doesn't get THAT hot when you are warming up the car, unless of course you are running ALS )
I think I'm gonna keep the OEM cooler loop. I dont see any down side. The external cooler would still be removing heat from the oil. Most of the time the oil will be hotter than the coolant anyway so they will both be helping cool things down.
I have never seen my water temp gauge move form normal on track(I know its not the most accurate).
The MPSS I have had on the car finally had enough so time to replace them with some more track oriented rubber.
I was looking at a lot of the different 200TW tires Dunlop Direzza ZIII, Hankook RS4(apparently i cant get these in my size :/ ) Falken Azenis RT615K+, Bridgestone Potenza Re71R.
I have a friend that gets great pricing on Falken tires so I went with them. Falken has changed the compound with the release of the +. Its supposedly the same compound as the Dunlop Direzza ZII Star spec.
Oh yeah, I almost forgot about this little guy that I got from my friend Tony OC Auto Spa/Wicked Detailing who did the ceramic coating on my car. He went back to stock on his 05 JDM STi Swapped 05 WRX. So I got first dibs on the whiteline RCA kit!
Looks to be the updated ball joints so I shouldn't have a problem with them walking out of the pockets in the knuckle.
wait what about the bump steer correction coming out of their pockets? i've had a weird clunk that I cant diagnose, and it really might be that. great updates
wait what about the bump steer correction coming out of their pockets? i've had a weird clunk that I cant diagnose, and it really might be that. great updates
This is the updated kit from whiteline where they addressed that issue. It was the first relese ones that did that. Any of the black housings ones are the updated version.
On another note, I can no longer edit the first post any more which is super lame. As if the forums needed help getting screwed over
I just accessed it on the computer, its good now. I think it was just bugging out on mobile. Thank god, I'd be so pissed if I couldn't update the first post.
I'm cool with the composites manager at work and I asked him if he could make me a carbon heat shield for my intake. He used the stock steel as a mold, came out awesome!
Here is the weight of the stock one(using it as a mold left some weave imprints on it):
Lets get to the point.
Donor car: 2005 sti slightly modded.
Was fun while it lasted.
Fun in the snow.
And on the track.
Then some water happened along with a crazy idea and this was purchased.
and the FUN begins.
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So, this is my second RS. Not much else to say. All of the info from my first RS can be found here:
Equinox's Impreza 2.5 RS - Crashed - Subaru Impreza GC8 & RS Forum & Community: RS25.com
So. On with it.
This is my 1998 Impreza RS in Rally Blue Pearl. Look...
This is mostly the progress of my srp 2001 L coupe, but also some 98L and 2018 brz stuff.
Backstory:
I got the car in August 2011 with 100,500 miles. It was my first car, and it had lots of problems at the start. Almost sold it a few times, but once I read about all the swap stuff, I...
Hey guys sold the wagon, heres its journal http://www.rs25.com/forums/f145/t172054-ivonko-obs-gf8-wannabe-slow-build.htmlmade profit on it. so here is the gem i picked up,
2000 Subaru RS
ej251
150k miles
all stock
The game plan:
Black=need
Blue= Bought
Red=installed
EXTERIOR:
-v6 front lip...
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