mystic blue or whatever they called it in 97, but anyways that is my wifes impreza i totaled out from hitting a deer almost 4 years ago. its been in another garage since and i recently moved it into mine.
been way to busy with full time job, shop life and life in general to post on here or even work on my pending swap. that might change here in a few weeks when i'm on vacation for two weeks, but i doubt it.
anyways other updates include buying a new truck.
yep 2017 F250 crew cab with 8' box. all aluminum body so no more pesky rusty body.
but what else would i buy a truck for, towing those poor orphan subarus home.
this one here is an ugly duckling, but its what on the inside that counts right?
yep a ver1 wrx swap in a 95 coupe. couldn't pass it up for the price i payed.
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.
The time has finally come for me to organize a members journal! Ive been a member here since I purchased my 98 2.5RS in late December of 2005. My car, not unlike myself, has been through a lot since then and made many changes. And now, upon organizing parts and information for my swap, I...
This is going to be the tale of my second rs build.
I purchased for 2k the catch is that it had a blown head gasket...12/1/14 also found some rod bearings were bad too. instead of putting more cash into the current 2.5 i went apeshit AND bought a jdm full sti swap and copious amounts of clean...
So..
picked me up another chassis. $600 and it runs, mostly!
Still have the ej20g, gearbox, RobTune and iWire harness, stance coilovers (I had just bought to replace my godspeed crap) and lots of other parts... so here we go again!
From the ashes, she will rise!
past build for...
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...
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