What work did you do on your car today?

[Technikhaus]

horrible, haha.

They're around $1k USD aren't they?
Makes it $1500 ish NZD...

[bjk]

895USD, but shipping, exchange rate and taxes are the killer.

[Technikhaus]

Yeah, ouch....

[bjk]

Got the non-new headlight polished a bit by a professional. Not perfect as didn't do a sand, but worth the $20 to have it come up better. Probably go back later and get it done as good as possible, also was told about clear UV resistant film that I'll probably get put on both.

Wasted $417 discovering that even the drive to work through the suburbs isn't free of random speed cameras. yaaay

[Vectose]

I think I win on caliper to spoke clearance.

Still need to sand the lettering down a bit as it's still touching a bit as it goes round.

BTW..... GTO brakes without caliper brackets.

[Shhtuart]

I think I win on caliper to spoke clearance.

Still need to sand the lettering down a bit as it's still touching a bit as it goes round.

BTW..... GTO brakes without caliper brackets.

Did you grab the hubs too?

[Vectose]

Yup, not a direct bolt on though. Bit of work required to make them fit.

[bjk]

And the detailer I went to was concerned about my 1mm clearance in the barrel.

[Bennoz]

Yeah my Brembos have a thin line of paint missing on the outer edge of the caliper lol

[Technikhaus]

I wonder how well mine are going to fit then, yikes haha

[rock_it]

I think I win on caliper to spoke clearance.

Still need to sand the lettering down a bit as it's still touching a bit as it goes round.

BTW..... GTO brakes without caliper brackets.

Jesus!

Would wanna hope there is no movement in the wheel/hub when throwing around corners as well with a clearance like that...

Which is why I went like a 5mm spacer...

[Technikhaus]

Picked up a new car for club sport on Tuesday, a 1992 BC legacy 2.2L AWD.
Drove it home from Timaru (2.5 hours) the same day, just to look at it the next day and find it's leaking a lot of oil from the rocker covers.

Replaced them on Tuesday and then it only gets worse, dumping a lot of oil...
Decided on Friday night that we'd pull the motor out this weekend and replace the rear main, and the oil separator seals.

On Saturday we pilled the motor out and then went to someone's property to grab a WRX shifter for it, and I noticed that he had a WRX gearbox and Dif/Subframe for sale, so I gave him an offer and took them home...

So next, we replace the seals and pulled out the gearbox, and left it at that for the day.
This morning I got back to it and then realised that the Legacy has a cable clutch and not a Hydraulic like the WRX, so back on the hunt we go, and finally find someone who has it all, and we also grabbed another pressure plate and release bearing, as they are also different.

So this evening we mounted up the gearbox and got onto the rear Diff, only to also notice that the rear CVs are different but thankfully we got the rear drive shafts from the WRX as well, so hopefully they will transfer onto the Legacy shafts.

This whole deal turned out to be a lot more effort than we had expected.

Hopefully tomorrow after work we'll get the Diff back in, and maybe the motor back in....

[bjk]

Fair effort.

[Technikhaus]

It's a pain in the ass, yet great at the same time, the fact that everything bolts up (once you get all the parts..) is awesome.

It'll be a great gravel hill climb and auto cross car once it's done, rear LSD, short gear ratios etc, should be some good fun

[silverGPX]

- put in facelift rheo sides (have to buy new centre piece from amayama) as its completely fucked
- bit more degreasing round the bay
- painted battery tray blaaaack
- painted top radiator mounts blaaaack
- changed power steering rack boots
- removed oil cooler and lines/ relocation as the pipes all leak like a sieve and won't pass roadworth
- drained sump
- refitted ifs and stepper after using them as a test for another member
- fitted new gearbox mount to lsd box
- ordered some new Parker bulb holders to plug into facelift headlights I bought
- ordered new dash globes from amayama for evo

[Technikhaus]

- put in facelift rheo sides (have to buy new centre piece from amayama) as its completely fucked
- bit more degreasing round the bay
- painted battery tray blaaaack
- painted top radiator mounts blaaaack
- changed power steering rack boots
- removed oil cooler and lines/ relocation as the pipes all leak like a sieve and won't pass roadworth
- drained sump
- refitted ifs and stepper after using them as a test for another member
- fitted new gearbox mount to lsd box
- ordered some new Parker bulb holders to plug into facelift headlights I bought
- ordered new dash globes from amayama for evo

Nice!
Still planning to sell it, or are you going to keep it for a while?

[silverGPX]

It finally came!

Umm put gearbox in and tidy up few things, loose exhaust and heatercore and sell

[Chebus]

Haha I got that bearing sitting in my shed ready to go in, but don't have time. Tell me how hard it is to do.

[Bennoz]

12 beers & an 8 ball.

[silverGPX]

Tbh the only hard part is jimmying the gearbox back on