07NAHWKI
Active member
I've been a member for a little over a year, meet a few people but never started a journal, so here goes.
Bought her used in August of 2009 with 33K miles, payed 15k. Fell in love with car on the ride from the dealer ship in Boston, to my parents house in Lewiston. Lots of great stories, and fun happened over the next 5 years and 80k miles. But on to the pictures.
The Day I brought her home.
First set of mods:
Hybrid Intake
Custom painted Grill, and emblems,
Custom painted alternate cover,radiator supports, intake scope.
De-badged the trunk and used the emblems on the air filter box, and the fuse box.
Next came some window tint, 20% on the four passenger windows, nothing on the rear-window.
Next came the custom cat-back, basically a modified 04 wrx catback, removed the resonator, and the stock muffler sections.
See was like that for a while until I wanted a little more loud, so I got a thrush welded muffler on at a friends house. About a year later that fell of cause my friend apparently can't weld, not I have a cheap advance auto muffler on there until I can get a wrx ebay cat-back modified to fit.
Last fall I purchased a rally innovations light bar from Rob(rezpunk), was from a 04 sti. Required a custom mounting solution.
First mounting/test fitting
Then I decided it need more green, some lights:
Before winter was over I decided I wanted to dip my rims, so I continued the green color scheme, but added some black, ended up being 4 base coats of white, 4 coats of green, 4 coats of black, and 4-5 coats of matte clear coat.Here is the final product.
Most recently I wanted to reduce road noise in the cabin so I decided to peal & seal my trunk, and under the rear seat, Then I placed carpet padding underneath the rear seat, and the carpet in the trunk. I will say that I have had the trunk and under the seat covered for about 2 weeks, and only once have I caught the slightest smell of tar. I will update once the summer gets really hot we shall see.
To reduce even more noise I also lined the rear shelf, and rear door cards with carpet padding as well.
Finally I decided to attempt to tint my rear window, came alright, you can clearly see the lines between the strips. On the inside there is about an 1 inch or so over lap of each piece of tint. After doing the rear window, I decided to re-tint my rear windows since one had a tear in it. So all three rear windows now have 5% tint, and the front still have 20%.
Rear window:
Side windows:
Inside the car comparison of the side windows:
Oil pressure gauge installation:
And now just some pictures of the car.
This one is thanks to Garrett from the dirt drive:
Well I feel like I just wrote a short novel, lol and if any one is interested here is a link to all the pictures, that I upload:
http://s1284.photobucket.com/user/07nahwki/slideshow/Lola
Future plans are a custom tune this summer, possible delta cams, rallisport headers, and 91 octane.then back to Granite State to dyno and see what kinda numbers I can get. Have a base line from the annual meet, she made 130whp/135wtq.
Dyno link:
Also soon to come is a suspension, possible thinking of going about 2 inches lower.
Thanks for reading Mainely Subaru.
Josh.
Bought her used in August of 2009 with 33K miles, payed 15k. Fell in love with car on the ride from the dealer ship in Boston, to my parents house in Lewiston. Lots of great stories, and fun happened over the next 5 years and 80k miles. But on to the pictures.
The Day I brought her home.
First set of mods:
Hybrid Intake
Custom painted Grill, and emblems,
Custom painted alternate cover,radiator supports, intake scope.
De-badged the trunk and used the emblems on the air filter box, and the fuse box.
Next came some window tint, 20% on the four passenger windows, nothing on the rear-window.
Next came the custom cat-back, basically a modified 04 wrx catback, removed the resonator, and the stock muffler sections.
See was like that for a while until I wanted a little more loud, so I got a thrush welded muffler on at a friends house. About a year later that fell of cause my friend apparently can't weld, not I have a cheap advance auto muffler on there until I can get a wrx ebay cat-back modified to fit.
Last fall I purchased a rally innovations light bar from Rob(rezpunk), was from a 04 sti. Required a custom mounting solution.
First mounting/test fitting
Then I decided it need more green, some lights:
Before winter was over I decided I wanted to dip my rims, so I continued the green color scheme, but added some black, ended up being 4 base coats of white, 4 coats of green, 4 coats of black, and 4-5 coats of matte clear coat.Here is the final product.
Most recently I wanted to reduce road noise in the cabin so I decided to peal & seal my trunk, and under the rear seat, Then I placed carpet padding underneath the rear seat, and the carpet in the trunk. I will say that I have had the trunk and under the seat covered for about 2 weeks, and only once have I caught the slightest smell of tar. I will update once the summer gets really hot we shall see.
To reduce even more noise I also lined the rear shelf, and rear door cards with carpet padding as well.
Finally I decided to attempt to tint my rear window, came alright, you can clearly see the lines between the strips. On the inside there is about an 1 inch or so over lap of each piece of tint. After doing the rear window, I decided to re-tint my rear windows since one had a tear in it. So all three rear windows now have 5% tint, and the front still have 20%.
Rear window:
Side windows:
Inside the car comparison of the side windows:
Oil pressure gauge installation:
And now just some pictures of the car.
This one is thanks to Garrett from the dirt drive:
Well I feel like I just wrote a short novel, lol and if any one is interested here is a link to all the pictures, that I upload:
http://s1284.photobucket.com/user/07nahwki/slideshow/Lola
Future plans are a custom tune this summer, possible delta cams, rallisport headers, and 91 octane.then back to Granite State to dyno and see what kinda numbers I can get. Have a base line from the annual meet, she made 130whp/135wtq.
Dyno link:
Also soon to come is a suspension, possible thinking of going about 2 inches lower.
Thanks for reading Mainely Subaru.
Josh.
Last edited by a moderator:
