IBratmanI
Subaru Ambassador- AdidaSubarus
Awesome!!! I'm sure you'll get it back together. This is minor compared to what you've already done to it!!!
The life, death, and ressurection of a king.
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2point5RS_Dan
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I got out of the car. Went "oh, that kinda sucks", then walked over to my tools to take it off. This shit is just common place at this point.
krazykarpenter
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think of it as putting the RS on an immediate diet. At least you had fun doing it though.
2point5RS_Dan
HATER DAN
BMW Andrew threatened to protest my classing if I beat his times (I did). Surprisingly the fender and liner are pretty light. I could have lost more weight if I stopped being lazy and dropped my skidplate and pulled the seats for the day. autocross isn't worth the effort unless folks want to really challenge me for times, otherwise it's just for fun.
Speaking of weight, the light bar quick disconnect setup was AWESOME this morning. Had the thing off in under a minute. I like good engineering.
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2point5RS_Dan
HATER DAN
Dur.
I sanded and painted some light surface rust. Brown is the rustoleum rusty metal primer. Then I hit it with a top coat of ford metallic blue which is close enough for something that is going to be covered by a fender.
Once the fender goes on I need to figure out how the hell I'm going to remount the liner. I'm being lazy though and just driving the Jeep until everything is painted.
krazykarpenter
New member
That rustoleum rusty primer works great. Used it when I repainted the dump trailer. Good luck attaching the fender liner
GClark
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No need for liners.
2point5RS_Dan
HATER DAN
Looks okay from far away. There's some gap between the fender and door, but I'm done mucking with it. Fender liner needed to go back in because it protects some wiring plus keeps me from spraying dirt into the door area. Good thing I've got a bag full of put body parts back on the car hardware thanks to the race mustang. Put in a ton of pop its. I'll be converting my mudflaps from bolts to pop its as well so this wont happen in the future.
At some point I'll buy new (used) fenders. I also want a wrx hood for the weight loss, so maybe front end conversion
Someday right.
krazykarpenter
New member
Looks good did you have to repaint it at all?
2point5RS_Dan
HATER DAN
Looks like ass in person. Just photographs okay.
Paint is chipped in spots. Just blasted it with my ford touch up paint. The chips are where the fender folded. Shit was straight up taco'd.
Paint is chipped in spots. Just blasted it with my ford touch up paint. The chips are where the fender folded. Shit was straight up taco'd.
2point5RS_Dan
HATER DAN
Ol' crate still moves.
Chris
YARRR SUBY MONSTER!!
GClark
New member
MOD RACEEEEEEEEEE
2point5RS_Dan
HATER DAN
Funding has resumed.
Gonna do big things
Gonna do big things
2point5RS_Dan
HATER DAN
Light bar is in the back seat since the car has become a commuter slut.
My exhaust is cracked like 3/4's around the circumference of the midpipe. It cracked at the midpipe hanger, so we TIG'd on a patch. Of course it cracked on the other side of the hanger. Parking garage this morning was just obnoxious maneuvering around as the exhaust echo'd through the LOVING place. I'll have to patch it sooner rather than later.
My exhaust is cracked like 3/4's around the circumference of the midpipe. It cracked at the midpipe hanger, so we TIG'd on a patch. Of course it cracked on the other side of the hanger. Parking garage this morning was just obnoxious maneuvering around as the exhaust echo'd through the LOVING place. I'll have to patch it sooner rather than later.
2point5RS_Dan
HATER DAN
Figured out WHY my exhaust was cracking. On the muffler hanger, there's a bracket with a bolt to hold one of the rubber mounts in. The bracket and bolt were pretty mangled, and the bolt must have made an escape. I ended up using some coat hanger to get the hanger back in place so the can will stop flailing around and torquing my exhaust, but I'll have to find/buy a new bracket and bolt. That and sleeve the exhaust. Might be able to squeeze it in during mustang tuning this week...
IBratmanI
Subaru Ambassador- AdidaSubarus
Yeah exhausts don't like it when hangers are missing, they tend to fail somewhere near that point.
CoupedUpSubie
FWD-FTW
Fender looks good considering what it looked like after that run. Sounds like you broke your exhaust in about the same spot that is cracked on mine.
Chris
YARRR SUBY MONSTER!!
They all crack in the same place. It's a subaru thing.
2point5RS_Dan
HATER DAN
I hacked my desk phone at work.
