2point5GT_Dan Posted July 21, 2012 Share Posted July 21, 2012 Hello all, I picked up a 2002 Legacy GT Limited earlier this summer for $600 dollars. http://i.imgur.com/UVSgB.png Motor was blown, high mileage, rust, it's a basket case. Good thing I like working on subarus. Bringing it home (I dropped the driveshaft to dolly it home) Got it home and took some pictures of the initial damage; Rusty trunk Rusty inner door area Rusty fender Dented front fender Day 1 did a tear down of the center console area and parts of the dash. It was filthy: Gross switches: Cutting up the rusty inner door area: New metal welded in: Sealed with chassis saver and waiting for a sanding and OEM color match spraybomb: Dumped in a motor I got off a friend: It runs: Upon install, we noticed someone jacked the car up by the transmission oil pan. This is bad. It bends up and crushes important shift things inside it. First drive of the car, motor was great, but the car was stuck in third gear. Drop the trans pan! http://i.imgur.com/aMJdil.jpg Broken solenoid. http://i.imgur.com/uyhlnl.jpg Bought a new one from the dealer and threw it in. The car had gears, but was bang shifting and staying in high gears. WTF Pulled the codes and had a throttle position sensor issue. Swapped the throttle body off my dead ej25 that came with the car and the trans was sorted! Yay After that it's chasing down the three check engine lights I have left. All of them evap related. I was told it was probably the filler neck, so I replaced that and the fuel valve. http://i.imgur.com/UScQkl.jpg New one painted with chassis saver: http://i.imgur.com/2skMIl.jpg Filler neck didn't clear the codes, but from what I've read on here, it's possibly an electrical connector near the charcoal box. Doing brakes and fixing that this weekend. All that's left is: CEL's Brakes Get the new tires mounted Alignment State inspection Now the reason I picked this car up is to build it as a new daily driver. I'm comfortable working on subarus because of all the slaving away I've done on this: http://i.imgur.com/28L6F.jpg My 2002 impreza RS. The car is getting gutted and a roll cage once the legacy is done, and the plan is to run stage rally with it! http://i.imgur.com/fgeRg.jpg http://i.imgur.com/xvubY.jpg Thanks for reading. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
That Guy 2-1 Posted July 21, 2012 Share Posted July 21, 2012 good work so far! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2point5GT_Dan Posted July 23, 2012 Author Share Posted July 23, 2012 http://i.imgur.com/02HxWl.jpg Tires showed up in less than 24 hours from when I ordered them from tire rack. Getting them mounted this week. I also put in the comments section of my order "can i have free stickers lol". Got a huge manila envelope in the mail full of stickers, windshield banner decal, etc etc. So reading online, I found on legacygt most people had issues with evap shit due to terrible factory wiring, so I went looking. http://i.imgur.com/V09Dml.jpg http://i.imgur.com/zCNlbl.jpg Strip the wiring loom off the solenoid valve stupid evap thing and found this: http://i.imgur.com/uRV38l.jpg Yep, there's your problem. Fixed that, get in, clear codes. BAM. Three CEL's killed with one wire. Fixed all the brakes, then time for a lunch break. http://i.imgur.com/F6tz0l.jpg Ripped the rear bumper off to fix some rust and paint stuff. Took the car for a 20 mile drive. http://i.imgur.com/AuhTDl.jpg Car is going for state inspection next weekend. Can't wait to see what they say I need to fix next. Also, this thing is slow as shit. 0-60 in 11.25 seconds according to the Torque app. Good thing I don't mind. I can't drive wrx's because I have little self control, my RS is borderline too fast. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caschmidt Posted July 25, 2012 Share Posted July 25, 2012 haha nice work dude! I love working on them too but that thing was rrrrrusty. I cant believe the size of that hole in the rear door. btw my 2.5 seems quick compared to my 2.2 outback Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WESTcoast Posted July 25, 2012 Share Posted July 25, 2012 great job on bringing her back alive!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GEE-OTTO Posted July 25, 2012 Share Posted July 25, 2012 sweet! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2point5GT_Dan Posted July 25, 2012 Author Share Posted July 25, 2012 haha nice work dude! I love working on them too but that thing was rrrrrusty. I cant believe the size of that hole in the rear door. btw my 2.5 seems quick compared to my 2.2 outback It's actually not that bad at all. My RS had way worse rust in the rear wheel well. I had never welded before, just sucked it up and did it. Sawzalled a patch panel out of another car. I've been keeping the RS running for the last two years through a lot of terrible failures, that's why I was able to turn around this legacy so quick, because I've got no issues going deep into these cars. great job on bringing her back alive!!! Thanks! Mounted up a set of brand new Continental DWS's on the snowflakes that came with the car. Throwing those on and buffing the headlights Saturday and it's off to state inspection. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2000_LegacyOutback Posted July 26, 2012 Share Posted July 26, 2012 great work man! bringing what seems to be junk back to life is the best way to buy! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PeterJMC Posted July 26, 2012 Share Posted July 26, 2012 Awesome work on the car! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AquartAlex Posted July 28, 2012 Share Posted July 28, 2012 People always have the will to make a nice car better, not too many will make a beater better. Welds didnt look too pretty but very nice Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
compsurge Posted July 28, 2012 Share Posted July 28, 2012 Five stars for the effort and love in this thread. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
9mm Posted July 28, 2012 Share Posted July 28, 2012 nice! /\__/\ (='.'=) This is Cat. Copy and paste Cat (")_(") to help him gain world domination. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tytek Posted July 28, 2012 Share Posted July 28, 2012 Impressed with the resurrection you had served up. Great job troubleshooting the tranny and CELs. Car looks good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
987687 Posted July 28, 2012 Share Posted July 28, 2012 We didn't realize the tranny had issues until the first drive... It sorta ruined the night until I saw that the pan was dented. It was a really bizarre failure mode, though. It didn't go into full limp. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2point5GT_Dan Posted July 29, 2012 Author Share Posted July 29, 2012 987687 has been a huge help. He helped me dump the motor and helped troubleshoot all the other issues. I got the car stickered today. Passed maine state inspection. Had to have trailing arm bushings done because they were seperated. I had the dealer do it because they have a press tool to do it, where as I'd take 6 hours to do it. Plus I wanted a sticker now. Drove it 100 miles today with zero issues. More pictures and details but imgur is giving me a hard time. Oh. I'm autocrossing it tomorrow for ess and giggles. Mostly to maintain my street cred. And I'm crazy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2point5GT_Dan Posted July 29, 2012 Author Share Posted July 29, 2012 http://i.imgur.com/wh7he.jpg Car did great. It's a big slow boat, but it it held together. I'm getting some binding/clunking on long left hand sweepers. Not really sure what that is about. Doing tight circles in a parking lot doesnt do it, so I don't think it's torque bind. Need to check my front left everything. Hoping it's just an axle CV because I have spares. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rustysteel Posted July 30, 2012 Share Posted July 30, 2012 Nice work. I'll be running my wagon in a couple of weeks at our local autocross. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
monkeyposeur Posted July 30, 2012 Share Posted July 30, 2012 Good job! My wagon was a total beater when I got it. Now it turns a few heads, lol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2point5GT_Dan Posted August 8, 2012 Author Share Posted August 8, 2012 Had the tires rebalanced this weekend. Went on a trip for work on the highway and had major driveline vibrations. Dealership took care of things. Now I'm only getting minor butt vibes, but it's good enough at this point. Driving 6 hours for work tomorrow. Then driving to waltham mass this saturday to get new fenders and a trunk to really clean the car up since mine are all jacked up. After that it's clean up the interior and fill it full of sound deadening, more so than what came from the factory. She's coming along. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2point5GT_Dan Posted August 12, 2012 Author Share Posted August 12, 2012 Drove to waltham mass because they had a fender and trunk: http://i.imgur.com/hWDlel.jpg http://i.imgur.com/NQOkbl.jpg Top, origional trunk that I welded up and painted, it looks good, but the napa color match doesn't exactly match, and it would have rusted out after a winter, so new trunk: http://i.imgur.com/vmA4hl.jpg I dropped all that stuff off at my parents. My dad was helping a friend do rear struts on his beater forester: http://i.imgur.com/TCaHIl.jpg http://i.imgur.com/v2lTdl.jpg So I jumped in and we powered through the strut job quickly. Then I went to a pig roast. Today I swapped everything on. Old fender all dented to fudge: http://i.imgur.com/KcsvLl.jpg New fender installed: http://i.imgur.com/4M3Ihl.jpg Legacy now has 1000k+ miles under my ownership. I also gutted more interior out of the RS: http://i.imgur.com/iJIPjl.jpg And when I went to change back into street clothes, the mascot didn't want to let me: http://i.imgur.com/fh3xbl.jpg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A42N81 Posted August 13, 2012 Share Posted August 13, 2012 Nice car and good work on it so far! Mine is rusting badly in all the same places so I am not to sure where to go or what to do to even try and fix it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zmarko Posted August 13, 2012 Share Posted August 13, 2012 Cool thread! So how much cash are you "all in" with the repairs? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2point5GT_Dan Posted August 13, 2012 Author Share Posted August 13, 2012 Cool thread! So how much cash are you "all in" with the repairs? I'm at around 2500 so far. I budgeted 3k. The thing is, I called and texted about 20 different people with running driving legacy GT's on craigslist, and they all wanted 5k with zero maintenance records. My car is up to date, revised headgaskets, timing belt, idlers, water pump, brakes, etc etc. I literally don't have to touch anything for another 60k miles at least (or until my aggressive driving demolishes the transmission). All I have to touch up look wise is the rear arches. I'm also going to fix a scratched window, tint it, and I have parts to fix the AC in the mail already. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pineapple Posted August 19, 2012 Share Posted August 19, 2012 Loving this thread! Keep it up man, it's nice to see another tasteful legacy on the roads in New England! You should see if this guy wants to trade hoods http://boston.craigslist.org/nwb/cto/3208982692.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2point5GT_Dan Posted August 19, 2012 Author Share Posted August 19, 2012 While I would like a scooped hood, I just don't think I'd have time to go get it, plus I hate dealing with people (thus why I work on cars so much) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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