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IwannaSportSedan

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  • Birthday 08/25/1977

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    Somewhere where OnStar and the SmartGrid can't find me.
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    '05 Legacy GT, '92 SVX LS-L, '99 Miata.
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    Sports cars, motorcycles, quoting movies
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    IT Management

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  1. Actually, it is quite nice. Mine is a bit old, and slightly rough, but I saved it from the crusher for $1000.

     

    The windows are cool, and a great conversation piece. They are loaded with features, especially the LS-L models. Speed sensitive power steering, wipers, as well as a rear wiper and washer, comfortable seats that still hold you in place.

     

    The H6 pulls right off the line. It doesn't have the rush of a turbo, but it is quite a nice engine. and smooth as glass on the highway.

     

    It isn't as visceral as a turbo H4. It is a sporty touring coupe. It is more like a Lexus SC430, or a Lincoln Mark VIII, or something, with a touch more edge. It is big enough to be comfortable, without being bulky in looks or in feel. It is powerful enough to be pleasing, and very easy to drive.

     

    I love it, I've been driving it, and keeping the mileage of the Legacy from climbing as fast as it was. It makes me want another SVX that is in pristine condition, with a manual gearbox conversion.

  2. so you own an SVX? what is it like? I know very little about those cars but love the concept of them!
  3. A lot of the individual choices are more rare than the ~500 unit spec B.
  4. I saw a RBP 2005 GT Wagon in Des Moines about 8-10 months ago, on gold OZ wheels... But I am not sure if it was a MT or Limited... I only saw the back of the car, as I followed along the same street for a little while. I had just bought a saw from sears, and couldn't fit the box into the trunk, so it was in the back seat... I was really diggin' the wagon that day, trying to convince my wife, who hates wagons, categorically.
  5. The only combo that I would like as much or more than my similar configuration in Garnet Red... Regal Blue was very nice. I have no idea why it was canned, a lot of the new cars, like hyundai genesis are coming with a dark blue paint choice...
  6. I have been on a tear about EG33 engine info... I got a splinter in my brain to mentally plan out an EG33 twin turbocharged mid-engined car. All of the information that I get about EG33 engine swaps is that they can be done, but it takes some fabrication to fit them into any other Subaru engine bay, aside from the SVX. The Legacy and Impreza engine bays are shorter, and the crank pulleys try to occupy the same space as the radiator, when the longer EG33 engine is used. Some folks have re-located the radiator a few inches forward with pusher fans, instead of pullers. But that is a lot of work when an EJ-series turbo 4 fits right away, and makes as much power as a normal EG33.
  7. I am kind of curious about that myself. I am debating whether I should hook up a Jazzy kit, or get an XtremeMac inCharge FM modulator. I'd get a Parrot, or whatever, phone/music stereo-bluetooth kit, if the iPhone would broadcast A2DP stereo bluetooth in iPod mode, and switch over to phone calls on the fly. Then all I would need is the power cord I already have. But, sadly, as of now, Apple shuts off the stereo bluetooth feature, and only does monaural for phone headsets, not stereo headphones for the iPod function. (the single, most puzzling, and biggest failure of an otherwise AMAZING device.) The advantage with the FM modulator, is that I could use it in my wife's car, or any car I happen to be riding in, and have it along. The Jazzy Kit probably has better sound by far, and is somewhat customizable on the input side, depending on how built-in you want to make it. One could leave a 1/8" headphone jack, and use a belkin car charger adapter with a gain-adjustable Aux OUT, a short 1/8 male to male jumper to connect them. (assuming that the signal comes through. I've got an old one, I should test that with my new iPhone...) Or, one could get a dock connector cable, with bare wire ends, and wire/solder/via-molex-plug it in to the Aux Power point in the console, and into plugs that go into the jazzy kit/GLI input, and is all under the console, with just a fixed, powered, aux-out dock-connector cable that goes directly into the upholstery, and into the stereo. (center box, or glove box, or wherever you choose for the cable to come from) That would have the effect of not having an authentication problem with the accessory-identification system in the newer iPods and iPhone. Sometimes that can allow things to work by not triggering the device to shut-down the aux-out lines, or the iPhone might be set to only OPEN the aux-out audio lines for authenticated devices... I would hope the former, not the latter, were true. Somebody on an apple forum fabricated a microphone-to-line-in custom device for the iPod Touch, and it actually worked, because it didn't try to authenticate at all, where "official accessory" dictation microphone inputs for older iPods did NOT work, when the input lines were closed by the iPod. Granted, the fabricator was trying to put a microphone on the iPod Touch to turn it into a VOIP phone, with a microphone, and the headphones as a speaker-side, which is probably EXACTLY why Apple chose to have the iPod Touch shut identified microphone accessories down. The same might work for an un-official aux-out cable for the iPhone, allowing aux-out, although some official accessories do use aux-out from the iPhone, too.
  8. Wow. I figured there were more than 190 other GRP GT Limited Sedans with black interiors and manual transmissions. 1 of 191, and probably toward the beginning of that number, as the early side of 2005MY.
  9. Des Moines Sighting today. A gorgeous Regal Blue Pearl 2.5GT Wagon, lowered on gold OZ Superleggeras, or something similar, with tinted windows. Clean, despite the over-abundance of grime on the roads. I saw you on University, around 86th street at about 5:30pm tonight, and followed you until you turned off at 73rd street. I was driving the garnet red sedan behind you, that was very grimy, lowered, tinted, but on stock wheels and snow tires. Gotta say that was a HAWT lookin' wagon, especially in Regal Blue. I had a new compound miter saw in the back seat, because it wouldn't fit through the trunk opening. I was really diggin' the wagon for more than just the looks.
  10. How does a newport blue pearl car have a black interior? Newport is also not a 2005 color. Atlantic Blue Pearl is very close, and Regal blue is MUCH darker. 2005 had the option to choose the interior color. Newport Blue replaced Atlantic and Regal blues on the GT for 2007, and was only available with taupe interior. That is when the dark gray color arrived, and Garnet red departed as well. Buy the car with the black interior, and swap the interior with someone who WANTs black interior... there are some that don't like the taupe.
  11. Looks great, mang! You need a K2 rear lip spoiler, like CreoSTI has. I so wish I had a spoilerless trunk, so that I could do that.
  12. damn. I am still jealous. freakin' wrong color rotas. That aside, the car is looking fantastic. Lower it, a bit of tint, and you are golden.
  13. Recent Iowa sightings... A couple weeks ago... You were driving an 07 Diamond Gray Spec B north from Lincoln Center on Grand Avenue in Ames, IA, ~11:30am, IIRC. I was on your left, waiting at the stop light, headed east. Last friday, April 13th, possibly thursday, the 12th... You were driving an Atlantic or Newport Blue Pearl GT eastbound on Lincoln way in Ames, IA just east of South Dakota Avenue, I was headed westbound, about 5:30pm or so. Sunday, April 15th, you were driving a Satin White Pearl Legacy GT westbound/south on US Highway 30, headed out of Woodbine, IA, toward Logan, Missouri Valley, I29, or Blair, NE. I was headed the opposite direction. This is ironic, because I saw fewer than three Legacy GTs on the street the entire 2 years I was waiting and saving to buy one... I've seen three in the last couple weeks, and another today, Mocny, who I actually flagged down, and met with for a few minutes today. The only others I remember are a silver LGT in Des Moines, in December or early January, around the 100th street area, and World Market store; also about a year and a half ago, a Regal Blue Pearl Legacy GT on one occaision, in Boone, IA, and a lady driving a Satin White Pearl Legacy GT in Fremont, NE, at the local Wal-Mart store. One Regal Blue Legacy 2.5i was once parked near my parent's house, in Stanton, IA, in front of the large church there, about a year or so ago. The last three were before I purchased a Legacy myself, so I was not in one, of course.
  14. Damn. Those wheels should be mine! I was || that close to buying those. Instead, I went with Modacar who said they had those with gunmetal paint, with the polished face, so I ordered those, instead of Mach V's Full Royal Steel grey. Man, YOU got the upper hand this time. I've been HAD. FRICK! Seriously, though... Congrats, man. They look great.
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