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    2007 legacy gt limited
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  1. So i bought a 2 gauge and garmin post gauge pod about a week ago, i bought a case for my galaxy s5 to attach it to the garmin post and ran btssm on my phone. The setup was great. I was making my way down a bumpy dirt road today when the garmin post decided to break where the ball meets the post. I went home and drilled through the head of the ball and have a screw going through to the post, it isnt pretty but it seems to work. Just for future prints of this you may want to design it so the screw holding the post to the gauge pod goes nearly all the way through the post to the tip of it to add some rigidity. Ill add some pics of where it broke.http://images.tapatalk-cdn.com/15/07/19/12139889108b65ae86723796c19b9852.jpghttp://images.tapatalk-cdn.com/15/07/19/88fe23fd944b917b993790204de094e7.jpg
  2. I just removed the filter on my turbo feed banjo bolt this saturday (2007 legacy gt) Really all you have to do is remove the inlet to reach it. So disconnect bpv hoses, remove intercooler, remove that bracket of sesnors that are connected to the inlet and above the ps pump (you will have to unplug them and remove the hoses from most the sensors to be able to move it out of the way). remove the head breather hoses and the crossover tube they go to. Remove the passenger side pcv breather hose. Remove the breather system hose attached to the inlet. Remove the bpv hose from inlet and the pcv hose from the inlet (it may help to take it off the pcv sensor as well). Then disconnect the inlet and remove it, now you can reach the banjo bolt on top of the head easily. you will want new clamps to ease re installing the inlet. its really not that hard it just takes patience and perseverance as some of these hoses are hard to get a good hold on.
  3. Why feal coilovers? Theres a thread on here basically saying theyre the same crap as bc, isc, ect.. if youre going coils it seems the good choice would be something like kw v2. But still coils are overkill if you just want a stiffer ride for street use. IMO out of all these options hr springs with konis is your best bet. I would say get epic engineering springs or eibach pro kit springs but good luck finding those. I went with progress lowering springs and kyb gr2 struts a month or so ago. The springs are great, you feel everything and the handling is much more neutral than stock. I live in michigan so the roads are crap, and although you feel most of the imperfections in the road, the ride isnt jarring. Ive never had a passenger complain. Really my only complaint, which isnt even a complaint about them, is that the bottom coils of the springs will make contact with each other and you can hear it sometimes. You can just coat the bottom coils in rubber to avoid this or get something like the rubber sleeves tien makes. I just let it be and everything is fine. i only notice it with the radio off and windows down while driving at low speeds. I am not as happy with the kyb gr2 struts. I wish i had gone with koni because these struts just dont feel like a good pair with lowering springs. Im no suspension expert but these struts feel under dampened like they cant keep up with the springs. usually it isnt an issue but if youre attacking a corner and hit a pavement change or bumpy section it doesnt stay as planted as it should.
  4. Still loving my progress springs! Neutral handling, not too low (survives michigan roads) and not a bad pair with kyb gr2 (still get konis tho)
  5. I believe others have stated this in the early pages of this thread but i wouldnt want someone to miss this info now that our cars are high mileage and our ball joints are more of a pain to work with. There is a way to replace front cv axles without touching your ball joints. Ill list how i did it step by step. I will start with the disclaimer of: if you dont have an impact you will have to remove the axle nut a different way. Such as removing it while a friend holds the brakes for you. But besides that, here is my method. *edit* this is obvious but jack the front of the car up and put it on jack stands. 1. Remove wheel 2. Mark camber bolt position 3. Disconnect abs line and flex hose from strut. 4. Disconnect strut from hub 5. Remove caliper from rotor/hub 6. Impact off your axle nut, no need to try and round out the pushed in part of the nut, the impact took care of it. 7. Now you have enough room to knock the axle out of the hub with a wooden mallet or a big hammer and some wood in between the two. Once that side is out pry out the differential side of the axle. *you will lose a small amount of trans fluid. Also be careful when removing/installing axle into diff because you can mess up the seal. 8.Now just reverse the steps. Put some gear oil on the part of the axle that enters the diff. Put the axle into the diff THEN the hub. 9.To get the axle nut tightened back on i first re attached the strut to the hub, the flex hose and abs line to strut and the caliper to the hub. Then i had a friend hold the brakes while i torqued the axle nut. I have done this to both sides and its a quick, easy method. I used a1 cardone remans and one has been on for a year so far with no problems. The other just got installed yesterday but no problems with it. I have an 07 gt manual trans and both front axles were the same pn. The seals were different from left to right though.
  6. I had to use a 17mm socket holding it with vice grips and an allen through the center. I tightened it like that as much as i could off the car but still the spring could move around a tad so i installed them (im talking abou the rears btw) and tried to torque them when they were installed and that didnt work. My buddy is going to bring over a pass through wrench this morning. hopefully i can snug down the nut in the car so i dont have to take them out again.
  7. so if i torque the strut rod nut with the car on the ground the strut rod wont spin?
  8. Theyre better than i expected. They actually give it some tone as opposed to the hogzhaust which is just loud. And with the rest of my exhaust stock it really isnt too loud. I havent had any neighbors complain about cold starts although i can faintly hear it running throughout the house. I havent really noticed any drone but i dont drive on highways much so im never at a certain rpm for an extended time. I can make a video if you'd like.
  9. It ended up getting annoying so i got nameless performance muffler deletes and it actually has some tone to it now. But yeah the cans basically were off seeing i had 3 washers per bolt, it just looked a tad better than no cans.
  10. I have a video on youtube of an all stock legacy gt with 3 washer per bolt hogzhaust if you wanna hear it?
  11. sorry, I have no clue what filter it was. I knew even less about cars at that time then i do now so when i saw it all i thought was "this is a subaru, not a chrysler/dodge! this cant be correct!" also i was already in a fuss about how tight the drain plug was on there so i didn't even think to check the filter number and do some research on it.
  12. i bought this car from the dealership i work at (suburban KIA) last january. It had 105k miles when i bought it and was bone stock. It had been serviced by our neighboring suburban chrysler jeep dodge ram dealership before I bought it. When i went to do the first oil change i went to a local subaru performance shop (OAKOS) and asked their opinion on oil. I ended up choosing eneos 5w-30 and subaru blue oil filters. (when i first changed the oil i found the stealership goon had put a huge mopar filter on there which angered me) I have been consistently doing 3k oil change intervals. I mainly just drive to work which is about 11 miles away with the ocassional spirited drive every week or two
  13. I got the p0011 code in the fall. I immediatly drove home, emptied my oil, ran some cheap synthetic for 50 miles then replaced that with eneos 5w30. The cel went away and all has been well *knocks on wood* But really i need to check that banjo bolt asap. This michigan weather isnt very motivating though.
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