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Mach V Dan

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Mach V Dan last won the day on November 30 2004

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  • Birthday 12/24/1968

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    Arlington, VA
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    2015 WRX, 2020 Legacy XT Touring
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    Parts retailer

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  1. It is! It still has the subwoofer I put in there. I wonder if it still has the hard-drive-based MP3 player setup? Dan Mach V FastWRX.com
  2. Are you SURE the front end is scraping? Have you looked at the underside of the front bumper to see if there are scrape marks? This car has a LOT of ground clearance. Unless you go bombing into driveways at 20 mph, it seems unlikely it's rubbing the bottom of the front bumper. One possible explanation for the sound you are hearing is that the car may be slightly spinning one tire. If you enter the driveway at an angle, and apply power, the unloaded wheel may spin momentarily, causing a brief noise that can sound like grinding. Maybe have someone stand outside the car while you do it and they can observe what's happening? Dan Mach V FastWRX.com
  3. I like them. Drove a four-hour trip and a ten-hour round trip. Comfortable, no pain. Dan Mach V FastWRX.com
  4. We just got in a brand-new wheel that would be nice on the 7G Legacy. It's Rota Kestrel. 19x9.5" +40. They weight only 20.5 pounds each. Dan Mach V FastWRX.com
  5. You have at least two problems. The offset of that wheel is too low, and the tire size is way too small. Your stock wheels are +55 offset. Your proposed new wheels are 2" wider, and stick out 20mm more. I don't think that's going to work; the tire will contact the fender at full compression. Oh, but also your proposed tire size is 7.1% shorter than stock. Your speedometer would be off by that much, your gearing is going to be wonky, the car is going to sit lower to the ground by almost an inch, and it'll just look strange. You need a taller tire; the closest 255 size would be a 255/45R18. I think you need to understand the numbers better before you try to bolt new wheels and tires to your car. Dan Mach V FastWRX.com
  6. The car will move, but with the brake on there's obviously a huge drag, so it's not likely you're going to just drive off at full speed with the parking brake still engaged. Plus if you start driving without wearing your seat belt, the car begins to complain quite stridently. You can always disengage the parking brake using the button... Dan Mach V FastWRX.com
  7. The suspensions are different. The rear is somewhat similar, but the front has a whole different sway bar setup -- the end link on the Legacy/Outback connects to the strut body, rather than the lower control arm like on the WRX/STI. Dan Mach V FastWRX.com
  8. There's a few more functions like that that puzzled me at first. For instance, if the parking brake is set and you press the gas in D or R, the parking brake automatically disengages. UNLESS you don't have your seat belt on. Dan Mach V FastWRX.com
  9. I agree, but for now there's nothing out there to drop it with. The car hasn't come out in Japan yet, so there's nothing I can grab for the JDM parts bin at this point. Dan Mach V FastWRX.com
  10. The front rotors are new for 2020. I haven't been able to measure them yet, but they look like the 2015+ WRX brakes, which are 316mm x 30mm. (12.4" x 1.2"). If that's what they are, they require minimum 17" wheels to fit over them. Dan Mach V FastWRX.com
  11. I put the stock tires on some 18x8.5" +44 Flow-Form Rota Grid wheels. Even the regular cast Grids are a good bit lighter than stock at 22.0 pounds, but the flow-form ones are another three pounds lighter than that. Switching back to the 18" wheels/tires from the 20's, the car definitely feels floatier in terms of handling, and more vague in the steering. The tall sidewalls definitely are good for ride comfort, though. Even major potholes just sort of get sponged up, whereas with the 20's I tried to avoid them. Dan Mach V FastWRX.com
  12. I just weighed the stock wheels. They are 27.9 pounds each. I saved almost six pounds a wheel with my +2 upgrade... Dan Mach V FastWRX.com
  13. I think we can probably come to some kind of arrangement. I can't seem to PM you. Email me at dan@machv.com. Dan Mach V FastWRX.com
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