What'd you do to your FIRST Gen. Subaru today?

Ive been working on these bumper inserts for the past couple weeks, formed them out of some bumper foam, then wrapped them with white vinyl. I really like how it cleaned up the front end. Now I just have to fix and touch up the chips in the bumper.http://i1065.photobucket.com/albums/u386/onefastlt/IMG_20131117_134644_zpsd7f86c28.jpghttp://i1065.photobucket.com/albums/u386/onefastlt/IMG_20131117_134630_zps3823d5d1.jpg

Also tried wrapping the center taillight but not sure if I like it enough to keep. http://i1065.photobucket.com/albums/u386/onefastlt/IMG_20131115_081323_zpsb5f4117a.jpg

sup people just bought my real ss for $200 only 157k. everything works great. washed her up today. installed new ps pump. getting new wideband o2 sensor for my afr to work right.

heres a pic

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Ive been working on these bumper inserts for the past couple weeks, formed them out of some bumper foam, then wrapped them with white vinyl. I really like how it cleaned up the front end. Now I just have to fix and touch up the chips in the bumper.http://i1065.photobucket.com/albums/u386/onefastlt/IMG_20131117_134644_zpsd7f86c28.jpghttp://i1065.photobucket.com/albums/u386/onefastlt/IMG_20131117_134630_zps3823d5d1.jpg

Also tried wrapping the center taillight but not sure if I like it enough to keep. http://i1065.photobucket.com/albums/u386/onefastlt/IMG_20131115_081323_zpsb5f4117a.jpg

looks good, my opinion on the rear trunk lamp is to go back to stock or lightly smoke the tail lamps, looks too "saturn-like"

Damn! 200$ is a friggin steal! Id pay that for the wheels! I was spying a 91ss that needed a clutch just to resell it and get myself an fp green turbo. It was on Craigslist for 1700, but it had 284k miles. Looks like you got a front mount, lets see a pic of the motor, list of mods and how you came across this deal.

Fmic, Vf34 turbo, rims. Person I bought from there kid owned it he passed . The power steering went out and she thought the car was done for . And it being old she did not know value.

been trolling around for a bit, researching and researching. Searched keywords "hid" in our year specific forum, and found 7 results, with NO answers. SO. I bit the bullet.

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Morimoto mini H1 6.0 bi-xenon HID retrofit kit from The Retrofit Source.

35w 4300k bulbs, mini gatling shrouds, and the relay kit.

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They fit the housings great. Now i dont have any finished pics, as i just kept working, but their in and look BEAUTIFUL. I doubt pics will do them justice.. Its like driving in daylight.

Hell yeah! A guy or two has done a projector retrofit over on bbslegacycentral but that's about it. It is definitely in my long term plans for the SS. Can't wait for more pics!

How was the install? Are they easy to aim?

install was cake. Did just what i read, put the housings in the oven at 200 for 10 minutes, then slowly and carefully peeled the front section off. They bolt right up, did'nt even have to trim the shrouds.

Their not aimed yet, will get to that soon. Best $270 investment ever.

Got the ballast and relay mounted today.

drivers side ballast

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passenger side ballast

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relay behind the drivers turn signal housing

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No word yet on the cutoff or scatter, all i can say is they light up the road. It was raining all evening today. Hopefully it quits for friday so i can find a wall and adjust these. (finding a smooth wall with a flat level surface leading up to it is a bit more difficult than one would think).

Worse case is i can smooth out the inside of the housings. The "prismed" inside isn't really thick and with some patience, and time, could be smoothed out.

Looks good. More pictures! Night and day shots please!

I did the 70$ ebay hi/lo beam hid kit a while back and was happy with the increased light output but these look way better!

Baked and removed the orange blinker inside my taillight.

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Very nice removing the orange lens.

I plan to pop my headlights back apart this weekend and smooth the inside of the lens. I dont have pics, but the cutoff is blurry. Not sharp at all. Still, great light output, but would prolly be better with a clearer lens.

Painted my turbo grill that i picked up.

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I finally tackled a task I have been dreading for about a year......I changed my spark plugs!

I know, big deal right, well I thought it was going to be. I tried to change them last year, but I could not get them out. I have changed a lot of spark plugs in my time, and I have never had any give me so much resistance. And when I have had similar resistance on an import, it always ended badly for the treads.

It tried again a few months back before I put the engine back in after doing timing and seals. Again wy to much resistance for my comfort. So I just sprayed a bunch of PB Blaster in each hole and tried to loosen them a little so maybe some PB would get in there then retightened them.

The engine ran great after reinstalling it until just a couple weeks ago. It developed a stumble on acceleration and a miss at idle. I was hoping it was the TPS, so I tested it and it did not have a smooth ohm curve, so I changed it and that seemed to help some. So I decided to check the plugs again, still really resistive. So I thought, maybe they will come out easier hot. So I let the motor run for about 20 minutes, then checked, and while they were still harder than thy should be, they weren't as resistive as before.

So I went for it, and while I was still afraid there was a good possibility of this simple project going south, it didn't. They all came out hard, but the treads looked good. I tried to chase the treads but 13/16 socket that my tread chaser uses wouldn't fit in the spark plug hole, so I just lubed the new plugs with some PB and they threaded right in by hand most of the way.

Anyhow, like I said, should've been a simple and quick task, but it took almost an hour to complete this simple task, and I feel like I dodged a bullet!

Took it for drive afterwards, absolutely no stumble or miss. Actually spun the tires off the stop sign!

I finally tackled a task I have been dreading for about a year......I changed my spark plugs!

 

I know, big deal right, well I thought it was going to be. I tried to change them last year, but I could not get them out. I have changed a lot of spark plugs in my time, and I have never had any give me so much resistance. And when I have had similar resistance on an import, it always ended badly for the treads.

 

It tried again a few months back before I put the engine back in after doing timing and seals. Again wy to much resistance for my comfort. So I just sprayed a bunch of PB Blaster in each hole and tried to loosen them a little so maybe some PB would get in there then retightened them.

 

The engine ran great after reinstalling it until just a couple weeks ago. It developed a stumble on acceleration and a miss at idle. I was hoping it was the TPS, so I tested it and it did not have a smooth ohm curve, so I changed it and that seemed to help some. So I decided to check the plugs again, still really resistive. So I thought, maybe they will come out easier hot. So I let the motor run for about 20 minutes, then checked, and while they were still harder than thy should be, they weren't as resistive as before.

 

So I went for it, and while I was still afraid there was a good possibility of this simple project going south, it didn't. They all came out hard, but the treads looked good. I tried to chase the treads but 13/16 socket that my tread chaser uses wouldn't fit in the spark plug hole, so I just lubed the new plugs with some PB and they threaded right in by hand most of the way.

 

Anyhow, like I said, should've been a simple and quick task, but it took almost an hour to complete this simple task, and I feel like I dodged a bullet!

 

Took it for drive afterwards, absolutely no stumble or miss. Actually spun the tires off the stop sign!

I Dont wanna sound like a prick, im not trying to come off that way, but if you use the correct NGK 2756 copper core plugs, maintenance interval is 30,000 miles. So changinf them every 30k, they should come out easy every time. I rarely use anti-sieze on plugs because thier either 30k plugs, or when i get a car that has the original plugs and the car has 150k miles, they come out easy because of the stainless steel threads. Just fyi.

I Dont wanna sound like a prick, im not trying to come off that way, but if you use the correct NGK 2756 copper core plugs, maintenance interval is 30,000 miles. So changinf them every 30k, they should come out easy every time. I rarely use anti-sieze on plugs because thier either 30k plugs, or when i get a car that has the original plugs and the car has 150k miles, they come out easy because of the stainless steel threads. Just fyi.

Not a problem, I agree. I bought the car two years ago, drove it for a year, then pulled the motor to do timing and seals. I had a lot of other commitments, so that took about 9 months for me to get the motor done and back in the car. Plus I had bought a '97 in that nine months, so I wasn't as motivated to get the '92 finished as fast as I otherwise would've been since I still had a wagon to drive.

Anyhow, to make a short story long and miserable, the car always ran great, it just leaked a ton of oil, so I just never concerned myself with checking the plugs. Plus I'm not not one to fix things that aren't broken. But, since I was pulling the engine to do a bunch of other stuff, I thought I'd treat her to some new plugs, but as I said above, they were so resistive, I abandoned that idea for awhile.

So I don't know how long they had been in there since the PO had put them in, and I've only put about 7500 miles on it since I bought it. I was just sure that I was going to lose some threads on the endeavor! Really stoked I didn't.

I didn't see any reason for the plugs to have been so hard to get out though. The threads were clean (not shiny, just not cruddy). I've never had plugs be hard to get out due to age, only over torquing/ being stripped.

BTW, they were Bosch plugs, I replaced them with ngk's.

BTW, they were Bosch plugs, I replaced them with ngk's.

Bosch plugs suck.....

Bosch plugs suck.....

I've heard that a lot here on the forum. It's funny, back when I was a teen, you were the shit if you could afford to pay 4x more for Bosch plugs!

Painted my turbo grill that i picked up.

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Looks awesome! Nice work!

Idaho, did the PO put them in there nice and tight out of ignorance?

Idaho, did the PO put them in there nice and tight out of ignorance?

Well, the PO was an older lady, so I imagine they were last replaced by a shop, or they weren't, and she was told they were?

I don't know, just glad the threads came out of the ordeal intact!