Second Gen. Aftermarket Parts and Upgrade Guide (Superceded)

I'm looking into HID's for my car. First I need to replace my stock lights with projectors. I found a sweet set of Halo projectors that come with a HID plug and play conversion kit. My only concern is that the site says "Impreza and 2.5RS only." Sounds like a dumb question to me but other Impreza and 2.5RS parts fit. Will these?

No. They absolutely will not. The hood and the front fenders are totally different.

I'm looking into HID's for my car. First I need to replace my stock lights with projectors. I found a sweet set of Halo projectors that come with a HID plug and play conversion kit. My only concern is that the site says "Impreza and 2.5RS only." Sounds like a dumb question to me but other Impreza and 2.5RS parts fit. Will these?

 

^^^even the shape of the lights are different! The legacy grill won't line up with RS glass lights. Also, the part of the light touching the grill on the legacy is CONCAVE while the

RS is CONVEX in shape:

 

Legacy light:

 

http://i231.photobucket.com/albums/ee134/Rubenjc111/D0FFBA24.jpg

http://i231.photobucket.com/albums/ee134/Rubenjc111/C1CB976B.jpg

http://i231.photobucket.com/albums/ee134/Rubenjc111/2264E7C8.jpg

 

RS light:

 

http://i231.photobucket.com/albums/ee134/Rubenjc111/996FF96D.jpg

http://i231.photobucket.com/albums/ee134/Rubenjc111/8A11530C.jpg

 

Hope that shows the shape difference from the legacy to the RS.

Edited May 8, 2012 by TexasLegacy2.5GT

Will svx seats fit in my 95 bd??

Will svx seats fit in my 95 bd??

 

^^^I think they those are electric IIRC....don't think that would be a good match.

Then it is the MSD from a dodge neon, IIRC it is a 97-04 neon coil pack. This upgrade DOES require wiring to make it work.

 

For the MSD dodge neon upgrade, what wiring is needed? Any suggestions on sparkplugs also?

Edited May 15, 2012 by gergeek

i just did the MSD coil to mine. the only thing i needed to wire it in was the harness off of a 96ish neon. actually i think i ended up getting it off of a 97. i cut the end off of my bad coil and used it and the neon harness to make a tail that fits onto my legacy existing harness, that way i didnt have to cut my harness at all if i decided to go back to stock. i also got plug wires off of a 97 impreza from a junkyard that fit it well, and have the driver side 90 degree ends you will need to get around the throttle cable issue. make sure whatever cables you end up with are to spec (5.8-12.something k-ohm). i also yanked the 97 impreza coil in case i wanted to try it out as well.

 

edit: forgot about the plugs. i ended up getting oem platinums for mine, but gapped them to 41 since the books range stated its 39 to 43. but that was before the MSD coil, i think ill have to up that gap to 44 or 45 to accommodate for the higher voltage spark.

Twisty, let me know how that works for you. Do you have the EJ25D

N/A motor?

looks like ive got some work to do here

Zues, you might want to add a mention that 05 LGT brakes (12.3" front and 11.3" ventilated rear) will work on our cars with 17" wheels.

 

It hasent been actually DONE, but my research indicates it should work.

Holy crap! Zues is back?!?!?

looks like ive got some work to do here

 

It's Zombie Zues!!!

 

Hey dude I have a shitton of things and updates for this thread I been working on I will pm you soon.

Can i just get a coil of a Dodge neon from the pick and pull or should i buy one new? Any pics of the modified coil? Edited May 16, 2012 by gergeek

Twisty, let me know how that works for you. Do you have the EJ25D

N/A motor?

 

i have the ej22 motor, and so far it runs nice but my mileage is taking a small hit. i think its the plug gap tho, going to widen it to 45 and see if that changes things.

 

yarp.

Edited May 16, 2012 by twisty

Can i just get a coil of a Dodge neon from the pick and pull or should i buy one new? Any pics of the modified coil?

 

ill get a decent pic here in a bit when i go on break. as far as the dodge coil, from what i found out our stock coil puts out 28k, the neon stock puts out 32-34k and the MSD puts out 40k. i spose the stock neon coil would still be an upgrade over our stock, but i dont know how much difference it would make. or if the smaller gain would be worth the work into it.

http://img204.imageshack.us/img204/1594/20120516131359215.jpg

 

here it is! you can see the tail i made, its the cut part from the original coil paired to the neon tail so i didnt have to cut my factory harness. so far so good, but you really need to get the gap up to .045 to make it work correctly i think.

hey im new so i want to say sorry ahead of time if i mess this up. i have a 98 LGT and im looking for upgrades. that list on the first page was the best thing ever but most of the links didnt work. is there an updated list with links. let me know i want to get my subaru up and sexy. thanks

yeah dude, ive been working on it, what links were you searching for that were down?

 

i'll try to fix these up here within the week

most of the performance parts links i clicked on and it took me to the other sites but said the product was gone or not found. mostly the performance stuff. im stoked on the h&r lowering springs. ive looked alot and couldnt find anything so thank you!

check back in a couple days and i should have them back up

thank you sir. i cant wait to start building this beast

you should go start a build thread under the stickies so we can see what you've got to work with

sounds good. how do i do that haha

click this