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The car did great all the way up and back to San Jose. Just set the cruise at 80 and ticked the miles off. Car cruised along great and stayed cool running and inside with the AC running despite it being 90 deg through most of the trip through central valley. Only complaint was the lack of power from rolling from 70 too try and overtake traffic on the long 5% uphill grades, who knows maybe ill start getting parts together for a turbo swap, the BAR requirements here will make it a bit of pain in the ass. Stopped to stretch our legs at San Luis Reservoir walked down to see the stinky water and take a break from the interstate. We had a afternoon free to ourselves so decided to drive over to the Red Woods in Santa Cruz and took the scenic root from San Jose. Took a few hours round trip and hit the twisty roads for the better part of 2 hours. Started at Mt Eden Road and connected it to Stevens Canyon Road. We stopped at a pull out to look at a small water fall and take in the scenery. From there connected it to SR 9 and drove it to Sempervirens Point Parking place to walk around. There was a bunch of other cars parked in the area. but didn't bother to look or interact as rather take in the view. Anyways kept on going down the 9 to big basin and the Redwood Grove by Boulder Creek, finished up turning around on the 9 and cutting across Bear Creek Road to Skyline Boulevard then back to San Jose. This was some great driving spent a solid hour or two walking around the Red Woods, will have to go back to the area and camp in the area as it was more to take in than I could in a few hours in the afternoon. Subaru Legacy on the Forest Moon of Endor.

Well almost a year later, its just been on weekend driver duty, hit the mountain roads and other drives as I can. This winter project was the garage, I wanted the space back and to add insulation as well as HVAC to the garage space. The Green '02 was made rollable, all the spares I figured I'd need were stripped (transmission, diff, misc. interior parts) and stored. Then contacted LKQ to come pick up what was left to take to the pick a part. Away it goes forever. Also had the first big road trip in the 01 since putting it together. Weekend trip with my son for a travel hockey tournament, nice long drive to San Jose and back from LA. Had to do something about the exhaust though, the exhaust shop mid pipe with no resonator and the small Magnaflow drone excessively between 3-5k on the highway and I was not going to tolerate it for 7 hours one way let alone two. One of the spares I held onto was the OEM mid pipe and muffler. Also found that the exhaust had been leaking for a bit so timing worked out. After looking at the mid pipes side by side it looked like the oem would bolt right up with the magnaflow muffler and it did so went with that combination. Can confirm after the drive, no highway drone between 60-90 mph and still keeps some exhaust sound around for the car, I think long term I'm going to fab a new mid pipe up a diameter with a resonator in the same location as oem so get a little more sound and no cabin drone. Also took the same time to rotate tires and an oil change. Also had one fog lamp burn out so replaced them with some high outputs for the drive because you dont road trip with lamps out and was easy to get to with the car in the air. Also noticed the tires starting to get a little camber wear during rotation, running 2.5 deg of camber all the way around on the street is a bit spirited, so took it for an alignment and got it dialed in at 1.5 front/rear with neutral toe.

use the format dude, and you double posted.

i have a bunch of the parts from a 02 be sedan from your picture, downside is you'd need to confirm they would all fit on the bp/bl and shipping is going to be a bit of money from the wieght.

yeah inconel is stupid expenive to procure and manufacture. thats a hens tooth part for sure.

also unlocking phone rotation when taking the pictures does it... figured that out when I some left handed coworkers that would always send me job site pictures upsidedown, even the phone cameras are default for righties.

you just have to remeber to stop while its only window shopping...

Small update, been to busy with work and life to do any big parts installs lately. But got a complete set of JDM tails and garnish in really good shape! USDM OEM Tails. Differenece in the color between the tails. All installed, Legacy garnish complete, just need to find a really good condition front OEM option lip for the bumper and the outside will be done.

Small update, been collecting other parts for some major work in the summer here when i get my whole garage back. Changed all the gear oil at the 3k mile oil change, diff oil and magnet cleared up, however the transmission still has flakes and chunkies in the oil, meaning the spare transmission I have will probably have to go in sooner rather than later. Cold morning starts I can hear the input shaft bearing whinning as well... this transmission is need of some major TLC. Transmission plug and clean off. Due to the flakes of metal stuck to it that look like bearing race hard facing, ill probably change the gear oil again next oil change interval. Diff looked much better so will probably just let it go normal change interval. Had a fun little sidewall puncture and blow out from ruts on the freeway here in LA that pop up in the rain, that was a fun day. lucky nothing else was damaged from the rut. Also found out due to the massive amount of rain we got this winter that California got that the front drip lines were plugged and flodding back through the ac air inlet into the cab, as well as the condensor drain line being plugged up. Should have known since the moonroof lines were also plugged when I got the car. Used compressed air to blow it out, but i really should take the cowl and fenders off to clean out all the gunk thats in there. The great state of California sent me notice that for reg renewal that I would need to get smog again. Took the car into smog only to have the tech tell me the pvc intake tube I kept on the car was a "modified airbox". Took the oportunity to make a few junkyard tips to get the OE intake snorkle parts as I no longer had them from the 02 Chasis. the best is when the cars are in the stall they actully listed them in online. Only downside is the parts almost always get scattered. Found what I was looking for, lucky to find a early equipment non rubber boot intake hose which is awesome cause I won't have to worry about it rotting out. Precleanup. All cleaned up and installed. OEM intake. crazy how much quiter inside the car it is with the factory parts for the intake. Im going to leave them on for a few tanks and see if they make any change to the milage I get with the car. Car wiating on me to get the motivation for the parts that have been piling up on my workbench.

whats the case code?

might be intrested in this, semi local, my 5 speed input bearing has started to hum noticably on cold starts. whats the rpm sit at when cruising at 75/80 mph with the 4.44's?

comment with the picture of the pioneer unit in the car.

Yup thats the parts list i currently ahve on the car, the head unit has been in 4 cars now i think? started in my 89 crown vic in college, my brothers toyota for a while, and then the last two legacy's ive had. its getting up there in age but still has great sound and usb input from the phone that works. at somepoint ill upgrade to a newer unit with apple play. part number for the deck i have is a Pioneer double din deck, custom pigtail made from oem/spare parts laying around (p/n AVH-P14000DVD ) at 190k

I have a aftermarket pioneer headunit in my car works just fine. Used a adapter plug to make it all work no problem. dont want to clog this one up but if you go look at my thread you can see what it looks like in the wood grain dash. Wiring diagrams for the radio for 04 attached. 1. WIRING SYSTEM WO Machintosh.pdf

I had a gummed up IACV in the past, i replaced it and had some stuttering issues. The PCV valve was sticking open as it was also gummed up which lead to the grimmy IACV i had. Cleaned it out and my problem went away. YMMV but a quick check will tell you if thats the problem.