Fisher907

The timing belt hasn't been done yet. I'm actually a mechanic and have worked on Subaru's a few dozen times, mostly just suspension work and several head gasket jobs. However, I've never owned one which is why I joined this forum so I could get some insight from you all. Doing regular maintenance and mods will be pretty straight forward to me, I just have no realistic idea of ownership goes and am very curious.

I'd be pretty happy with spending a good chunk of change on the car. Right now I don't need anything neck-breaking but i'd like it to get up and go pretty quick.

Not sure exactly how many miles have been put on since the new turbo. It lives in a small town up here in Alaska, my guess would be less than 8k miles. I went to go check it out in person (obviously) everything looked and sounded pretty healthy, no engine tick at all, no leaks other than a small leak coming from a power steering reservoir.

I'd like to get the thing around 350 or so, potentially more, further down the road. Currently just planning on lowering it and doing a few cosmetic mods right now while I figure out what to do with the engine.

It's the 5mt, recently had the turbo and clutch replaced (With OEM) within the past year, currently has 85,000 miles on it.

So, I'm finally getting into a sweet little '08 Outback XT in a week or two. I'm having a hard time trying to decide if I want to spend the money on some mods to help keep the engine healthy and reliable with a few performance mods, or just run the engine as is until I have serious problems with it and just go for a full power rebuild when it finally blows.