Marc
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Registered: 11th Aug 02
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Not a project thread as such, just the history of my car and whats been done to it...
The car wasnt standard when i bought it so i cant take credit for the good stuff (was previously a members off Scoobynet ) I have added a few little things myself though over the 3 1/2 years ive owned it.
How it looked in August 2003 when I bought it:
By this point it had PPP, 17" P1 alloys, Alcon front discs and braided hoses all round. 22b/WRC style rear wing, Impreza rub strips, Momo gear lever, Prodrive Quickshift and P1 clutch and lightened fly. Power was up from Subarus quoted 215bhp to Prodrives 237/250bhp - Depending on fuel being used.
The previous owener u2u'd me on Scoobynet and told me the car had cylinder head off to sort out a rattle that turned out in the end to be a valve for the servo. He told me all the valve sleeves were ground and reseated.
The first thing i did was a fit a Green air filter, no pic for this! Oh and the ghastly Philips tape deck was binned in favour of an Alpine cd unit! A Tracker was also fitted for insurance reasons.
Jan 2004 Genuine STi lights fitted:
They took two attempts at sealing before they would stop leaking, the spare wheel well was constantly filling up!
May 2004: I then changed the rear brakes for some EBC Grooved and Slotted with Green Stuff pads as they were definatley on their way out, and as the hubs seem to have a habit of badly rusting i painted those too!
I crashed the car on a round about in August 2004, after 1 year of ownership:
After:
New bonnet, bumper, wing, headlight and new de tangoed repeaters. I ended up paying a £500 excess.
Nov 2004: Carbon fibre radiator cover:
Mar 2005: 22b/STi style bonnet vents:
Apr 2005: Calipers sanded down and painted and new pads upfront.
May 2005: Scoobyworld Gauge pod bought
June 2005: The car develops a misfire, plugs are changed no joy. £235 later and a new MAF is fitted. Car seems better although still not right in my eyes. Subaru give me 2 sets of used leads which they assure me are fine but the car still misfires. £55 later and a new set of leads and the car is running fine again. Gauges also fitted.
Aug 2005: Fitting gauges, dash apart:
I wired the gauges to the lights which meant my headlights were constantly on!!. It also meant only 7 volts were being sent to the gauges so they were pretty dim. So I wired them into where the air con fuse is (not that ive got air con!) and now theyre receiving 12.2 volts
Megan Racing gauges Oil Temp, Oil Pressure and Boost. Shipped from America.
Oil temperature sender:
Pressure sender: Still a temperary set up as its dangerously close to the timing belt. Could really do with a bracket making up but theres not a lot of room for it to go.
Last thing I've done is remove the air box hose for a Samco one:
Breather filter added as the old hose had a pipe that went back in to the inlet, the Samco doesn't. Cabin gets a bin stinky now!
Pretty much everything I think, last owner spent about 5-6k, I've spent about 1500-2k.
[Edited on 10-12-2013 by Marc]
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Skylined
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Registered: 27th Sep 05
Location: Sideways, Surrey
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 Gauges
Very smart 
[Edited on 09-11-2006 by Skylined]
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Marc
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Registered: 11th Aug 02
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I got an advisory on my MOT last August on my front discs. I also got an advisory on my past 2 services! I'm told theres quite a lip on the inside. I've being putting it off! Hopefully if the weather comes good I can get them fitted in time for its next MOT.
New brakes, EBC Turbo Grooved and spotted discs to replace my Alcons. I've gone for Red Stuff pads. I have these discs on the rear too but with Green Stuff, don't see the need in fancy rear pads. Scoobynet users used to get a 10% discount with EBC Brakes Direct, its now 15%! Plus theres a site discount of 10% too! I ended up getting them for £288!
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Marc
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Doing this morning 
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Robbo
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Awesome Macarus 
God, I remember when you had that accident!! 3 years ago now
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Robbo
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Registered: 6th Aug 02
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Still think you shoudl revert back to the old bonnet vents though  And also get soem covers for those ghastly fogs lol
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Marc
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Brakes done:
Old brakes:
Inside of old left disc:
Old pads:
Dot 4 Castrol fully synthetic brake fluid:
Inside old right disc:
New EBC Turbo Grooved and Spotted discs with Red Stuff pads, done.
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Robbo
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Registered: 6th Aug 02
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Spiffing 
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Graham88
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Registered: 16th Apr 07
Location: South East Kent Drives: E46 M3
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Awesome. 
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ChrisBoom
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Phil W
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Location: Shropshire Drives : Focus ST
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Looking good, only thing i would have done is painted the silver mesh in the 22b vents black
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Marc
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Yeah. I thought about that before they were sprayed but I left them as they came. I think they'd look better black too, but if it flaked off it would reveal the bare silver.
[Edited on 07-07-2007 by Marc]
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Claire
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Wrighty
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Registered: 28th Feb 04
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Love it mate
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Kathryn W
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Registered: 12th Oct 03
Location: Widnes, Cheshire
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Ace
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c20let
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Registered: 25th Jun 05
Location: Aberdeenshire Drives: VXR Astravan,Evo 9GT,mr2 tbo
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cool, my mate has one this colour
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Marc
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Registered: 11th Aug 02
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I was going to sell this and get something easier to look after - cheaper to run, newer and essentially a car I didn't have to worry about. I kept putting it off and the rear arches have now gone, the passed 3 MOT's have required the inner rear arches welding and it failed again this year on inner arch near the suspension strut. I was quoted £350 to fix the MOT fail and they said they could not guarantee that they would not damage the paint so I SORNed it.
Been looking at winter run around a which would cost me about the same and more. So on Friday I dropped the car off at a garage that I trust, but they are quite slow, hence why I didn't visit them initially. Left the car with them and asked to be quoted to not only fix the fail but to also repair both rear arches, will need new bits welding in. At the same time I am thinking about replacing the WRX/22B rear wing for the standard item, the paint has come off this one, it had orange peel from the day I bought the car. It also weighs twice as much as the standard one and has a bottom and top piece. Looking on eBay and I can get a boot with spoiler for under £50.
Initial quote on Friday was £500 for the arches. Should find out tomorrow what the damage is going to be.
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kennySRi
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Registered: 12th Nov 10
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Had no idea you still had this car.
It looked great in the pics. Would be nice to get it to that standard again
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Marc
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Registered: 11th Aug 02
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Garage have said -
£500 for both outer arches to replace and paint.
£450 for inner arch - Strip suspension and underseal.
I tried to get the spoiler done for free but he wouldn't have it 
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Marc
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As it stands -
Booked in for 6th December.
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flybikeslee
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Registered: 2nd Jan 07
Location: Liverpool
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those rubber flaps trap all the shit which hasn't helped
[Edited on 21-11-2013 by flybikeslee]
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3CorsaMeal
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Amazing you had it all this time, has that classic look
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Marc
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I'm only the second owner too.
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3CorsaMeal
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I'd cut the rust out myself and treat all the inside faces of stuff, then ask someone to fix it.
i still don't believe people do a proper job unless your getting a bare shell respray from them.
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Kyle T
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quote:
Originally posted by Marc
I'm only the second owner too.
That's pretty cool, especially for these cars. Most are just a string of 9month ownerships 
Lotus Elise 111R
Impreza WRX STi
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