ace275's Subaru Legacy JDM Twinscroll Manual
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It isn't, no, it's BMZ. Haven't really seen many the same colour
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I was in Helsinki last week, but I was in Ards Tuesday night the week before?
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Could have been tbh, completely forgot about it until now lol. Would have been around 4.30/5 ish
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Yeah that could well be, I was on the roundabout a little after that. Back to the silver wheels shortly however! The bronze ones have the winter tyres on and they're just not as good round the corners.
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Glad to be back driving this again after breaking my shoulder and being unable to drive a Manual,(Thus the automatic Freelander which I borrowed from a friend), so the weekend was the first time this had moved in a month.
Gave it a good clean and noticed someone has scuffed the back bumper on me in a carpark at some stage before I parked it up. Thankfully it mostly buffed out.
Got the gauge finished too
Thinking it's nearly time to put the summer wheels back on
Gave it a good clean and noticed someone has scuffed the back bumper on me in a carpark at some stage before I parked it up. Thankfully it mostly buffed out.
Got the gauge finished too
Thinking it's nearly time to put the summer wheels back on
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Picked another one up this weekend on eBay in Birmingham. It's a non runner, but was a decent price. It has a forged engine, but don't even know if that's good yet, but I'll give the fluids and timing belt a check before trying to start it.
They guy just said he parked it up for 8 months then it wouldn't start when he went to start it
They guy just said he parked it up for 8 months then it wouldn't start when he went to start it
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How did you get it back home?
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I'm better not answering that on a public forum, however if I used the blue car and a trailer I'd have been outside my towing weights
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Unfortunately not. Also this hypothetical trailer might have turned out to not have working brakes, so you might find yourself seriously screeching the tyres trying to get stopped at the lights
I'm glad it's homesvensktoppen
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Messed with engine and non-runner sounds like bad news, lol 
Or maybe it just needs a fresh battery and fuel. About to find out!
Or maybe it just needs a fresh battery and fuel. About to find out!
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That looks a bargain going by the receipts, nosied on ebay. Both thwaites & Williams are well known in the subaru circles
Have you a plan for it or just being greedy and like having 2 to choose from
The silver is great for showing the lines of the car, still looks fresh today
Have you a plan for it or just being greedy and like having 2 to choose from
The silver is great for showing the lines of the car, still looks fresh today
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That looks a bargain going by the receipts, nosied on ebay. Both thwaites & Williams are well known in the subaru circles
Have you a plan for it or just being greedy and like having 2 to choose from
The silver is great for showing the lines of the car, still looks fresh today
Had a look at it today and maybe wasn't the bargain it seemed. Tested compression this morning and it's down on all cylinders, needs an engine rebuild. Hopefully nothing too major, but if the heads are good I'll use them on my forged build for the blue car and put the blue cars engine in the silver one when the blue one gets the forged one fitted
Still, worth a buy I think and it'll give me something to do with my own engine when it comes out
May as well start a thread for the silver car now, as I think this now counts as a project itself than a quick fix and flip
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Put a link to the new thread here when you have it up.
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The fact it's down on all 4 would say it's timing related. So take the timing covers off and have a look, might be lucky and just a tooth or two out, and isn't enough to cause valve train damage
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I'll give that a check, I do have the cover off on one side to verify the belt was still there before I started it
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Gave it a check this evening, doesn't appear to be out and the belt it still pretty good. However - all the timing cover bolts were finger tight and some were missing
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Gave it a check this evening, doesn't appear to be out and the belt it still pretty good. However - all the timing cover bolts were finger tight and some were missing
was that checking it against crank/oil pump notch mark or just the cam pulleys?
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Against the top mark on the crank (after removing the pulley for the aux belts). Left hand might have been one tooth out it was hard to tell, but the right definitely looked absolutely spot on and it's the side that's got the worst compression
I'll have my engine spare once I build a new forged one anyway, so it can go into the silver car
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sounds more like then its jumped a few teeth bent valves and then they stuck another belt on it in the hope it might not be too bad/get running
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Might be worth stripping for parts? Just depends what other damage there might be. No way to know without opening it up.
Still not a bad buy with a good engine going spare anyway.
Still not a bad buy with a good engine going spare anyway.