American Dave' Ride Blogography
I happened to glance at the odometer this morning and noted that I am just about to turnover the 40,000 km mark. I have owned this car since new on June 1, 2007 and I am pleased to report that the car has never caused me one problem. While you hear plenty of horror stories from Subaru owners about big end, ringland failures etc. I am happy to report this is one owner who has nothing but praise for his car.
I have done a fair number of mods and tuning to it to date and have had NO issues to date. It drinks a bit of oil but nothing extreme and while its not the most fuel efficient car on the road at 13 ltrs / 100 it still makes me smile. I have another 7 months of the lease remaining for this car and my plans involve buying out the lease on it and retaining it to enjoy and do some more serious engine and snail mods down the track.
I have done a fair number of mods and tuning to it to date and have had NO issues to date. It drinks a bit of oil but nothing extreme and while its not the most fuel efficient car on the road at 13 ltrs / 100 it still makes me smile. I have another 7 months of the lease remaining for this car and my plans involve buying out the lease on it and retaining it to enjoy and do some more serious engine and snail mods down the track.
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Posted 12-04-2012 at 08:23 PM by American Dave -
Posted 13-04-2012 at 06:25 AM by Master D -
Update as it now stands under construction. Its all in the hands of Stechnic now. The guys did a great job of fabricating up a new flexible oil inlet line to the turbo.
I have also ordered a new Innovative Motorsports Air/Fuel Ratio Gauge MTX-L Wideband O2 Digital Air/fuel Ratio Gauge so I can keep a closer eye on proceedings once the new motor is installed. Hoping to be back on the road again in a couple of weeks time.
Engine EJ257 Semi Closed Deck
Cosworth Rods, Bearings, Pistons, Rings, Oil Pump, and H11 Headstuds, Gaskets with Darton Sleeves assembled by Allstar Garage
Brian Crower Stage 2 Cams and Spring Kit
Killer B Baffle and Oil Pickup
STI engine mounts
STI pitch mount
3" X-Force Turboback Exhaust
Tomei UEL Headers (wrapped) & Up-pipe
Blouch Dominator 2.5XTR Porka Pickle Turbo
Cobb Tunning Heat Shield
Cobb Tunning SF Airbox
3" Turbo Inlet Pipe
Process West TMIC & Splitter
Grimspeed 3 port boost solenoid
Walbro Fuel Pump 255 LTR
S2 Oil Air Seperator
52 mm Thick Aluminum Radiator
STi Oil cap
STi Radiator cap
Transmission
JDM MY10 6MT DCCD gearbox
DCCDPro Controller
Exedy HD Clutch
Sti Flywheel
Brakes and Suspension Mod
MY08 Brembo STi Calipers Black F&R
DBA T3 Slotted STi Rotors Front
Project Mu B Spec Pads Front
DBA 4000 Vented STi Rotors Rear
Bendix Ultimate Pads Rear
Goodridge S/S Braided Brake Lines
STi Flexible Tower Brace
STi Front Support Kit
Cusco Steering Rack Brace
Cusco Rear OS Strut Brace
HSD HR Coilovers
Whiteline HD RSB
Whiteline HD Links
Whiteline Roll Centre Kit KCA313
Whiteline Anti Lift/ Caster Kit KCA334
Other mods include
Oz Racing Ultraleggera 19 x 8 et 48 Gunmetal Rims for the road wrapped in
Yokohama S-Drive Tyres in 245/40/19 for the daily driving
Ultrex Vyper Hyperblack 18 x 8.5 +44 rims for track wrapped in
Advan Neova AD08 Tyres in 245/45/18 for the skidpans
MY10 WRX STI Front Seats
Ganador CF Super Mirrors
CF Front Grill
Subaru Factory Bodykit color coded
Door handles colour coded
Fog Lights Tinted 30%
I swear this is the end of the mods then !Posted 11-10-2012 at 03:45 PM by American Dave
Updated 27-02-2013 at 10:54 AM by American Dave -
Posted 11-10-2012 at 04:45 PM by Master D -
Posted 11-10-2012 at 04:59 PM by American Dave -
Posted 11-10-2012 at 06:01 PM by Master D -
Posted 15-10-2012 at 08:44 AM by grumpyrex -
Posted 15-10-2012 at 06:31 PM by munya -
Posted 15-10-2012 at 07:01 PM by American Dave -
Posted 16-10-2012 at 09:13 PM by American Dave
Updated 17-10-2012 at 06:57 AM by American Dave -
Posted 17-10-2012 at 08:39 AM by Kato -
Stopped into Stechnic today. Good progress has been made with the engine out, heads are getting a refresh and really just waiting for the cams and springs, gaskets to arrive (Friday I hope). I really need a new clutch as the one I have was not great to start with as it was 2nd hand. So a button clutch (like Burke') is going in along with flywheel to suit.
Posted 17-10-2012 at 09:52 PM by American Dave -
Update on the new engine build is that the new BC cams and springs arrived at Stechnic yesterday. They checked the oem valve heights and discovered they were too far out of spec so they sent them over to the Engineer to set them correctly and put new valve stem seals in at the same time. Hoping to get the engine back together next week now.
Posted 24-10-2012 at 03:59 PM by American Dave -
Posted 26-10-2012 at 03:09 PM by American Dave -
Cannnot wait to see this all done!! I need a Yokine Super Stage test ride
Posted 27-10-2012 at 09:40 PM by BALISTC -
Posted 30-10-2012 at 05:02 PM by American Dave -
Engine EJ257 Semi Closed Deck
Cosworth Rods, Bearings, Pistons, Rings, Oil Pump, and H11 Headstuds, Gaskets with Darton Sleeves assembled by Allstar Garage
Brian Crower Stage 2 Cams and Spring Kit
Stock heads reworked
Killer B Baffle and Oil Pickup
STI engine mounts
STI pitch mount
3" S/S Norm Butler custom made dump pipe with race cat
Fitted to a Norm butler custom made twin catback system
Tomei UEL Headers (wrapped) & Up-pipe
Blouch Dominator 2.5XTR Porka Pickle Turbo
Cobb Tunning Heat Shield
Cobb Tunning SF Airbox
3" Turbo Inlet Pipe
Process West TMIC & Splitter
Grimspeed 3 port boost solenoid
Walbro Fuel Pump 255 LTR
S2 Oil Air Seperator
52 mm thick custom Aluminum Radiator
STi Oil cap
STi Radiator cap
Transmission
JDM MY10 6MT DCCD gearbox
DCCDPro Controller
Exedy HD Clutch
Sti Flywheel
Brakes and Suspension Mod
MY08 Brembo STi Calipers Black F&R
DBA T3 Slotted STi Rotors Front
Project Mu B Spec Pads Front
DBA 4000 Vented STi Rotors Rear
Bendix Ultimate Pads Rear
Goodridge S/S Braided Brake Lines
STi Flexible Tower Brace
STi Front Support Kit
Cusco Steering Rack Brace
Cusco Rear OS Strut Brace
HSD HR Coilovers
Whiteline HD RSB
Perrin STI Endlinks
Whiteline Roll Centre Kit KCA313
Whiteline Anti Lift/ Caster Kit KCA334
Other mods include
Oz Racing Ultraleggera 19 x 8 et 48 Gunmetal Rims for the road wrapped in
Yokohama S-Drive Tyres in 245/40/19 for the daily driving
Ultrex Vyper Hyperblack 18 x 8.5 +44 rims for track wrapped in
Advan Neova AD08 Tyres in 245/45/18 for the skidpans
MY10 WRX STI Front Seats
Ganador CF Super Mirrors
CF Front Grill
Subaru Factory Bodykit color coded
Door handles colour coded
Fog Lights Tinted 30%Posted 30-04-2013 at 04:41 PM by American Dave
Updated 19-06-2013 at 09:01 AM by American Dave -
The Foz can no longer lay claim to being the worlds most modded vehicle on a novated lease. I paid the residual owing on it and now own it out right.
The plans are to park it up as a daily driver then upgrade the fuel system and injectors then retune so its ready for Collie weekend with Perth-WRX in Sept.
I am looking at leasing another Subaru for work but quoted delivery is a ways off it seems.Posted 06-06-2013 at 08:09 AM by American Dave -
Posted 06-06-2013 at 08:28 AM by Andy! -
Posted 13-06-2013 at 07:46 AM by Intra