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Well hell, look at what backed out of the garage today.

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Re: Well hell, look at what backed out of the garage today.
March 26, 2012 08:55PM
Noticed the wheels. How much Gen II is stuffed under there?
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Re: Well hell, look at what backed out of the garage today.
March 26, 2012 09:14PM
Front subframe, steering and brakes and my own concoction of front struts made from 05 STI struts.



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Re: Well hell, look at what backed out of the garage today.
March 27, 2012 12:22PM
Did you shift the axle centerline forward?



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Re: Well hell, look at what backed out of the garage today.
March 27, 2012 12:32PM
Yeah, just a little bit. Maybe a 1.5 to 2 inches. Enough to have to trim the front of the fenders.



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Re: Well hell, look at what backed out of the garage today.
March 27, 2012 03:55PM
Nice work!
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Re: Well hell, look at what backed out of the garage today.
March 27, 2012 07:05PM
This new learning intrigues me. What did you have to do to use Subaru struts?

I trimmed a roughly equilateral right triangle out of the bottom for tire clearance with 185/60-15 hoops and 1" of set-forward. Set-forward mainly because I was lazy and wanted to re-use two of the studs.



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Re: Well hell, look at what backed out of the garage today.
March 27, 2012 09:31PM
Pretty much it involved very carefully peeling off the ears off of the 2nd gen stuff and after removing the ears off the sti stuff put the 2nd gen ears on the sti struts. Clearly that's way more simplified then it really was.

Also I'm running Subaru top hats, so at least one thing John can't hate on. winking smiley

And then just run a coil over spring because the stock sti springs won't fit anymore because you have to chop off half the spring cup to clear the wheel.

I have some other pictures when I was doing it I can't find right now, I'll keep looking for them.





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Re: Well hell, look at what backed out of the garage today.
March 28, 2012 11:10AM
Great work, loving this car. I was days away from ordering one of the Subi to Toy bell housings, then the money part slowed me down to a crawl. Hopefully, someday, I'll get back to my own franken-ru type project.

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Re: Well hell, look at what backed out of the garage today.
March 28, 2012 01:08PM
That looks so much like my driveway it's uncanny, cept for the mazbaru. Mine has a mazdyota in it instead.



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Re: Well hell, look at what backed out of the garage today.
March 28, 2012 03:19PM
Oh I have Toyota parts too, tranny and rear end are both Toyota. So maybe a mazbata. smiling smiley



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Re: Well hell, look at what backed out of the garage today.
March 28, 2012 03:39PM
Har. Mongrel and be done with it yawning smiley)



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Re: Well hell, look at what backed out of the garage today.
March 28, 2012 04:35PM
Clearly it should be called "Bastard" Or "Mutt"

Mutt is technically more fitting, but bastard sounds cooler, lol.



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Re: Well hell, look at what backed out of the garage today.
March 28, 2012 04:44PM
The Thing that Should Not Be.



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Re: Well hell, look at what backed out of the garage today.
March 28, 2012 10:05PM
Funny you bring up mutt, right after starting this I started calling it the rally mutt.



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Re: Well hell, look at what backed out of the garage today.
April 07, 2012 12:52AM
Now I just wait for a dry day so I can get a windshield, and then a damn bath. The moss color really isn't doing anything for it. smiling smiley





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