Well I Have this posted up on the Toronto Subaru Club boards, and I figured I may as well share it here to for those who want to see. Ignore the old references of things to be installed, or if there are dates or anything as I am just copying over the relevant posts.
I finally decided to write down/ log my different/unique/diy modifications. I’ve finally gotten to a point where I am satisfied with the appearance/ handling and don’t have any more big plans for a while (not that anything I’ve done thus far is “big” compared to most other cars on this forum lol) Feel free to comment, give criticism, or compliments! I have sporadically posted some of these mods/ pictures on NASIOC and have had great feedback and even inspired a few people, helping them out with the DIY/how to’s through pm’s. With that being said if anybody had any questions or needs help just ask, I’ve done all this myself and am always willing to help out a fellow member.
(From my introduction post)
The Subaru bug bit me early. At 17 I got my grandparents 1990 Subaru legacy 2.2 n/a. She treated me well up until her "retirement" lol 3 years ago. I was hooked I "needed" another Subaru. I ended up buying a 2008 pearl white Impreza hatch. Here is a pic of the car a few days after I got it; was well taken care of by previous owner.
What started as just a coincidence, has now become the colour scheme of the car, black on white with red accentingI like it, and that’s all that counts at the end of the day.
summary of what has been done:
Interior:
Audio/video:
- Sony XNV 660bt
- axxess steering wheel control interface
- Back-up camera
- Kole audio mfw-10 (fiber glassed/Kevlar into the spare tire)
- Power Acoustik BAMF-1250/2 Painted radio bezel and door handles pearl
- 50 square feet worth of sound dampening in doors/floor/wheel wells
Appearance:
- black 3m 1080 carbon vinyl on silver trim pieces across the dash w/red pinstripe + center console
- Blue led lighting under dash/ foot wells/ seats tied in with dash dimmer and headlight switch
Exterior:
lighting:
- Hyper yellow fog light bulbs (9005 mod)
- Independent fog light mod
- FULL HID retrofit from the retrofit source (bi-xenon) 5000k
- Painted cut-off shield red for demon eye in the right light
- ccfl angel eyes (as drl)
- drl delete
Films:
- Hexis vinyl gloss black roof
- 3m Scotchgard hood, fenders, a-pillars, mirrors
- Tint – 35% fronts, 15% rear, 5% sun strip
Appearance:
- Bayson R Carbon fiber STI spoiler
- DIY mesh grille
- Red supertones
- Debadged rear
- DIY custom Subaru badges (removed and re-coloured to be red on black)
- Red painted calipers
- Zip-tie stitching on front bumper
- TSC STICKERS!
Wheels:
- 17” generic black w/aluminum lip rims, painted with metalcast red (summer)
- 16” black steelies (winter)
- 225/45/17 Genral Tire UHP Exclaim (summer)
- 205/55/16 Firestone Winterforce (winter)
Performance/Handling:
Perrin short throw shift adapter
Perrin rear shifter bushings
Big 3 electrical (power/grounding) mod
Whiteline 22mm rear anti-sway bar
Whiteline rear Endlinks
Whiteline tower brace (front)
Eibach 25mm hollow front anti-sway bar
Rallitek hd front endlinks
OBX 2.5” catback exhaust (waiting to be installed)
Fumoto drain plug/valve (what everyone should have!)
*I always have people asking me about tint and films, and where I get it. I use, and have had great results from tint- http://www.windowfilm.com/auto_1.html (great product and pricing for bulk rolls)
3m Scotchgard- http://www.nextlevelride.com/store/3...m-by-the-foot/
Hexis/3m 1080 cf – hard to beat ebay pricing
On with the pictures, Excuse the iPhone camera, but I’ll try to include pics that show most mods, Enjoy
Here’s a link to one of my photobucket albums that contains most pic’s of my hid retrofit
http://s209.photobucket.com/albums/b...or/Headlights/
How she currently sits ☺
and all the little details
Subwoofer box
Lights
Bad lighting but you can see the effect of the painted cut-off shield
Better Night time pics to come
And just so you know why I CAN’T close that wheel gap just yet:
My little suby is already a snowplow at stock height in Thunder Bay winters lol. Only time I got stuck was when I was hung up on the frame
And the obx catback waiting to be installed
what better to do on your birthday then have the day off work, have a lift available, and just so happen to have an exhaust to install? YAY!!!!
First things first, tighten up the front endlinks (just installed last week, and tightening incase anything loosened)
Stock Exhaust out (and a nice view of the whiteline sway bar )
Side by side
I still dont know who could have ever conceived the idea to make a muffler THAT big! its ridiculous
Installed
And just random pics I hadn't posted yet:
More pics of exhaust to come. I will try to get around to taking night pics of the headlights, and possibly a sound clip or two of the exhaust
Headliner dropped
Just look at all the nice shiny undampened sheet metal... Lets fix that:
now my car has wont sound like a tin can in the rain! btw I've already done my doors and hatch area, so the roof was the last on the list.
side note: LOOK AT THE SIZE OF THE SIDE AIRBAG!!! :cool:
More pics and even a Vid!!!
Video clip
http://youtu.be/zTSDY8vJ_Oo
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Lights (Finally!)
Garage pics first
Just Fogs
lows + fogs
Highs (bixenon + halogen) + lows + fogs
And here are some other pics
Interior
Niagara meet up
After a photo outing with a better skilled photographer, who has a better camera than just my iPhone
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