Subarus are badass

Something from the world of Widric:

Widric sometimes takes the license plates from his other Impreza to drive the non-registered one, like a criminal he is 😀 This time, we went to our local Burger King to have something to eat.

Coming back from the joint turned to exciting, as Widric put pedal to the metal exiting the roundabout next to BK. Road was wet, tires were bad, turbo kicked in and no locks were engaged.

Rear end started to slide. Widric lifted slightly and car snapped out of the slide pointing towards the ditch. We dove in but Widric kept his cool and turned steeringwheel to right direction. I saw a lot of mud and grass thrown around when the tires dug into dirt, just before we jumped back on road. I think the guy in the van behind us must have been impressed 😀

After some nervous laughs, we assessed the situation. I felt some vibration but guessed it was just some mud in wheels and Widric commented looking into mirror that we didnt leave the rear bumper in the ditch.

At the garage we inspected the damage. Mud and patches of grass everywhere. No damage, nothing at all, wheels didnt have anything on them and all body parts were there 😀

Didnt even bother washing the car

Widric later told me that we dug in deep when he drove past the incident point 🙂

 

Some details along the way

Ok, this thing had bothered me some time. One of the intake pipes had been spraying oily mist around the engine bay. Being lazy, this took me some time to fix.

There is a second problem too. Every time I floor the car for a longer time, the whole car smells like belts were slipping, but it goes away pretty quick. No idea what that is.

Meh. A mess and I spent a whole day cleaning and sweeping.

First peek into my custom intake plenum! Parts are from a different prototype, but they were good to get some needed measures.

Pile of bits and parts. Trying to keep everything in order.

Widric the dwarf viking came to garage to check some wheel options.

His stock 16″ wheels from the older Impreza didnt fit over the 4/2 brakes, so we tested the Advan Sienas as well.

Advans were spot on. Except the bolt pattern.

Widric has a set of 5×100 -> 5×114.3 spacers, but alas, the wheel poked out too much. You can see the frustration on his face 😀

Widric’s turbo

While pondering how we should approach Widric’s turbo installation, we sat down and grilled a bit. 4a block has found its place as shelving. If only the block could be chilled to +4°C, it could keep drinks cool 🙂

The new turbo is a Power Enterprise P1818, if I remember correctly. According to some unknown source, it should spool really quickly.

The turbo has different kind of inlets and outlets compared to stock one (stock one has this weird 90° bend in the turbine inlet, below the blue silicone hose replaces that)

Gott in himmel! Untenseewaffe!

(This kinda reminds me of that Subarute episode on MCM – whole turbine poking through bonnet) 😀

Widric has this rather cool HKS front mount kit, which will need slight modification. Hopefully the turbo works with the front mount.

Garage updates

The shelves are up! The garage is cleaned and it is rather nice place. Only my stock shocks stayed on the floor because I was way too tired to lift them on top of my part of the shelves.

20150408_175954

Got the AW11 running again, after winter months. I tightened the battery ground cable and the car started on the first try.

20150408_180433 20150408_180520

Nothing really special here, the car runs without a hitch. 116601 kilometers on the odo.

The plugs looked great but there was this weird cream colored residue. Widrics four-doored GC8 on the background.

20150414_165607