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[Matt]

The clear indicators do look good.
I'm thinking of getting the BC BR coilovers. From what I have read they seem to be a good coilovers for the price.

yep ive only run 100km on them so far.. but they seem well made and do everything coilovers should do 

They are good. I run them, no complaints from me

See

[Matt]

So driving the car around the past few days ive noticed a bit of a noise on things like roundabouts when turning right

Like a sort of rhythmic wub wub wub sound.....no rubbing on tyres etc so im pretty sure its a wheel bearing

Why doesn't this shit pop up when its all apart lol

So Cam set me straight and told me a local subaru workshop sells refurbed hubs on an exchange basis

Saves screwing around getting the parts and getting it all pressed out and in...and seeing as I now only have Friday to swap the bearings it will be a great option

So hopefully i can grab the hubs this week..swap them all over Friday and get off for a full road 2 race alignment on Saturday and finally the tune on Monday arvo!!

[aekOne]

how much are the exhange hubs matt? i need to do the same thing

[Matt]

$195...which i figured for the lack of screw around, fresh bearings etc and no waiting was worth the extra dosh

Im sure if i did it all myself itd be much cheaper...but main thing for me is time

I have appointments i have to make with the old girl and i cant afford to miss them

[aekOne]

yep agree. you got contact details for that mob?

[Matt]

Yep will send you through some deets

[aekOne]

thanks legend

[Lukeoly]

It's definitely not a fun job but I was able to source a rear wheel bearing for mine for $97 shipped.
I noticed my rear left bearing was shot on the way back from the exhaust shop (couldn't hear it going there with no exhaust lol)
I just had a local shop press the hub centre out of the old bearing and into the new one.
They didn't even charge me.

[Matt]

Yeah ill do the rears at a later date i think unless i find a gd r180 rear end

Just need to get it fixed asap as i dont have the time to root around unfortunately

[Lukeoly]

I'm with you mate. I'm running out of time to get mine ready for hvc :-/

[Matt]

Got sick of looking at the dodgy painted ends on the sti carbon sttut bar so i tore it out and went to town on it

Wire wheeled all the 4 or 5 colour layers of the ends and carefully sanded the paint off the carbon sections as half of it was covered in paint...they obviously had no idea on how to mask areas off lol

Gradually brought the carbon clear coat back up to a good shine using finer and finer sand paper and finished it off with an enamel clear coat...looks tops!

And also sprayed the alloy sections black as they were looking fairly crappy

Came out alright though! Not perfect, but it was a rushed job lol

[Adam]

Looks good! I tried to bring my aluminium bit's back to life but it's way too fiddly! The black suits your engine bay

[Matt]

Yep i played with it and just got over it, wire wheeled it all and painted it lol

And the engine bay is only gonna get blacker....i wanna eventually do the ps pump,a/c and all the brackets and eventually the manifold

And will probably spray the radiator when i swap the coolant out soon aswell

Hell the turbo may even go black if it comes out in the future lol

[aekOne]

bling!

[Matt]

Is that strut on the right side of the car?
 
Looks tits.

Strut is correct..but hats are swapped for max caster but with still a touch of camber

Can still be rotated again to only control caster if needed...but not fussed atm, will probably put some plate in the rear of the control arm bush to add more caster

[Matt]

So i think i may have just bought an r180 rear end

[Barbbachello]

skids ahoy

[Matt]

Haha yerp!!

Diff,shafts and complete hubs

Just needs new rotors again lol

So theyll be a set of r160 gd 2 pot rear hubs and brembo conversion rotors up for sale some time soon ....and some project mu handbrake shoes