.Bit of backstory first off, with the RS not being the most comfortable car to daily drive, it's quirks making me hate driving it every day as well as not enjoying racking up tonnes of K's/wear and teaar I decided I needed a daily. Needed to be practical, under around 7K, fun and comfortable. My first thought was a PreFL gen4 GT wagon but prices and scarcity for a manual car threw that idea out. I also entertained a Suzuki Swift sport which as much fun as they are to drive the size and the cheap interior compared to my final choice and being right at the top of my price point kinda stopped that too. What I ended up deciding I wanted was a BG Outback, Had it all mapped out in my head, White over grey, dual sunroofs, black leather, RX bumpers, Gen3 BBS, WRX swap. Ticked all the boxes, started looking around for an outback, collecting bits and pieces including this parts RS...
Bought off a mate, Very much nugget spec in the body, reason for sale was the wiring had been butchered horribly and he just got over it. This was after I'd recently resealed the whole engine incl headgaskets, timing belt etc. Mechanically the cars great.
Spec list.
V2 WRX engine
TD05H
Prova W2 ECU
3" TBE
V3 STi gearbox
4.44 Suretrac rearend
Near new BC red coilovers
22mm adjustable rear swaybar(Think it's whiteline but been painted black)
Whiteline ALK
294mm 2 pot frnts with slotted discs
Plenty enough fruit to get me going, instead of an Outback though I ended up picking up this..
1995 BG5A GT, rough, knocking engine, binding auto, black leather though wrong front seats.
Seemed like a good base, obviously a lot of work involved but nothing I couldn't manage.
Went to New Zealand in May with my dad, had loads of fun, loved all the scenery and the amount of 90s JDM over there is insane.
We spent 3 nights in Auckland, 3 nights in Rotorua, 1 night in Napier and 3 nights in Wellington, Hit every self serve wreckers on the north island as well as visiting Strongs and Sub-A-Roo. Picked up loads of goodies for my cars
.I had planned on going detail here but aforementioned upload issues have turned it into a mess so enjoy a bunch of holiday snaps instead.
Our hire car, JDM Mazda Premacy. trusty workhorse for the 2000+ K's we travelled
Back in Aus, unpacked all my goodies.
Mocked up some bits on the Legacy
RFRB S1 front lip, S2 tinted tailights, S1 GT V-Limited badge
Nothing happpened for a bit, getting together parts, saving money, cleaning stuff up.
Then a car came up on ebay, I inspected it the day the auction was ending and knew I had to buy it.
So after all of that here is my new daily.
98 Model Legacy GT
Love how versatile the rear seat arrangement is in these Series 2's.
This is far cleaner than the S1 was and came with reg till December. Stoked for $2900. Not without its issues though. When I bought it it was overfuelling like crazy, used half a tank to get it home to Geelong from Eltham and the back of the car looked like this.
Anytime I even glanced at the throttle it would send clouds of fuel out the back :/
Replacing the airflow meter(FUN FACT: Pink label Nissan Jecs AFM's found on A32 Maximas and S2 R33 Skylines are interchangable with purple label AFM's) partially fixed it but it still had overfuelling issues and was now throwing the dreaded code 66 to boot. It sounded like there was an air leak somewhere around the primary but with a noisy powersteering pump as well it was hard to tell.
I grabbed another pump off a mate so I could diagnose easier and confirmed my suspiscion.
Decided to pull the intercooler off and thought Hmm, that doesn't quite look right.
Grabbed some spare TT bits off Ty including 2 intake manifolds and a pair of twins and set to work pulling the intake mani.
Looks like someone had been in to replace all the coolant hoses and forked up the entire intake in the process. Swapped over the under intake pipe with the one of Tys mani and ended up making the PCV F pipe out of irrigation bits from Bunnings. I may end up replacing this and all the other engine rubbers with new OEM parts in future but as yet am undecided on if I'll go singe or not. TBH the twins are kinda neat, they're not bad to drive once it's all working reasonably well and the system isn't all that confusing once you wra your head around it a bit. Time will tell.
I also rebuilt the BBOD when I was chasing issues.
Picked up a rear scuff plate from Japan and installed that, yet to do the door plates.
Also bought a shale green upper dash trim, This coupled with the window switches I got in NZ and auto trim Ty had laying around looks a lot cleaner than the woodgrain IMO.
Removed the ugly aftermarket cruise control as well. Will work out the best way to retrofit OEM cruise. Have found out my dash is already wired for the switch just unsure how much of the rest is already there.
Fitted centre console extension
Cleaned up & fitted Monsoons I got in NZ
New rear brakes as the old rotors were stuffed and shuddered badly. WIll install the 294mm fronts as well when I get around to it.
LH turning light wasn't working, tried different bulbs, checked it was getting power and all seemed good. Thanks to steve telling me to wiggle the earth and suddenly it's working. Wiggled a little more and it snapped off
Bodged it back together for now but will be picking up another light for an unmolested sub loom shortly
Took it into work for a RW
Installed Mitsuba Alpha horns
Put the Syms strut bar off the RS on. It's designed for a BD/BG anyway
Got something cool from Japan the other day too
She's a biggun
Hippo Sleek wang
That about wraps up where I'm at for now. Plans at this stage are to finish tidying it up to a level I'm happy, Install some more fruit and manual swap sometime in the near future. Updates will be coming on the RS too I've just had trouble copying all my photos off my old phone.
Cheers for reading
