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[SAV84C]

As many of you know I wrote of my lib back in May and this had resulted in looking for an XT 6 months prematurely...

Fortunately my payout was quick and easy and well more than what I would have sold my Lib for which you could say was a plus.

After looking at few cars here and there, even considered a very nice Blue Liberty MY05 GT Luxury with low kms that i found at dealer for $17.5K, I took it for a drive then looked under bonnet, check out the turbo, oil sitting all around it and I went no thanks! The salesman even tried to bullshit me sayin theyve had it checked over and that the 3 months used dealer warranty would cover repairs if there was any problems.. I didnt want the hassels so just walked away.

Kept looking on carsales and found what seemed like to good of a deal, A silver MY05 XT Luxury with low kms for $14K, sent them an email then next day was advertised down to $11.8K, what the hell??? emailed them again, no response... So I kept looking, then I found this MY04 XT Luxury with resonably low km for $16.8K and very nice list of performance mods that was only 10mins away from me so I rang them to go have a look at it...

As soon I as I looked over it inside and out with a fine tooth comb, i knew this was it, the one I want only problem was 2 months rego so there was room to move with the price.

After a couple days and talking to a few people about talking the owner down I managed to purchase this at a very good price.

Day off purchase:


















Mods When Purchased:

Clarion MAX385VD Touch Screen DVD
Reverse Sensors with Voice Distance indicators
Whiteline Front & Rear Sway Bars
Whiteline Rear sway bar heavy duty mount kit
UHF Aerial (but no radio???)
OEM bonnet protector
OEM Slimline Monsoons

MRT XC kit consisting of:
VF30
3" Turbo Back Exhaust
EcuTek Tune - Retuned by Pulse Racing - 175.7awkw
Hyperflow Top Mount Intercooler
KN Panel Filter (Also have the MRT CAI, undecided on whether to chuck it back on)
 
HVC15

HVC14

 
 
HVC13
 

 

As at 12/3/12



As at 12/10/11




Engine & Performance
OLD SETUP - VF30 - EcuTek Tune Pulse Racing 175.7 kw

NEW SETUP - 193.2kw & 386.4Nm (Road Tune) - Intense Performance Tuning
JDM STI SG9 Engine
VF41
Pierburg 3 port
Kobe Motorsport SFB
LogicPro Silicone Intake
MRT CAI with K&N Extreme Pod filter and custom shielding
Hyperflow TMIC
3 MRT TBE with Catless Up pipe
2.5" TCP Oval Diffback
Gen4 Liberty GT Turbosmart Kompact BOV
Provent & Gears Catch Can Setup
Modded Bugeye STI Intercooler Splitter
Backyard Spec Aluminium Underbody Panel
Golpher Radiator
Beatrush Radiator Cooling Panel
Transmission Cooler
OEM Fender Plug
Fumoto Oil Sump Plug Valve
Gas Bonnet Struts
OEM Front Strut Top Covers
Kartboy Battery Tie Down

Suspension & Brakes
Forester Spec BC BR coilovers
15:1 ratio Forester STI steering rack - 34110 SA070
SuperPro Steering rack bushes
GDA Sti Alloy Control Arms with ALK
SuperPro Roll Centre Kit
Whiteline 22mm Adj. Front & 22mm Adj. Rear Sway Bars
Whiteline Front Sway Bar links
Whiteline Rear sway bar heavy duty mount kit
Nolathane Rear sway bar links
Rallitek 4EAT Transmission Mount Insert (SOFT)
Cusco Front Strut brace with Brake Master Cylinder stopper
Cusco Front Underbrace
Cusco Rear trunk brace
Whiteline Rear Strut Bar
2006 Liberty GT brake upgrade - 316mm Slotted Front Rotors and standard 290mm vented rear rotors
HPX front pads & rear

Exterior
18x8.5 +42 Racing Hart CPF Tune-R wrapped in 225/45 Bridgestone RE003
Rear Roof Spoiler with brake light flasher
Bugeye STI Hood Scoop
Rare JDM OEM rear waist spoiler
Replica OEM Front Lip
Custom OEM Grill
OEM Slimline Monsoons
Smoked side indicators
Series 2 SG Side skirts and lower guard moulds
Custom Side skirt extentions
Cross Sport Rear Pods
JDM Heated Folding Mirrors
Red Hella Tone Horns
SMD LED Number Plate lighting
6000K Bi-Xenon HID with SMD LEDs parkers to match
Tinted Windows 20%
Smoked side indicators
Smoked tinted Fog lights
JDM Kouki Rear Taillights

Interior
Android Carjoying Headunit with Wireless steering wheel controls
Heated Leather Impreza RS Front Seats
Reverse Sensors with Voice Distance indicators
Defi Boost Gauge (Green)
Ashtray Gauge Bezel with Prosport Oil Temp/Pressure Gauges (Green)
6.5" Front Kicker Speakers
400RMS Kicker monoblock
12" JBL Sub
$tu (OzFoz) passenger fiberglass sub enclosure
S2 SG9 Forester AC Dials
Centre Dash/AC Panel Black Vinyl Overlay
Redline Automatic Leather Gear boot and Sti Aluminum gear knob
SMD LED interior lighting
Green SMD LED dash lights

Mods to come
Ongoing touch up tunes


The power of this comes on so much quicker and so much torque!

[Morgan]

Congrats Chris!

She looked great on the cruise!

Keen to get in one of these myself

[aekOne]

Congrats on the purchase mate! 6 months, you, me, wsid

[AussieTemplar]

looks great chris mate! gonna miss the old liberty, but gotta make way for these things.

shame its an auto

[SAV84C]

looks great chris mate! gonna miss the old liberty, but gotta make way for these things.

shame its an auto

Yeh but I kinda figured these days sitting in traffic to and from work an hr each way auto comes in handy

[AussieTemplar]

Haha I feel your pain now dude, seeing as I am working in Bankstown. ******* M5 is terribad. I was banked up all the way at southern cross drive and it took me an hour to get through the tunnel last week on thursday.

[SAV84C]

Finally found some time to look over the car properly and touch up a few things, got under the car and found 2 problems...

Busted inner driveshaft boot


Broken sway bar mount on left control arm



The boot isnt so much a problem for me but the sway bar mount is a biggie, I'm gonna need another control arm by the looks of it...Does anyone know if the wrx alloy control arms will fit? I'm guessing they will

[Scuba-Roo]

Yeah they'll fit, not sure if you'll need GD or GC8 control arms. The links look the same as my RS impreza which would be GD.

Seems weird it's broken but.

[Scott]

ouch

they look like GD ones

i have some alloy ones if your in need
and a 6speed to fix the auto problem

[Alex]

ouch

they look like GD ones

i have some alloy ones if your in need
and a 6speed to fix the auto problem

OY!

sixspeeder is mine!

And I may even take the alloy arms also for extra stance.

[Scuba-Roo]

And I may even take the alloy arms also for extra stance.

You'll need to angle grind the inner bush that go's through the crossmember to make these fit

Probably be better to get some spacers

[SAV84C]

<br />ouch <img src='http://www.subyclub....default/sad.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='' /><br /><br />they look like GD ones<br /><br />i have some alloy ones if your in need<br />and a 6speed to fix the auto problem <img src='http://www.subyclub....ault/tongue.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='' /><br />

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How much u want the arms for?

[Scott]

OY!

sixspeeder is mine!

And I may even take the alloy arms also for extra stance.

Just teasing haha

[XXB4XX]

I shoulda bought a Forrester.

[Alex]

I shoulda bought a Forrester.

XXXTXX

nah.

doesn't work.

[SAV84C]

Seeing as I cant get my friken SAV-84C plates back ive come up with a few new ideas... $200 ordering fee later with no other charges as my rego is due in less than a month

[Morgan]

Hmmmm I reckon SAV484...

[Adam]

Hmmmm I reckon SAV484...

+1

[AussieTemplar]

TH-37-OY

[SAV84C]

on another note I found some rims, what do you guys think? I havent bought them yet



With a little bit of photoshop and lowering