Impreza 2001 RS GC8 Build First Suby

[od_man99]

May 2011

Firstly let me introduce myself.

I am a Master Student in BioEngineering at McGill University. I graduated from a bachelors of Engineering recently and work within the Engineering Realm. I live up North in Quebec Canada, where winter is fierce and an AWD car is needed.

So Something happened today. I drove about 200 miles to pick up a car that I was suppose to pass on to my brother. Drove it back and fell in love with it.

My first Suby. Simply amazing to drive. Never buying another brand if I can help it!




















The car has 150k (90k miles). It's pretty clean, has some signs of rust. The clutch is new and the oil pan is leaks a bit. Needs new brakes too.

Got it very cheap, I simply love it, no comparison to anything else I've driven.

Enjoy boys, it's getting a paint job next Monday and new Brakes all around with a new oil pan.

That's not me in the picture.
I'll have pictures up of next weeks paint job.

I also own a Supercharged Eclipse.

New SDS Member - Club3G Forum : Mitsubishi Eclipse 3G Forums

I just had a new engine put in it and now that I have Impreza I think I'm going to sell my eclipse (only summer driven) and keep the impreza.

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Plans

1)Paint job (already scheduled) + New Front Bumper

2)Brakes, not sure if I should do a Brembo Swap, I'd have to see if they'd fit the wheels I have.

3)Front window (already ordered)

4)Fix trunk lock

5)Fix Oil leak (I think it's the oil pan)

6)Rust Proof + Greased

Future plans

WRX swap (engine+transmission), read a few articles about it and it seems that it would run me around 8000k to get it done right.

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May 2011

Radiator & Brakes

Just got this in the mail today, New Radiator and 4 new rotors with brake pads.

I'll be painting the calipers gold.




I've been reading a few swap threads. There is so much I need to learn, granted the engineering background and experience with the eclipse S/C.

I've watched Wathermoon's video and read up on the S/C kit. I'm not sure whether I should go ahead with a WRX swap or a the S/C kit. I think the WRX engine will be more reliable.

Opinions?

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June 2011

I came back and went to check up on Alvin's work. Amazing, I'll have more pictures tomorrow with all the work he is doing.

All the tape is small bumps, he welded up the holes in the cabin and redid the floor of the interior. He also took the put tape on all the bumps, he needs to fix.

It's simply amazing his attention to detail.

Here is it for now.

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Can't wait for the final result.

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Progress Update

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The front Bumper is going to be repainted as it didn't match the color of the car. The interior is going to be done next Monday.

Here we are:























This is a 10 year old car that I never thought I'd fall in love with. I drove an S/C Eclipse for 3 years and I can't even compare the driving experience. The eclipse felt loose and I didn't feel in touch with the road. Where as this is brutally true to the Subaru reputation. An incredibly fun car to drive, very in touch with the road.

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As mentioned previously, I had a leak from a broke front window. The previous owner probably knew about it but hadn't gotten it fixed. The water was accumulating under the carpet and obviously causing rust. Also the sunroof drain was clogged adding to the window issue.

I had the drain unclogged when the car was painted. However, the bodyshop (although I paid for it) did not fix the floor of the car on the driver side. Granted they did close the 1mm whole that had formed.

So having an afternoon on my hand and having done a bit of research on the interwebs I decided to go ahead and fix it myself.

Note I didn't care what it would look like, because the carpet would cover the flooring.

This is the damage:





Step 1) Buy Primer Paint and Anti-Rust Paint + Small Grinder + Grinding Paper (150 Grit should do the job)

Step 2) Use Grinder and grind the hell out of the floor. Try to remove as much rust as you can

Step 3) Lay down a coat of primer and let dry for 10 minutes. Do this about 4 times and for the last coat let it dry for about 2 hours

Step 4) Paint with anti-rust brush paint (don't use cans you will make a mess), same as step 3. 4 Coats

Step 5) Let dry and put down grease




The white film is grease. The wholes were filled with it to prevent further rusting.

I also went around the other door wells and filled the doors with grease.

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I took out the seats, Superposs got me thinking. Tried to see if there was much rust under the carpet from the initial window leak and found this:






So I went about sanding it down to the bare metal. Put down 3 coats of white primer and then 4 coats of red anti-rust paint.

I'm waiting for it to dry, so I can grease it up, before putting back the carpet and seats. However, the carpet isn't in the best of states, I'm wondering if I should shug it out and buy a new carpet..

Here is the final product,

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And I put the interior back in, cleaned and armor-all it:

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Washed the car the other day.

I realized how much I disliked the damn tints. So I took a blade and removed them. It was hell, they wouldn't come off. After much struggle.











Then I took the car to duratech and had it rust proofed over the rust proof I had already done myself.




And a teaser of what is to come.

I got this today. The other two and the center caps will be here tomorrow. They were dirty!






Some googone, a shitload of soap and scrubbing did the job:

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So I bought BBS Golds wrapped in Potenza R07s and UPS lost my center Caps. I have to say, every time someone ships me something with them, I realize how incompetent they are.

Here is what I got though.

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Patent Negotiations this morning, couldn't find a parking spot,


No problem.