MOMO steering wheel install

First things first, that stock boost gauge has got to go. Sure it doesn’t match the dash, it reads in mpa, and probably isn’t real accurate. The real reason it got tossed was that it could only read to .15 MPa(megapascal) which is only 21.7556607 PSi! I don’t think were going to see the kind of numbers we want with ~22psi:

Stock wheel MIA:

HKB Boss kit and SPW quick release installed:

Momo wheel getting installed:

All done! :

Suspension is kind of stiff…

We put the STi up on jackstands today to check on a few things, looks like we might be doing some three wheeling:

Look at that wheel stay tucked up in the wheel well…

Shane jumped on the motor mounts and the car didn’t move at all. If you didn’t know Shane isn’t a small guy by any means. Yes, we know it needs to be lowered about another inch in the front too

Suspension Install!

A little late… but here are the pics from the installation of all the cusco suspension pieces…

cusco rear swaybar w/endlinks and perrin performance hardened mounts:

mmmm…..cusco coilovers….

Perrin Performance Positive Steering Response System:

Cusco Front Swaybar w/endlinks.

cusco type ii bar:



trailing arm, polished :

This is how you install your Type II bar after the PSRS, notice the spacers :

The cusco strutbar… this thing seriously weighs 1.3 pounds

That’s right, we polished the front too… looking good:

Old and busted:

We still need to lower it a bit in the front, but it looks REALLY good now!

One last pic of who really is doing the work on this project…

and yes that’s my girlfriend on the side , please don’t kill me Shane.

Engine Removal

5.7 miles on the car when we put it on the lift for engine removal:

Hood removed:

wtf, oil in the turbo with under 6 miles on the clock:

It can turn too…

Cusco strut bars, under brace, front and rear sway bars, radiator plate, radiator hoses, coilovers, e-controller, lower arm bars.

There are VERY few of these coilover sets that have been imported to the United States

debadging, gauges arrive, hood dampners install, and tire test fit.

First we started off with some debadging:

A big “thank-you” (replace “thank” with “F***”) goes out to the genious at SOA who decided that they needed to put holes in the trunk for the big subaru emblem:

All the pretty new parts (defi BF boost, EGT, oil temp, fuel pessure, tein bonnet dampner, defi indicator, defi visors, control unit II, and defi VSD HUD):

Dampners installed:

do the 265’s fit???

oh and we made the new parts cleaner pretty with a tintmasters, shocker, and the don’t sweat it sticker: