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Zac's questionable life decisions (Legnum VR4)


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I'm also a piner of these.

Semi irrelevant sharn

My only experience was when I wasn't the tools this guy came in for a quote for something and raged that we were too expensive so gave it a bog bootful and was sideways out of the driveway and boosted down the road 

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I can imagine getting any work done on one would be expensive, labor costs on pulling bits off to get access to what you need to fix would be extreme, she's TOIGHT in there.

I dont think I'll be engaging in any sideways shenanigans.... Stuffing a diff or gearbox would be pretty annoying! I think much of the running gear is the same as an EVO, so not glass-fragile, but not bulletproof for sure.

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Argh, I had the Galant VR4 in this shape. Top spec (manual, recaros, mechanical diff) and mint inside and out but holy hell did it smoke on decel. Replaced both turbos with good used ones and still smoked like a train. Ended up selling it as is, and I see the rego has since lapsed on the car so i guess the next owner never sorted it either.

Great cars to drive but that smoking sucks.

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Yeah I like these.  Nice selection sir. One of the better modern wagons out there imo. 

I'd also like an original low mileage mint first gen subaru legacy  turbo wagon (or sedan) like what used to be everywhere, popular at skifields.  Saw a minter black sedan in Nelson the other day. Noice! I can't remember the last time i had seen one. 

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these are cool cars. 

having done a engine rebuild on a 4 cylinder one years ago then driving it i was blown away how nice of a car it was to drive. 

definitely don't think it was a bad buy by all means maybe just the daily part. 

how many ks on this bad boy? 

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Alas the little lady is sick today, so am home with her. Took the opportunity to snap a couple more pics. I spent about three hours cleaning it on Sunday, and I'm not even 10% of the way there, hah. Booked in for a warrent on Friday. Probably less of a warrent, more of a plan of what to sort. I've replaced the blown bulbs and everything seems to be working. I'll have a diddle with the drivers side seatbelt as its pretty slow to retract and hard to buckle. I'm hoping the low, the exhaust and the wheels wont cause me any issues. The place I'm taking it to purports to be a mitsy / evo specialist, so hopefully they'll like it.

Once the other half is home to take over care of wee miss I'll shoot into pick-a-part and get a couple of things. Needs windscreen squirters. One of the trims that goes up the side of the windscreen and over the roof flew off on the motorway, so will see if there is a tidy pair of those there, and if its possible to get them off without fucking them too badly...

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Need to pull the tape 'eyelids' off the headlights too, but I think I'll just get another set, give them a polish and chuck them in. It's _weird_ having a car you can just buy parts for easily.

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The interior is pretty nice really. Would have had the tan leather from factory, but has had black carpets put in which I quite like. When the manual was put in it the cluster was swapped aswell, so it's a pretty seamless conversion, no sign that it was an auto basically.

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The headunit is super dated and wont talk to my phone, so I'll replace that at some stage. I've been wanting to play with a double din android based one, so will likely head that route.

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Apparently its a thing to swap to evo flywheels and clutches in these? I wonder if its just a parts availability thing. Its got a heavy duty evo clutch in it apparently, and it certainly feels like it on your leg. Getting the muscle memory in place to drive it smoothly and efficiently is taking a bit of time, as the turbo's respond so quickly you're in boost before you know it. I suppose that's a good thing though. They're tiny TD03's... With some larger internals fitted to them I bet they would go really well. Not going down that path though!

The FMIC kit looks pretty decent really. Nice welding on the BOV flange. I suspect the BOV causes a couple of issues though, venting to atmosphere on an air flow metered car is a bit of a no-no.

Fun Fun.

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