A fast estate you say? Subaru Forester STI
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Due to to the manner in which PH has become I am actively removing my content from the site. I no longer wish to be associated with the overt racism, bigotry, unpleasantness, ugliness and plain old right wing values this place has become.
Due to to the manner in which PH has become I am actively removing my content from the site. I no longer wish to be associated with the overt racism, bigotry, unpleasantness, ugliness and plain old right wing values this place has become.
Edited by themanwithnoname on Tuesday 24th October 18:07
It's me again, I'm back.
I've done a little tidying up as I realised I was being either a bit rambly or a bit whingy, so less of that.
Since my last ramble, we've seen massive improvements in the shoulder department, still a long way to go, but I can no wield a torque wrench, put my (not insubstantial) weight on it for short periods and have about 70% mobility back. So very happy with that.
In the car department, things are still boringly reliable. I'm not complaining mind, but it does mean there is little to report.
The only real things of note are that I finally got the noisy van all clean and shiny. Then it rained. A lot. So I cleaned it again. I went to Cornwall in full touring mode. And it rained... Well you get the idea.
So here is touring mode:
I ended up building a little wind deflector as it was even more noisy than usual, which I left in the conservatory when we got home, and promptly warped, but happily being speed limited to less than usual, I managed what I consider to be an impressive 30.55mpg on the way home. MkII of the deflector will be made soon. Though a colleague has borrowed by box and bars for the next week or two.
Also driving around in Devon/Cornwall I was sure I saw an English Electric Lightning jet behind a bush, so stopped to investigate... Yup definitely a Lightning
So it came to last week, and it was time to put the car on show at the Fast Car Festival/PHSS at Donington Park, so after taking 3 days off last week to really get the car clean, it rained right up until Friday lunchtime! So a mad dash, and a flurry of machine polishers, thousands of cloths, a million products and about 10 hours of bloody hard work later I was left with what follows.
Getting clean, and you have to love a little snow:
Fast forward to nearly finished:
And when completed, some nice clear reflections (tinypic and its random rotation of images will be the death of me):
In my mate Phil's inimitable style and descriptive manner 'that looks oily as f
k dude' high praise methinks!
And finally for now, at the event.
At this point I realised I was properly sunburnt in the face department, jumped in the old noisy van and hot footed home, via the local Shell (naturally) where for a change, I wasn't in the silliest car on the forecourt, there was an Aventador SV doing it's thing... drinking heavily.
Then I got home, and it rained... Ho hum!
What next?
Well, I have "STI rattle" again, which is becoming a little tiresome, so I'll be stripping down the suspension for waht I'm hoping will be the last time as I am currently agonising over wheel refurb colours/shades and which suspension to put on the car, as replacement struts are from Japan only and £400 quid a corner +/- depending on exchange rate. So some shiny coilovers it will be.
More on this later.
I've done a little tidying up as I realised I was being either a bit rambly or a bit whingy, so less of that.
Since my last ramble, we've seen massive improvements in the shoulder department, still a long way to go, but I can no wield a torque wrench, put my (not insubstantial) weight on it for short periods and have about 70% mobility back. So very happy with that.
In the car department, things are still boringly reliable. I'm not complaining mind, but it does mean there is little to report.
The only real things of note are that I finally got the noisy van all clean and shiny. Then it rained. A lot. So I cleaned it again. I went to Cornwall in full touring mode. And it rained... Well you get the idea.
So here is touring mode:
I ended up building a little wind deflector as it was even more noisy than usual, which I left in the conservatory when we got home, and promptly warped, but happily being speed limited to less than usual, I managed what I consider to be an impressive 30.55mpg on the way home. MkII of the deflector will be made soon. Though a colleague has borrowed by box and bars for the next week or two.
Also driving around in Devon/Cornwall I was sure I saw an English Electric Lightning jet behind a bush, so stopped to investigate... Yup definitely a Lightning
So it came to last week, and it was time to put the car on show at the Fast Car Festival/PHSS at Donington Park, so after taking 3 days off last week to really get the car clean, it rained right up until Friday lunchtime! So a mad dash, and a flurry of machine polishers, thousands of cloths, a million products and about 10 hours of bloody hard work later I was left with what follows.
Getting clean, and you have to love a little snow:
Fast forward to nearly finished:
And when completed, some nice clear reflections (tinypic and its random rotation of images will be the death of me):
In my mate Phil's inimitable style and descriptive manner 'that looks oily as f
k dude' high praise methinks! And finally for now, at the event.
At this point I realised I was properly sunburnt in the face department, jumped in the old noisy van and hot footed home, via the local Shell (naturally) where for a change, I wasn't in the silliest car on the forecourt, there was an Aventador SV doing it's thing... drinking heavily.
Then I got home, and it rained... Ho hum!
What next?
Well, I have "STI rattle" again, which is becoming a little tiresome, so I'll be stripping down the suspension for waht I'm hoping will be the last time as I am currently agonising over wheel refurb colours/shades and which suspension to put on the car, as replacement struts are from Japan only and £400 quid a corner +/- depending on exchange rate. So some shiny coilovers it will be.
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