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Name: Hamish
Car: 2005 Manual Liberty GT
Colour: Obsidian Black Pearl
History: White Liberty 95, Black Legacy wagon 3.0L
Purchase date: 14th of September 2010 (Completely Stock)


Updated: March 2013















Suspension & Brakes:
- Brembo front brake kit with Dixcel pads and rotors
- Tein Type flex Coilovers
- Sti flexible Strut brace
- Whiteline Front and rear sway bars
- Cusco HD rear swaybar mounts
- Cusco HD front links
- Jspeed lower arm bushes

Engine/Intake/Drivetrain:
- Willall Racing tune 177.5KW
- TCP quad tip Stainless steel mufflers
- Phat Ceramic 3" dump pipe
- Light weight flywheel (Single mass conversion)
- Exedy replacement clutch
- HKS Panel filter
- Prova Air guide
- Resonator delete
- Zerosport radiator caps

Exterior:
- Oz Racing 18x8 Ultraleggera rims
- JDM battery + ABS engine bay covers
- 5000K HID’s with matching Led fogs and parkers
- Sti front lip
- Gimmick Motorsport hood gas struts
- Black leggdura racing wheel nuts
- K2 gear rear lip spoiler
- Eyelids
- Dunlop SP Sport Maxx 225/40/18

Interior:
- Retro fit genuine facelift satnav
- Ipod connection (EA1251)
- Aluminium pedals (From the 3.0L)
- Blitz A/C Filter
- Polk Audi 8" sub
- Dynamat on rear parcel shelf

Any comment's/ suggestions/ criticism welcome

Very nice! Keep up the great work! Looking forward to your future mods! I love being there for a car's origins and then watching it progress.

Any pics of the car with the Ultraleggeras?

I dont even have tyres for them yet. Don't have to much cash after the first mod bite.
Getting prices for painting them today though.

Welcome to the turbo world !! haha

Leo

Nice one Hamish.

Needs more wagon though.

Keen for some pics with the Ultraleggeras on.

For pretty much all those parts you've listed, you only need to talk to one man... Phat GT

Car looks good mate!

So whats the verdict. How different is a prefacelift GT to a prefacelift 3RB?

Woodduck wrote:So whats the verdict. How different is a prefacelift GT to a prefacelift 3RB?

Aside from the obviously engine difference Different front car & grill... 3RB came with Bilstein shocks... 3RB also had electric driver & passenger seats... I think there are more, but the rest would only be minor.

No no no, i know the physical differences haha. I was meaning to drive

^^^ Ahhhhh... It's different

I've found the 3RB's (In 6sp manual) to be a nicer car to drive (In completely stock form) in the way to torque comes in etc... Mind you, a few mods to the GT & you can get all that & more

Good to see you found your GT . Let the powah mods begin!

Hks180 - Thanks for the globes and helping me out. Can't wait to get the 5000k as the 6000k was too blue for me

Woodduck - For the GT vs 3RB. I made a thread here, I do miss the 6speed but that sound of spooling and the gear changing makes up for it... viewtopic.php?f=2&t=9955

Swinging - Thanks for the engine covers, tidies it up so much And soon to be GT badge. I plan to remove the spoiler (repaint the whole boot, probably with a lip spoiler) and then put the LIBERTY badge on the left hand side and adjacent to that the GT badge (without the 2.0 part) on the right hand side. Keep it looking stock but noticeable GT from the back as well as the front.

Cruisn - I still can't decide what colour to go for the Ultraleggera's as they are a matte black colour now. Leaning towards gunmetal at the moment. The Legacy wagon pissed me off to much, glad to be back on team sedan.

Tek - Powah mods will wait until i get to know the car (Lack of funding is the true story). But do want more noise from the intake, the HKS filter and removing the resonator helped but might need a CAI or something as well.

Nice ride mate...you definately love your liberty's!!

What are the specs of the wheels?

Hey Hamish grats on the purchase mate, looking good.

hamish_023 wrote:Future mods: (In order)-
Respray front GT grille.

You going to mesh it out as well?

hamish_023 wrote:- Aluminium pedals (From the 3.0L)

I can't remember your previous ride, was that a 3.0? You should maybe consider some JDM STi pedals, they look a lot better imo.

hamish_023 wrote:- Cusco strut bar/brake stopper

A few people have mentioned that the Cusco front strut tower bar and brake stopper combo are not as effective as the standalone versions of each, something to do with the brake stopper connected to the bar having more flex? Either buy them separately or maybe buy an STi bar and the cusco stopper?

hamish_023 wrote:Ltd Edition Zero sport Radiator

Are you getting both the Zero sport caps in the 2 pressure ratings or only doing one of the caps?

Anyways good luck with the rest of the mods, looks like you know exactly what you want.
Did you get Leo to give you the full LED treatment? Interior lights are the bomb

Ryan - http://img412.imageshack.us/img412/8074/mg7918.jpg

These are the rims. (yes i picked a good car to show them against). Ultraleggera mean Ultraweight in Italia where they are manufactured, weighting under 8kg each for 18x8 wheels.

Kieran – Not sure I like the mesh in the prefacelifts though. The satin paint is peeling so had plans the take off the chrome wings and badge and paint it a matte black or satin gunmetal.

Also don’t like the Sti pink pedals though.

The strut brace is mainly for bling as i noticed next to nothing on previous cars, same with the Zero sport Radiator and oil caps from Phat. The engine bay looks a bit too yellow atm.