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Hey all.

Well Lets start with the format:
Name: Karl
Ride: 05 Liberty Safety Pack 5 Speed Manual Sedan
Location: SA Adelaide
Mod: Nolathane LCA bushes? lol. Nah none yet.
Plans: Hoping to swap my stock exhaust for a sports one from work. Then one day some wheels, bit lower and aftermarket sat nav/ audio system and some tint.
Occupation: Apprentice Subaru Technician, 3rd year.
Year of birth: early '90s.
Interest: Work on cars, hang with mates, drink with mates.
Previous Rides: CBF listing them all. Important ones are my first car, '98 Daewoo Nubira. My favourite, '84 Toyota Corolla KE70 4spd Manual. And my current project, '89 R31 Nissan Skyline.

Any way, I work in Adelaide as a Subaru Tech so if you need parts I can help you out with some discount.

Cheers, Karl.

A quick photo from the weekend:



Oh and some more info on the car:

Has one previous owner with full service history at my employer.

I picked the car up December 2010 with 140,7xx km on it. Currently its at about 147,7xx km. (It's a 2.5i btw)

Work done since owning the car (in rough order):
150,000km log book service with clutch fluid bleed.
Front LCA rear bushes replaced with Nolathane bushes through the car yard I got it from. They also did front driveshaft seals but installed them on the wrong sides and they leaked worse than before, so I replaced these with genuine seals and I also did the o-rings that sit behind them.
At this time I noticed when the control arm bushes were replaced the swaybar links were reinstalled incorrectly causing them to be at maximum flex all the time, this caused the balljoint boots to split, so I replaced both the front swaybar links with genuine ones.
Also upgraded my low beam and high beam globes to genuine vision plus and performance plus globes for some extra vision.
I have replaced the clutch and brake pedal rubbers, fitted carpet mats and light grey lambswool seat covers (I had a throw over Subaru seat cover until I got my lambswool ones:))
I've also fit a cargo tray in the boot, one day I will make/buy a new boot carpet as mine is rooted, and the little hanger thing is broken.
Some techs from work and I had suspected a big end knock occurring and some minor oil consumption so I decided it was time for the big one: full rebuild.
Me and a mate ripped my engine out at home and noticed my hydraulic tensioner was pitted to buggery and leaking, which caused it to knock against the block, probably the "big end" I heard, anyway we went ahead with the plan and got the heads and intake all off, took the heads, short block and flywheel to Knights Engines in Somerton Park (Highly recommended for ANY engine/head work!). I had the short block rebuilt with rings and bearings, apparently my bearings were near new but we did them anyway. The rings were rooted and bores glazed so that was machined up, everything was hot washed, and machined accordingly. I put it all back together with a new clutch and timing belt/tensioner kit. (FYI a genuine Subaru engine gasket kit does NOT come with spark plug tube seals, these need to be purchased separately)
Anyway, the weekend after the engine was out, it was back in and time for its start up. Started her up, ran it up to bleed the coolant, took her for a drive and she ran beautifully. A week later I checked the oil, all was good, and on the Easter weekend I just did the oil and filter after the 1,000km run in. And plans are at 150,000km I'll be doing the oil and filter with Subaru upper engine clean, fuel filter, and platinum spark plugs, which is in a bit over 2,000km away.

I will be servicing the car every 6,000km with an upper engine clean and octane booster to keep her in tip top shape! And I always use BP Ultimate 98 Octane fuel. Washed every fortnight at the least with a vacuum, and dash/ door trims are wiped over when required. I take pride in my car and try to go by the saying "what you put in it is what you get out of it." ie. shit fuel causes shit performance, shit maintenance causes stuff to break/ become damaged prematurely.

Welcome. Alot of Adelaide member's here. Where in Adelaide are you working?

Another adelaide member! Beauty!

Sounds like you know your stuff mate, and being a 3rd year apprentice I guess you'd want to! . I'll definitely be hitting you up for some mechanical advice here and there!

Car sounds good mate, and looks great also. I hope it treats you as well as you treat it!



Another one to add to the cruise list hopefully!

Welcome aboard.

Would love to come along on a cruise.

I work at Eblens Subaru at Glenelg, also have a mate who is a first year at Jarvis in the city.

Also have done disc machine and pollen filter to my car, forgot to add lol.

I have plenty of stuff at home for cash jobs if anyone needs some stuff done and I'm more than happy to share my knowledge so if you have a question feel free to ask and if I cant help you I'm sure I can get the answer from work, lol.

oh thats great to hear my cars near 100,000kms and isnt that usually the time for a timing belt swap ? i also got a 2.5i

Dropz wrote:Would love to come along on a cruise.

I work at Eblens Subaru at Glenelg, also have a mate who is a first year at Jarvis in the city.

Also have done disc machine and pollen filter to my car, forgot to add lol.

I have plenty of stuff at home for cash jobs if anyone needs some stuff done and I'm more than happy to share my knowledge so if you have a question feel free to ask and if I cant help you I'm sure I can get the answer from work, lol.

Welcome mate...Another SA one.

Sounds like you know your stuff.....Eblens Glenelg, You'd know Shane then. Car looks good mate, I was thinking about getting white but didn't in the end.

Eblens Glenelg do everything for me so probably see ya for my next service in the not too distant future.

tkboi wrote:oh thats great to hear my cars near 100,000kms and isnt that usually the time for a timing belt swap ? i also got a 2.5i

It depends on what year the car is.

MY06 and later do the belt at I think 125,000km whereas MY05 and earlier is at 100,000km.

Not sure on what we charge for it, I think retail is near $1,000. The service is about 4 or 4.5hours depending on turbo/N/A

iisshhyy wrote:

Dropz wrote:Would love to come along on a cruise.

I work at Eblens Subaru at Glenelg, also have a mate who is a first year at Jarvis in the city.

Also have done disc machine and pollen filter to my car, forgot to add lol.

I have plenty of stuff at home for cash jobs if anyone needs some stuff done and I'm more than happy to share my knowledge so if you have a question feel free to ask and if I cant help you I'm sure I can get the answer from work, lol.

Welcome mate...Another SA one.

Sounds like you know your stuff.....Eblens Glenelg, You'd know Shane then. Car looks good mate, I was thinking about getting white but didn't in the end.

Eblens Glenelg do everything for me so probably see ya for my next service in the not too distant future.

Yeah I know Shane. He's orrite lol

I did your GT the other week when you came in.

Do you know Richard Fergusson at Jarvis in town?? Used to work at HJs blackwood. POS 31 Skyline

nice ride =D btw is it true in the new subaru dealer on west terrace have rally cars on display?? a mate from kensington told me there are but i havent checked yet even though i drive past it everytime i go to uni

Not sure about rally cars being on display, I know they have a 22b on display.

And currently they have 2 rally cars, a 22b, and 2 2door STis in the carpark, pretty sure they are customers cars though.

I'd like to go in and have a look myself, hoping that I can get a look at the workshop with my mate.

A 22B!!!!!!!!! @_@ NUTS! sick ill make time too see them =) looks real nice now but i reckon the toyota dealer 100m up is classy (just because you can see inside the workshop).

or i can go to Snj to check the rally cars there but no 22b!

Toyota spent alot more on their dealership than Jarvis, I think I heard around $14mill or something? But Subaru was only $7mill.

Toyota is good for customers, being able to watch their cars, see whats done, make sure it's all done right, but it would suck to work there, being watched would make me too nervous and probably cause more stuff ups.

Yeah I know Shane. He's orrite lol

I did your GT the other week when you came in.

Do you know Richard Fergusson at Jarvis in town?? Used to work at HJs blackwood. POS 31 Skyline [/quote]


And a find job you did, it hasnt exploded so I'm happy so far. haha yeah I used to work with him back in the day at that dump ...that R31 will keel over and die any day from now I think.

Ha ha, yeah thanks

The RX you used to have looked orrite too.

Yeah Richard is saving for a new 31, he's almost got everything he needs for the turbo conversion, should be fun lol.