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I'm downloading the video as I type, thanks for the info man. One more question since I don't want to start a whole thread for it. How dependable are Subaru's? Specifically the WRX's? I mean they are Japanese so they have to be at least decent, but are they like a Toyota or a Honda?
Originally posted by Captain Trash
I'm downloading the video as I type, thanks for the info man. One more question since I don't want to start a whole thread for it. How dependable are Subaru's? Specifically the WRX's? I mean they are Japanese so they have to be at least decent, but are they like a Toyota or a Honda?
I'm downloading the video as I type, thanks for the info man. One more question since I don't want to start a whole thread for it. How dependable are Subaru's? Specifically the WRX's? I mean they are Japanese so they have to be at least decent, but are they like a Toyota or a Honda?
I owned a '97 Outback when I lived in Seattle (perfect snow boarding car to load up with gear) and I never had any problems. I've seen people with pretty high milage Subarus though (>100k miles)... and there are still a ton of the old GL wagons on the road. Of course, most likely all of those people don't rally cross and auto cross. 
However, I'd think that Subaru is at least in the same camp as Honda and Toyota.
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Re: Coil Over Springs?
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I have a 98L, I was looking into upgrading the suspension to a coilover from Spomotors. Then a friends suggested simply adding a front strut tower brace, and a high performance sway bar in the back, I don't know the most about suspension so any insight to the advantages and disadvantages to each would be great. Thanks. By the way I took my Impreza everyowhere through the blizzard this past winter, as I laughed at all my friends in their pretty SUVs that couldn't make it anywhere with primary RWD, I LOVE AWD. My only problem is that I would climb atop the snow and if I didn't go fast enough I would bottom out and make a hell of a show throwing snow around. (One reason I want a better suspension)
I have a 98L, I was looking into upgrading the suspension to a coilover from Spomotors. Then a friends suggested simply adding a front strut tower brace, and a high performance sway bar in the back, I don't know the most about suspension so any insight to the advantages and disadvantages to each would be great. Thanks. By the way I took my Impreza everyowhere through the blizzard this past winter, as I laughed at all my friends in their pretty SUVs that couldn't make it anywhere with primary RWD, I LOVE AWD. My only problem is that I would climb atop the snow and if I didn't go fast enough I would bottom out and make a hell of a show throwing snow around. (One reason I want a better suspension)
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I have done several hundred miles on rally stages doing photography. The WRX (wagon) does fine on 16" RE92s on gravel and mud, except I have bent stock rims - on rocks I guess. The inside, unsupported flange bends; one was minor and the other I had to replace.
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Nice pics, but have you ever lifted the inside front in a corner? I have! 
Take your ride off-road, it's great fun! Just don't go ***** to the wall right off, learn how your car handles on the dirt, and learn it's limits slowly, or else you're going to wrap it around a tree. And check around for local rally-cross's, great place to learn your car, and nothing to hurt it with.
Take your ride off-road, it's great fun! Just don't go ***** to the wall right off, learn how your car handles on the dirt, and learn it's limits slowly, or else you're going to wrap it around a tree. And check around for local rally-cross's, great place to learn your car, and nothing to hurt it with.
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Yea, I'm definately not doing anything real extreme, because I would like my new WRX to stay in decent condition for the time I own it. I live in Orange County so we have this 3,500ft. moutain that has radio towers at the top, so there is a dirt road that leads all the way up there. This is probably the first place I will take it.
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havent done any rally x's in my RS yet. KEY work is YEt but I have been off road a lot. dirt, dust, snow, gravel, everything.
check out the fun I have here
http://www.pbase.com/imprezamatt/mud
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check out the fun I have here
http://www.pbase.com/imprezamatt/mud
-Matt
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The stock RE92's do alright on the dirt, snow, mud, gravel and tarmac. BUT, IMO the best that can be said about them is that they are black and round. I upgraded to RE950's and that is the tire that should have come with the WRX. Hook up with your local SCCA www.scca.org to learn the limits of your car, it's a blast and there are a lot of cool people willing to give you pointers on your new ride.
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2.5RS Matt, I love that body style of the Impreza. I was really disappinted with the new body style in '01, but have grown to like it. The new style of the '04 I absolutely love. Can't wait to get my WRX! I feel like a kid on Christmas. Oh yea, those pics looked like a lot of fun. Where was that?
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The pics were taken on Latrobe Rd. Its a legal regular road it just hasn't been paved to it has dirt and gravel. But latley Ive been driving on Jeager road off Douglas Blvd and there is this small circuit that if driven over enough times could be a fun rally course .
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off road? i think so.... subies can go almost anywhere you want. i also have several stuck pics, but they're not digital...
https://www.i-club.com/forums/showth...ht=muddy+wagon
https://www.i-club.com/forums/showth...ht=muddy+wagon
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Yes I am. I have been to Holy Gym's and it is great, but for some reason I like Saddleback better. We actully did get stuck out there in some soft rocks before they graded it and we had to walk all the way to the first gas station past Black Star!!! SUCKED ***!