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Hello everyone, If you have seen my threads lately, you know I'm hard on plastic. I've been trying to track down a clock bezel.for a 2002 Impreza. OEM was $105 without the clock which was discontinued. Ebay was about $90 for dirty and stained looking items, but they had a clock...then there was shipping. I hit up Google and found a delightful place by the name of Subie Recycler Inc. These guys had one in stock, in like new condition with a working clock for $25. They are local (for me) in Wheat Ridge, Colorado so I was able to pick it up. They had a surprisingly large warehouse with nothing but Subaru parts and great prices. Don't ask them for a '14 Forester seat though. They have almost nothing from that generation. Good people. Good prices. And they ship most parts nationwide. Inventory is available online or you can call/text. I have no affiliation with these guys, just a happy customer who is rarely happy with the service I receive these days.

Timing is everything. I just bought a 2003 WRX dash clock and undamaged bezel on ebay for $14 including shipping. The seller had pulled it many years ago and stored it when he installed an aftermarket gauge pod. Lucky find for me. Thanks for the link to the used Subie parts source. Could come in handy one day.

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Hey Todd, this website could help with finding parts to the size you need. A mate got me on to it as we look for alternative parts on our MY Brumby/Brat utes… https://size.name/en That exhaust looks MINT! So shiny, but I bet not for long once offroad! Shame the three pipe done sit horizontally flat beside each other for maximum clearance. If you went that way it would probably be easier to fab up your own headers for that setup! Cheers Bennie

Video from our trip to OK, TX, and NM with slammo.

Assuming you are talking about the older strong STi 6-speed, no, it's much larger. Requires a shorter driveshaft and shift linkage. I think the mount is in the same place, but I could be wrong... I don't know about the newer split case 6-speeds, they're not nearly as strong, so likely not as physically large as the STi ones.

Got the right rear billet knuckle finished. I made a couple of legit trailing arms using sleeves Z turned up. Sleeves are about 50% thicker than OEM and made out of chromoly so hopefully they will stay round unlike the used one in the background. So I think we can now fully mock up the rear suspension. I finally got brackets and bolts for the AC compressor so B got the accessories and belt on. We wanted to shorten the primary tubes on the headers for more ground clearance. They slide in bores in the flange and are welded inside. First step B cut them off about 1" from the flange. Then I bored them out on the Bridgeport. After that it was easy to knock the rest of the tube off and B ground the welds a bit. Then we were able to pry/hammer the tubes back in the flanges and tack welded them on. Passenger side one was pretty good but we wound up angling the drivers side tubes toward the center of the car for more clearance to the crossmember. We'll probably cut off the flange on that one and extend it for more clearance but they're about as far up as I feel comfortable with. I want some clearance to the crossmember and rack boots. B also removed the auto shifter and put in the STI shifter but we need a rear pivot bushing. On the plus side it looks like we should have a decent amount of room for the hi/low and lock/unlock shifters in front of the stock shifter and room for a steering brake (two handle?) next to the parking brake. It appears that a 99-2005 Miata radiator should fit beside the passenger side cam phasers so I plan on getting one of those. One nice thing is that there are at least a half dozen companies making thicker core all aluminum radiators for those Miatas. I think I'm going to go with the CSR. Main reason for wanting aluminum tanks is then I can get a second inlet welded in the top tank.