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Alert! Alert! Another 1st Gen wagon saved. Though this is a post facelift model, she deserves some love. Older gent owned her since the late 90s, he passed on. Family friend drove the car and blew it up. Sat for a year and was given to me free of charge. Dropped an engine in it, threw new pads and rotors at it (front and rear), new radiator, replaced the ball joints, in the middle of tinting all the rear glass yet. The 4 speed auto operates in limp mode more often than not and I'm fairly certain it's a faulty TCM. The interior is a little dirty but it's pristine. With a good steam vac the interior will look new again. The body is pretty straight, ding here, little spot of rust there. The clear coat is flaking off in some spots unfortunately. But I love the storage room and it's a lot easier to cart my kid around in than the 2 door Impreza. Needed yet: Front coil spring (drivers side is broken) Resolve transmission issue shocks front and rear Fix exhaust leaks Find roof racks Tint remaining rear windows Find nice 16" alloys (looking for the later model legacy snowflake wheels)

Take a look at the pics for this 91 Lego FI relay: https://www.rockauto.com/en/moreinfo.php?pk=934156&cc=1269446&pt=3300&jsn=389&jsn=389 Jideco is printed on the body. Don't go with the black plastic Intermotor relays. I've had 2 fail - one had broken contacts after less than 2 yrs. Intermotor is the foreign car line of SMP(Standard Motor Products) SMP used to include Blue Streak products.

Been a while from last update. Sorry Took the brat to the track for the last round of the summer series. At this point I was coming 3rd and with all the teething problems you get from a new build. Mainly with the boost soleniod not doing what it should. So just put a manual tap on it and added a 02 gauge to keep an eye on fuel ratios Started with 6psi qualifying then to 8psi for first race. Starting to go like it should but noticed it slipping the clutch a bit at the end of the race. Only 9.6 on the 02, so really rich so cranked it to 10psi. No good the clutch was pretty much stuffed on the warm up lap. New clutch only done 2 practice events which the car wasn't even going propalley, 2 qualifying runs, so just warm ups and a fast lap. 5 of the 9 races. So disappointing for a upgraded clutch, but was running 3rd out of most corners so lots of torque. Will have to save up for a really heavy duty one. But anyway just an update for those who are interested in whats been going on.

I've never had issues myself with aftermarket T-stats but I have found have crappy water pumps where the impeller falls apart or slips on the shaft. If you are 100% certain about the integrity of all the other work you did and that the engine condition was fine before the repair, how can it be anything other than the replacement pump? With that in question, how are you actually determining that you have "good circulation"?

Have been enjoying driving her lately. Have now acquired full manual swap parts with a rare FT4WD box and Link ECU from a rolled rally car. This combined with s 5 stud swap and full STI brakes and wheels are sitting in my garage... Exciting stuff.

I haven't driven Subies nearly as much as most of you here but I'm 4th owner of a 205,000 mile 03 WRX wagon and I'm sure the kid owner before me was not nice to it. He ran some Cobb bolt-on mods and tuning maps before he put it back to stock when I bought it. When I went to test drive, it was over a quart low on oil and black as tar. Today, it still has the original engine, turbo and accessories. I've not even had to charge the A/C system. It did need a radiator at 175k and the center diff at 199K both of which I found easy to change myself. Otherwise, I have few complaints other than typical vacuum hoses and such getting old and cracking.

Reliable? Anything made before 2005. After that it just goes downhill. GD