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Some last minute rust repair before the last trip I forgot to post. Black Outback's muffler is quite rusty and started leaking. This is after hitting it with the wire wheel, a big chunk of it evaporated. Welded on a patch. High temp paint. Maybe a waste of time but did make the exhaust significantly quieter. On to the Impreza. Most of the fab work is done. Bumper and skids about as welded as they can get on the car. Made mounts for the stock turn signals (without those they blink fast). They'll be mostly behind a sheet metal panel below the bumper. B made fan mounts, only have one right now but you can see the tabs for both sides. Headlights and a few other things I just set in place for pictures. Made mounts for light bars just under the headlights. B figured out radiator mounting a while back. Obtained the right section of harness for the PS, alt, and AC compressor. B mounted the airbox a while back, I popped another hole in it. Might epoxy a tube on that eventually, still need to cut a hole in the hood scoop blockoff panel for those. I had the exhaust mostly laid out and then B reminded me about the gas tank guard. Pressed a divot in the skinny muffler to fit that. Probably won't restrict flow too much. Also made the ends out of round but phased 90 from the middle (you can kind of see in picture below). Skinny muffler in place. If/when I fab a rear bumper I can raise the big muffler an inch or two. Front portion of exhaust is basically done. Going to add a flange/gasket where this will meet up with the skinny muffler. If anyone has a recommendation on a 2.5" flange/gasket I'm all ears. Have to remove the various crossmembers/skids/bumper for finish welding and paint. Still need to find power steering lines and reservoir (2015ish H6 Outback) if anyone has a line on those. Also need to swap in DBW gas pedal and manual brake/clutch pedals and clutch hydraulics. Most of what's left is wiring. I think I have that mostly figured out. Might mount the Haltech where the passenger air bag was and make that panel easily removable.