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My apologies for how I worded my reply. I guess a smiley woulda maybe helped a little, I didn't mean to come off as angry. Your post brings me back to when I first started out wheeling Soobs. Pics of a wheel off the ground or some mud on my 85 GL seemed pretty cool to me. I remember just how excited I got to get it offroad, although in hindsight I realize that I was pretty much just on forest roads. A few years of some pretty hardcore (for Soobs) offroading made me a little numb to those feelings. Your pics are pretty cool to look at, I just wondered why there needed to be such huge photos of a mirror and grill. . . Even with 56k it only takes a minute for the photos to show up. It's as easy as heading to the bathrooom and taking a leak, by the time I get back, they're all up. Anyways, keep up what you're doing, and welcome to the USMB and the Off Road Forum. peace, Eric Zap ps. I do have some nice things to say once and a while Subieman. Look around the board. (smiley face) This is still one of my favoriet photos, from long before I ever heard of the internet, much less the USMB. The soobs I built later on woulda laughed at the mud that made me spend the night cuz I was so stuck in my little wagon.

LOL I was gonna preach about how it's bad to drive in creeks and rivers, then I saw that you'd posted, and I didn't even have to read further to know that you'd bring that up Mike. Since, I've come to know better, but that was one of my first times out. Hindsight is 20/20, and I wouldn't do it again if I had the chance, and I tend to try to stay out of creeks and such unless I'm crossing them. But yeah, it woulda made a great video.

Is there any reason why you have to have such huge photos? I mean come on. . . Hardly worth the wait to see a GIANT muddy mirror. Feel free to shrink them down a little. Also. Those are pictures of your car next to the mud.

Bypass? Just pull the fuse. A buddy broke down in terms of: "ABS is Braking in the rain for dummies." I pulled mine day one. Much better.

Yeah, I can just see the raw speed as Corky changes your tires Ed.

Geez, you guys are rough on the man. I can just see Scott losing days worth of sleep over that. lol

edit, pm'ed instead

I managed to put together almost 200 bucks to help out. I gave all proceeds and payed for tapes/envelopes/shipping out of my pocket. The party we had to raise $ for her gathered upwards of 1100 bucks, so 1300 +/- all together!!! This will help tremendously, no insurance can really bite. No pun intended. Thanks big time to all of you who stepped up to help, I hope you enjoy the vids. Sorry about the screw up 88hatchmonster, hopefully you'll feel compensated. The last one will go out today, that would be you Melis. Sorry for a short delay, but my deadline had to do with my wife and boy coming back from Japan. 13 hours of jet lag is rough on an 8 month baby, not to mention his parents. lol (I think) I've left positive feedback in the feedback forum for everybody who helped out, if I missed ya, please pm me, I'll get right on it. http://www.ultimatesubaru.org/forum/traderratings.php?$session Cheers and thanks again. Eric Zap

Plenty of us posted useful stuff, like trying to tell you how dumb those little protector things are and why. Do you really think that one would do squat if you backed into something? You asked how WE keep from smashing our tail lights. WE collectively told you.

Trippy, you're one of the mellowest guys I've ever known.

Those things are a false sense of security. If you hit something, you'll smash it into your tail light, and it will only be harder to change the tal light. And, notice how they always stick out on the the side, They'll just snag stuff as you go forward.

I really don't know of any "active" Soob Off Road clubs. The HP has been whittled down to like 4 local members, Tex, Turbone, Ken and myself. (hopefully Mike W will someday join us again in person and not just in spirit) I don't have any desire or plans to offroad a Soob ever again now that I have my Toy. But, we've always welcomed any body in any kind of rig into our club. I've even owned 2 Samurais in our 5 years or so as a club. Just because you don't see other kinds of 4Xs on the vids doesn't mean that they weren't with us. Truthfully though. The whole club thing kind of began to get on my nerves. Nobody has any kind of gumption to actually organize events, and only a few will actually commit to showing up. I've found that 2 or 3 is the ideal amount of rigs to have on a trail. More than that gets to be a pain in the rump roast, especially the new guys who come unprepared. ramble ramble blah blah. . .

I'm aware of what's around me and I don't back into stuff. I know where my car/truck fits.

The little bit smaller Kumhos will be a lot easier to push up the pass. They'll do fine in the snow, especially just snowy highway. Swampers just plain kick rump roast, any terrain. But you pay for them.

Here's my opinions. http://www.ultimatesubaru.org/forum/showthread.php?p=198832&posted=1#post198832

A 7 inch wheel is perfect for 9.50s. Just used that combo for my Toy. 32/9.50s on a 15X7 wheel.

Being from Woodinville, having to travel to Tacoma wouldn't be worth the couple bucks saved. Sorry Ken. Get a price quote from Tirerack.com and any other on line tire store. Print it out, bring it to Discount Tires at Northgate. Ask for Eric or Sean. Tell them Eric with the Subarus told you. They will hook you up and work with you on the price. You'll have to be firm, they price match, but they also factor in the cost of mount/balance into the tire price. For example. I brought a quote of 73 bucks per Kumho. We sttled at about 90 bucks including shipping. Wound up being 400.38 for 4 mounted and balanced and tax. I'll let you borrow my receipt if ya like. Don't show them the quotes until you ask them if they price match. Kumho Ventures (27/8.50/14) are a pretty baddass tire too, for about 30 bucks less a tire. You can afford to buy 5 for the price of 4 swampers.

$700 is a LOT of money. . . What's the price of a Scorpion kit? Also, what's the difference? I thought they were basically the same 95-99. Do you just add on to the existing blocks on the Outback? I think the impreza would be pretty friggin similar, cuz just about everything is swappable as far as suspesion between an OB and an OBS. (imp 93-00, leg 95-99) If I were you, I'd contact Jamie Subiegal, she has a good bit of knowledge when it comes to parts interchangeability. (cool word ) She's modded a 96? Leg GT, 99? RS and now a GD style WRX. But, in the end, I wouldn't bother lifting my imp too high till there's Dual Ranges available for them. And I don't mean ea82 trannys jimmy rigged to fit an EJ either. I know first hand how hard it is for the stock tranny to turn 27's at slow speeds thru rough terrain and such.

Awesome! Looks sweet Austin. Yellow wheels kick rump roast. Lose the yellow mirrors.

Hey David. Did you get a good shot of me going thru that crazy stuff at that one trail head? Fun stuff making the open Toy do stuff that the bigger Toys with lockers were struggling with. :cool:

Plain Jane Baby. lol That was probably the coolest thing about having a hatch/brat lifted and on Swampers, the conversation piece. All day, I saw one other Toy with smaller tires than me. There were about 60 rigs in the parking lot by 9:30 a.m. 50 of them were Toyotas. It felt pretty cool to have one. I went out on a trail run with a group of carbed Toys, and when I opened the hood for a second, they surrounded me and gawked at my EFI. "You must love this truck" the one guy said as he hugged the hood. lol Here in this photo, I'm posing for the pic with it idling. (almost 45 degrees tilt) Your camo conversation piece woulda cut out. :-p Don't hate me bro.

Bummer. But that's warning enough for me to find someone else to ride shotgun.

I'll show up there if anybody else speaks up. Otherwise, see you at the parking lot. I'll be wearing something that says Subaru or Hatch Patrol on it. This is my Toy.

Sorry, still no call back Smitty.

Oh uh, you're going this weekend. If ya wanna make it easier on yourself, you can come down and crash here on Friday and roll folow me Saturday a.m. Wife and kid are still gone, I have the house to myself.