New to USMB but old to a lot of other Subaru sites

[jmp6889928]

Hi there,

Been around quite a long time on several other Subaru sites but have come here with a couple of questions on my older Subarus.  I do custom turbo work on the 4th Gens and newer LGT, WRX, and STi cars but I can also do some of the turbos on the older models as well-Td04 and Td05 Mitsubishi based as well as the IHI models.  I currently have the only two ball bearing IHI VF40 turbos in existence and I'm experimenting with them as we speak.  My goal is to build these as the alternative to larger turbos as these can utilize the stock fuel systems to their fullest rather than having to change injectors and fuel pump, not to mention it retains the stock appearance and fitment as the car was designed.  A good dyno tune and it should yield about another 10% across the board, both in spool and top end.  I have a bunch of photos of the custom units I build and can send some via email if you PM me.  More details on this to come.

 

I am a regular on www,legacygt.com if you want to check me out on there under the same username, and I do a lot of helpline work with members there and for some on nasioc as well.  I'm NOT a transmission expert by any means, nor can I rattle off all of the engine numbers and know the sizes, but I've done a lot of practical repair work and can generally help with questions and am most willing to.  If I don't know the answer to something, I'm the first to say so too, but I'm here to learn as well. 

 

I look forward to learning more and I've recently begun looking at the older Subaru models and finding them to be quite interesting and in reading some of the threads, finding that some exemplary work is being done on older models that at the time, I was not terribly impressed with, but have since become more and more interested, so I read and look and offer my $.02 when I think it's appropriate.

 

I have 3 Subarus currently-a 2005 Legacy GT 2.6 Turbo (2.6 because it's bored over to 100mm with fully forged bottom end <CP pistons, Manley H-Beam rods, King Race Bearings, STi Forged and Nitrided crank, Mahle rings, ARP case studs>, Brian Crower cams, springs and Ti retainers and a lot more done to it) and it currently has one of my custom VF40 turbos on it but I have several others I've recently built that need to be tested, so I'll most likely be swapping turbos out regularly.

 

At any rate, glad to be here and look forward to reading and participating.

 

Thanks,

John

[Crazyeights]

Welcome and Happy New Year! Beautiful work, thank you for sharing some of your pictures.