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Old 05-19-2008, 03:34 AM   #75
clsmooth
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Member#: 86394
Join Date: May 2005
Chapter/Region: VIC
Location: Vancouver
Vehicle:
2000 RS Coupe
Blue Ridge Pearl

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Tackled probably the biggest project to date on the car over the long weekend. Had to bail on the VIC Group ride, Buddy never showed up for our ride, trapped at the shop, pulled an all nighter, sleep deprived, food deprived, everthing hurts... but the drive home was itself was worth it.

Got the car up on the hoist and removed the rusted, leaking and cracked up & down pipes. The setup that came with the car is a 'floating' design, in that the turbo's not bolted to the block. We've worked on other Subaru's with the turbo bolted to the back of the block, and felt the floating setup is less a pain so we stayed with it. It was also my friend's first real experience welding stainless, so it was quite the adventure for both of us.

Disconnecting the charge pipe and oil lines above, and dropping everything out in one piece took about only an hour in itself.



Not pretty, but got everything apart, and bye-bye (I hate) HKS wastegate! BYAA!




Original up pipe


Original down pipe, with 2 hollowed out cats... yes, 2 cats



Underneath nudity


Turbo was fine, zero shaft play, spun very nicely. Only 1 bolt broke in the whole process, the upper most of the 5 downpipe bolts
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Last edited by clsmooth; 05-19-2008 at 12:47 PM.
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