camroncamera
02-07-2012, 04:16 PM
Hi SLi Flyers, I'm Camron from Vancouver, Washington, USA.
I'm a Scirocco nut at heart, but am in love with the 2nd gen Legacy GT Wagon. The JDM GT-B Limited look drives me wild, so it is my goal to cosmetically transform our LGT.
A year and a half ago my wife says, "I think we should get a Subaru," and there just so happened to be a very nice looking black LGT Wagon sitting forlorn on the lawn of a house near our neighborhood for ages... I figured it was was headgaskets, and sure enough that's what it turned out to be. I wheeled and dealed with the owner for a few days while I had the car gone over in the local Euro/Import shop.
We eventually reached an agreement on price (he sold for less than than he wanted, and we paid more than I was hoping, lol) and I took on the project over the following winter: Pulled engine, new headgaskets, heads redone, new timing belt, oil pump, waterpump, radiator, etc. etc. Also had the cracked windshield replaced, fixed (mostly) a leaking sunroof, upgraded to WRX and H6 brakes, installed JDM Projectors and RFRB grille and gave the exterior a much-needed deep clean after having sat in that guy's yard for two years. 110,000 on original engine (now almost 120K after being back on the road for a year). One cool thing about this car is that it was always owned locally, and the first owners maintained it very well. Black LGT Wagons are like leprechauns around here, and we were extremely fortunate with how this all worked out... it's even an auto, which my wife requires, as this is HER car :)
More extensive writeups over at legacygt.com...
Sunroof and Headgasket fix: http://legacygt.com/forums/showthread.p ... l?t=151027 (http://legacygt.com/forums/showthread.php/just-purchased-98-lgt-wagon-coolant-positive-hydrocarbons-151027.html?t=151027)
WRX Front Brake and "H6" Rear Brake upgrade: http://legacygt.com/forums/showthread.p ... l?t=154702 (http://legacygt.com/forums/showthread.php/2nd-gen-lgt-brake-upgrades-wrx-front-and-h6-rear-154702.html?t=154702)
"Family" Photos from last spring:
https://sl-i.net/FORUM/images/imported/2012/02/IMG_7538_Blurred-1.jpg
https://sl-i.net/FORUM/images/imported/2012/02/IMG_7536_Blurred-1.jpg
I'm a Scirocco nut at heart, but am in love with the 2nd gen Legacy GT Wagon. The JDM GT-B Limited look drives me wild, so it is my goal to cosmetically transform our LGT.
A year and a half ago my wife says, "I think we should get a Subaru," and there just so happened to be a very nice looking black LGT Wagon sitting forlorn on the lawn of a house near our neighborhood for ages... I figured it was was headgaskets, and sure enough that's what it turned out to be. I wheeled and dealed with the owner for a few days while I had the car gone over in the local Euro/Import shop.
We eventually reached an agreement on price (he sold for less than than he wanted, and we paid more than I was hoping, lol) and I took on the project over the following winter: Pulled engine, new headgaskets, heads redone, new timing belt, oil pump, waterpump, radiator, etc. etc. Also had the cracked windshield replaced, fixed (mostly) a leaking sunroof, upgraded to WRX and H6 brakes, installed JDM Projectors and RFRB grille and gave the exterior a much-needed deep clean after having sat in that guy's yard for two years. 110,000 on original engine (now almost 120K after being back on the road for a year). One cool thing about this car is that it was always owned locally, and the first owners maintained it very well. Black LGT Wagons are like leprechauns around here, and we were extremely fortunate with how this all worked out... it's even an auto, which my wife requires, as this is HER car :)
More extensive writeups over at legacygt.com...
Sunroof and Headgasket fix: http://legacygt.com/forums/showthread.p ... l?t=151027 (http://legacygt.com/forums/showthread.php/just-purchased-98-lgt-wagon-coolant-positive-hydrocarbons-151027.html?t=151027)
WRX Front Brake and "H6" Rear Brake upgrade: http://legacygt.com/forums/showthread.p ... l?t=154702 (http://legacygt.com/forums/showthread.php/2nd-gen-lgt-brake-upgrades-wrx-front-and-h6-rear-154702.html?t=154702)
"Family" Photos from last spring:
https://sl-i.net/FORUM/images/imported/2012/02/IMG_7538_Blurred-1.jpg
https://sl-i.net/FORUM/images/imported/2012/02/IMG_7536_Blurred-1.jpg