Rubie_25GT's 99 Legacy GT - JDM side markers

[Rubie_25GT]

After a friend of mine kept pushing me to make a member's ride page, I finally gave in. This is my daily driver subie of about 2 years. I've been through some good times and bad times. I've tried mods I've found on here and created my own custom parts that I wanted to try from thought. I've seen some pretty sick rides on here that have given me a ton of ideas, but I haven't seen too many people use the RS hood scoop and vents on a Legacy on here so I though I might add a bit of variety
She currently is manual swapped with bew headgaskets.

Bought it with nothing done to it. All stock with 89k miles on everything and no rust or dents (I flipped out when I saw it first detailed ). this is "Rubie" just getting her and detailed:




And this is her in 2012 with many small and some big things done to her:




This is her in 2014 with new HG's and a 5-speed swap:




Finally, This is her with now in 2015 with the Integra lip, a new steering rack, and a new gas tank:




Exterior

(Currently not on) RS hood scoop and vents
Bugeye WRX grill cut and fitted with 3rd gen GT badge
JDM Projectors with 6000K HID's
JDM side marker lights
Street style rally light set up (Hella 500's with yellow KC filters and cheap fogs behind the grill)
White MB seven x wheels wrapped in Kumho Ecsta 4x All seasons
Custom made roof rack from a walmart one (improved the straps)
Aftermarket Porsche 944 Hood Strut and custom aluminum brackets

Interior

Porsche Script driver's seat
GT Limited Leather seats + wagon rear fold up seat
Sony head unit
2 channel Hyundai Amp and 4 channel amp of unknown make)
4 Boston speakers (2 in the deck, 2 put into the rear passenger doors)
2 sony xplod speakers in front doors
2 Blau 10 inch subs in trunk with 2 living room speakers
Rally style 5 axis rear view mirror


Engine/Exhaust/transmission

Tsudo N1 catback
Custom cold air intake (Spectre filter, Legacy L intake tube, and custom made enclosure)
Borla UEL headers
Dodge Neon MSD ignition coil with Bosch wires and platinum plugs
Red powersteering pump
Replaced headgaskets
Swapped to a 5 speed manual w/ cable clutch
2001 Outback rear LSD


Suspension/Brakes

2006 WRX Eibach pro kit with KYB GR2 struts and standard rear camber bolts
Perrin WRX adjustable 22mm Rear sway bar w/ Perrin endlinks and mounts
2002 WRX brakes,ceramic rotors, and brake pads
GC front strut brace
Grimmspeed Brake Master Cylinder brace

future plans
Possibly EG33 swap or WRX swap maybe???


Back when I had the 15's thumping (yes one speaker was upside down idk why):

[Kansei]

i like what youve done. very different. the bumper is almost GT-B ish.
and how much trunk did you lose with subs? i only have about half of mine... haha

[httrdd]

Wow same exact as mine, but my paint is not nearly as good. Lovin the front end. I was once thinking about the hood vents, but prob never going to happen.

Also details on how this was done!----- Bugeye WRX grill cut and fitted with 3rd gen GT badge?

[98legwag]

Its about time....

[Rubie_25GT]

I had absolute ZERO trunk space with that monster in there lol had to make "some" room.

The hood vents and scoop was seriously easy to do. I rear ended someone with the first hood i made. Then a couple days later, went to the junkyard to get another hood, cut the holes for the hood/vents again, painted the hood, put it together, and had it on my car in a day

But the grill was a last minute thing I did when 98legwag brought it over. He alread started cutting it for his and guess add settled in (like it does with all people trying something that takes too long to do).
I finished it:

You can kind of see the cold air intake we fashioned with parking lot signs found in the garbage lol keeps the air 20 degrees cooler (measured with a digital thermometer)



Pretty much cut the edges to fit my headlights (the projectors stick out farther into the grill than the stock headlights apparently). Then to mount it to the car, took a stock legacy grill and cut the top panels off that hold it to the car. Screwed those to the wrx grill and bingo!

[Rubie_25GT]

Its about time....

yeah i had that ADD thing you had with the wrx grill

[Tinobag]

What roof rack is that?

[Rubie_25GT]

Its a $50 walmart roof rack I modified with home depot square metal rods (another $15).
I cut and welded the side rails to shorten the basket height. Then I just screwed straps down under the gutter strip a typical roof rack would latch onto (because the latch was in the way of the window when shutting the door ). When I take the roof rack off, I tuck the straps under the rubber waterproofing around the windows.
It was all measure to fit only a legacy sedan roof.

I've hauled 10ft long PVC pipes, snowboards, and bags without a problem

[Tinobag]

Nice. It looks good. I was browsing Yakima for roof racks and it appears that its impossible to spend less than 500$ for one :smt012

[Rubie_25GT]

yeah I was doing the same thing until I just gave up and wanted to make a fun project out of it. Next move will be to make thule or yakima towers and latches permanently attached to the basket and spaced to fit just a lgt sedan. But I've wondered how the latches clear our windows without us shutting the door and SMASSHH. The walmart ones were generally the same idea.

[Rubie_25GT]

A few more pics I'm digging up. This is when 98legwag stopped by with his new rims for some pictures and to show me up in his wagon



Here is another shoot I did with my uncle (the 1988 944s Porsche) and my friend (the 1991 Acura Legend) after he fitted acura TL rims and an aftermarket suspension we pulled at a junkyard on another legend for $80 (is an $800 setup )

[Rubie_25GT]

just a picture of the standard A'pexi catback welded on an exhaust pipe made of two sedan exhaust pipes




Gotta love even a little snow. Makes any Subaru look good.




Don't know if he feels any G's in this hood scoop really...

[Rubie_25GT]

Got my ebay Borla Replica UEL RS headers on the way! now to decide on Ceramic or just spray and wrap... depends on how lazy I am very excited to hear the sound of the A'pexi with the headers!

[nikolaus.conrad]

Subscribed! Very nice car you've got!

[xoSubieLegacyxo]

This thing is awesome!

[Rubie_25GT]

Subscribed! Very nice car you've got!

This thing is awesome!

Thanks guys shes still got a lot more to go through (only has like 116k miles and i bought it with 89k).

[xoSubieLegacyxo]

shes still got a lot more to go through (only has like 116k miles and i bought it with 89k).

that's barely broken in! Also saw that you have a 5 Axis mirror!

[Rubie_25GT]

heck yeah man every subaru should sport one! Mine has been heated up and bent a bit over time though.. gotta bend it back just a bit haha

[Rubie_25GT]

Now that I have taken a second glance at my old snowflakes, I'm feeling they could use some love. Thinking of trying out a new style. I figure if I don't like it, I'll just paint them silver again. Here are just some ideas. The original color is the top. Let me know what you guys think would look good.

[Rubie_25GT]

Update:

Just got my Replica UEL headers in today FINALLY. Got wrap and high temp header paint ready to go tomorrow hopefully.




Also helped Hinyo start with his Stromung high flow cat installation. Of course we ran into just a single stubborn O2 sensor that is about to get it's face ripped right off the stock cat's tomorrow Had to also widen the diameter of the plug he got from Advance Auto to fit the O2 sensor. Bought two of them to double stack and give some distance for the sensor.





More to come soon!

[Rubie_25GT]

Just some goofing off on photoshop

[maddoc]

Fellow MDer I see, and potential Terp as well ?

What junkyards are you finding Legacies at ?

[Rubie_25GT]

Fellow MDer I see, and potential Terp as well ?

What junkyards are you finding Legacies at ?

We've been going to the Rt 1 Crazy Rays near Columbia and the Mt Airy Crazy Rays most of the time. Been to some others around Baltimore and have picked up some cool stuff here and there. Got my exhaust, some intake pipes, hoods, RS hood scoop and vents around those yards

[Rubie_25GT]

Had a pretty productive weekend with my UEL header install.
Had to spray, wrap, and spray them. (yes I said spray twice)




Then Had to take the cats off because of the top bolt not being reachable
We just sawed the bastard off and I already had new bolts.




98legwag stopped by to paint his wrx brakes going on his L wagon.



...plus we had some good music and Micky D's at one point to keep up the morale.

[98legwag]

Where was I for the Mikey D's?

PS- I expect pics and sound clip/video of it finished today!

[chrish8r]

Sweet looking exhaust. Bet it sounds amazing!!

[chuckthefuk]

fancy. sound clip?

[98legwag]

Last I heard, on Saturday, he had to get new studs to bolt the headers to the heads. He was doing that today so we should get an update soon.

[Rubie_25GT]

Where was I for the Mikey D's?

PS- I expect pics and sound clip/video of it finished today!

You were not at my house... better fix that next time looks like.


oh yeah clip and pics will be up tmrw hopefully. Just fought with a head stud that did not want to go in and won the fight. Still the clip won't do it justice. Sounds so clean until you get on it. Thats when it turns into a SUBARU.
I vote 98legwag digs up some single port UEL headers somehow. Who's with me so we can make him do it? :smt016

[LGT Kirby]

Looking clean!