What Have You Done To Your 3rd Gen Today?

Added a AJT cup holder and Meso shifter chrome delete this morning. Small but last of inside chrome that caught my eye.

 

Took a chance on one of the Dasaita head units (I know... I know.... Chi-nuh)

So far so good, install was a PITA, still getting all the settings right but the main stuff works. Looks great too. Just have to paint the chrome rings and volume knob.

 

First time I've seen this one. Actually, looks like a pretty cool unit and I love that it has a volume knob.

 

Nice, I can't wait to get mine all hooked up, At least the camera is hard mounted if that counts for anything...

 

I went back and forth on getting it for awhile, out of all of the ones I looked into, this one had all the features I wanted (volume knob, works with JBL, keeps steering wheel controls, keeps back up camera, etc.)

 

Conti is my go to. A friend of mine who was also my Subaru tuner, at the time, campaigned the fastest Time Attack Subaru in the country. (Mike Warfield and The GST Motorsports "L") He turned me on to Conti Extreme DWS tires and I never looked back. So darn good. Man, the L was a monster...725 Whp at 38lbs of boost.

And pics cuz we like pics on the internet...

 

That is a fine fire arm right there. Put over 500 rounds through one at, Front Site, NV., over a training weekend. One stove pipe. Zero issues. Very sore fingers and hands come Sunday afternoon...

 

I bought this like 9 months ago and never installed - how long did it take you? I've been very lazy!

 

Yes, I was posting about the shoots hanging down. I have a secluded spot now but I wish I'd have known about that at my last house.

 

Mike built and tuned my WRX and OBXT several times and that’s all I ran on my Subarus.

 

Radness! That trailer, almost, killed my entire family at the Mt. Hamilton Meet one year! hahahaha Small world man! Mike is a super cool dude. Sold me my first set of 285 Contis for $500. GST is long gone man. Mike moved to Texas and has live stock and stuff now.
Ed at EQT was/is also a solid human. He came and did road tunes at a few of our local meets in Tracy. The Subaru Community, especially here in the Bay Area was something special back then. Good times indeed.

 

They look great! Did the caps come with the wheels?

 

looks awesome man!

sorry to bother, but what is that over/on your e-brake?

thanks!

 

Iwb holster im tryin out.
https://qseriesllc.com/products/springfield-xd

 

Do you have the 360° camera package installed? If so does this affect the way it functions at all?

 

Wifey took the truck to grab Hershey park tix from a friend. She will be gone for a few hours. Wondering how she likes the truck wiyh pep in its step.

 

Finished installing my bed rack and custom drawer/slide.

 

Fabricated some rock sliders. It was a fun but quite lengthy project.


Here is the project from beginning to end:

I had a fab shop bend the 1.75 tubing


then picked up the square tubing and 3/16 plates (welding them on)


I went with four gussets. Welding these up was the easy part. The titanium 125 flux core mig welder from Harbor freight made it a breeze. Especially with the blue Demon wire.

Since I wanted them at 5°, I decide to build these stools at the exact height and angle that I needed to make The fit up easier.

Here I attachedthe plates on my frame and cut and welded the square tubing, tacking everything together, so I would have no issues with fit up later. This way I did not have to pull a single measurement, besides measuring the distance from my frame to the slider which was 6 inches.


my original intentionhere was to weld the 3/16 plate to my frame. But as you’ll see later, I cut these down and ended up welding 1/8 plates to my frame to weld these 3/16 plates to. I didn’t feel comfortable running the welder at the 3/16 setting and welding it to my 1/8 frame. And also I decided not to do vertical welds on my frame, so I had the plates cut in a triangular shape which I rounded all the corners

then welded them to my frame in the exact spot that they needed to be
I used plug welds as well as stitch perimeter welds to attach the plates to the frame. Then ground down everything nice and smooth.

Already having the sliders sanded, primed, and then painted, I was ready to weld them on.


The stools made this part pretty easy. I chose to use some automotive sealer on the top of the plates since I could not weld them also sealing Between all stitch welds.


I applied it quite thickly so I’m gonna have to wait before I can prime and paint all welded areas.

I spent a little over $400 on the steel that I needed. And another hundred bucks on primer and paint along with some welding supplies. so about 500 bucks in all. Not bad. I will not be doing any rock crawling though just hitting some Michigan trails. I did bend up my side steps last year, so that’s why I made these. They should perform very well.

 

Yes

 

Not all too long ago, I finally decided going back to stock wasn't going to happen in my lifetime:


The cardboard is to catch any PB Blaster dripping off of my LCA pivots, which are frozen and need to be replaced. Hopefully I can break them free in a few days...