Mac's 2005 Aspen White STi

[Mac]

2005 SUBARU STI / ASPEN WHITE / TRIPPLE BRONZE BBS(Yes it is spelled right)

FACTORY OPTIONS:
• Upgraded Security System
• Wheel Locks
• 3 Gauge Pod

EXTERIOR
• 35% Tinting
• '06 Tail Lights w/tint
• Sylvania SilverStar Automotive 4000k High Beams
• Syms Replica Wing
• Rally Armor Limited Mud Flaps
• LightWerkz S2000 Projector Retrofit
• NRG Hood Dampers
• Bridgestone Potenza RE-01R 245/40/17
• Carbign Craft License Plate Fill
• APR Carbon Fiber Diffuser
• GT Spec Exhaust Shield
• RavSpec Custom V-Limited Lip
• Kics NeoChrome Lug Nuts
• JDM STi rear Spats

INTERIOR
• Compustar SS
• Red Light Mods
• OEM Compass,Homelink,AutoDimming Mirror
• WC LatheWorks Shift Knob
• Eclipse AVN 6600 w/Sirius and iPod
• Eclipse EVN 4000 4 Channel Amplifier
• Rockford Fosgate 700S w/ 1 Farat Capacitor
• Infinity 12" Subwoofer
• Audio Integrations 12" Subwoofer Enclosure
• Polk DB 6500 Components
• Polk DB 400 Rear Speakers
• Valentine One w/ Hardwired Unit
• Defi Gauges (Boost, EGT, Fuel Pressure, Oil Pressure)
• AEM Eugo WideBand Air Fuel Sensor
• Schroth Quick Fit Harness (Black and Silver) with silver pads
• AutoSpeed Dead Pedal
• RedlineGoods Shift Boot, E-Brake Boot and Armrest cover (Black Perf/Red Stitching)
• 2007 STi Limited Dash Kit

MECHANICAL
• KillerBee Ultimate Oil Pickup
• Fumoto Valve
• TiC Short Throw Shifter Package w/Bushings
• Goodridge SS Brake Lines
• Motul RBF Brake Fluid
• Ferodo Racing Brake Pads
• Greddy EVO2 Cat Back
• Cusco Exhaust Hangers
• TiC Tranny Bushings
• NRG Dual Oil Catch Cans
• Amsoil ATM 10w30 Synthetic Motor Oil
• Amsoil Severe Gear 75w90 Synthetic Front and Center Differential
• Subaru JDM LSD Differential Oil for Rear Differential
• APS Cattless Downpipe
• HKS headers bronze wrapped and coated
• Cobb AP Version 2
• APS Turbo Inlet
• APS 70mm Intake
• APS DR525 Front Mount Intercooler Black core/Red piping
• Tial 50mm Black Blow off valve with stainless flange for APS
• Crinkle Red Painted JDM TGV's
• Power Enterprise 850 Injectors
• Walbro 255 Fuel Pump
• Prodrive Boost Solenoid
• ACT Heavy Duty Clutch and Gruppe-S Flywheel
• Deadbolt SZ-49 - 3" inlet, IWG, Fatboy, Ceramic Red - Thermotec turbine wrap
• FP-Oil Feed line
• KS Tech Phenolic Spacers 8mm with gaskets and longer bolts
• Grimmspeed Ceramic Coated Up-Pipe
• Cusco Master Cylinder Brace
• Laille Beatrush Pitch Mount
• ARC Radiator Caps
• Aquamist HFS-6

SUSPENSION
• Whiteline 27mm Front Sway Bar
• Whiteline 24mm Rear Sway Bar
• KartBoy Rear Endlinks
• KartBoy Front Endlinks
• Cusco Engine and Tranny Mounts
• TIC Tranny Bushings
• Tein SS-P with EDFC
• Whiteline Steering Rack Bushings
• Cusco Titanium Strut Bar

COSMETIC
• Red Painted Reservoir Caps
• SPT Battery Tie Down
• SPT Oil Cap
• ARC Titan Pulley Cover
• ARC Radiator Shroud


Original Picture:

http://homepage.mac.com/sslotnick/STi/pictures/picture-1.jpg

Now:

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[xxthat girlxx]

Very nice! Loooooove Aspen white. And '05 is my favorite year. :swoon:

Welcome Mac!

[StripesRX]

I got to drive that... :devil:

[xxthat girlxx]

^I can has turn? :D

[StripesRX]

Hahaha! Dunno. You have to ask Steve. :D

[Mac]

Hahaha! Dunno. You have to ask Steve. :D

I guess I will have to start doing what I did when I got the first tune. Charge for gas, meth and wear and tear before a test drive.:lol:

[Lperkins88]

very nice!!

[Mac]

very nice!!

Thanks...


On order or in stock at my house at this point... Cusco Lip and JDM ION Fog Lights...this will probably be close to my look when its done..but with nicer headlights...;)

http://images28.fotki.com/v1030/photos/4/47612/3900727/DSC_00712-vi.jpg

[WhtRexGrl]

Love the color!

[xxthat girlxx]

Not a huge fan of the lip pictured but looooooove the fogs!

[Bugichic]

Very sexy

[Mac]

Not a huge fan of the lip pictured but looooooove the fogs!

You will, here is what it looks like test fitted on my car. It is primed so forgive me.

http://homepage.mac.com/sslotnick/STi/pictures/picture-1106.jpg

http://homepage.mac.com/sslotnick/STi/pictures/picture-1107.jpg

[Mac]

Washed my car today and went for a photo shoot.... Canon XSi with EF 50mm Prime f1.8 and a EF28-135 3.5 USM.

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[Mac]

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[Mac]

So I have a little update, well not little but still....


DRUM ROLL PLEASE!!!!!!!
JDM ION FOG LIGHTS FOR YOUR VIEWING PLEASURE!!!!

http://homepage.mac.com/sslotnick/STi/pictures/picture-1132.jpg

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[MoN]

Those ION fog lights look sick! Those are irridecent right?

[Mac]

Those ION fog lights look sick! Those are irridecent right?

Yes, they are the yellow/blue lenses that glow yellow when on. Aren't you on the 48hrs with the ladies?

[Lperkins88]

very nice pics.... those fog lights are going to look awesome!!

[MoN]

Yes, they are the yellow/blue lenses that glow yellow when on. Aren't you on the 48hrs with the ladies?

No I wish I could have been but I couldnt bear to leave my lil man w/o me for 4 days!! Next yr when he's a bit older Im sure I wont have any probs with that lolz...

[xxthat girlxx]

So I have a little update, well not little but still....


DRUM ROLL PLEASE!!!!!!!
JDM ION FOG LIGHTS FOR YOUR VIEWING PLEASURE!!!!

http://homepage.mac.com/sslotnick/STi/pictures/picture-1132.jpg

http://homepage.mac.com/sslotnick/STi/pictures/picture-1133.jpg

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Yeah.... I REALLY like these.

[Hex Kitten]

Niiiiice. Someday, my baby's getting JDM fogs. I really hate that the USDM fogs are so small on the blobeyes in comparison to the ones on the bugeye. Maybe I'll win the lotto :lol:

[boricuajr]

as always!
love your ride bro, good to speak to you a while back at OCC and Englishtown
where di you get your fogs from? japanparts? if you can pm me total cost?
did you order jdm bumper beam or are you goin to hack the usdm one?

[Mac]

as always!
love your ride bro, good to speak to you a while back at OCC and Englishtown
where di you get your fogs from? japanparts? if you can pm me total cost?
did you order jdm bumper beam or are you goin to hack the usdm one?

I got the fogs from www.cvrmotorsports.com

I dont have a bumper beam..I have the APS FMIC instead. :devil:

[Chris05STi]

Looking good buddy. When I get my STi back from EFI Logics we need to do another photo shoot! Think I should make a journal here??? I feel werid doing it haha.

[StripesRX]

Just wear a dress when you do Chris, it'll be okay. :lol:

[Chris05STi]

:lol:....no comment!

[Mac]

BIG UPDATE!!!!

To answer all of your questions, I will try and get that all done in this post. First of all, I would like to thank EFILogics for having me almost the entire day Saturday getting all of the diagnostic and installs done. What was on the table to be taken care of:

-Re-Install of the rebuilt Tein SS-P rear coilovers
-Alignment
-Bleed brake fluid and replace with ATE Superblue
-Oil Change
-Find out where all of the oil is going

The first 4 were pretty simple and I have to say, I am very impressed Jack was able to get 2.25* camber in the rear off a stock system. I am running 2.5* front, 2.25* rear now.

Onto the main issue at hand. Rob worked his magic in diagnosis of my oil issue and came to the conclusion that my





engine is looking good!

Spark Plugs are clean with no oil on it, Compression check determined the following. Rob was very impressed an engine with 80k+ on it can pull this compression.

Cyl1:139
Cyl2:140
Cyl3:141
Cyl4:140

All good right? Well there are some things I have to do at sometime soon. The drivers side, cam seal is leaking a little bit, but definitely not 2.5 qts over 1000 miles. It hasn't even leaked enough to drip onto my skid plate yet. Also my Drivers side axle seal on the rear differential is leaking a little as well. So those are 2 maintenance items on my radar now.

Onto the turbo next:

Rob and Jack inspect the inlet and exhaust side of my turbo using a borascope and they really dont see any oil residue on it. Kind of surprized they look at the inlet side of the turbo and see some degredation of the compressor wheel blades which means some small stuff got by my APS intake. They then decided to take the downpipe off and check out the exhaust housing a little better and found that there was a good amount of shaft play (more then they would like). I think we now found my issue. Most likely causing my oil issues are during high boost, the thrust bearing is leaking oil with the added pressure and since the EGT's are so high, it is evaporating my oil, hence the smoke out of my tailpipe at high boost.

Way ahead....

I am going to be removing my turbo and selling it AS IS. Blouch offers a rebuild service starting at $349 so the new owner can have it rebuilt and have some of the nice Blouch options added if they would like. I know there are a few of you that read my journal that may be interested in this option. I do not know how much yet to sell it for, but I think $500-550 would be a good place since it needs to be rebuilt.

What do you think I am going to get now????? (Turbo Wise) (The people that know, keep out of this one :lol:)

[Mac]

Full-Race ATP GT3076 44mm External Wastegate

http://www.full-race.com/catalog/images/STI_30R.jpg

http://www.full-race.com/catalog_images/SubaruV.2/In%20car/IMG_8404-wire%20chop.jpg

[Mac]

So I washed my car and I decided to do some work and I ended up with this....

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[xxthat girlxx]

Argh. I really love those fog lights.

[Mac]

Look what just got here!!

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[WhtRexGrl]

bump!!!!

[xxthat girlxx]

Can you send that stuff my way?!?

[Mac]

Not the new stuff, but I will sell you my SZ49 for cheap..it just needs a rebuild....

[Mac]

It has been a long six months since I have updated this thread, so here is the summary...
So here is the full update:

First of all, I would like to thank EFI for putting up with me putting around the shop the last 2 days!

Onto the updates.

(ATP3076) External Wastegate - Installed
AEM 3.5 Bar Map Sensor - Installed
Peterson catch can - Modified and installed

Problem solved - Oil burning issue solved

New Problem - Head Studs stretched on the base line run on the dyno causing volcano out of the overflow. I have to take some of the blame for this because I kinda knew in the back of my head that it was happening, but I never put 2 and 2 together even before this happened today. Onto the good and interesting news. This is what the turbo did on the baseline run before any tuning or tweaking.. Remember, this is when the studs went pop so we cut the run short at 5k RPM. Easily 430/430 if it kept going, and with tweaking.

http://efilogics.com/dyno/graph.php?gb=0&hp=1&torque=1&rpm=1&sl=1&sln=1&runid1=904&rgb1=000000255


So here is the plan, I am actually dropping my car of on June 5th which is the day Badlandsracer is picking his car up. That is the first opening for a Engine Job.

Here is my prospective build as it stands right now. I am not going for power, I am going for reliability at these numbers. The car has 81k miles on it so it will get a new short block.

-08+ ShortBlock
-EFI Pistons and Rings
-ARP Head Studs
-Subaru Gasket Kit
-08 STi Oil Pump
-08 Water Pump
-Gates Timing Belt
-Koyo Radiator
-Tomei Timing Belt Guide
-Gates Accessory Belts
-NGK 1-Step Colder Spark Plugs

[Mac]

Just after the incident...


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[Mac]

Update...My Pile has begun..

-ARP Head Studs
-Subaru Engine Gasket Kit
-Subaru Water Pump Gasket
-05+ Water Pump
-08+ Oil Pump

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[Mac]

I hear rumors of surgery beginning...Pete??

Haha, I had to make you wait at least a few hours, right, Steve?

Just for you:

http://efilogics.com/customer/4%20-%20Subaru%20Customers/Steve_05STi/SteveS_05STi_03.JPG

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EFI Logics:

Steve's cold air intake and GPS are on their way to you guys as we speak! :D

Thanks, Mike!

- Pete@EFI

[Mac]

Here's some pics of the tear down, Steve:

http://efilogics.com/customer/4%20-%20Subaru%20Customers/Steve_05STi/SteveS_05STi_06.JPG

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- Pete@EFI

[Mac]

http://efilogics.com/customer/4%20-%20Subaru%20Customers/Steve_05STi/SteveS_05STi_10.JPG

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- Pete@EFI

[Mac]

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- Pete@EFI

[Mac]

More pics of the pipes prepped for powdercoating:

http://efilogics.com/customer/4%20-%20Subaru%20Customers/Steve_05STi/SteveS_05STi_15.JPG

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- Pete@EFI

[Mac]

A little further...

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- Pete@EFI

[Mac]

So I received some updated pictures of the work being done and this was THE GREAT SURPRISE I was referring to!!

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[Mac]

More pics for Steve while he's away...

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- Pete@EFI

[Mac]

Sure, here's some pics:

http://efilogics.com/customer/4%20-%20Subaru%20Customers/Steve_05STi/SteveS_05STi_39.JPG

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Warning! The following picture is not suitable for young audiences!

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:D

- Pete@EFI

[Mac]

So Rob wouldn't get his allergies from the heat wrap:

http://efilogics.com/customer/4%20-%20Subaru%20Customers/Steve_05STi/SteveS_05STi_56.JPG

And some more updates...

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- Pete@EFI

[Mac]

Final pics of the engine, Steve... everything is done except the Spec C tank - Jack might do that Saturday morning before you come pick it up. :)

http://efilogics.com/customer/4%20-%20Subaru%20Customers/Steve_05STi/SteveS_05STi_01.JPG

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[Mac]

A sample of some of the photo's taken by Ray John tonight... LOVE THEM!

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[Mac]

I just found a good old picture of my engine bay compared to how it looks currently...AMAZING DIFFERENCE...

OLD:

http://efilogics.com/customer/4%20-%20Subaru%20Customers/Steve_05STi/SteveS_STi_5.JPG

NEW:

http://efilogics.com/customer/4%20-%20Subaru%20Customers/Steve_05STi/SteveS_05STi_01.JPG

[Mac]

Highest HP STi non rotated 30R they have tuned to date

http://efilogics.com/dyno/graph.php?gb=0&hp=1&torque=1&rpm=1&sl=1&sln=1&runid1=1162&rgb1=000000255

[xxthat girlxx]

New pic of the engine bay is so tidy/clean compared to the old! Looks good! I'll babysit your car anytime you need. ;)

[Sugarpie]

Wow wow and wow. Amazing. :)

[Mac]

New pic of the engine bay is so tidy/clean compared to the old! Looks good! I'll babysit your car anytime you need. ;)

Starting in a month, it will have to be babysat in MD. Although I think StripesRX has first bid though.

Wow wow and wow. Amazing. :)

Thanks much, it's nice to hear compliments on something you have worked so hard at.

[StripesRX]

Starting in a month, it will have to be babysat in MD. Although I think StripesRX has first bid though.


Meh, I have my own monster. I have no use for that massive turbo :p Drive it like you stole it Sarah!

[Sugarpie]

Starting in a month, it will have to be babysat in MD. Although I think StripesRX has first bid though.



Thanks much, it's nice to hear compliments on something you have worked so hard at.

You're welcome. Your car is a stunner. I hope mine looks half as good one day.

[Mac]

Well it's been a while since I posted here... There has been massive updates to the car, some good and some bad. Let's start with the good...

You may have seen the car in the EFILogics Booth at Wicked Big Meet last year...

http://iagcollision.com/images/customer_gallery/05_sti_slotnick/images/DSC_1838.jpg


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[Mac]

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[Mac]

I just wanted to tell everyone how AMAZING COBB is. I wanted to thank Lance from Cobb in Austin especially.

Here is the story.

While I was up at the Wicked Big Meet. I was sitting around the EFILogics Booth. They happen to have their booth right next to Cobb's. During the day, I began speaking to Lance about an issue I was having with connectivity with the OBD2 and dongle. It wasn't ever much of an issue until I had to do logging and it would keep disconnecting and shutting off. Myself being an original owner of the AP2 (under#400 purchased) I figured I was out of luck. He said there wasn't anything he could do there, but he would be back in the office the following Monday and took my information. After eating some great burgers in Hartford, and getting back to the work schedule, I honestly forgot that I was supposed to get a call. Right on time, Lance gave me a call to talk about my situation and offered to get it repaired. Without going into details, he said I didn't have to un-marry the AP2 so I could still drive the car, mail it to them and they will get it back to me via ground shipping with about a 1-2 day turn around upgrading my current model to the V2b model with new OBD2 Cable and connector on the AP. I sent my AP out to Cobb via USPS Priority mail on the next morning and it arrived on Thursday of that week. I got an immediate email on Thursday stating they have received the AP and it is in repair. Fast forward to the next Tuesday when I got a shipping notice that it was on my way back.

I finally received it today after missing the first delivery attempt and a holiday weekend. Not only did I get my AP back with brand new enclosure, but a SHIRT also. Service like this sets companies like this FAR ahead then anyone else around. I know there are many fans of COBB and the products they offer but this is YET AGAIN, another example of why they are an industry leader in ECU management and other bolt on items. Please do not hesitate to call COBB or any of their many ProTuners for anything you may need.

Thanks again to Lance for going above and beyond to make me a LIFELONG Customer.

[Mac]

And now the Bad...this was back in October....

It's been a sad couple of weeks on my side. Unfortunately my car took a turn for the worse 2 weeks ago driving on my way home. We don't have any idea what the root cause was but the end result was definitely evident. The obvious things are that the #2 stock rod snapped. Was about 1/2 throttle (10-15lbs boost) 4-5k rpm's and then boom! Smoke and oil everywhere. With the evident damage, I will be definitely needing a short block which I will be now getting race bearings and rods. It will be a while since EFI is backed up but that doesn't concern me because I wasn't planning on having it on the road this winter. Here is some of the initial photos and the motor has yet to be torn apart.

Some photos for your viewing pleasure.

Please keep the speculation to a minimum please.

[WhtRexGrl]

^ beautiful car as always :love: - sucks about the rotten luck :(

[Mac]

^ beautiful car as always :love: - sucks about the rotten luck :(

Thanks, we will see what the future holds for her.