Drove the car a bit in last few months and things were going well. First trip was of course out to baseline mountain for a evening bike ride with my boss man. The cheap bike rack roof set up was not happy and busted. check out how far back the roof rail slide after the rear support on the rack snapped. That front bar was over the sun roof when we first left!
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My second daughter had her first ride home from the hospital in the fozzy and is where things took a turn for the not so good. About a km from home the power steering hose blew, I ended up strong arming the smoke show home. Not too sure what happened, but the image below is what came out of the fitting end. I suspect heat played a roll being that it was fairly close to the hot side. should be an easy fix, and I also had already picked up a Perring heat shield just before.
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Got called away for work and knew I had a bunch of standby days so I pulled off the visible Intercooler piping and repainted it. Did the same colour, but added some high temp clear coat.
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Last thing I currently have on the go is this piece of itshay. Paid a grand total of 30 dollars for this cheap ABS plastic gauge pod that didn't proper fit in a GD STI like it was suppose to. I heat gunned it into a better shape and plastic epoxy the thing to a Forester clock pod lid. Turned out not very good. If i had the parts for a second try I could probably build a pretty nice one, but this one will do. The huge bonus is that I should be able to run the storage unit below without interfering with the space and the wires can be tucked away.
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I've got some other junk laying in my basement, one day I'll get around to it and post it up when i have some time.