surrey86

Impressive delayed pendantry

The hole left behind are pretty close together, you're not likely to have a problem - especially if keeping it legal.

I can't help wondering if it makes it easier to pull out of junctions stylishly.

What you selling for?

Fair enough, good insight. Sounds like you stuck it out for a fair while.

What happened to yours?

I've been tempted by these recently. Elise Cup looks good. What are these like on the road compared to the 86?

I think you'd get a more consistent comparison with an in-gear roll on than a standing start. The clutch work is quite variable.

I should have kept mine hidden, everyone's got them now!

Get a 3/8 breaker bar from Halfords if you don't already have one. Mine comes in handy often. Compact enough to get into tighter spots but still a lot of extra leverage.

Try putting a spanner on it (the ring side), and tapping it loose with a hammer, the shock will help loosen it.

It was a while ago but I seem to recall they were very tight.

Are you on Primacies still? Sounds a bit like traction control.

He probably took the caliper off to push the pistons back in, and somehow twisted it around before refitting? Bit crap though. Pay a pro to do a job worse than the average DIY'er.

Odd sounding noise, maybe check the brake disc dust shield isn't loose?

The problem for me is I'd want to do it properly if I started on that, with amps, sub and properly insulated and sealed doors which are heavy. Not happening in this car, I switched from a heavy BMW to get a light responsive car - I'm not turning it into a BMW.

Yep I did that on my old Civic Type R. It sounded good in the end, but no way I'm going down that route in the 86, just not worth the hassle.

Yeah exactly they are not illegal. Noise cancelling headphones don't block everything, at least not the ones I've tried. If you consider objectively, all of the sound insulation people are adding to doors and boots etc is essentially a very basic, heavy and inefficient form of noise cancelling. What I was trying to get across is the Focals are not a massive step forward. If you can't even listen to the stock speakers, you're not gonna be that impressed with just Focals either in my experience. Proper noise insulation is the only way to go for decent sound.

Yep it's probably not very clever to be fair, not illegal though.

Tbh your best bet would be a pair of decent noise cancelling headphones. The Focals are an improvement but it's not night and day, you need a ton of sound deadening and a better head unit to get good sound out of an 86.

They've got gravel tracks so I doubt getting stuck will be a problem, but the weather is looking absolutely shocking, forecast is a total washout. I was about to clean the car, can't see a lot of point now!

My local dealer didn't have any problems sorting the parcel shelf creaking at 4 years.

I never meant to imply a pad couldn't improve things, but the front brakes were a very well known weak point on the WRX. In my experience of driving one for three years, they were just about adequate for road use on my PPP model. The Impreza wasn't even a heavy car, a tank of fuel is half the difference. Add stuff like a supercharger and a sound system and an 86 isn't that far off.

I had one of the Impreza WRX's with the same front calipers and around 260hp and they were pretty borderline tbh, upgrading to STI Brembos was common.

Has anyone with a TD turbo kit tracked it regularly yet? No suggestion it's not capable, just that I've not come across anyone who does track one.