Mean Green z28

Pic of the Spacers TPMS sensor out of the packaging Old Valve stem removed New TPMS sensor installed ... and, my little helper. Install was pretty easy 'cos the bead was already popped when the previous owner of the wheels took the old sensors off. Ready to go!

Lol

Got home and the tpms sensors and lugnuts had come in ... installed the sensors and pumped up the tire. Ready to start mounting the wheels tomorrow after I cut down the studs slightly

30mm Hubcentric Wheel spacers came in! They're Eibach p/n 90.4.30.044.2 and come to about $360 for the whole set inc. shipping on E-Bay ... got them for $150 delivered from a guy on a Forum, woot! Now I'm just waiting for the tpms sensors and a second set of lugnuts to bolt it all on!

Yeah he just loves cars! Wonder where he gets that from ... hmmm He knows all the houses in the neighborhood that have cool cars. Typical car talk... "Daddy, the AMC Javelin has been moved today" "Daddy, can we drive by the Orange ('69) Camaro and see if the cover is on?" Lol

Dammit you noticed!

My winter tire setup, modeled by my favorite little guy... Waiting for spacers that I ordered so I can mount them. They're from the V6 model, so the offset doesn't work with the Brmbo brake option on the V8 models.

LOL, yeah that's the little nutcase ... he's 4 ... the day I tested out the AUX input, used his DVD player and we sat in the car in the driveway and watched Barney the dinosaur lol The day we bought the car, late last year...

but there is such a thing as not enough money!

THanks guys, yeah it was a lot of work for something stock, lol Plan for the Camaro? lol, I'd like to do a Turbo kit eventually but a supercharger would be cheaper/easier.

So once the connectors were ordered and the harness was built ... yeah, no pics of that, lol ... I got to mounting everything. Here is the DVD player/brain mounted under the driver seat. It came with just one bracket, so I had to improvise and build the other side by bending up a flat piece of metal and drilling/tapping a hole or two. Took the driver seat bolts off and just flipped the seat backwards and had enough room to install and run the wiring to the center console... Better pic of the bracket... Here's the screen and new trim piece mounted in it's new home... getting some of the OEM connectors was hard. My initial plan was to make breakout harnesses so everything was truly plug and play, but getting some of the connectors in both male/female was hard. So, I improvised and got some connectors from the electronics store and hardwired one side to the main body harness. In this way, I can remove the harness if I want and not have to cut any wires; and just let the aftermarket connectors stay there. Hard wiring consisted of NO CUTS to the body harness! I carefully cut/peeled back the wire jacket, twisted the new wire around it and soldered it together for a permanent connection and wrapped it in electrical tape; couldn't use heat shrink tube since I didn't make any cuts. The big pain in the *** was getting the CANBUS and speed signals from the gauge cluster. It was tight, with the steering column in the way and all my big fat fingers not reaching between gaps. While the cluster was out, I mounted the GPS antenna in its stock location behind the cluster by screwing on another bent piece of metal and sticking the magnetic antenna on it. Here's one of the aftermarket connectors for the wires that run to the cluster... Basically, after the harness was built, it was just terminating and screwing things into place ... I guess that's why it went quick and I forgot to take pics! Here's a crappy shot of the little gauges the navi screen shows in one of the modes; it's average fuel economy, instantaneous fuel economy and throttle position ... there's a bunch of options in there to save trip data and access various features of the car; like the alarm system (chirp/horn/lights/timers/etc.) and service reminders/etc. ... and even a scientific calculator! WOO, lol That's basically all of it ... kinda anti-climatic if I should say so myself, lol ... upon getting the system up and running, it turned out that the previous owner sent me the map DVD too and it was in the DVD unit, but it was version 1.1 while the latest is 8.0 and came out earlier this year. Couldn't find the download for 8.0 on torrent yet, so was able to get a download of 7.0 thanks to some Subie forum members and burned it onto a DVD+R DL and popped it in and it worked! Well, it wasn't as easy, but a few wasted DVD's were worth not having to spend $240 on the latest update! Total cost of project, maybe $550 ... $400 for the screen/dvd unit/NAVI harness/trim, $60 for DVD harness, $40 for antenna and rest on wire and connectors and shipping charges for it all. FUTURE mods: Reverse camera ... just need to decide what camera I want and run the wires to the tailgate. There's good ones that are plain cameras that give good quality and cheap ones with all the bells and whistles like night vision mode (IR) and even guidelines. Since the nav screen itself is pretty grainy, getting an expensive camera for the quality may just be a waste of $'s. AUX Video ... just need to run some cable and plug in to the back of the screen. Video goes to the screen and audio goes to the aux audio port for the radio that's in the armrest (just need a 3.5mm jack to RCA L/R signal convertor cable).

So, if anyone knows me well enough by now, I always have some stupid project going...haha, it was about time the wife's car got a dose of it. Background - It bugged the heck out of me to know that there was a version of the car out there that had factory navigation. I also despise the suction mount portable navigation units. Sure they've got many features like traffic warning and bluetooth,etc. but the fact is, they're an eyesore and you have to mess with cables/etc. while aftermarket stereo/nav units look like an after-though and just don't fit in ... OEM navigation unit just fits right and looks the part while doing it I tried keeping a photo journal of it all but failed to do it once I really got into it, lol ... so you'll get little tids and bits and a few apologies Kept searching the forums and found the screen, dvd drive and a few parts for a decent price... Next I started collecting all the other stuff I needed like harnesses, connectors and the antenna. Here's the list thanks to a few people who have successfully done this mod. 1. GPS Antenna - 86277AG12A 2. Navi Screen - 86281AG12A 3. DVD Drive - 86271AG04A 4. DVD Drive/GPS Antenna cord Drive/Navi Screen - 86273AG00A 5. DVD Drive 10 pin connector Harness(Kenwood Site only) - E30-4964-05 6. Tyco 16 pin connector(rear of Navi Screen) - 174147-2 7. Tyco 20 pin connector(rear of Navi Screen) - 174047-2 8. NAVI DVD Some pics. Back of the radio/XM unit... Back of the screen... Notes: The 4-pin Molex connector is used for a reverse camera, while the yellow AUX input is for an external video source ... more on this later. Back of the DVD drive... Notes: I've found that the green 3.5mm jack is for voice activated commands with an optional mic/button kit, while the square green connector is the GPS antenna. All the wires at the radio harness... Then, it was time to research wiring the whole thing up! Since the car didn't come with NAVI, there's no harness for it ... I'm lucky it was a "Limited" model that had the upgraded stereo to accept most of the wires and sound signals ... so a harness had to be built from scratch and everything had to be tapped into existing connectors. There's a lot of information out there, but some of them were conflicting and not very clear ... as an engineer, I wanted everything down on paper before I started ... so I whittled all the information down to the following diagram. This also includes a Parking Brake signal hack modification to trick the system into thinking it's parked so it'll allow you to input addresses/etc. and play AUX video while on the move. The reverse camera option is activated only when the system detects a signal from the camera and overrides any other image/mode on the screen. Power the camera off of the reverse light and you're in business! ... more about the install in the next post ...

Lol you guys are crazy

Here's the pic of the gauges on the center console. Mustang is a pretty stout car, but I'm partial to GM/Camaro with my history .. haha

thanks guys, it's def. a head turner ... however the looks are Love/hate with most poeple Haha, thanks for the compliment

Washed and waxed her a few days ago but it was too late in the day to get any good pics, so when it came time for this weekend's shower, I made sure to snap a few pics once I was done ... these pics are straight out of the camera, untouched ... using a D200 and Tamron 17-50mm 2.8/f lens

My son being a nut... and finally, already started fooling around and blacking out the tail light chrome with Plastidip

Thanks for listing the options, I'll get to it when I get home. I've already put them on google+ from my phone but ofcourse can't link shit on the mobile; I'm in Canada for the weekend so no PC. Hey where's DilanR? need to contant that bugger lol will try fb

tried linking the pics off of fquick but the forum wont take it ... blah! I'm late, gotta leave work bye!

hmmm, this forum had the upload button so that's what I used, lol I'll link pics once I get my page up on fquick

Okay, so my OCD about cars has made me trade my 2011 Legacy on this new beast ... and a beast it is!!! It's not my fault, Clement and Brian were visiting and they kinda twisted my arm! lol ... 426HP from the 6.2ltr V8 will do for now.. haha More pics when I actually get some time to take a few decent pics..

Well guys, my OCD with cars has made me sell this car. I def. loved the ride and the comfort it afforded me, but I had to move on and get something that really makes me happy as a car anthusiast ... look for my other thread, muhahahahh!!!!lol

Blue smoke = burning oil ... esp while driving and at load not only at startup White oil = burning water (head gasket if while driving/load or if only when you first start, probably just condensation). If you say your have oil issues, that could be a reason your CC is going bad, it's clogged up! How to check Catalytic convertor ... you need to check the inlet and outlet temperatures. Usually done with one of those laser type temp. guns, check to see if the outlet side of the CC is hotter than the inlet side, this says it's doing its job by burning up the impurities. Most newer cars, you'll see a difference of about 30F, older cars may be as much as 100F. a significantly higher inlet temp would show the CC is clogged.

As an update to never come back to this thread ... this car was traded in and we just bought a 2008 Subaru Outback Limited and I'm thinking of trading the Legacy 2.5i for a GT ... I think I have a condition of automotive ocd Looks like this...