 hey guys got another Subaru in the house this time it's an o1 rs 2.5 five speed check it out i always like the front of these cars well all of it most likely the coolest in preza ever but this one this one's a little a little rough and when i say a little i mean well it's got some rough edges well like here here here here can actually look inside the trunk some racing tail lights oh oh yeah it's symmetrical or is it a new venting system so your stuff in the trunk stays cool more stuff weight reduction here that's the plastic stuff the side skirts for something just what is this oh i see okay more of this weird stuff on top of the roof a few dents here and there well at least the bumper is decent uh no no no it's not no i like these vents yeah that's a lot of miles it's got 200 000 miles abs light is on no check engine look at this carbon fiber finish is this factory oh wow i didn't see this before oh shoot all right we just i'm sorry i didn't just put it back there there that's good should be fine so why is this thing here here and why it's not at a scrapyard well let me explain this is actually going to be a third Subaru that i'm gonna more or less prepare for ice racing remember the first one was me and look was that it's an 06 in preza 2.5 in in manual we already took it twice for ice racing and once for an autocross summer and you know during the summertime events then another buddy liked our idea and also bought an 06 i was going to say sti 06 in preza the wagon i did a series on that head gasket stuff a lot of work on that one on this one i'm not taking the engine out near no no there was oil leaks everywhere i did take this thing to a shop and i did power wash the engine bay basically engine on top and all of it underneath the transmission the engine you know because it was just underneath it was covered with oil on top not so much a little bit here and there but underneath it was you could not see them the metal parts at all it was it was bad and supposedly this is an engine from a forest there don't know what year supposedly it's got 70 000 miles on it it's maybe more i don't know it's probably it's probably might be maybe 170 so this thing will see nothing but ice it's never going to get registered the weight reduction in the back that's that's actually a plus probably may want to remove the glass on this on the other glass the actually i never checked if the sunroof works where's the button oh i'll be i'll be done oh it's just this okay this actually works holy cow this is cool okay so there is no glass so this should not be that heavy well all the components in there are all right so we're just gonna leave that let's look underneath the hood that's by the way how you open it this is clean like i said power washed this whole thing so yeah the check engine outlight was on for actually have it written down for once i wrote something down code p0507 high idle idle detected something and after the wash without disconnecting the battery or resetting the ecu the light the check engine light it's off fixed so guys we actually got a list going on battery tie down which i already bought low coolant so possible leak could not see again could not see any coolant usually it's it's white powder or greenish powder or bluish powder whatever somewhere you know if it's a small leak could not see any of that it was just covered in oil uh engineer filter that's covered in oil it's low on oil so it burns oil which is you know typical front inner axle boots uh we actually have both front axles new steering boots steering or rec and pinion boots those are ripped off ripped ripped apart front and rear struts the fronts i'm gonna get kyb xlg i think for the front and we're gonna use our o6 impresa springs and and mounts so that should be interesting see if it's gonna actually fit same for the rear struts but we're gonna reuse our old well they only have not even 54 000 miles on them on the rear struts and we're gonna reuse the springs as well now you know the the whole point of washing the car was well to make you know work on it easier or more more enjoyable and now we can look for leaks so after i'm all done i'm gonna run it for a little bit or actually maybe even before we'll see and look for leaks uh the rear diff is leaking probably not gonna do anything about that that's the check engine light that's off spark lock do like you know maintenance just check spark locks clean out the throttle body i'm sure there's oil in there one of the headlights doesn't work wipers actually they come down too low and they keep hitting they keep going like this which is going to be annoying oil change you know filter obviously the wash is done we can actually make a check and no handbrake the rear right brake line is cut probably not gonna do anything about it do i right battery tie down twice every tie down all right done cool what's wrong with my okay nice fog lamps don't work front lift tire has a leak i'm gonna take the ac compressor out possibly the condenser and all the lines depending on how easy it's going to be we're gonna fix that exhaust by probably cutting it and change fluids like maybe brake fluid transmission oil and rear diff oil and in the process i'm gonna try and remove things that are not necessary for ice racing for example probably this you know one or two pounds all the ac stuff this guy here this line this is newer ac compressor these covers this is actually this is not even connected over here uh here battery that needs to be addressed with the battery tie down which is this guy here i already have a few parts what else maybe the center console is going to get removed maybe i don't know radio maybe speakers the door skins and the seats in the in the rear oh yeah that seat needs to passengers seat needs to come out because there's a hole in the floor right in there it was actually cut out but the owner before he installed sound thatening okay or dampening whatever you call it and he kind of ignored this big ass hole and just stuck that straight on the floor right here about this big yeah all right guys so i don't want to make a series out of this you know 10 episodes because you know every time i do a Subaru it's always a serious can't be one video you know almost forgot i've read it down rear trailing arm bushings and them jesus bolts whoops bolts yeah some of you already know i'm gonna show you something because it took me took me a bit to figure out what's wrong i actually had to a body move this wheel you know when it was up in the air back and forth with two hands and you know move it really hard so if you look from you know got a top down view let's let's say this is a straight line over here you can look at the body over here look at the where the wheel is i'm sure you can see this this goes in this comes out look at the other side this one not so much yeah it's pretty obvious and because the steering wheel is actually it's like this it's bad you know when i say jesus bolts i actually can show you i actually have a set for my sti because i'm gonna have to go through that again guys don't buy these at the dealer these are china okay but you know once when i put these on new i just just smear it with anti-seize or some some kind of grease especially in this area here and this because the middle here that's exposed it's that's in between the knuckle and they get stuck right at the bushing inside on both sides and you just gotta do some cutting heating everything whatever you can to get these out so these are on rock auto i think they're like 10 bucks each and you know i don't know now but maybe twice or three times the the amount at the dealer all right guys now i gotta park it somewhere closer and put it on jack stands guys car is up just enough let's take a look underneath so this is after the wash you can kind of imagine how it looked before look at this thick grime everywhere that didn't come off but i'm not seeing any fresh oil yet so no major leaks this is ripped that's also leaking but you know not badly so to save on it a little bit i'm gonna replace these boots both sides also look here the axle boots also ripped and that's at grease right there and check out this work look look at this exhaust work there's more here but this this is you know serious stuff over here uh yeah okay we're gonna ignore that for now another boot that's ripped and it's more of that grease from the grease inside the axle but it's not that bad i mean i've seen worse there's the hole i was talking about so it needs to be cut a little more and i'm gonna weld i gotta remove the carpet the seat and i'm gonna weld a plate over it from the inside it's just gonna be easier brakes are fine not touching the brakes look at this front strut right side leaky so i've gotta go now this is the rear right it's not leaky but it's old it's making noise tires are decent now this side strut is new besides the spring they have reused the spring but this strut is brand new the new ones for the front are going to be for an o6 impressions so the o6 impressions is a bit heavier than this i think by 300 maybe 400 pounds not sure so what's going to happen is i'm gonna get a bit stiffer and that's always good for racing and this is the front right or left i should say also making a little bit of noise you know you can go out on this as is on this suspension you know but chances are something's gonna break after the first or second event and then you know you're out in wisconsin two 300 miles away from home and you know you're out for a few weeks at least i actually don't know where to start maybe i should start with the engine bay or the suspension or the exhaust maybe the floor wipers weight reduction let's pop the trunk ah man the the trunk release doesn't work and the key doesn't want to come out it's brilliant oh it's out yeah didn't open hmm smells like an old basement got a spare tire look at this venting system yeah that's a lot i may weld something over this area but you know the fuel neck is right here so maybe just use rivets instead of welding it's in there another spare nice so two spares full size what's in here we should have a rusty jack oh look it's been ventilating for a while hello what's this here what is this cranking power signal noise eliminator and adjustable output reducer what rca connectors and why is this wired what the hell is going on over here is the wire to the speaker as well what the hell yeah that's that's not gonna cause any issues you can adjust output output output and input signal noise eliminator maybe oh maybe for your sound system subwoofer that buzzing noise that you sometimes get not sure all right i'm gonna leave this open and throw any weight reduction pieces in here after some weight reduction i'm gonna quickly check for leaks but before i do that let's listen to the intake noise check it out see it's shaking we may need a a set of engine mounts and a transmission mount quickly check for leaks brake cleaner see that's gonna happen so basically around the intake looking for the food or pms to drop just like that so if there is a vacuum leak around the intake gaskets throttle body gasket you know anywhere the intake connects to basically or anything to it with a gasket just spray brake cleaner all the houses nothing let's see what got removed intake box ac compressor all the or ac compressor bracket uh i forget what you call this thing the uh expansion no tank no i don't i don't know maybe cross control and all the ac lines and the condenser this thing actually is not too bad i mean it's seen better days but it's not too bad and this intake filter look at this oily but for some reason the throttle body is not oily enough it's actually pretty clean it it was clean so the guys that replace this engine probably moved the filter from the old one to the new one then we plugged off the vacuum line for the cruise control here look at all this space obviously there's gonna be an intake here you know not sure how much all this weight 30 pounds maybe 40 maybe once i'm done maybe i'll weigh it i don't know probably not but we'll see and i managed to lose a bolt this self-tapper here that was right here the smallest screw and i lost it i mean i even was organized this is all i took off and it's not not in here oh yeah almost forgot this is an issue too this doesn't lack no matter how hard i push down these tabs are done gotta do something about this guys if you want to see what's going to happen to this car once it's done subscribe to this channel like the video dislike the video just just do something and this isn't going to be anything special okay we're not going to be restoring the this thing and putting you know 1200 thousands horses whatever okay this is just a simple rip well hopefully simple hopefully simple repairs kind of actually to think about it saving it from the from the junkyard really give it give it another life on the ice racing track all right that's it see ya soon