A small shop who specialize in subaru’s. We do everything from large restorations, Replica body's and jdm swaps! This channel will showcase a variety of mostly swaps and subaru restoration. We will also post occasional personal motorsports videos and car show videos. Follow on Instagram for daily Subaru Content @the_subie_sanctuary
I have a 2005 Saab 92x that is at 198,000 miles and I have a feeling my towers will rust through to failure in about 25-50k miles. If I had the skills you have I'd do this work, but it's not worth it to me to pay someone else to do it. It was fun watching you do this great repair!
Thanks buddy, and you are correct in the worth it or not. This is a massive job and typically can replace the car for this kind of effort. I did my own bugeye wagon a few years back, would same structure as your 92x, It was a mission and no way id have been able to afford to have someone do it without doing it myself. Which even still is a lot in special tools and time. Hope you make out alright in the next car venture
I Did an underbody overhaul to my bugeye, not as in depth as the gc but powder coated everything and new bushings. Made it feel like a new car again. Good for another 20 years now. They dont make them like the used, refreshing an old car is way cooler then buying a new one. Hope you get to do it one day
You do not have to swap cam gears, you can however if you want to swap cam gears to non avcs gears along with the cam seals. But it wont make a noticeable difference
Anyone have recommendations on which products to buy for the following: - Rust converter - Rust-resistant sealing paint - Galvanized weld-through primer - Seam sealer - Rocker gaurd
@@Ceba551 ya we just dont get all the same brands among US and Canada. Id say, your best to contact local auto body store and see what they recommend for each of those and tell them what your doing they should be able to point you in the right direction for products
@@ChirsSmedely and in it use my 500km wrx as the comparison and race it against the 15+ wrx, i should do a vid like that. I personally would be cheering 😂
A great example of "if you need to know exactly what it'll cost, this isn't for you". Jesse did my car last summer, gave me a rough idea on cost, but this is just one of those things where you can't know the scope of work until you start cutting into the car. As he dug deeper there were more and more hidden issues and it cost nearly double the initial estimate. I still think it was a very fair price for the amount of work done, but if he had said "this should cost $X000" and I dropped the car off with $X001 in my bank account, it would've been a bad time. These jobs are huge and are not the same category as routine maintenance. Keep up the great work Jesse
The answer now for anyone who needs to know how much to do some totally unconventional job is: if you must know, I can not help. Not that its a secret but really just impossible to gauge other then showing previous examples, results and time spent on them. Then again we know that no 2 jobs are the same. If i could afford to do it for free, just to make vids, id do it all day. Host like a lottery for who is next 😂
Pretty sure one of the steering gators looked dusty in the video🤣🤣🤣. Honestly, some absolutely stunning work there, you should be very very proud👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
I never ever thought youd need to replace headers. Usually stock ones last forever and give that signature rumble. Nice sound anyways and good work as always.
We lost some of the clips but our back flange to mid pipe was well expired. The factory header is actually equal length on the NA’s. They rumble as much as a honda. This unequal length did bring that Subaru rumble that you typically hear from the stock header turbo subaru’s
@@TheSubieSanctuary I just bought a 2010 colbolt lt and I drove it home it feels good but super rusted, I’m hoping I can get safety I don’t no much about cars
Awesome guys. I'm in the UK and I've been trying to find unequal headers for my 2006 impreza r sport and nothing in the UK 🙄 i hope i can get some for mine 🙏 cheers guy's 👍🏼
Interesting you say that, I had mentioned I have one on my 05 legacy (basically same as your outback) I also found mine was close to sway bar. However on this impreza it cleared everything just fine. I assume its the shape of the legacy/outback sway bar that is slightly different then the impreza/foresters.
I love your channel! A cool video idea would be you guys showing what rust products your guys use and what has worked best! I know people like POR15 but im curious what else is out there as I try and restore my blaze yellow bugeye
That would neat to do, por15 is definitely not the best. So I figure on that premise alone it would be worth showing some superior products in comparison
Are you in North America? I plan to sell this one soon. Otherwise, they often can be found through private sellers or importers. It is becoming more difficult to find legitimately nice ones though
Appreciate the sit down. I moved to BC from Fredericton about 10 years ago. Decent car culture in NB. Unfortunately fewer people are willing to spend what it costs to restore or rebuild. I think the trend is going to fade away more as time wears on. A car really needs to mean something to a person in order to spend what they could buying something pretty much new in comparison. There will always be the diehards that are willing to spend anything but like you said, they're not easy to find and more likely find you. You guys are making great content and staying consistent but it's a difficult battle against a saturated market. So many new channels reviewing cars and leaving it entirely to scripts written by paid writers hired on freelancer sites. All of the real content like this is being passed up for some text to voice app reading a script while drone shots of a car on a highway play in a loop. So many viewers are being lured away from real people on RU-vid and it is a continually growing problem.
Well said brother 🙏 the truth indeed. Ultimately, Ill do this until I physically can’t one day. Its my passion regardless, I do feel there will always be the people that see the passion within our shop and the work here. I do certainly expect the demand to stay up, but as you said it would be from those deeply connected to their car. If I wasn’t able to do this work myself. I honestly dont know what id do. My bugeye wagon as an example, that car means the world to me. If a car could be your best friend, thats mine 😂 it was at the end of its life 2 years back. There would have been no shop in my province that would have fixed it for me. I spent a year working on it after hours to hopefully now give it another 20 years. But the feeling of having my car back and as good as new again, Priceless. People like me in that situation, those are the people that need this and I look forward to each of them.
Film some day to day shop activities, a vlog here and there and itll help take the channel up there. You guys do amazing work and deserve more views and subs.
@@TheSubieSanctuary Understood. I have a rust free 2 door GC that needs the 22B replica wide body finished, underbody coated, paint, etc. I’m in Michigan and can deliver in my enclosed trailer. RU-vid took away the contact tab. What’s your email?
If getting a header and up pipe will a ej25 header/up pipe fit on a jdm ej205? I have a previously swapped ej205 in my 06 wrx and I want to avoid ordering the wrong part.
If only I lived closer to you guys, I'd get my car redone by you guys in a heartbeat. You guys are always great to watch and I hope this channel gets the recognition it deserves for bringing old fun old cars back to life.
Makes sense. Keep fighting that good fight man. Patiently waiting in the wings for that paint job ; ) Love the content and quality of work coming out of TSS
I was really hoping that this was something I could do as a weekend warrior lol, but seeing those Angle grinders come out tells me I need to take it to the shop.
Well, depending on expectations. You could always panel bond the rocker cover over top. That would definitely be quick. But just depends on how good you want it
ABW is garbage. and they treat their customers like shit. Unless you can afford 100's of hours of bodyshop work to fix all their quality and fitment problems, I'd look elsewhere. I ended up throwing my entire kit in the bin. Not one single piece fit correctly. Edit: To be clear, the kit I bought was the widebody kit for the Bugeye.
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