A Wolf in Sheeps Clothing

[i_love_cars]

awesome pickup! We must be on the same wavelength cuz I'm flying out to Maryland on the 21st to pick up a 2005 legacy GT limited (sadly not a wagon, though). I considered a couple of those SAABARUS in my search but couldn't find anything as clean as what I found in the legacy GT space

[Bassboy3313]

i_love_cars said:

awesome pickup! We must be on the same wavelength cuz I'm flying out to Maryland on the 21st to pick up a 2005 legacy GT limited (sadly not a wagon, though). I considered a couple of those SAABARUS in my search but couldn't find anything as clean as what I found in the legacy GT space

That should be a great pickup too! This one is super clean. Interior is near mint, no rust, just surface stuff underneath as usual. I'll be putting her on a lift before winter to clean up all under there and rustproofing it. It's got winter tires on it too, which should make for some awesome snow driving.

[i_love_cars]

winter tires are a must. I've never had an AWD car for the snow before so I am definitely going to find some place to toss it around and see what happens. I was looking for an e46 with xdrive and a stick for a couple months now and really struggling to find anything decent. I decided it was better to just look for a 2.5T subaru instead given how reliable they are and everything else. The budget is similar to if I was looking at a clean e46, although the subapoo is a bit more expensive due to rarity of the legacy GT with a stick. all in all it just seems like a better way to go for winter/alternate. Fun enough that you don't hate your life when you aren't driving your BMW  

[REKIII]

How much did you get the 92x for?  A guy I work with has the identical car....2005 I think.  Definitely not in as good of shape, he will be selling it soon here.

[Bassboy3313]

I paid $9k for it. Main reason I was OK with paying a little higher is that the 2006 is a little more rare. It has the 2.5L engine vs the 2.0L in the 2005. There's only roughly a little over 400 of the 2006s left in the country. And this one is all original. Only thing that was upgraded are the brakes. Drilled/slotted rotors, better pads and SS braided lines.

[B C]

Get some cross-drilled brake lines

[patsbimmer1]

Snap said:

Get some cross-drilled brake lines

I heard those improve your top speed.

[andyhundley]

How many pedals does it have?

[B C]

3 pedals, 2 head gaskets, and a paynus

[Bassboy3313]

Yes, 3 pedals. I've never owned an automatic car. Manual ftw

"Oh ya baby make my boxers rumble

Blow my gaskets and call me Svën"  - Bassboy's first drive

[YoungCR]

Congrats! I'm sure this will be way more fun in the winter than the Jetta.

[Rowleym]

very much so fun in the winter, but only after you combat some understeer haha. the LSD is okay.

[straight6pwr]

sweet car, great way to avoid WRX insurance premiums.  like swapping an M motor into a regular 3 series.

[REKIII]

$9K!?  Wow...I hope it is as nice as you say.  I really like these cars and will be sad to see my friends go.  His will be FS for around half that.

[Bassboy3313]

Yup. It definitely is! Even all the clean/original 2005s I found were in the $7-$8k range

[Earl]

I love Saaburus=) Did Saab also do something about the terribly cheap subaru interior or did they leave it alone?

[Bassboy3313]

Looks to be the same as the wrx model. It has a two tone interior tho.

[Bassboy3313]

Looks like I will be doing the secondary air pump delete next week once I get the block off plates in the mail. CEL came on for the switch being stuck closed/open. I also dabbled in the tuning aspect for subarus. Pretty neat that you can do anything and everything with a OBD2 to usb "tactrix" cable and some free software on a laptop.

[Rowleym]

Bassboy3313 said:

Looks like I will be doing the secondary air pump delete next week once I get the block off plates in the mail. CEL came on for the switch being stuck closed/open. I also dabbled in the tuning aspect for subarus. Pretty neat that you can do anything and everything with a OBD2 to usb "tactrix" cable and some free software on a laptop.

If you haven't bought a tactrix yet, I modified a 10$ ebay vag com cable and I can flash and log my wrx with great success. 

The amount of open source tuning available to subaru's, and how much the community is involved and helps, just blows my mind. Its phenomenal.

[Bassboy3313]

I got an already modified vag-com cable off ebay for $25. Once I got the correct drivers downloaded on my laptop it worked like a charm.