A week spent detailing and JDM styling ...

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Ok so i have had the Gen3 Rx wagon for a week now and i love it smile

*scroll down the page for more pics

there are a few glitches here and there and she is going to the subaru doctor for a checkup later this week, lets hope shes not coming down with anything serious :bad:

i have spent a good part of the last week giving it a good clean ... here is the process i have followed:
Exterior
- full maquires wash and rinse
- mothers claybar
- full maquires wash and rinse
- headlight/foglight clean and mothers protection pack
- interior and exterior glass clean
- all removable panels + pods etc scrubbed, rinsed, protected and replaced
- wheels cleaned + protection
- tyres cleaned and tyre black/protection applied
it will get another wash, claybar and wax this week as a final coat

Interior
- any easily removable panels wer taken out for seperate scrub and protection
- maquires panel and cloth cleaner applied throughout
- carpet and chairs vaccum cleaned with maquies panel and cloth cleaner
- all dash panels, interior panels, vents etc cleaned with maquires panel and cloth
still need to buy and apply a good UV protection pack for the interior panels and dash
still shopping for good floor mats and steering wheel cover

Engine Bay
- full engine degrease soak, scrub and spray
- engine detail with soft cloth and degreasing agent
- light clean on certain areas with wd40
- all grit and dirt removed, all unnecessary parts removed (cable ties in wrong spots etc
- all intake piping and resonators removed, cleaned and replaced
- all battery terminals dry cleaned and all leads etc cleaned
- all fluids checked / topped up
still need to run some subaru upper engine cleaner through it and work out 1 or 2 details

thats the cleaning almost done... lol
the shopping list is now as follows:
- 2000 update front bar + foglights
- RSK grill and colour coded side pods
- cusco front strut brace
- cusco master brake cylinder stopper
- x-force varex remote control oval barrel muffler
- borla replica headers
- pivot razin voltage stabiliser earth kit
- pivot spark type-v kit
- change wheels to WRX or Volk/Rays/Work replicas/real thing depending on what i can find
- look into CAI options
- new headlight bulbs
- alpine single din or jvc double din head unit, type-r front splits and rear co-axials

onto the before and after pictures!!!

this is before everything, the day after i bought it home before i began work on it....

http://photos-a.ak.facebook.com/photos-ak-snc1/v343/145/18/597314054/n597314054_915664_4159.jpg

http://photos-b.ak.facebook.com/photos-ak-sf2p/v330/145/18/597314054/n597314054_893385_8607.jpg

They are a bit dirty here, they are both getting a full wash, claybar and wax this week so we will shoot more photos on the weekend smile

I have a want to buy list here:
http://www.ozliberty.com/forums/showthread.php?t=13218

And the wheels are up for sale here:
http://www.ozliberty.com/forums/showthread.php?t=13179

Stay tuned to station subaru for more updates coming soon....

The_Saint
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Re: A week spent detailing and JDM styling ...

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Welcome.

Very tidy looking RX and WRX.

Enjoy. big_smile

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sh!t and i thought i was pedantic about cleaning my car lol. i feel as if i need to do all that haha. How long has that taken you?

anyway nice cars you've got there. Is the bug eye yours? looks tops as does the RX. Good to see people treating their cars properly tongue

cheers, ash

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97' LX AWD manual wagz, CAI, Front STi strut brace, f/r Legacy GT calipers and rotors, 98' 5 spoke rexie wheels shod in Proxie 4's, 18mm legacy rear sway bar, fresh struts.

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some pics from after the detail, still have to do the engine bay detail and clean the silicon lines off the sideskirts

should i leave the black pods off or put them back on?

still trying to change the wheels etc

the pivot raizin kit should arrive any day now for a bit of engine bay bling

im now also chasing some Bilstein sussy smile


http://i400.photobucket.com/albums/pp81/the_saint7/PA079271-e.jpg

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http://i400.photobucket.com/albums/pp81/the_saint7/PA079266-e.jpg

http://i400.photobucket.com/albums/pp81/the_saint7/PA079259-e.jpg

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How did you go about using the clay bar? everyone has there own method.. whats yours?

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Sold the Subaru, replaced it with a Honda.. but all I know is Subaru's! (and Holden V8's of course):secret:

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also nice to see that you stuck to the best Civic too, probably get flamed for it but the EG Civic sedan is in my top5 Jap cars.

back on topic, i took my centre console out to give it a good vacuum under and spent a full day detailing the exterior and treating the leather seats but i wasn't able to find claybar anywhere sad Supercheap Bunnings Autobarn and Repco all dont have it here! thats my next thing i want to do to get rid of the damn tree sap that's showing up on my paint.

good show of dedication here mate

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the EG8 civic has done us very proud and my DC2 integra was aso an excellent car, all my cars are/were white and the parts for the EG and DC were almost ALL interchangable lol

finally got the ****e silicon crap off the front of the sideskirts from the black pods that wer there, i used mostly eucalyptus oil and some orange stuff spot cleaner, i was weary of the effects on the paint but it came up fairly ok, this part of the car was already a little rough anyhow

still have to get it to a panel beater for spot, chip, scratch and ding removal ... hope it dont cost too mutch lol

its an awsome car but i still miss my DC2 integra lol

stereo is going in next week big_smile Alpine 9886i and MB quarts front and rear speakers big_smile

i bought my mothers claybar kit (claybar, claybar lubricant/cleaner, wax) for $50 from auto1, auto1 have only been awsome to me with all my cars ... got some good floor matts and a fitted boot liner from them too, the guy that owns our local one is excellent, dont know what they are like in other towns

will update again soon

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