It helps when your sub-$5k daily driver originally sold for $9k, not $35k. ;) If I hadn't thrown $2700 worth of suspension at my red wagon, it would have a clean, straight body, be freshly painted with a good condition RS (or similar) interior, and still be under $5k.

Alternatively, a lot of fairly clean RS examples are going in the $6500-7500 range these days.

Sure the SVX used to be expensive, but my only problem with it is the '96 Legacy tranny in there! :lol: 'Course, now that I said that, I'm sure I'll spin a rod bearing on my way home from work. :(

Actually, what you need to do is emulate my "rear end me so I get full retail replacement cost" daily driver upgrade program. :lol:

No thanks. The $2000 I'd get for the SVX wouldn't cover much towards for a new daily driver when compared to how nice the SVX is.

Yeah, the SVX is definitely choice #1, until you get sick of the FWD and/or something really breaks. If it was an Impreza, you would never, ever be more than maybe $800 away from being back to a green board. But, it would never be quite as nice as the SVX is now.

just get an old impreza, throw a bunch of base wrx parts at it(and a motor/tranny swap....and some suspension) and have a cheap and disposable race car. you can codrive my hunk of junk this season if you want to see what its like.

TWSS

Ok, jesus, stop, for the love of god.

See this?

http://www.hooptywagon.com/img/ani/weirdkiss.gif

That has like 98% *less* fail than you. Quit trying so hard. :lol:

Thats what she said...not to me but still.

Jesus, I'm gonna have to lock my own tech thread, aren't I. :roll: :mad:

Sorry Scott.

So whats going on with your engine? Has the machine shop checked it out yet? Has the point of failure been decided?

As soon as I have time to design a storage shed, submit the plans to the builder and city, get it signed off (takes about 45 days), build a shed, and get all the crap out of my garage so I have room to work on the car, I might start to figure it out. :mad:

Why go to all the trouble instead of just buying one?

Okay, then all I need to do is draw up the plans for the shed we're going to buy, submit the plans to the builder and city, get it signed off (takes about 45 days), build the shed (a shed kit is just as much work as building from scratch, except you have less wood to cut), and get all the crap out of my garage so I have room to work on the car.

But it doesn't really matter. The chances of Lennar approving a shed is next to zero. We're going to have to wait until the neighborhood is totally built out, then transferred to the HOA, then try to get the HOA to approve it. We'll have a shed probably sometime in 2010.

Well, there should be someone in the area that has pre-approved send designs they can just toss in for you, like TuffShed or somebody. They go in like manufactured housing, one wall at a time. But, you have other issues with Lennar obviously.

Then you can fix your motor!

Scott, you know Cory (through Nissan) would be happy to pull that motor out for you without a shed.

**cough**

This is not a hook up and you know it. :P I phrased it very clearly. Cory is a mechanic at Nissan, a commercial shop and he works on Subarus through the front door of Nissan service all the time. They have done I think two club member engines in the past 6 months for which I could probably find threads on. :P Johnny's comes to mind as the most recent.

Scott, Are you sure that you need Lennar to sign off on the shed? How big of a shed are you going to build because as far as I know if it less than 120sqft you don't need a permit from the City. If you need any help building a shed or questions let me know as I know most of the City inspectors and may be able to help expidite the process.

It's one thing to have a stock motor pulled out and another one put in. It's another to roll a trailered racecar up to Nissan and have them pull the motor and deal with a rolling around a motorless car. Is Cory going to leave my car on his lift for 3 months while AIMS checks the motor and I source a new shortblock to get the car running? Or am I supposed to load up a motorless car and get you and 6 other people to push it up my driveway and into my garage, that I still don't have room in.

Or, I can make the room in the garage where I can pull the motor and leave the car in one spot until I can get something back into it and get it running. Plus, I'm not exactly keen paying $1000 to have yet another motor pulled when I have everything I need to do the work for free at home... you of all people should understand that. :P

My GF is a commercial property manager, I think she's pretty on top of figuring out what's up. She talked w/ the HOA folks and they directed her towards Lennar, as they're still the decision making body for now. Lennar told us don't get our hopes up, but feel free to submit our plans. :roll:

They also told us however that we do whatever we want as long as it's below the fence line. So, we're looking at tossing up a small storage locker, but the closest thing we can find is a crappy 3'x8' metal shed. I'd rather a 4'x8' wood shed, but I'm gonna end up having to build it from scratch, which is more time and money than I really want to spend, especially since I'd eventually like to put in a 10'x12' unit with room for all the lawn/landscaping tools, some tires, plus some additional room for Lisa's projects.

I never said they wouldn't charge you. I just proposed it as an alternative instead of waiting until 2010 for your shed and free time. And I couldn't find the sarcastic smileys for that suggestion post. :)