Thinking of Freshening Her Up.

[Blue94]

So I got a new job and met a guy who fixes up Subaru’s and sells them. He mentioned that he knew a guy that had a wrecked 2003 STI that he would consider selling me. So the gears started turning as I always wanted a 6-speed in my SVX.

Here is the concern, my SVX has 169K on the odometer and is a little tired and leaky. I figured that I would pull the engine and rebuild what I can of it when doing the trans swap. But I need the little stuff like new seat covers, steering wheel, carpet would be nice. Definitely need to paint it and refinish the rims.

For those of you who have gone down this road, where did you source the parts, did you have to go through Subaru? Is this feasible… to restore my SVX. I hate to give it up for $500 on a trade in and this guy I met combined with seeing that 36K SVX at the auto show kind of lit a spark under me.

Thinking out loud I guess but I am interested in comments from those who have gone down the road I am contemplating.

Dust