Mudrat's monsters new home... me!

tommo · Post by **tommo** » Thu Nov 08, 2007 12:41 pm

Hey everyone,
Just bought a new toy to replace my brumby that was so sadly lost up the top of cape york.

Yes that's right, I'm the proud new owner of Mudrat's monster subaru!
For those who didn't catch the for sale ad here's some specs.
She's an '87 L sedan with '93 Impreza EJ20 transplant.
2 1/2" exhaust, also pod filter.
4" body lift + 1" higher King springs.
15" custom made (i think) wheels with 29" BF goodrich mudders.
Reinforced alloy bumper with apparent winch capacity. (no winch attached)
(plus the usual spotties, half decent sound system, etc.)

Took it up to double island point on sunday and had a ball, this thing goes like hell on the beach.

Front camber's pretty bad so I'm currently trying to decide which path to take to try to fix it.
Unfortunately I can't take credit for anything on the car at the moment, but I intend to do a few things to personalise it so I'll keep you all posted.

Glad to be back in the subaru business, can't wait to get out to Springfield amongst other places to really test her out.

Cheers,
Tommo.

subusurfer · Post by **subusurfer** » Thu Nov 08, 2007 12:47 pm

looks like your pretty happy with it, i saw it for sale in unique cars and around the place, if only it had been a wagon! you'll have to put some pictures up of it going hard off-road. looks pretty kitted out to have a bit of fun.

MUDRAT · Post by **MUDRAT** » Thu Nov 08, 2007 12:54 pm

Wow! Great to see the Ruby Suby's gone to a good home!!

Keep up with the photos!

Bumpty · Post by **Bumpty** » Thu Nov 08, 2007 1:13 pm

Ah nice! Its home again...

Must be funny to be a neighbour of yours and see an awesomly jacked up suby higher then ya fence haha.

"Wow Jen, come check this out"
"why... what is it... OMG"

haha something like that, maybe

Post by **Alex** » Thu Nov 08, 2007 1:34 pm

good boy Tommo!

alex

vincentvega · Post by **vincentvega** » Thu Nov 08, 2007 1:56 pm

good on you mate, that more than makes up for the loss of the ute!!

bring it along to the subaru club christmas trip - weekend of the 24th december, freshwater campground. double island.

stamp_licker · Post by **stamp_licker** » Thu Nov 08, 2007 2:50 pm

Good stuff.Glad to hear you got another subie.

Outback bloke · Post by **Outback bloke** » Thu Nov 08, 2007 3:59 pm

What ever you do, don't sell this one at a stupid price to any one up cape york way.

Well done on the purchase.

Subafury · Post by **Subafury** » Thu Nov 08, 2007 4:26 pm

good stuff good to see it in the hands of another ausubaru member

BrennyV · Post by **BrennyV** » Thu Nov 08, 2007 4:58 pm

thats one sweet brumby congrats on the buy.

subelover · Post by **subelover** » Thu Nov 08, 2007 5:16 pm

well done m8 congrats on the neew toy nice 1 cheers Ben

Matatak · Post by **Matatak** » Thu Nov 08, 2007 6:00 pm

'[4MUFF wrote:]thats one sweet brumby congrats on the buy.

wtf lol brumby....

neway congrats on the purchase definetely a good replacement for ur old Brumby

Reg Brumbys · Post by **Reg Brumbys** » Thu Nov 08, 2007 9:52 pm

Good Stuff Tommo - I'll chip in a couple of bucks toward an extention ladder so you can get in & out of the thing.

PS What's out at Springfield worth checking out?? - Traks!!??

riksta · Post by **riksta** » Thu Nov 08, 2007 10:02 pm

congrats on the bye, hope you have lots of fun in it, and like Dane said you should come up to DI for the clubs xmas weekend.

D3V1L · Post by **D3V1L** » Thu Nov 08, 2007 11:05 pm

awesome buy...better you then me....it prolly would just have been destroyed in my hands
good to see she is still on the boards

dave

YouTube · Post by **El_Freddo** » Fri Nov 09, 2007 10:46 am

Yeah! hopefully we'll be seeing more of this car...

Congrats.

Now, about the pics - could you post some of the reinforced subframe or whatever it was under the car that was reinforced?

Cheers

Bennie

Tigger · Post by **Tigger** » Fri Nov 09, 2007 12:07 pm

I love this car so much! It looks so good!

Congrats on the buy!

Wilbur · Post by **Wilbur** » Fri Nov 09, 2007 12:34 pm

Tommo, the rims were made by centerline to Nathans specs.
Have fun with it.

tommo · Post by **tommo** » Sun Nov 11, 2007 8:12 pm

El_Freddo wrote: Now, about the pics - could you post some of the reinforced subframe or whatever it was under the car that was reinforced?

Took some photos today of the underbody. The front end ones are kinda hard to see cuz they're a little covered in grease and stuff, so it's only the rear blocks you're lookin at. Basically he's shaped and welded 5-6mm steel plate to the underbody where all the lift blocks are. Also welded the blocks to each other where they're close enough to do so.

Thanks for all the kind comments fellas.

Would love to get out to springfield maybe next weekend if anyone's keen? Luke, Yarney, Alex?

Cheers,
Tommo.

Suby Wan Kenobi · Post by **Suby Wan Kenobi** » Sun Nov 11, 2007 10:51 pm

Congratulations on the buy. What about heading up to DI again on the weekend of the 24th 25th November?