Bagging my 07 Impreza 2.5i Wagon

[Flashpoint_RX7]

speedy updates are awesome.

[johnrocs]

Thanks!

Got my wheels back!

[D&W]

nice, thanks for the update, keep us posted

[C.Johnston]

awesome thread. progress is great to see.

[johnrocs]

Thanks everyone! It's goin along real well! For the picture hungry, I hope this post will satisfy

Day 4 - Plumbing.

Here's how the tank looks all fitted up, that elbow on bottom there will be the drain, and the tool port will be on the right side when looking down at the management from the back of the vehicle.


The water trap proved to be a bit of a challenge, after debating the idea of fabricating a mount or possibly using hard line, this crazy chain of fittings ended up working out perfectly... not a single leak! It's much more solid than hard line (of course), with a couple more leak points but overall, I'm happy with it. I can fit my hand down there and I'm considering setting up some sort of a funnel system to easily drain the water trap out through an OEM gromet.


Here's the final positioning of the tank before bolting it down, with room for fittings and ports and such. Drilling holes was a bit of a pain, but I got it done.


The drain line runs underneath the tank...


...and comes out of this OEM Gromet! (p.s. I have stiff black kartboy hangers coming in the mail to replace those wobbly OEM exhaust hangers)


After a lot of measuring I bolted down the tank and ran the air lines from the tank to the manifold and from the water trap to the tank. The fittings on the water trap side do line up well, but I made the mistake of bolting down the tank before getting that piece of airline in and couldn't get it to bend enough afterwards. I'll most likely end up fixing this later to make it a bit cleaner. I'm loving Will's idea for the 3D Bag Riders stickers, they look real slick (this photo doesn't do them justice... at all).



A little update up front, I installed a kill switch next to the rocker switch so I don't have to power cycle my car in the event the rocker switch flashes an error code which sometimes happens if the ECU gets confused. It will also be convenient for moving my car or really just any time I don't want the management/compressor to turn itself on when the car turns on. I wired it into the same fuse as the cigar lighter. Additionally, I'm not really a fan of the little black stick on button that comes with the rocker switch, so I replaced it with a little red momentary pushbutton from Radio Shack. Here is a shot of my management zone as of now...


The guys at the tire stretching shop said they might have them done today, so with any luck I'll be back with a shot of how they came out in a few hours Fingers crossed! The plan for tonight is to hopefully get the front air lines and sensor arm lines run up to the front of the car. I've got plans around 8, but that still leaves a good 3 hours of modding! Results of the evening will be posted tomorrow, and expect a lot of progress to be made this weekend!

Thanks for the support everyone, this is an incredibly fun project and it's coming along very smoothly!

[blowntwofive]

more pictures more pictures hahah ill be waiting


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[vishes]

Sub'd! I've got a wagon fetish..

[Flashpoint_RX7]

I like the wheel color choice.

[CD7love]

damn, so did you piece your setup together or just bought a kit??

this is subscribed

[C.Johnston]

oh fuck yes! im doing my 07 over the winter!

[kaidotech]

Sub'd. In for more pics Love wagons.

[johnrocs]

nice progress so far, id suggest wiring in a simple switch box as a backup and also making setting the preset heights easier to deal with

I've got something figured out...

[hinrichs]

nice progress so far, id suggest wiring in a simple switch box as a backup and also making setting the preset heights easier to deal with

[johnrocs]

This^^. I would look into different paddle switches to keep a clean look. Other than that it looks great.

remove those arrows! or something lol.

As per Rali's response, yeah that's the AccuAir Rocker Switch. I think wiring in a different switch would be a bit of a hassle, and the LED's are used for displaying error codes as well as which ride height preset you're at. Maybe one day down the road I'll figure out a way to get a cleaner, more OEM looking rocker, but for now the AccuAir rocker is going to stay

Thanks everyone for the kind remarks!

Day 3 - Wheels & Wiring

Not all that exciting to look at, but the relay and fuses are all wired up! I like this location, they should be very easy to access. The manifold and ECU are also mounted now I kind of want to do something with the wires to clean things up a bit, maybe some nice heat shrink? What do you guys think? It's not much of a rats nest now, and I'm not sure how much heat shrinking wrapping some of the bigger wire bundles would help.


The wheels and tires did come in! 18x9.5 +38mm offset Rota T2R Hyper-Blacks. One piece, but I'm diggin the look. I think the hyper black goes well with the urban grey of my Suby.


Gotta love the storage capability of the Wagon! I'm super glad I didn't have to sacrifice any trunk space, otherwise this wouldn't have been possible.... The tires are 215x40 Hankook V12 evo K110


Gonna work on plumbing tonight! If all goes well air lines will be run real, real soon

[Evil Panda]

It's the Rocker Switch from AccuAir. You can't remove the arrows.

You can with rocker switches from AAC or multiple other sources.