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Какой странный год. Я и забыл что это високосный год пока мама не напомнила.

Весь этот год был гонкой за временем. Ни на что не хватало времени, много чего было мучительно трудно довести до конца. А некоторые задумки и вообще были заброшены, если не навсегда, то надолго.

The whole idea of Black Friday was quite mystical to me before I tried it myself. Mostly it was brought up to me by Eugene B., since which time I have really gotten into it, not because saving all that money could change my life in any way, but because it was just simply cool to save up so much.

Today installed spoiler and went for a small photoshoot. Spoiler isn't 100% done yet though. Need to hook brake light as the STi plug and WRX plug isn't compatible. Actually WRX doesn't seem to have any plugs.

Picked up my parts today finally. Painted by King St. Auto Body. Very happy with Everything. Jon installed my bumper for me, sometime this weekend I'll install STi spoiler and sideskirts are for later on or maybe even for after winter.

Почти обычная Subaru STi, подготовленная компанией Crawford Performance, тест-пилот — Кен Блок.

Installed new K&N Air Filter (33-2304). Also got some Valvoline general-multi-purpose grease for short throw. When I installed short-throw, I think I did not have enough. So this is a precaution.

As I mentioned before, I bought brand new OEM '08 impreza/outback roofrack. Today I finally got around to installing it. Everything went extremely smooth until the point when I had to secure racks on my roof.

On Sunday sold my OEM tyres and rims for $450 so I had an opportunity to put my Rotas with new Blizaks. Rims look phenomental on my car I think so I am very happy.

Today got my K&N 33-2304 air intake filter delivered, purchased from amazon. Recently I glanced at my OEM one and it's nasty. I suspect that's mostly from Nevada driving. Sometime this weekend I'll throw new one in.

Another second great find on craigslist is winter tyres. I found a guy who works for famous American tyre sales dealer and the deal is pretty much there is discontinued model of Bridgestone Blizzak. Brand new winter tyre mounted and balanced on the rip for $300. How can it get any cheaper than that? Really best deal ever. You can find same set of Blizzaks on craigslist used that are more expensive. So I am very happy!

On Saturday, I decided to end the upgrade wave with finishing off short throw shifter. It ended up being quite a to install as it took some effort to remove c-clip. Then when I installed new shift lever, I forgot that that lower part of the level is adjustable too. So second, fourth and rear gear simply wouldn't work. But finally I figured out that it's adjustable. Overall quite happy, may decrease short throw as it's too rough right now.

Today installed front bumper underspoiler, kind of a painful process with aligning it but other than that pretty straight forward. Also started cleaning my new rims. Short-throw shifter still be be installed as I am calling it a day.

As a follow up to my post-install COBB springs concern, I contacted Dave from nasioc who owns same car with same springs and asked him whether he experiences same noise as do I. I was happy to find out he has same "symptoms". It's kind of good and not at same time. Good because that means everything is fine with my install. Bad because I don't think I'll get used to the noise as he did. I will quote him: