viberating hood on 08 STI? - Page 3

**Digitalfiend** · 04-10-2008, 01:51 PM

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Originally Posted by jph

just FYI, the '08 hood is STEEL.

J.

I don't know, the jury is still out on that I think. The hood on my '08 is pretty damn light and Subaru does state "Aluminum alloy" on their website under "Features". Someone should weigh one.

Subaru.com doesn't list the hood as aluminum alloy but Subaru.ca does:
Subaru Canada - WRX STI - Specifications

Headlights: Contoured multi-reflector halogen (high beam)

Headlights: Projector beam Xenon High Intensity Discharge (HID) (low beam) with manual levelizer

Hood: Aluminum alloy with gas strut support

Maybe we get a little extra loving like the heated seats and mirrors.

Hehe...or it's a misprint.

Rootus · 04-10-2008, 01:59 PM

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Originally Posted by Digitalfiend

I don't know, the jury is still out on that I think. The hood on my '08 is pretty damn light and Subaru does state "Aluminum alloy" on their website under "Features". Someone should weigh one.

Or, five seconds with a magnet and you'd know...

jph · 04-10-2008, 02:03 PM

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Originally Posted by Rootus

Or, five seconds with a magnet and you'd know...

i tried that when i got mine.
the magnet sticks like glue. all over the hood, except the plastic scoop.

J.

jph · 04-10-2008, 02:05 PM

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Originally Posted by Digitalfiend

Subaru.com doesn't list the hood as aluminum alloy but Subaru.ca does

so did the USDM market get ripped on the hood too?

edit: can you try a magnet on your hood?

J.

ploney · 04-10-2008, 02:49 PM

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Originally Posted by supermarkus

Whirring at startup is probably that air pump which was implemented to reduce cold start emissions

Also, there is a Hydraulic test of the Traction control system that happens at startup. The manual talks about, but who reads those....

ploney · 04-10-2008, 02:50 PM

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Originally Posted by jph

so did the USDM market get ripped on the hood too?

edit: can you try a magnet on your hood?

J.

Magnets on hood.

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jph · 04-10-2008, 03:28 PM

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Originally Posted by ploney

Magnets on hood.

got one of a canadian sti with magnets on the hood?

J.

Stedenko · 04-10-2008, 03:56 PM

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Originally Posted by MEXSTIMPREZA

Mine does not viberate a (unknown measure here), but it does vibrate a little

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By the way, please do not start any more threads of little things that if not for the threads, we would have never noticed them (rear view mirror to low, hood viberating, etc)

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You have your own spelling error in this post. I leave finding it as an exercise for you. It seems like half the spelling correction posts on the internet have mistakes in them. That's weird.

I can't wait to buy my STI and experience some floppy high speed hood action.

MEXSTIMPREZA · 04-10-2008, 05:33 PM

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Originally Posted by Stedenko

You have your own spelling error in this post. I leave finding it as an exercise for you. It seems like half the spelling correction posts on the internet have mistakes in them. That's weird.

I can't wait to buy my STI and experience some floppy high speed hood action.

Please tell me

, English is my second language and now I feel like an idiot. I did not mean no disrespect, I know that it was a digital error, not a spelling error. I was just having fun

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Btw, mine is aluminium

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Brand · 04-10-2008, 05:41 PM

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Originally Posted by MEXSTIMPREZA

Please tell me

, English is my second language and now I feel like an idiot. I did not mean no disrespect, I know that it was a digital error, not a spelling error. I was just having fun

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Btw, mine is aluminium

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You used 'to' instead of 'too' - "mirror to low". And for what it's worth, you write English better than most native speakers, so no need to feel like an idiot

**Digitalfiend** · 04-10-2008, 07:12 PM

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Originally Posted by jph

so did the USDM market get ripped on the hood too?

edit: can you try a magnet on your hood?

J.

Must be a misprint on the SCI site because I just tried a fridge magnet and it stuck. Has anyone tried sticking one on an '05? I thought I did that with mine and it stuck too, even though I know it was supposed to be aluminum...but it's been so long I can't remember.

There is definitely some weight to shed in the hood then if it's steel.

toogood · 04-10-2008, 08:41 PM

those of you who are spelling and grammar nazi's...cool it...if you know what the member intended then let it be...you're not getting any cool points for it...and eventually the mods will say something about it (and yes they have).

ploney · 04-10-2008, 09:31 PM

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Originally Posted by jph

got one of a canadian sti with magnets on the hood?

J.

Nope only imperial magnets here, no metric ones

solovus · 04-11-2008, 06:17 AM

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Originally Posted by toogood

those of you who are spelling and grammar nazi's...cool it...if you know what the member intended then let it be...you're not getting any cool points for it...and eventually the mods will say something about it (and yes they have).

Are you trying to undermine the foundation of the internets?!?! If there were no grammar pirates we'd all be saying stuff like "They went over their too look at you're viberating hood, there happy too know your trying too fix it."

If this were to happen repeatedly everyone's head would explode and nobody would be left to post. If there is nobody left to post, then the moderators (assuming their heads didn't also explode) would have to find something else to do. The only other thing in the world to do other than moderate (once everyone's head explodes) would be to drink heavily in despair due to loneliness. Then they would all go out in their Subarus and have a giant drunken destruction derby in the streets. It would be MADNESS!!!

Stedenko · 04-11-2008, 06:43 AM

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Originally Posted by solovus

Are you trying to undermine the foundation of the internets?!?! If there were no grammar pirates we'd all be saying stuff like "They went over their too look at you're viberating hood, there happy too know your trying too fix it."

If this were to happen repeatedly everyone's head would explode and nobody would be left to post. If there is nobody left to post, then the moderators (assuming their heads didn't also explode) would have to find something else to do. The only other thing in the world to do other than moderate (once everyone's head explodes) would be to drink heavily in despair due to loneliness. Then they would all go out in their Subarus and have a giant drunken destruction derby in the streets. It would be MADNESS!!!

Good point man. I never thought of it this way. Besides, there was only ONE grammar nazi, and once his own bad grammar was corrected we moved on.

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toogood Silver Member Car: wrb 06 STi Fav Mod: wingless and mis-fires Location: lackland afb, texas Posts: 1,095 Join Date: Nov 2007 Trader Rating: (0)	Re: viberating hood on 08 STI? those of you who are spelling and grammar nazi's...cool it...if you know what the member intended then let it be...you're not getting any cool points for it...and eventually the mods will say something about it (and yes they have).