FS (Reno/Sacramento): 1994 SVX LSi AWD, Barcelona Red

[sperry]

SOLD!

I've had it listed before and couldn't go through with selling it, but even though it's literally the car I've enjoyed owning the most out of all the cars I've had, it's time to part ways with my SVX, for serious this time. It's just not practical enough for daily driver duty, not comfortable enough for long trips (the wife has some issue with the deeply sloped windshield giving her motion sickness, go figure), not fun enough for the race track (even though I did get those StopTechs working for a while, it's still a pig when you push it), and not appreciating as a collector car (with my luck, SVXs will be worth $1M just 10 years from now)... so it just sits in my garage getting old. I love it, but better for someone else to love it by driving it every day than for me to selfishly let it rot in storage because I never have time to drive it.

So...


Location of the SVX: Reno, NV - willing to drop off as far away as Sacramento, will ship at buyer's arrangement
Year: 1994
Model: Subaru SVX LSi AWD
VIN: JF1 CX3556 RH102115
Manufacture date: Dec 1993
Paint Color: Barcelona Red
Interior Color: Beige (Leather)
Miles: ~238,000
Location: Reno, NV
Options: All LSi options, and rear wing
AWD or FWD: AWD
Modifications: See below
Major service: See below
Engine Condition: Great
Maintenance Records: Have a stack of records from original owner, no record of my own since I maintained it myself
Transmission condition: Replaced with fresh 4.444 '96 Legacy gearbox and rear-end, cooler/filter, good condition
Glass condition: Excellent (windshild replaced recently)
Type of tire and remaining tread: Dunlop wintersport 3D, passible tread but not great, I have other wheels/tires available
Type of wheels: OEM SVX (OEM '05 STi, or Enkei RPF1's available)
Interior condition: Good, minor tears on the driver seat and rear seat (see pics)
Body condition: Good, minor door dings, rock chips on hood, scratch on bumper (see pics)
Known defects or problems: Aside from above cosmetic blemishes, none. Car runs great, starts every time, everything works.
Comments about the car: See below
Asking price: $5000
Pictures: See below


This particular car is in excellent mechanical shape, and good cosmetic shape. Car is a 2-owner car, I have a stack of service records going back to the original owner.

Motor was recently resealed and has new water pump, timing belt and plugs. Gearbox was replaced with a 4.444 ratio Legacy gearbox with a cooler and filter to prevent future issues. 4.444 differentials make the car quicker, but hurt the already mediocre fuel mileage (expect around 16 city/22 highway). Exhaust has been replaced with a custom unit that's throatier, but not much louder than stock, so none of the rattling heat-shield noise common to many SVXs. Brakes are new since I've had the car. Steering is great with a re-sealed power-steering pump and new ball joint and tie-rod ends. Suspension has high mileage, so it's not as crisp as it once was, but the car rides very comfortably, the only odd noise coming from the rear sway-bar bushings when it's cold out (easily fixed with some grease). Car passes smog easily (OBD-I sniffer test) with new cats in the custom exhaust.

Cosmetically, the car is pretty nice, but it has some sand damage on the front bumper and leading edge of the hood, plus a few door dings, and small paint chips in various locations. Interior is good with just some wear on the driver's seat and a tear on the rear seat near the deck lid. Interior fake wood trim was painted black. Car has a 2002 Subaru WRX Momo wheel currently (non-compatible airbag), but will be sold with the original steering wheel (and I will install the original wheel and hook up the airbag if the buyer wishes).

Items replaced/repaired since I bought it:
- New OEM window switches, both driver and passenger doors
- New (remanufactured) brake calipers, rotors and pads on all 4 corners
- New stainless steel brake lines on all 4 corners
- New OEM radiator
- New (remanufactured) alternator
- New (remanufactured) front axles
- New hood struts
- New OEM O2 sensors
- New OEM MAF sensor
- New TPS stepdown resistor
- New OEM windshield
- New trunk floor over the spare tire
- New battery
- Resealed motor (cam seals, crank seals, valve cover seals)
- New OEM water pump, OEM timing belt, OEM timing gear
- New OEM knock sensor
- New OEM ball joints
- New OEM tie-rod ends
- Resealed power steering pump
- Resealed & recharged A/C

Modifications:
- 4.444 '96 Legacy transmission (rebuilt with new transfer clutch & solenoids)
- 4.444 LSD rear-end
- Perma-Cool transmission cooler in the driver's side fender
- Remote transmission oil filter
- '97 OEM front grill, color matched
- SmallCar clear headlight/corner marker lenses w/ StonGard
- DDM 5000k HID headlamps (not at all blue)
- Hella SuperTone horns mounted in the grill
- Alpine stereo/iPod interface/XM radio/subwoofer/amp
- DEI keyless entry/remote starter/remote trunk pop
- Beltronics remote radar detector (laser detector/jammer in the grill, radar receiver behind the bumper, display mounted on the instrument cluster)
- Added starter solenoid relay
- Custom Magnaflow headers-back exhaust with Bullet muffler (includes 3 new cat converters)
- WRX sun visors (to replace the sagging stock ones)
- Added Auto-dimming rear-view mirror with compass

Optional Stuff:
- 17x8"+55 BBS STi OEM wheels w/ Dunlop Wintersport 3D tires (90% tread left) +$600
- 17x9"+45 Enkei RPF1's w/ 245-45-17 Bridgestone RE010 tires (90% tread left) +$1000

KBB for the car is $4500 dealer / $3300 private party. Due to the rareness of the car, fantastic condition, the updated gearbox, the new exhaust, the stereo, etc. (I've spent over $12,000 restoring the car over the last 5 years), I am asking $5000 for the car. I also have some optional sets of wheels I will sell at an additional cost. Finally, I've got a bin full of SVX parts (mostly trim pieces, hood bra, old parts that have been replaced, etc) that will be included with the car.

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Auto-dimming mirror and WRX visors:


Remote for the stereo and iPod:


Subwoofer/box/amp:


Mileage:


Tear on the driver's seat:


Tear on rear seat:


Rock chips on the hood:


Scratch were some d-bag rubbed me in a parking lot:



Some videos of the exhaust taken shortly after it was installed:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGDu4yh_QQw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_BJ3duMtsyw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9TldOY0kbyc

The exhaust design:



What the car looks like on the RPF1's:

[VICSVX]

wow that is amazing...i like how the dash and center were all painted. awesome car. good luck with the sell

[sperry]

Well the car sold today. For pricing reference to the community, I was able to get my asking price but threw in a set of wheels and tires.

Car went to a nice guy who's a Subaru enthusiast, so it seems like the car is in good hands and will be taken care of, so that lessens the blow a bit.