Just got back to working on the car seriously so I'm just going to start this over fresh. A lot of things have changed since I started the build...like everything. Heres a quick rundown of what the finished car will be like 2006 STI (30K miles) 100% gutted Lexan Windows Carbon Trunk Carbon Hood Carbon Door Skins (in the future) Its most likely staying the Army Green Color Suspension RCE T2s Whiteline ALK Whiteline Roll Center Kit Whiteline Big Sways and Endlinks (may be replace with RCE) Whiteline Rear Control Arms Rear Diff Locks DMS Front Camber Plates RCE Fixed Rear Plates Wheels Enkei NT03s 18x10 Advan A048s (for now) Brakes Stoptech ST40s 355mm Carbotech XP12s Front Carbotech XP10s Rear Transmission 2007 Legacy Spec B 6speed (long ratios) Carbonetics 1 way Front Diff Carbonetics 1.5 way Rear Diff Cusco Tarmac Center Diff Carbonetics Twin Disk Clutch Kartboy Shifter and Bushings Engine 2.2 Closed Deck Block 79mm Crank Pauter Connecting Rods Wiseco Pistons Total Seal Rings ARP Head Studs Cometic Gaskets JDM Version 8 Heads Ported Full Ferrea Valvetrain 1mm oversize Custom Grind Cams Turbo Intercooler Etc.. Precision 67mm BB turbo T4 .82 Custom Header, Uppipe, and Downpipe Garret Intercooler Core, custom endtanks and Piping Tial BOV Tial Wastegate Engine Management AEM DBW ECU AEM integrated boost control Anti-Lag Launch Control Interior Stock Dash has been gutted of everything and is actually fairly light, I was going to pick up a fiberglass replica gut theres not really any need. MSI has a Carbon Race Style center console that I will probably get to replace the factory one. I'm rereading this years rules for the Redline series to see if I can fit the car into modified, I want to run the gutted doors and Lexan windows but if I can't I have a full set of working doors with real glass.
I'm about to edit the first post as well but I've been working on the car a lot lately. Heres what has been going on lately. Last week I cut all the plugs to fill the holes in the firewall. Most sanctioning bodies require holes in the firewall to be filled and since the car no longer has heat or AC there are lots of big gaping holes to fill. I spent most of the day today looking for the Circlips that go on the rear axles before you slide them in the diff only to realize that they aren't on the axles....they stay in the diff. Tonight I started the night out by making a couple of templates to for mounting switches, Relays, Fuses, Gauges, ECU and Data Acquisition. Replacing the stock gauge cluster with the G2X Data Aq, that little display will tell me almost everything I need to know, I will most likely add a Wideband and a AEM Serial Gauge to the left and right. This will house all the switches for the car as well as Circuit Breakers with LEDs to display the switch status as well as the Circuit Breaker Status. Just started mocking up the relay board so I can figure out exactly where its going to mount. These are all Bosch 280 Weatherproof relays, very nice relays and pretty reasonable. Feb\4 After much work on the relays and how they are going to mount they have since been rendered useless by these really trick aviation circuit breakers that I picked up from some friends that have a Air Salvage Company. I also picked up some composite Panels to make the Flat Bottom for the car. The Toggles are 40amp breakers for the high power items, the rest will be on the button style breakers. These are the 4x8 1\2inch composite sheets for the flat bottom. I'm redrawing my entire wiring diagram though it should be easier this time since there will be no fuses or relays all the power can go directly through the switches\breakers. A quick note about the wiring, all of the wire I'm using is Tefzel, a fairly expensive aviation grade wire that is highly flexible and heat resistant. It will all be covered in Raychem heat shrink as well. Took a break from the wiring today to get some more mechanical work done. Sunday Feb 7th Just installed the GTSpec Fender Reinforcement Braces, Went on pretty easy...which is always nice I had already installed the Carbonetics 1.5 way rear diff in the housing but I was having issues getting it back in the car. I still don't have all my strength back in my wrist from the motorcycle wreck so it was making it difficult to wrestle it into the car while on my back. Well I muscled up the strength today and got it in. I'm about to slide the axles in and put the ARP extended wheel studs in. Ill update with some more pics later. Plans for tonight Finish Gutting the Passenger doors, Install Extended Wheel Studs, Install Rear Axles and Tighten all rear suspension bolts. Here you can see the Front Diff and Bell Housing separated from the tranny. Here is the front pinion gear about to be blued so that I can check to make sure the diff is in right Rear Diff installed in the car Fuck the Super Bowl
Do you just have the back half of the wide body or the with the fenders also? May want to hit some flea markets and Big Lots for some cheap 1" C-clamps for the back panels, and I'll come up this weekend to help mount those if you want?
Just the Back, I can pull the front far enough to fit the wheels I want, Im trying to get one of the wheels now, if it fits without it then I'm not even going to worry about it.
So you painted the car green.....Poor thing lost the Aspen White. What rotated kit is this car going to use?
Yes Sir Flat Green. I'm actually leaning towards using one of the regular rotated kits, it depends if I can get the turbo I want to work with a Tial Housing.
You know you need to just stick that 6262 on there. Why spend all that money on the tial housing when you can get the 6262 for $850
Yeah, I want to test a couple of turbos, theres a 58mm billet wheel turbo on the way for a certain car on here and depending on how that works I may go slightly bigger or smaller than the 6262
Matt you should put one of your rotated kits on there.....that's excellent promotion to sell more kits.
^^agreed! looking good matt...is that your garage? looks larger than your dad's. I want a crinkle red TB cover. looks good! Put me down for one, shit you are going to have a truck load of shit to deliver to me. lol
I've got like 3 timing belt covers and a couple of sets of valve covers I'm going to paint on Sunday, Ill take care of you. Thats actually in the basement at my parents house.....they are thrilled. There is no garage at my house so thats not really an option
Yeah that was Sarcasm....but they weren't using the space so it seemed like a good place to work on it. The roof on the car is polished steel, just have to clear coat it now.
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added more to the first post. Moving everything to the basement in a few to start reassembly of the tranny and hopefully we will get the motor and trans back in the car Sunday night.
what phenolic spacers are those?? Are they the Hondata ones? Also, have you always run a reversed intake manifold?
No its gone, there are lots of better intake manifolds on the horizon, it shifted the powerband way to the left Yes Sir those are Hondata spacers. I haven't ran the rotated manifold in the past but I never ran a Vmount in the past either.
You're closer to win than I ever will be, sir. This shit will ball hard as hell when its done. As it should.
Good News, progress is being made. The motor is almost done at the machine shop, just waiting on Springs and Valves now. I started prepping the engine bay to put the motor back in last night. The lighting is really bad so I didn't take any pictures but I should have something in the engine bay next week. I may still try and do Redline...if some things work out this week.
Update, just finished total wiring harness disassembly. I have depinned all the plugs on the harness and I'm going to start laying out the harness over the next few nights. I have a few things left to order. Tefzel Wire ECU Plug Pins Sensor Plug Pins Heatshrink\Shielding Amphenol Firewall fitting(connector that goes through the firewall Bosch Weatherproof relays For some reason none of the three cameras we now own are here...Ill find them tomorrow.