**** mate. Sorry to hear and hope your on your healthy way back.

Kas

 

Good work Daz, and well done for not throwing the towel in given the frustration not to mention the extent of your injuries!

I look forward to watching how this comes along, always enjoy your threads.

What will be the agenda now you have decided it not going to be a daily?

Occasional Track Car, Sprint Series, Drag?

Keep up the good work!

Robert.

 

It will always be a bit of an all rounder. Haven't got the budget to go racing so it will just sat there never used if I built a race car as such.

It will still be a road car but I'd like it to be capable on the strip and round a track.
I'd like to get a bit of weight out of the car and lose some of the non essential stuff. I will however be keeping the stereo and aircon

Anyway the car has seen it's first bit of it's new colour today.
It's gone on really well too.

 

This is going to be good, and very interesting. It's going to take you a while to recover from those injuries, so hope you didn't knock up all that concrete on your own. My wife is a sports masseuse and said once healed, that can really help because of muscle shortening and loss. Good luck on both fronts. I followed your threads as I lived in WA early 90's

 

Good to see you’re persevering Daz. You could have gone weak like SteveBT. 😂😂

Looking forward to seeing where the car ends up.

 

Too dumb to quit mate

 

Great to see you back to it, enjoyed reading about this car and your journey with it so far.
I was planning on doing the same thing to my Type R but was looking into using a spit / jig to make my life easier, push came to shove and I sold the Type R and kept the JDM Hawk instead (some will raise an eyebrow at the decision I bet ). Since giving up my space I hat to work on my cars, I've now nowhere to do this to my Hawk, and for one, I dont think I can be arsed rolling around the floor buffing and painting on my back !

Do you plan to use a spit? Any sort of treatment to go on the underside before hand such a Rust Bullet? I see the Evo boys often use that stuff before applying stonechip and painting. I take it you are using a proper spray gun for the painting too? Quite interesting when people undertake this typre of work as I haven't seen many Subaru owners actually do it.

Good luck anyhow, and stay away from stables , I'd like to see this car's next stage of deveolpment unfold without you hurting yourself haha.

Kyle

 

I'm doing things the hard way as usual. The car is on axle stands in my garage. So it'll be the rolling around on my back method. I've done the underseal thing with the last three type R's I've had. 2 on the floor and one using a two poster lift. I wish I had a lift for this one but never mind.
Here's the last three.







Fortunately as it's an Aussie car there isn't any rust on it anywhere so I am just going to clean it, stonechip it and then paint it. Unlike my last cars I won't be dailying this one so it'll rarely see bad weather. Hopefully what I'm doing will protect it well enough.

 

I managed to get a full day on it today.

I got the underside prepared and ready for sealing and painting tomorrow.

Due to space constraints and not wanting to climb over everything whilst I'm painting I'm doing it in two goes.
2/3 of it will be done tomorrow which will be upto the rear diff carrier.

I'll get all that done and then the gearbox, cradle and front crossmember and front running gear can go back on the car.
I'll tidy up the garage and then do the same with the rear.

 

2/3 of the underside done now.

 

You sticking with the 3582 Daz or trying a different blower?

 

Probably going to stick with it. The car was very conservatively tuned with little timing lower down so I feel the car had plenty more to give.
The big thing for me though is how versatile and easy to drive it was. So providing I can get the turbo repaired properly I'll go that route first. If I do change it will just be a Gen2 of what I have now.

 

A little more progress.

Thought I'd tart the gearbox up as it was in a pretty sorry state.


Starting to put the front end together again.

 

Bit of work tidying a few things up.

Steering rack before:


After a bit of hammerite.


Anti roll bar Before


After



Struts just got jetwashed and de-greased. Hard to believe these units have done over 300,000kms they look like new.



Suspension will all be revisited at somepoint. The plan is for some decent coilovers and to get it all polybushed.
Although I'm amazed considering the amount of Kms this car has done that all the OEM bushes seem to be in good order with very little wear.

 

Great work, thanks for the updates!

 

A little update..

Car is now fully undersealed and painted so time for reassambly.











Although I needed to tackle the fuel system whilst the fuel tank was off the car.
I wanted to do things a little different this time round.
Rather than run rubber fuel hose through the car I decided to use the factory hard lines to eliminate the constant fuel smell in the car.
The factory feed line is not big enough on it's own for my fuel requirements so I decided to get a little creative.
As I no longer need the breather line this can now be used as a return line and I have combined the factory feed and return lines and now have two 8mm (OD) feed lines.
Just had to cut the hard lines to allow for AN06 fittings to be used from the fuel filter forwards.
All in all a pretty neat solution.
















Will look great once the boot is painted and all the fittings hoses replaced with new ones.

 

Top work! Look forward to the updates

 

Forget the car..... how are you getting on Daz? All fixed?

 

Yep just about mate, thanks for asking. Surgeons did a fantastic job although I'm 10% mechano now

 

Well, it turned out better than I'd hoped.
A surprising amount of work but well worth it.

 

Looks great

 

Little touches make all the difference.

 

Very nice work DAZ
Did you ever found out the reason the engine did fail, was it faulty valves or was it something else?

/Jan

 

Pretty certain it was materials failure in the valves.
A mate of mine in Oz built his at around the same time and all his inlet valves have the same stress fractures. I wont ever use Supertech again.
will be going Ferrea this time round.

 

Quick update.

Underneath of the car is pretty much done now.
The main aim of this was to protect the underside of the car for years to come.
I also took the opportunity to make it look a bit better.
To be fair I could have gone a lot further and made it look a bit bling but I also want to keep it as near to original as I can.
I opted to use a bit of colour on a few choice bits just to break it up a bit.
I'm happy with the end result.

A before and after comparison.

 

You'll be doing Show & Shine next!

 

**** that. I'm far too lazy for that constant polishing malarkey.

 

Thought I'd lock myself away in the garage away from all the bog roll hoarders.
Had a busy few days on the car...

Starting to strip the car ready for the colour change.

These are the last pictures of the car in it's factory colour.




No turning back after repairing a few dents.


Building a "Spray Booth" in my garage.




I've decided to paint it in stages to make it a bit easier for me.
First up is the roof.

First bit of colour on the car.


This next part always scares the ****e out of me. Sanding down a new paint job


After a flat and polish




Masking up is a tedious ball ache but time taken doing it properly saves a ****e load of work later on.








Main shell painted




Yours trully


Starting to remove masking






Will start to flat and polish the shell tomorrow after I've repainted the boot brackets (bast4rd cheap masking tape)

more to follow over the next few days.

 

Got your covid-19 safety gear on there Daz! Looking good fella.

 

Awesome