Fantastic project Simon, hats off to you.

Can I ask what the advantage of rotating an oem turbo is? Is it for a shorter air intake?

 

Coloured cable ties look amateur IMO

 

Oh maybe LOL.

I used them on mine to hold the front number plate on, when I needed to.

 

nice

I would have refitted this one as I had on the old bumper..

and I tried it but it just says "pull me over officer!"

Simon

 

prefer the double sided route..

I will probably buy a square plate in the week.. but easiest place is Halfords and I had to buy one for the evo the other week as went out and it was missing.. the halfords square ones are not very nice to say the least.

Simon

 

lol.. your right I am an amateur cable tier

 

the air intake route is much nicer.. the actual gain is difficult to be sure of.. but it looks a lot nicer
Also allows me more room to fit a larger turbo and swap it very quick..
ie. one for strip, one for track and one for road etc...

Simon

 

The green ties are temp to hold braid from rubbing.
John is been kind enough to make an ally bulkhead.
When I fit that I will assess the fuel lines and replace the green ties as will have done about 3k miles on it by then.
I thought I had found a nice harness bar in my garage, but on testing it, not strong enough
Will try and sort another one this week

 

iden signs in cranbrook made mine si they do a jap sized square

 

Looks good to me and legal

 

oh cool might drop by there tomorrow then.


just checked and in actual fact the current plate is illegal.. lol
no markers details on it

Simon

 

definitly illegal and cost me £30 fine

 

if you cant make it give me shout i will pop in mate only 2 mins from me

 

Type R is looking nice Steve

 

thanks mate
wish i could afford to turn into a 500 monster

 

Not so sure about the Fluffy Dice though But the rest looks

 

lol you would like fluffy dice that quick mate (womens cars)

 

thats enough about mine this is simons thread dont want to rob it

 

just realised they probably cannot do them since the law change in oct 08

 

they do what you want mate but no bs no,s so still illegal i have been ok with mine i dont have one at all on the type r

 

I think they have tightenned up the sale of.. but cannot find the details on line at the minute

 

Looks good Simon,

Can I ask how many -AN fittings you needed for the swirl pot and external pump?

I'm ordering all my bits this month and want to make sure I get everything I need in one go.

Re your number plate. I have a friend who makes them so can get you pretty much whatever you like - just let me know.

All the best

PS How did you remove the sound deadening in the boot?

 

There are plenty on online retailers that will make you "for show use only" plates but most will also make legal plates as long as you send them the required paperwork, if you need a legal plate made up ASAP then Halfords seems to be one of the few places that will make them as you wait

 

simon if you struggle for the plate give me a call and ill source you the stuff to make one from work, will have all legal stuff on em aswell

heres one i made for the ring



its fully legal,,,apart from i dont own the actual reg pmsl

 

gone quiet si have you sorted your plates yet

 

Think he is still replacing the coloured cable ties for black ones. After all the thread is labelled "Perfection"

 

not sure I'll count for you.

sound deading removed with hammer and chisel.

Simon

 

I bought one but I am not happy with it

Simon

 

I am awaiting rear bulk head which is in the post and so when I have that the rear seat out I need to reposition the swirlpot and so the braided lines will move and will be replacing with black cable ties where required.

The red on the wiring is staying though. I like it.

I think I will regret the title of this thread more and more and might have to put the word "near" on the front.

Although it is making me analyise the car.. but really to get perfection I am going to have to take it off the road to achieve it and I need to find something else I can drive to keep my interest enough to do that.
I am currently not happy with positioning on front bumper, or paint work of..

I did have an incident in the car this week..

Went around a roundabout a bit quick and had pad knock off when I next used the brakes.. which could have been bad but luckly I had plenty of time to pump the pedal.. I took it easy at that point but it did it again after next roundabout.. stopped and check wheel nuts (had them loosened for me once after leaving the car in a services for 2hours whilst out mapping and it pad knocked off straight away)..
Therefore guessed wheel bearing had collapsed.. I was 100odd miles from home.. limp it home or to nearest specialist.. hummm.. I am one junction from Subaru4you so drove slowly there and the noise was apparent when I slowly drove into industrial estate.. clonk clonk clonk..
etc..
Huge thanks to Len and Mark @ Subaru4you.. straight on ramp and let me check.. yep wheel has loads of movement in it..
They were able to sort it that afternoon which was great.. it had overheated and damaged the half shaft etc and bearing was totally destroyed.. it either did it instantly or has been going for a while but I didn't notice any noise over gearbox.

Simon

 

Got to be better than my cracked flapping plate . Bought a square 'show' replacement though.

Sound deadening is best chiseled cold IIRC