I flicked to the bottom of the thread and saw a white Impreza with a cage and nearly had a heart attack, thought you had painted your car white.

 

Haha. I knew that would catch at least one person out.

 

Mat is a gay ***** who loves ceri

 

Wondered if anyone would notice that Joe.

 

Cafe looks great as well mate

 

What are they picking up on the two mounting points on the seat floor. Looks too far forward for the diff ?

 

It's it the nose of the diff Arch. The diff will have a tube cradle that has a WRC cone bobbin fitting on either side and lock the diff nose to the cage.
The rear will have a tubular subframe too.

 

Still the prep work continues.

 

Looking good mate, can't wait to see it finished

Are they filling/covering every hole in the pilers?

 

Every unused hole has been foil taped. The inside will be sprayed with epoxy resin before being painted. So essentially it will be completely smooth inside once it's done.

 

Sounds good, nice perfect finish. Like it, might even have to do it myself

 

Missed the tail end of this, but what is the goal of this (re)build? What made you decide to go this far?

All just out of interest

 

Basically it's something ive always wanted to do.
The catalyst was when I was out in Damien's 700bhp TA legacy at RallyDay last year.
His car is circa 1100kg and it just felt amazing having so much weight out of the car.
It was that that made me realise I needed to ditch weight out of the car. So I set about stripping it. I know I'll be putting weight back in it with a cage, but the cage will be light as its T45 so only about 50kg or so. I know ive had about 100kg out of it since I started and ive got more to come out of ye doors yet.
So here I am trying to make it the most focused and hardcore road racer I can.

Just because...

Well... I love it. Lol

 

Because Race Car.

 

Because road car.

 

To be honest Frayz, i love thats its a road car with everything a decent track car should have
Certainly inspired me to make mine a road car that can go on track. Instead of a track only focused car.

Love it mate!

 

Thing is Joe, anyone can build a track car. A stripped out tatty looking racer that gets used a couple of times a year.

I want to still try and keep a level of finish that it looks like it's been done properly with some thought. I can't afford to do all I want to do straight away but at least the inside will be done to a decent level that I can improve on when funds allow.

After this I'm thinking tubular subframes diff carrier and fully rose jointing it including the TCAs.

Then depending how it goes I eventually want to WRC body it. Wings, bumpers, the full enchilada.

Not interested in any more power, I want it super focussed.

Then go back out a tease the supercar boys again.

 

Cage feet and hole plugging today.

 

Makes perfect sense to me

I have recently decided I want to try and get the GTR down to 1500kgs without losing any of the creature comforts.... I know, its nowhere what you are aiming for, but a GTR with 200kgs less weight would be an awesome machine!

I have always loved your car, from 3-4 years ago, when I had my 2002 Prodrive, so all the best with it!

As a matter of interest, what diffs are you running? Standard or not?

 

Cheers dude. Yep still standard 6 speed Suretrac front and R180 rear

 

Because Essex

 

WRC wide body kit would be awesome!

 

Not really sure that's the case, there are very few people who can build a track car themselves.

Also it's also not always best to solid mount everything it can cause vibration and stress points that will lead to cracks and also can make the suspension too stiff resulting in twitchy handling.

 

Fair pionts Arch, im sure you understand my comment reagrding anyone can do it as a bit flippant. You know what i mean when i say anyone can rip one to pieces and make it look tatty.

The silod mounted parts will only be inline with what the rally cars do, nothing more.

 

I always thought solid mounting was best but have been educated recently in as much as some compliance is needed within any set up.
I know what you mean red builds was messing with you lol.
Should have first shake down of mine a week tomorrow and then a map tweek to V power map and a race fuel map.

 

Lightweight seat rails gone in today. All new custom prototype gear **** can be seen here too.

 

Lol,Paper mache gearknob liking it .SJ.

 

Don't get any ideas Ade, ive got a Patent Pending on this one.

 

Getting there chap. I'm looking forward to getting into doing the cage in the RX. Awesome project fella

 

Have you removed the captive nuts one on the tunnel and the one on the inner sill? If you have you will need to re weld fittings back on for the harness side strap mounts. I had to move the one on the tunnel as it got in the way of the seat rails.