Lovely car mate!

 

Thanks buddy

Another pic from Frayz of how the vents coming along



Martin

 

Awesome mate bet it's made a huge difference

 

It has Craig the drive is different to when I had the td04 hybrid as I've lost a little spool now but the car still feels strong going through the gears. Had a good blast home and the cars so smooth and just keeps pulling. Also to gain over 40bhp was an added bonus

Martin

 

Figures sound great as it is a similar spec to what I'm hoping for. Wondering just how much difference the TGV delete makes through as I have a WRX inlet and will be doing the TGV delete mod rather than fitting an STI inlet - will it be worth the effort

You're also running a 6-speed now aren't you, so mine will be lighter

 

Hi Jon defo worth just changing the inlet and think it'll be a lot quicker and easier to do. In my opinion it's defo a worth while mod as when driving now the car feels so much smoother. Prob gained 3bhp aswell

Yep I'm on 6speed so yours will be marginally lighter

Martin

 

Getting hold of an STI manifold with the TGV delete is not as easy as it sounds, I'll stick with my plan and port them at the same time

My car is quite a bit lighter, no airbags, lightweight seats, no u-frame, lots of excess wiring removed, no ABS, etc

 

Jon I was down at Scoobyspares yesterday Scott has about a trillion lol.

I think yours is considerably lighter mate I was pulling your leg. With all the mods I've done I've prob made mine a lot heavier haha. Hmmm what could I strip to save weight (deep in thought now ha)

Martin

 

Have you weighed yours out of interest Jon?

 

When it's finished (complete with an extra hole in the bonnet) I'm planning on finding the local weigh-bridge. I have a target of 1250kg but that may be ambitious

 

I have spare inlet that I can do the work on without taking the car off the road (not that it is taxed or MOT'd) and I enjoy doing the work TBH

I also thought it was only the spec c manifolds that didn't have the TGVs and most of the STI ones I have seen look identical to the WRX except painted red, whereas the spec-c ones are longer

 

When I had mine fitted Jon you could see the butterflies in what looks like a large spacer on the wrx manifold. The Sti had spacer had nothing inside which I assume is the butterfly delete? Is that right? The inlet I used was from an 2005 Sti.

Martin

 

Them rings on the right Jon have nothing in them, the wrx rings had the open/shut butterflies in them so assuming you could just get hold of them you could keep your original inlet? Is that right or am I way off lol?

Martin

 

You're spot on mate, and the TGV delete basically removes the butterfly and fills the holes. I also intend to open up the hole by removing the vane in the spacer

 

Frayz has sent me a pic of the vent almost complete



Martin

 

That vent looks spot on.

 

Just needs a lick of back paint. Frayz has done a sterling job on it. Car will have a race car look lol

Martin

 

Tidy job done there, shame I've already painted my dash, but I have another idea anyway

 

Spent many nights trawling through pics of switches fitted in dashs Jon. Came up with this idea of blanking off one of the vents with Frayz and having the defi controller slotted in

Not sure if this has been done before but I've never seen it massive thanks to Frayz for the work he's done on it though

Martin

 

Seen plenty of vent mods but that is the first like that. I'm future proofing for the first person to do Carberry.rom stuff so a LC and ALS switch are going in mine in a unique location (I hope)

 

Sounds interesting Jon, give us a clue of what your plans are I've had those switches fitted to also run ALS and dual boost should be going maf less aswell. This will be my next round of mods when I save a few pennies

Martin

 

Ry we good for some magic black on this beauty?



Martin

 

That looks great mate!!
Might have to hive frayz a shout when I get my defi gauges sorted to do me one

 

Arranging with jake to have the arch extensions fitted. Before they go on thought it'd be rude not to put my pics of the hours I put in cleaning the car over the weekend




















Martin

 

Been nothing happening recently which is a bit strange for me dropped the car off with jake today to have the rear arches fitted, finally sure he will update with a few pics

Also Ryan's painted the vent and its on its way home so will show off when it arrives

Martin

 

Just got the vent back and it looks thanks to Ryan n Frayz




Will be fitted this weekend

Picking car up this afternoon from jake arches are on cant wait to see it

Martin

 

Like that mate, thinkin of something similar for my gauge set up

 

Looks spot on mate

 

Stunning looking bug you done a great job there..
That vent looks the mutts nuts nice job.

 

Cheers Iain Frayz did an excellent job then Ry on the paint

Thanks Jon fitting at the weekend

Cheers buddy tried to keep it all subtle with no over the top mods not much more I want to do externally except the prodrive front bumper

Picked the car up arches are now on thanks to jake @ panel care Rochdale done a good job. Will get some pics after its had a clean

Martin