Yellow R

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Hi all,

I have been a member on scoobynet for a while now & having owned a number of Subarus I thought I will share with you guys my latest purchase and plans I have for it.

After owning a number of Subarus over time & last two also being Type R a Ver 3 & a Ver 5. I visited the dark side for a short while with an Evo was a great car but nothing compared to a Subaru.

So I started searching for a descent Type R to buy, after a few weeks a pal of mine told me about this Ver 4 what his mate had owned over the last 12 years & had spent a fair bit maintaining/upgrading.

I was after a fairly standard one but this one had a fair few mods, now that's the boring introduction part over, I will write some of the spec & plans for you guys to read.

No doubt I will be needing your expertise & help some where along the line with this.

SPEC:
Forged engine by Autosportif, Race/Rally specialists.

Semi closed deck block
Cosworth 92.5mm pistons
Cosworth steel conrods
Steel head gaskets by lateral performance
ARP head stud & nut kit by lateral performance
ACL main/big end bearings
Roger Clark modified oil pump
Roger Clark baffled sump
Port/polished cylinder heads
Lightweight pulley set
Run on Millers 10w 60 fully synthetic oil

MD321H hybrid turbo
Roger Clark GT spec equal length headers
Revolution performamce 3" Mid pipe
Revolution performance 4.5" slash cut back box

Scooby Clinic front mount intercooler
HKS mushroom air filter
Forge recirculating valve by RCM
Mocal 19 row front mounted oil cooler
850ml Oil catch can with breather fitted
Tufnol inlet spacer kit
Samco coolant hoses with 1.3 bar rad cap

Nismo 740cc injectors with adaptor kit by lateral performance
Uprated in tank Bosch fuel pump
Parallel fuel mod
Fuel lab Fuel pressure reg with gauge

5 speed dccd gearbox
Helix performance 6 puck paddle clutch kit
Motul racing gear oil

Motec M48 ECU
Magnecor competition HT leads
Knock link system fitted
DEFI, Oil Temp, Oil Pressure, Boost gauges with recorder

Carbon front strut brace
Alloy wishbones
Whiteline anti lift kit
Whiteline adjustable rear arb
White line solid drop links
Poly bushed throughout
Bilstein B16 PSS9 coil over suspension kit
Fast road geo set up
17x8 Rota Force alloys
215.45.17 Federal Rsr tyres
Rays lightweight wheel nuts

Prodrive Alcon 330mm big brake kit
Ferodo brake pads all round
Goodridge braided lines all round
AP racing 5.1 fluid

Car makes 405hp at 1.4/1.5 bar & is mapped by Bob Rawle















Now as for the upgrades I wanted abit more power so me and my good friend Banny & a few other lads discussed a few options & the following is what we came up with & I set about sourcing these parts ASAP

UPGRADES:

JDM 6 speed gearbox Pref DCCD
To run Redline or Titan gear oil
ACT or Exedy clutch kit

Garett GT30 billet with 0.63Ar
RCM rotated kit
Tial 44m external waste gate

RCM or K&N big cone air filter
To buy all necessary joining hoses etc

Alloy radiator with twin slim line fans
Cooling panel

2 pot Brembo rear callipers to replace Subaru 2 pots
Whiteline adjustable front arb
Rear 3 point strut brace
Underbody H brace
Rear diff brace

3 port boost solenoid to be sourced & fitted before mapping, yet to decide on a mapper of choice will be keeping the Motec ecu system but will be going mafless with anti lag / launch control, switchable maps and a few other options added in.

Now on the exterior looks car will be staying pretty much OE.

To be added are:
Black mud flaps
STI decals on fog covers
V-Limited front splitter
Maybe a grill in front of FMIC
May also give the front windows a slight tint

That seems to be pretty much it for now I will update when parts start arriving & when we get to work on this car.

The gearbox clutch turbo etc have been removed a few days ago so the fun part of countless hours searching/sourcing parts is on the go full effect.

bustaMOVEs

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Boom shack a lack.

Yellow R

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Hi bro, I thought I will join you guys on here with my own mini thread seing as I follow you boys with ur projects

ZaKv1

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LOVE IT!!!! looks badA$$$$$

Yellow R

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Thanks bro, just eager to get it all done now

bustaMOVEs

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Just don't be bringing any microwave scoops in here and you'll be fine.

Yellow R

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Dreep

Hanji spec.

Looks good. And I agree with the microwave scoops lol keep them away.

bustaMOVEs

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Just give me the blistiens, defis and headers and I'll give you a gori for a week

Yellow R

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Cheers Dreep

Busta you just keep her for two weeks bro I'm good with the defis haha

M2RTXhawkeye

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Very nice mate, and good list of mods too

Martin

Ste333

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that's a very tasty R indeed

Yellow R

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Cheers fellas glad you like it

Yellow R

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So on the way to shopping today I noticed a new graphics place local to me, I popped in had a chat with the chap & asked him to make me a set of STI fog light cover decals, after showing him the design on-line & colour I wanted they was done within 15mins and looked as they should well pleased

Also received delivery of my ZeroSports cooling panel today, along with a V-limited style STI splitter supplied by Aero D Auto or as some may know him under the name KAS35RSTI on here, good item with fast delivery highly recommended he supplies all models and designs so its bang on.





I received a phone call last night from a pal who has a JDM DCCD box available, So currently in the process of making a deal on that if all goes well I will have it at some point this week update to follow.

bustaMOVEs

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Nice, thought you sourced a dccd box?

banny sti

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Looks well bro, hope it comes together like a bo55

Yellow R

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Cheers bro not cutting no corners on this & will be using only the best parts, Thank you for ur help along the way

Yellow R

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Had ordered these two small items what I totally forgot about but a neighbour just gave them to me as I missed the delivery on them.

Locking aero bonnet catches, Supplied by Demon Tweeks
Polished coil pack cover, Supplied by Kelsport

bustaMOVEs

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Snap.

Yellow R

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Did you fit your ones bro, if so what tools required and how easy or difficult was it?

If it's difficult I will just get garage to fit them as wouldn't want to ruin the bonnet.

bustaMOVEs

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Havnt fitted mine yet, gonna do after after holiday some time.
I bought a dremel for it, I'm pretty confident of doing it myself tbh and also helps doing it on the carbon bonnet.

Yellow R

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A little update

Collected the 6 speed gearbox set up.

Gearbox has 77750 KMH so works out just over 48K Miles
Car has 54K Miles, So easy to remember for future reference

It is a JDM DCCD box from a 2004 Blobeye STI
It comes with the Suretrac front LSD

Package consisted off the following:

X1 Gearbox
X1 Prop shaft
X1 R180 3.9 rear diff
X1 Pair heavy duty front drive shafts
X1 Gear selector mechanism with gear ****
X1 Clutch cylinder
X1 Clutch fork & pin

I was told that you can run a 5 speed starter motor with 6 speed conversions, but then later came to understand in order to do this you need to keep a 5 speed flywheel,but I had a 6 speed flywheel so had to purchase a 6 speed starter motor.

I also ordered the uprated gear linkage bush kit from AS Performance what should arrive this week, & upon recommendation from a friend on order is Millers 75w 90 NT competition oil from OPIE-OILS

This stuff is also used in sequential boxes so should be more than good enough.

tweaks

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Nice and good spec

Tim

Maz

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Looking very nice. Hanji spec indeed.

User 21721

This is gonna be a beast!

Regards,

Subaru Collector 555.

Yellow R

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Cheers Tim

lol @ "Hanji" spec Maz, that will have a few people baffled.

Thanks Subaru Collector we do hope so.


Received the gearbox oil from Opie Oils.
Also received the Uprated gear linkage bush kit from Alyn, These bushes are Cnc machined from solid nylon & are designed to get rid of the play in the shifter, so it's a good simple mod if you want precise on point gear shifts.

I had some free time on my hands so I set about giving the rear diff a quick clean, I sprayed some Gunk degreaser on it & let it settle for around 15 minutes, I then simply wiped it down using every day household detol wet wipes.

I was surprised as to how good it started coming out with such simple cleaning method, if I spend an hour on it I could have it immaculate.
The Gunk stuff worked well, if any of you guys want to try it out then the name is Gunk green multi purpose degreaser and cleaner, and can be purchased from Halfords for only £6.99 a litre.

If you scroll up & look at my previous pictures you will see the difference.






Managed to source a GT3076R from John at Spool Motorsport Developments.

GT30 Billet
0.63 Hot side

John had this turbo available but was 0.82 exhaust housing which I did not require, So a Stainless steel V-Band fitment 0.63 exhaust housing was fitted pics below.

Yellow R

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Also have received delivery on my 260mm K&N filter with alloy trumpet supplied by Alley Motorsport superb service with fast delivery from these guys.

Along with 101mm Silicone connecting hose supplied by ASH Hoses.

bustaMOVEs

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Hanji raar

Yellow R

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Update:

Managed to get hold off a RCM rotated kit with a 44m Tial external waste gate, bonus being it has already been Ceramic coated.

It was supplied by Russell of BHP Developments or as some may know him on here under the user name Wuz, great guy everything was as described with rapid delivery well pleased & highly recommended him to any one!!

The downpipe is a 4 bolt fitment atm, where as my turbo is a V band so I have ordered a V band kit online & will be dropping the kit off to a local welders to get it changed, may also go for a screamer pipe but that is not final yet, will update with the results..

BIG FUD

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Very nice brother will look even better now u got race car bits on it from the b055

Hanjee.