Birchy's 2Door Hawkeye by MBDevelopments
 

Time to show off the work going into the new car for this year from the awesome guys at MB Developments.

Quick round up of where we are;


The car is a 2005 Impreza Hawkeye sporting a ABW Design 2door kit and built by MBDevelopments
The shell is stripped of all weight front to rear, Seam welded top to bottom with tubbed arches. We have a ridiculous amount of time is building and prepping the shell ready for this season.

And really for now we'll let the pictures do the talking.

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Front end mock up:
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Engine Tease:
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I'll try and keep this updated in the run up to my first event of the season.

Very nice. Gonna be lovely this.

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Serious amount of time put into that.

Whoa.. didn't expect this James!

Was the black Blobeye ever recovered or was the payout used to fund this? :D

No one did Kosta, Kept it very quiet but with 8 weeks until the first event of the season no one has the time to copy it now.

Never recovered unfortunately so a mixture of insurance payout, bit of my own money and a lot of help to get this one going. Fingers crossed it should perform well.

Definitely putting your money where you mouth is dude. Very much looking forward to seeing this in action.

Shame about the black blob, but clearly it's allowed you to step it up a notch.

Into Class 3 you go then!

So I am, itching to get back behind the wheel. Fingers crossed it will be finished on time but will be tight.

Lessons learnt from the last one really along with proving what I can do gives everyone a bit more faith.

Yeah for the 22B series it does mean S3 going head to head with Matty but its built to mix it up with the Barrel Sprint and hopefully make a mark at Gymkhana Grid this year too.

Compared to me plotting what feels like big mods like an exhaust this just puts it all into perspective! massive project...good work!

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WRXagon, It all starts somewhere, This is my third time doing a build and they get bigger every time!

Small update from today's visit down to MB. Car now has a small push bar at the front to secure the front bumper and protect the rad/inter cooler from any barrels that shes drawn into. Forgot to take any pictures though. Off for cage this week though :)

Great work so far, I'll be following with interest.

Good luck with the build :thumb:

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Yum :norty:

Quick update, Seam welding has finished and there is now some paint and under seal on the underneath.

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Also its got a small feature on Fueltopia Barrel Sprint which is one of the championships I'll be competing in this year.

http://fueltopiabarrelsprint.com/rise-of-the-hawkeye/

Its coming on nice and some right time prepping that baby will be a great season ahead.


As always matty and the lads working there magic.

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looking good, no doubt he's gonna need some "BOSS" brakes on that car...........:thumb:

Cheers fud. They've put some real hours into it.

I've just seen a quick picture of what is been coined mad max and it looks serious now with the cage installed. I'll get some more pictures next week to give the full update on progress.

Rise of the hawkeye updates.

Car is almost ready to go to paint.

Its now on the correct subframes with the suspension and brakes built up and has all the mounts in place for things we need to mount such as lights and intercoolers etc. Seat frames are placed along with the cage and hydro take off points. Diffuser is mounted in and bumpers cut along with our newly dissected abw panels after we came to the conclusion that we didn't need the inner section on any of the panels to save some more weight. Pumps, fuel tank and swirl system are in place ready for the lines to be made up. We've assembled a large portion of the parts we need so as soon as it is back from paint we can start the assembly although as always there is still more to buy. Fingers crossed it should come together extremely quickly once painted. Our daily wheels have arrived although are currently under wraps until we get some rubber on them and will be fitted once its back from paint.

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WOW.

Thanks :thumb:

^^^^exactly, that one serious front end:thumb::thumb:

Well, its off to paint currently so no real update but should be back soon for final assembly/modifications to start!

Sneaky picture from earlier in the week ........




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Looking good Birchy lad can't wait to see how this performs.

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Seen this in the flesh and the colour looks amazing, really suits the car!!!:luvlove:

Neither can I Darren!

I really can't wait to drive it!

Colour was a last minute change as I couldn't get the correct colour code for the original colour I wanted!

Saw this beast in the flesh today.

The picture does not do it justice, it is simply awesome..... :thumb::thumb::thumb::thumb: