Lock, Stock and four smoking tyres
 

Hi,

My car is a JDM classic, imported from the UK to Bulgaria in around 2009, bought by me in 2010, driven 250 miles before taken in for a rebuild in February 2012.
The goal of my project

is to build something like the Prodriverules car - best car I possibly can.
I have set my goal to complete the build in March 2014 and

so far I have built a:

-Bored forged piston and rods 2.1 bottom end (93mm pistons).
-Ported and polished heads.
- ZRP conrods
- 93mm Wossner forged pistons
- ACL race bearings
- Athena 1.1mm head gasket
- Rebuilt heads (possibly going high lift springs and aggressive cams)

I also sourced the following parts:

- custom top feed fuel rails
- 630cc Injectors
-Cosworth oil pump
-Brembo 18Z 6 piston front brake calipers of a Cayenne
-Brembo E38 Brembo 4 piston calipers for the rear.
-Six speed conversion kit (box, prop, cradle, shifter, fork, diff, rear driveshafts, non DCCD from an early bug) from Scott@ scoobyspares (Cheers mate!!!)
With the most expensive part out of the way it is time to get the real cool stuff fabricated and the custom work to begin.

Did the following work:
-Adjusted my front bumper to fit a FMIC
- Got a full respray in Mica blue from the current Subaru color range.

I need your help in several regards:

- choosing a turbo (I was thinking of going twin scroll for faster spool, equal length collector and straight pipe), I prefer a turbo with an internal waste gate and am aiming for about 430 crank HP and close to that torque.

- Choosing an ECU (FC Commander is my current choice as I will attempt to destroy, pardon me, tune the car myself and it has a base map to start with.

- and general opinions. Please let me know what you would suggest and if you see something wrong please go ahead.

The muddy H6 you see is my daily driver. I love this car as much as, if not even more then I love my Impreza. The colour of the Impreza is in a ****ty Iphone, no HDR photo and the car is dirty.
UPG, if you are asking, is a name of a shop here, they sold me the parts you see with a big discount, so I plug them in on photos out of courtesy, I hope no one minds.
Brake setup.

1 more question, I would really like to have a hydraulic handbrake (rally style)
but I read a lot of bad choo-choo might happen to the center diff.
Has any one tried it with a positive outcome, any solutions apart from buying a 10000 gbp rally diff?

some more photos

check out my custom 1 off fuel rails. Myself at the last one.

I have been toying with the idea of a GT3071r twin scroll, equal length manifold recently, in order to get early spool and not turn it into a drag car, while going for 430 ish horsepower on standard gasoline. Not a big fan of the methanol fuel, or racing fuels because in my opinion they take away from a car's drivability.

Any thoughts?

I love my twinscroll set up I must be honest, I'm running an LM450, if looking to go twinscroll then may I suggest buying original manifold, even the top companies out there have openly admitted that the OE stuff is pretty hard to beat, I have also been looking at a gt35r twinscroll from the states, looks a real good bit of kit.

I do have a set of later type twinscroll manifolds off a hatch / legacy which I bought as a renewal for my set as they started blowing on the flexi and on one of the head flanges, but they won't fit my turbo flange :( they are mint and still in the original heat shields along with the uppipe

Thought I'd mention it ;)

Thanks for the mention, but I will go for a full custom piece with an American twin scroll. how about an ECU solution. I do live 1.5 k miles from the UK, mind you...

Update time.
I got another delivery recently.

Whiteline:
- Adjustable strut braces front and rear;
- Under chassis brace ( the 4 point one);
- 24mm adjustable rear sway bar;
- rear billet swaybar mounts + polybushes (according to whiteline the stocks would just snap if I got the 24mm mounted on them);
- billet polybushed front and rear droplinks.
- Steering bolts and endlink kit.
Stuff ordered, but not yet in the garage:
- TEIN FLEX S TYPES
- Cusco engine and gearbox mounts.
- front swaybar bushes
- steering rack bushes
- Mishimoto aluminium radiator
- Mishimoto FMIC
- 355mm front discs
- 316mm rears
Oh, and there is a picture of me and a mate holding the mother of all brake calipers.

Almost forgot. I am also waiting on a local polyurethane bushings company to take my freshly repainted metal chassis parts in order to develop their bushings for the GC and the 6 speed conversion on it.
A bit of theory: I got the 24mm rear swaybar to compensate for the understeer caused by the SURETRACK up front since I have an early, short ratio box without DCCD. has anyone had any experience with such a setup?

OK, not sure if anyone reads this, but anyway... Progress.
Mishimoto cooling kit - FMIC, Aluminium radiator, cap, oil cooler.
Cusco - solid engine and transmission mounts + a genuine sti gearbox thingy...
TEIN FLEX coilover kit,SKF wheel bearings TRW rear disks.
The custom rails and the 1000cc injectors are sort of ON - ish.
Polybushed the whole car (did not expect 20 year old bushings to be such a b*tch to take out, mounted the R180, the Whiteline rear 24mm sway bar, the sway bar mounts.
Did some custom strengthening on the underside and polished all my bolts and nuts :D
Mounted the propshaft as well so it definitely looks like it is coming together.
As a friend of mine likes to say - " When your ratchet starts spinning clockwise you are going in the right direction. I might have mentioned before but when we painted the car it had no rust at all but we stone chipped it with a 3M material on the underside and I now have to go through each bolt thread to clear them which is seriously boring but well worth it. I will get some more pictures later tonight since this is my lunch break.

Here goes: rear Whiteline
http://s1332.photobucket.com/user/Al...b4345.jpg.html

Mishimoto black FMIC:
http://s1332.photobucket.com/user/Al...tml?sort=3&o=1

Just for the posh factor:
http://s1332.photobucket.com/user/Al...tml?sort=3&o=2
The collection of parts is getting bigger and bigger. The good thing is that more and more parts are going from the garage floor to the car:
http://s1332.photobucket.com/user/Al...tml?sort=3&o=3
http://s1332.photobucket.com/user/Al...tml?sort=3&o=4
http://s1332.photobucket.com/user/Al...tml?sort=3&o=5

You know you're in trouble when your bedroom looks like this:
http://s1332.photobucket.com/user/Al...tml?sort=3&o=6
Can you guess what these wheels are?
http://s1332.photobucket.com/user/Al...tml?sort=3&o=7
Oh and a local company used my car as an R&D car for a GC bush kit. I enjoyed it although they acted a lot as if they were doing me a favor and were very much into correct measurements at first. But as time progressed I found a way to talk to them and it was fine.

Just to give you an idea of what a cusco looks like next to a stock 6 speed mount:
http://s1332.photobucket.com/user/Al...ml?sort=3&o=11
http://s1332.photobucket.com/user/Al...ml?sort=3&o=12

Oh and there they are:
Fresh from the land of the rising sun.
http://s1332.photobucket.com/user/Al...ml?sort=3&o=13

I am obviously dumber than I seem. here is a link to the photobucket because they simply cannot be uploaded properly.

Nice work so far, you and your homi sure are ugly pair of mofo's.:lol1:

:D

true, the world has seen prettier gents, but that does not compromise the cars we put together.
:D

Looks a really nice spec build this, nice work :-) looking forward to seeing it progress

http://s1332.photobucket.com/user/Al...88ec3.jpg.html

Here is the last of the Whitelines for now... Steering rack bushings and front sway bar bushings. Hopefully it will all come together soon enough :D

Good stuff, I should of had the steering rack bushes on mine by now but damn them for being two sizes! Just going to get both and return whichever ones I'm left with.

By the way you mentioned your not sure if anyone reads your updates.. don't worry people will be, keep going! :-)

Courtesy of my girlfriend I got a couple of SKF rear bearings and TRW rear disks.
Do you all see the images when I upload them from photobucket?
Also I have development on the Turbo side of things. I decided to go with a twinscroll TD05 from an EVO IX. Since I am going for a fun car, not a dyno queen and no more than 400whp I am confident this will be enough. The car is not too heavy and I was very much into keeping the original EJ20G since to me this is the essence of tuning a car. I will look for more displacement in the future, perhaps with the daily or something else.
We have looked into many aftermarket turbo developers and the prices do not seem all that steep. I will be keeping my TD05 16G for when my girlfriend gets a WRX.

Courtesy of my girlfriend I got a couple of SKF rear bearings and TRW rear disks.
Do you all see the images when I upload them from photobucket?
Also I have development on the Turbo side of things. I decided to go with a twinscroll TD05 from an EVO IX. Since I am going for a fun car, not a dyno queen and no more than 400whp I am confident this will be enough. The car is not too heavy and I was very much into keeping the original EJ20G since to me this is the essence of tuning a car. I will look for more displacement in the future, perhaps with the daily or something else.
We have looked into many aftermarket turbo developers and the prices do not seem all that steep. I will be keeping my TD05 16G for when my girlfriend gets a WRX.

http://s1332.photobucket.com/user/Al...tml?sort=3&o=1
Crappy Iphone. I need to get my camera in the garage.

I still have not taken them to the garage to see if they fit but here goes my theory and how I chose these:
Whiteline is an Australian company, Australia has the steering wheel on the right side so they would place the ones for their market first of the two in their catalogue. I also have a RH steering wheel since my car originally came from Japan. Thus I went for the 1st in the order of appearance.

Last night I managed to find a few spare seconds and decided tht it is time for my steering rack to go on. I had previously promised that none of the gunk will go back on the car, so with the help of my beautiful girlfriend we started diving it a cleanup. Once we got that done we started getting it dirty again by applying the Whiteline grease. I could not resist the "Whiteline flatout" sticker :nono: . But I guess I am a chav...
http://s1332.photobucket.com/user/Al...fb8cf.jpg.html

Bulgarian polybushes and the Australian ones:
http://s1332.photobucket.com/user/Al...42faf.jpg.html
I am sorry but these are simply pornographic:
http://s1332.photobucket.com/user/Al...b4345.jpg.html

All cleaned up. The only thing I dislike about Whiteline is that they simply do not put enough washers. I had to dig into the piles of washers to find the right size:
http://s1332.photobucket.com/user/Al...b8797.jpg.html

I did a bit of welding and repeated the welds on the rear end where the diff mounts. sort of a strengthening thing...

http://s1332.photobucket.com/user/Al...f6e73.jpg.html

Please note that the nuts are temporary. They are going to be substituted by proper Subaru ones. BTW the threads needed to be longer, so a W124 Diesel
head bolt or two were hacked. Pretty strong.


Aaaand yes, I am a whore for polishing bolts.

http://s1332.photobucket.com/user/Al...af137.jpg.html

You need need to check your picture links mate"?".SJ.

Testing the image upload...
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