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Hi guys, I've had a project going on for about a year now and it all stemmed from a 05 sti shell that i got free off a very kind gentleman on here (redwards), he broke the car in late 2012 as it had been involved in and accident with the previous owner.
By the time i had noticed the shell was to go, most of the parts had been sold. I contacted rich and arranged to pick the shell up and buy the parts he had left as i wanted to restore it.
This is how it looked


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Let me tell you it was a challenge getting it on the trailer, and getting it back off...

I had an 03 wrx with a knackerd engine so i used the front pannels to repair this one, sorry no picks of the work happening but this was a few weeks later



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I also sourced some widetrack suspension struts and hubs and lateral link arms from impreza breaker norwich for very good price.

Prior to getting the shell i bought a ej20cdb for a big power build, stripped it down and bought some internals for it



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Poor quality pics i know but all from my phone.
Im using v9 sti crank also and jdm avcs heads. So i got these goodies up to alyn at AS performance for the machining and assembly.

So while thats the engine taken care of i started messing with the car again. I fitted the interior (black carpet as im not keen on blue)



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Gearbox, rear diff, prop, driveshafts, and brembo's fitted



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Bought some goodies



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excitement building. Meanwhile alyn is building the block, refreshed my heads and andrew carr has flashed a mafless run in map on the ecu and wired in the switches for launch control and antilag =-O.

Bought a ebay special fmic (apparently same as japspeed?) and got it fitted



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I struggled to find genuine rear arch extensions so i bought a pair from ebay, seem to fit ok



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Since then the car has been outside AS performance and alyn has fitted the engine but we had problems with rotated kit so build came to a stop before christmas.

Il update when i get time

Cheers guys
Gary ;-)

Looking good mate, good luck

You've got to get your pics bigger mate. Use photobucket with links rather than attachments. We all want to see nice big pics of new toys :)

Looks good Gary and as above use Photobucket :thumb:

Good luck with the project,I would suspect you will make little bit more than 500BHP on yours spec if you will add meth ;)


Jura

Cheers guys, a lot of work gone into it. Il give the photobucket thing a try when i get some free time.

Im hoping the car will make around 550bhp, just remembered my fuel system consists of lateral flowed 850 injectors, walbro 450 from ASperformance and fuel lab fpr

I just picked up a us spec 05 sti shell came about the same as yours. Im happy to see you guys restoring the cars that are being parted out over there. Id love to be able to snag up parts as readily available as youve got there. good luck with the build