Well here we go for an other thread.

Bought a 1995 WRX RA a few months ago and with the intensions of just keeping it the way it was but like most of my other impreza's iv decided to do it right this time rather than the faffing about i usually do.

I got it weight on sunday and the starting weight is 1248kg and that with a full tank of fuel. The car has no central locking,keep fit windows and for some unknown reason a steel bonnet which it should have a alu bonnet as its an RA. so as it stands its a pritty basic impreza hence the reason i bought it as there was no point in buying a top spec impreza to just rip it all out.

It's going to be road legal but with the intensions of seeing more track than road.

The car as it stands just now is:

equal lenth headers.
straight through de-cat wolfrace exhaust.
Black 16" speedline ST 2
green cottom filter

and thats pritty much it. started stripping it sunday night including all the AC,interior etc.

well here are some pics of how it stands












well decided to start getting all the paint stripped from both calipers. Also need to ordered some 330mm godspeed 2 piece bells and disc's with bluestuff pads.


Once all the paint is off they will be getting sprayied Black with the prodrive section in white.


As i got them



First coats stripped off





Thefirst hoop in which was a pain in the *** as we had to take 55mm off each side.




Rear top mount plates



Windscreen bar






barrys ugly puss





barry managed to get the dash bar in, so more updates tomorrow.


Todays progress








Dash mocked up ready for flocking

 

looking good so far

 

Good so far, reminds me of my build

 

good progress

 

more pics from barry (mk1cos) of my cage

 

real nice job on that cage.

 

yeah barry is doing a cracking job HIGHLY RECOMMENDED

 

Is that your rotated manifold getting mocked up in one of the pics?

 

well i recieved a couple of parcel's today and things are comes along nicely.

The cage is now complete and its a cracking job Thanks barry highly recommended. Everything has been sent to custom cages to get FIA approved and get the certificate.

Also waiting on the inside of the car getting painted which should hopfully be this week then iv got the task of trying to remember where everything gets connected and then fit and adjust the suspension to suit.

Dash was done by suffolk flocking services.

 

looks more like a rally car to me! very nice build. give the welder my thumbs up a super bit of workmanship there.

 

Pisses me off when i see people with skills doing something i'd love to do. Grand job, sure this is gonna be a cracker!

 

Car is all preped up hopfully it will be getting primed and painted by friday then it shall be delivered up to my unit then il start the build up.

Should be fun :roll:

 

cracking job on that cage,keep up the good work.

 

Nice workmanship there ,good stuff

 

Well its been a while since iv updated this so il keep you up to date in whats been happening.

I attended TS track night on thurday after the car sitting about for a few months, finally blow the dust off it and after a few laps relaised the brakes werent upto much altho they are a decent set up just not for a full nights track abuse.

So i decided the following day to buy some decent brakes so i got the Ksport 8 pot 330mm set up and after some thought and iv heard good storys so i went for the Carbotech XP10 pads altho there bloody expensive (nearly £300 a set). Thanks to MIC @ wallace performance for getting the pads quick time.





while i had all the brakes out i check over the master cylinder as every trackday i attended i kept on having to top up the brake fluid so after stripping it out i found this.




So i order a new master cylinder and fitted it and job is a good yin.

Also fitted a new uprated walbro fuel pump while i felt flush

 

Am I right in saying that the new K-Sport kit fits behind your 16" wheels?

 

Be looking for tips, goodluck mate

 

Jenkins : No these are the 17" ST2 which i had lying about, I wish they did fit behind the 16's tho

 

Now that I've looked closer, I can see that they're 17's. Shame they dont go behind the 16" wheels though...

 

Thanks for the comments guys.

Small update

Just waiting on YOKOHAMA AD08 tyres coming from camskill.

pic from my lastest track day from 15th Sept trackscotland (knockhill)

 

Did I read that the AD08 cant be sold over here on their own (ie not on a car or wheels) for some reason?

 

**** i hope not and camskill havent advised of any issues.

Thanks for the shout il phone in the morning and find out.