POS Subaru

Figured the heat has died down from nasioc and it’s ok to post this stuff again.

Won’t dig into past details too much, you know the car. Gist of the old stuff

-2002 WRX
-Dumpy frankenstein shell. Parts from 4-5 other cars including doors, subframes, decklid/hood/spoiler/glass, etc, etc
-Eg33 3.3L flat six, '05 Sti six speed, R180
-Dccd Pro
-WRX brakes machined to fit STi hubs(to clear rally wheels)
-TD Pro Rally 15x7’s
-Hydro handbrake, center diff disrupt circuit
-Sti springs on AGX’s
-Misc suspension bits(bushings, sway ends, etc, etc

yaddy yaddy yada

Took the car to some RX events, proceeded to destroy GpN engine mounts and a strut mount, car then sat in the weeds for a month while I gathered some parts.

Decided to tackle a few issues at once and set the car up as an RX machine for the remainder of the season, and some ice racing this coming winter.

Car had an annoying and track time killing fuel surge issue. Decided to rip the entire fuel system off the car and replace it with a full cell, surge tank setup, full AN, and twin pumps(lift and pressure).

Started first by cutting the rear trunk floor out and fabbing a new floor and rear bulkhead, as well as capping every damn hole in the rear decklid.

Next, the cell. No company offered a pre-fabbed cell to fit the location I wanted and maintain a decent fuel capacity(~15gal+), so I built an aluminum shell and contacted ATL to make me a bladder to fit inside with a black box for the intake lift pump(stock WRX pump). Built a fuel sending unit/filler neck for the cell, as well as a fuel anti-surge tank. All mounted in the trunk, with a little “cage” reinforcement, space ventilation blower(bilge shit), and all the fuel pump/filter junk.

Small container to the right is the rear differential breather tank, because last RX event result in water entering the diff’s stock breather cap.

Up front I tackled a few things as well. Rewired some connections on the motor harness, new battery(red top), moved PS/front diff catch tank to a new mount off left tower. Built a completely new baffled and heated air/oil separator for the EG33. Wrapped the intake in gold foil to keep IAT’s down(shit runs hot). Changed out oil cooler to higher flow Mocal unit.

Radiator modified for 50mm pump inlet and welded and inline thermostat housing up on the top tank to pull the thermo out of the pump and reduce pump cavitation above 5500rpm(big issue on this motor).

Inside got a little treatment too. Wiring was a mess and I was embarrassed to say it was my car. Typical of testing and shit when doing a swap like this on the unknown, but needed to be finalized and cleaned up. So I took a little initiative from Steve’s 240 and rewired everything to a central circuit setup with all fuses and major relays in one location. Made a quick and dirty center console from sheet AL and mounted is all to that, as well as a central batt kill for good measure just incase.

Since the car has no radio gear of any kind, I took that spot and made a switch panel that controls the fuel pumps, blowers/coolsuit, and soon to be fog pod, as well as my center diff controls.

Also removed the stock cluster because it completely shit the bed and instead of going to typical route I installed a neat little gauge setup instead off my steering column. Displays tach w/ digital speedo, fuel oil and coolant temps, oil pressure(dummy light) CEL, directionals, high beam, two-stage shift light, and speed limit(a warning feature for lead footers like me). Also records 0-xxxx speed(I have 0-60mph set), 1/8,1/4, etc mile times, top speed, and has an input for a lap timer. It’s a bike thing, and was cheap.

I also recently added a functional roof scoop to force air into the car, RX/rally requires windows up unlike most track events and it get fuggin hot in the car. Added to this feature, I installed another filtered blower that feeds air from the scoop into my cool suit ice box and also into my forced air helmet. Works the nuts!

Also not shown, because I haven’t quite finished mounting them, are my new Wilwood front brakes for the car. Dynalites from Mike(mafdark) made to fit my WRX. I’m going to CNC the brackets I designed tomorrow to fit the calipers to my car and clear my rally wheels. Thanks to Mike for stupid cheap Wilwoods :thumbup

Oh and a shot of the skid plate up front right before it took a few heavy nose shots at the last RX. 1/4" 6061 convering everything back to the front diff housing. Had to form this in the 100 ton press but it does the job of keeping shit in one piece quite nicely. Too bad it weighs more than the entire front crash bar it’s mounted to, about 65lbs

Oh and thanks Cossey for my cars’ newest addition. Found a good home for ti on top of the ebrake :smiley:

Ok that’s it for this edition of stupid shit for subarus. Will post more later.

fuel cell is tits!

Nice Koso gauge, did considered getting one for my sv but too expensive…:’(

$318 is what I paid IIRC. They had a model with a tach that went to 9 or 10K for a bit more. Would have been easier to read, but I don’t look at the tach anyway so the $120 price hike wasn’t worth it.

Had to CNC a special hub ring out of 7075 to make a flying trigger for the damn speedo pickup, but otherwise a nice kit for the money.

thought this was a for sale thread for some reason and i was frantically looking for a price :rofl :rofl

this car is sweet, post up videos of it!!!

NICE WORK BRO, SHITS SICK.

wow this has come a long way since when i saw it at the ihop endless pancake meet in cp :thumbup

Junk

This thread needs moar sound clips
Awesome work under the hood…looks real serious

junk , the shifter looks like a dildo . what happened to the other build ya were tellin me about ??? that was a good one

I love the whole hand brake and center diff controls, awesome!

:wierd

looking good. What is the floor made from and what diameter tubing did you use for your front bumper bit?

i has sound clip
sorry its photobucket
http://i168.photobucket.com/albums/u166/cjrusso/th_MVI_0442.jpg

I love this car.

Cool car. Has a whole lot of shit i have no idea what it is or what its for, but i dig it.

says the honda guy! :lol

Haha. Car deff has a lot going on.

Thanks guys. it’s been a royal PITA type of car with the stupid crap that has happened with it but it’s super fun to drive and beat the living hell out of off road.

Mike, floor is 16 gauge sheet steel, bead rolled in pattern for stiffness. Front tubing on my rally bar/subframe is 1.75x.095 wall.

Lots of bits yes but just an over glorified wrx in the grand scheme of things.

THAT build will be started in early Nov :slight_smile: I’ll send you a partial CAD to jerk over with Carmine and Brian :lol

not too shabby