Tidgy

unless it clips in place or summit yeah all show and no go

'Flexi' strut brace,,,,,,

25 DOA then

haha cool, wish i could justify the sort of money they are on a pure toy :(

raspy will be more exhaust i would have though?

anyone else spotted the problem with that?

Don't think they are a specific limit edition, they just never made many of them. on hawks difference was heated leather seats and sunroof and that was it

oo, hello chicken,

pre soda blast post soda blast extra bits holy cow. thats a long post hahaha

Thought was about time I started a build thread hahaha Shall start with a bit of background about the car. It's a 1998 Version 5 WRX STI Type R. It was imported in dec 2010 by SVA imports with 63k miles on the clock. It was sold in April 2011 and the new owner had a full 330mm AP 4 pot front kit fitted and rear new age brembo setup added. Was sold on to Hurst performance over at Bedford in 2014 and i bought the car back end of October 2014. Was fairly cheap and was known to need a full service (inc cambelt) After picking up the car i headed straight up to scoobyclinic for them to give it a once over and a dyno session Few issues were found. Both rocker covers were starting to leak and the rear crank seal had developed a leak. So after coming to an agreement with hurst it was left with clinic for a couple of weeks to sort out the rocker covers, rear crank seal and do a full service. The better news was that while the car had never been under-sealed, there was no signs of rust at all and the chassis was in near perfect condition. Arches were solid with no signs of rust. The other disappointment was it was way down on power and down on boost, was running about 0.9 bar and about 240bhp. AFR was fine and no det was detected so was running ok in general. When scoobyclinic dropped the gearbox to do the crank seal they also found the clutch was worn down to the botls, so it ended up having a new clutch as well. Two weeks later i picked it up. Hadn't planned to do much for a few months to let the bank balance recover but i got wind of a mate selling some of the bits from his car and was too good to miss. I managed to get, Gt spec gen 2 headers Harvey smith up pipe Walbrough 300 fuel pump Syvecs S6 Full race spec scr decat spares anyone? lol These were all fitted and car was strapped to the dyno and mapped. As per before the power level was low, 290bhp even with the syvecs, headers and decat. After some head scratching issue was put down as a possibly the turbo getting a bit tired after 104k miles. AFR was fine and no sign of det so was left at that. Drove allot better and sounded a whole let better. Few weeks later was decided to try a new turbo and see what it did. Dropped the car off sat ready for the upgrade during the week, but Monday morning comes and the dreaded phone call. The mechanic had heard a rattle from the crank when he fired it up form cold, they gave it more of a look Monday and sure enough at 2k rpm you could hear it. Over the next couple of weeks went through options and costs to decide best route. Was left with a few options depending on how bad the internal damage was. Engine was stripped and report came back with mixed results, Crank bearings worn down to copper Crank slightly market (should polish out, if not crank scrap. never machine a subaru crank) Valves work Valve seats worn 3 thou Taper on cylinder 1 and 3, way outside tolerance Block would be salvageable, but wall thickness would limit power/boost to about 350bhp so was decided to change that, new valves and then reface the valve seats will allow them to be reused with no issues. Given the damage there were a whole heap of options, 1. machine the block, refresh the heads, fit and leave it under 350bhp. 2. supply a 2.0 block, refresh heads and rebuild for up to about 400bhp 3. supply a 2.0 block, add a 2.1 stroker kit for up to about 450bhp 4. supply a 2.0 semi closed deck block, 2.1 stroker for around 500bhp 5. supply a 2.0 closed deck block, 2.1 stroker kit for over 550-600bhp 6. supply a 2.5 block, forged pistons, uprated rods and limit it to about 450bhp 7. supply a 2.5 block, convert to closed deck and allow for 550-600bhp. Most options were sacked off pretty quick, semi closed deck are hard to find unless you buy a full engine, don't wan't to limit power to under 400 so got rid of 1,2,4 straight away. Originally i managed to source a 2.0cdb for decent money, but a slight mix up ment it was sold before i actualy got it. This made me lean towards a forged 2.5. I'd had one in my old Hawk wrx and even on low boost it made a really quick car and the low down grunt of the 2.5 made it great on the road My original goal had been 500+, but given the limits of the 2,5 i knew that wasn't going to be a safe working limit but i was happy with that. After a couple more weeks i changed my mind again (sorry kev up at clinic haha) and the final choice was made to go with a CDB 2.5. And that brings us right up to when i type this, as of saturday, popped up to see what was what (bear in mind only decided to go 2.5 cdb last wednesday) and this was sat on the bench. Went into the soda blaster, so block has been cleaned and is ready (if not already gone off) the machiners for CDB converting, couple of others pics of bits and bobs Pics below due to hitting limit

get it fitted mate, makes a big difference

should make a big improvment

knowing what i know about the names on the dyno sheet i sugest get it look at else where, unless im refering to a none related grpah that is

only know some stuff dude, typicly stuff i;ve had done with my own car or asked the true experts about :)

TBH i doubt the mapper would have a clue

chips away are a franchise place, so depends on if the local place is any good. I used them for a dent/scratch on my old metalic black astra years ago, did a mega job, couldn't even see it once done. Was a proper old boy so i bet he's retired by now lol

Need to make sure comparing apples with apples, what is and isnt included

Done this event a couple of times, managed to overshoot the runway one time round hahahaha

holy cow, thats gonna be an ear bleeder lol

Could have droped the crank, need to get it tona specialist to diagnose

Hahaha, mahl and manley :-)

type r is single scroll, so no twin scroll to keep :) combined with sc46+ there is little to no reasons for the extra expence of twin scroll, this was my old hawk 2.5 given its got uprated headers and up pipe, which that didnt, should hopefully pull the spool lower even more :D

you sure they can code it? getting the balnks is pretty easy, loads of them on ebay or even import ones as above.

bad news is pretty much dealer is only option on the newer keys :( older keys are much easier, my type r doesnt even have a factory chip on it hence having a full cat 1 alram. Thimpsons told me they can't do them and got same result from few different places, ended up biting the bullet in the end and going via subaru, i only paid £175 inc coding due to them doing an offer on an open day. But given what they are its pretty fookin cheeky