555 wrx sti

Post by **Stuart** » Fri Feb 01, 2013 11:22 am

Thanks buddy

I have plenty of solvent (legal I might add

) and loads of tools. Tried freeze spray with mixed results.......sure it will be fine (the car is being built for the Compact Cup series).

Harry · Post by **Harry** » Fri Feb 01, 2013 3:46 pm

Great thread and build Mike, out of curiosity what is the "RA Target Weight"

mikeb · Post by **mikeb** » Sun Feb 03, 2013 5:54 pm

well another saturday and more work on the old girl went alittle over the top with a fire wall i was doing found my old fire wall from the type r but was quite heavy.
and i still had quite a bit of ali sheet left over from doing the two flat floors in the golfs which was quite alot thinner.

so used the heavy one as a template the sheet was quite big didnt wont to cut it with the hand cutters as i would of bent up the other part of the sheet so decided to score it with a stanley knife and try and bend it and break on the line but as i bent it over it took on a shape i thought i could use removed the rear shelf put it up to the score line and drew round the shape of the rear shelf.

with a few test fits and a bit of trimming the end result was pretty good.

The reason for this is adding a swirl pot to the tank.

and then after all the work it gets fully covered

fitted a new illegal front plate as didnt really like the one stuck on the bonnet and its not really going to be used on the road everyday.

Then finally got a chance to give it a blast its obvious that i havent been in a turbo car for a long while as this felt ballistic and couldn't believe my old car had 450 hp so god nows what that would of felt like and then youve got logans and garys evo's which would of felt like you where going to the moon.

Post by **Ben** » Sun Feb 03, 2013 5:56 pm

Looks lovely chap .. for interest are you keeping the rear shelf in there?

RX7 · Post by **RX7** » Sun Feb 03, 2013 5:57 pm

Wow Mike, really good work and forgotten how nice yours looks with the blue and bronze colours.

Post by **Stuart** » Sun Feb 03, 2013 6:04 pm

Absolutely superb

So, so clean. You should be proud of that matey- well done.

Post by **Ben** » Sun Feb 03, 2013 6:06 pm

Really nice blue

mikeb · Post by **mikeb** » Sun Feb 03, 2013 8:04 pm

Ben wrote:Looks lovely chap .. for interest are you keeping the rear shelf in there?

Yes Ben interior is staying complete

Harry · Post by **Harry** » Sun Feb 03, 2013 11:15 pm

Think that might get a few people guessing when you go past, really great job

IWANT1 · Post by **IWANT1** » Thu Feb 07, 2013 10:43 am

Just had a another read where did you get your front and rear brake set up from?<o></o>
Was it just an eBay special or maybe a breakers?
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If you could keep an eye out for an intercooler kit too!<o></o>