Tigerfill's random cage questions

[blacky]

PS. if you haven't already, get a baffled sump in your Impreza and a oil pressure gauage with a warning!!

[warboys]

Good advice, buying a car already done is the most sense economically as they never cost what they have swallowed, trust me!

Have a look in the back of Motoring News for good affordable rally cars.

[Tigerfill]

Good tip I will grab one and have a look;-).
What is a good sport to compete in my budget will be around

[mikeb]

If you go with the omp cage that i fitted to both my imprezas they go through the dash so it has to come out.

you can just cut the corner out where the air vents are and you have to butcher the big dash bar because the omp cage rest against it.

Gerry had the safety devices one alot easyer to fit.

mike

[blacky]

Phil, sounds like sprintings a good one for that budget, come join the fun! Have a look in the sprinting section for more info on costs and equipment required.

And as Mike says, Safety Devices is a better cage than the OMP.

[Tigerfill]

thanks guys:o

[Andy916]

Baffled sump good idea as Logan says. I may have a line on affordable ones via a local fabricator friend of a friend, as I need one too. Oil pressure warning is tricky, cos it can be just a brief half a bar drop but it drops much more than that when down to idle. Can only see it reliably if you're logging or have passenger looking continuously at gauge. Gauge damping can hide the brief drop (Prosports are ok, and cheap).

Also, re-route breathers to catch can. At higher boost especially, the standard breathers can dump oil into the inlet, not good.

Fuel surge - run above 3/4 tankful or spend a few 100 on a swirlpot setup...

Det - get Gerry to sell you a detalarm with remote LEDs. Are you coming along to Snett on Weds pm (autotest evening)? I'll be along in my STi6.

What mods does your STi have already?

Andy

[Tigerfill]

Baffled sump good idea as Logan says. I may have a line on affordable ones via a local fabricator friend of a friend, as I need one too. Oil pressure warning is tricky, cos it can be just a brief half a bar drop but it drops much more than that when down to idle. Can only see it reliably if you're logging or have passenger looking continuously at gauge. Gauge damping can hide the brief drop (Prosports are ok, and cheap).

Also, re-route breathers to catch can. At higher boost especially, the standard breathers can dump oil into the inlet, not good.

Fuel surge - run above 3/4 tankful or spend a few 100 on a swirlpot setup...

Det - get Gerry to sell you a detalarm with remote LEDs. Are you coming along to Snett on Weds pm (autotest evening)? I'll be along in my STi6.

What mods does your STi have already?

Andy

Hi Andy yes I will be along on Wednesday I'm in the black sti, looking forward to it:driving: .first time doing a autotest if I'm honest, I'm excited/nervous already:smilielol5:

I could be up for the sump, I also have a friend who's looking in to make me one, I have given him some pic's and I'm waiting for him to get back to me:o let me know if you want me to bring some pic's over for you

mods that I can think of at the mo

24mm rear arb with drop links f&r
sti suspension and hks coilovers although no fitted at the mo as one of the rears is shot
4 pots on the front and 1pot on the rear ferodo ds2500 pads and uprated discs f&r
prosport stepper gauges
engine:
fully forged bottom end
recon 98 heads
cosworth head gaskets
uprated oil pump
ap clutch
550cc injectors
fuel lab reg
walbro255 pump
v35
k&n with cold air feed
vta turbo smart dv
simtek with antilag/lc
fmic
running 330bhp 301flbs with no det rev limit set to 7000

Catch can in the pipe line

Also I will look into the fuel surge, do impreza's suffer a lot with fuel surge? I don't know much about swirl pots I will investigate

Thanks Phil

[pablo]

Phil, if you grab me or Bart (Alan) on wednesday we can let you know all about Time Attack. Can't miss us we'll be the guys with the sierra queing for the auto test:driving:

[Andy916]

Phil - we have similar spec, although I've just switched to an MD321H turbo. I'll bring it along on Weds. Blue version 6, STi RA Limited.

Andy