Frayz's V7 Prodrive Edition Impreza STi - "The Bomber"

frayz · Post by **frayz** » Thu Aug 28, 2008 8:36 am

ScoobieWRX wrote:Frayz, all the polishing looks great. Nice attention to detail :thumb:

How did you do the throttle body? It looks nice and smooth and can only help the cause i suppose.

How come your KW's too so long, baring in mind you can buy those more or less anywhere. 14mth delivery date seems a bit OTT :lol:

Throttle body was just stripped down, sanded inside with some wet/dry. I removed a couple of imperfections in the casting and then polished it inc the throttle plate.

The KWs were deliverd and then deliverd wrong about 3 times and it took a 14 months of moaning at them to try and sort it out. Eventually we're there.

frayz · Post by **frayz** » Thu Aug 28, 2008 8:44 am

Got one of these little fellas on the way now too.

Tial 44mm V-band external wastegate

ScoobieWRX · Post by **ScoobieWRX** » Thu Aug 28, 2008 8:46 am

Fudge me what a nightmare on the KW's.

You have the patience of several saints as i would have told them to fudgeoff and refund my money a bloody long time ago.

Keep the pics and posts coming, i'm cataloging this as a 'How to' thread. Nice one Frayz

pablo · Post by **pablo** » Thu Aug 28, 2008 3:05 pm

Frayz.... your attention to detail and patience is outstanding fantastic job mate well done :thumb: . Just do me one favour... please don't ever look under our bonnet :sick:

Gerry H · Post by **Gerry H** » Thu Aug 28, 2008 9:09 pm

Function over form eh Pablo? My philosophy precisely

Wonder what Freud would make of Frayz's attention to detail

frayz · Post by **frayz** » Thu Aug 28, 2008 10:35 pm

Who's Freud? lol

frayz · Post by **frayz** » Fri Aug 29, 2008 12:26 am

Todays work...

Glass blasted the, thermostat outlet, water bridge and block pipes. These were then resprayed gloss black the same as they left the factory.

Also hot washed/degreased the oil filler and cambelt covers.

All came up rather spiffing too

frayz · Post by **frayz** » Fri Aug 29, 2008 8:46 pm

Todays progress...

Firstly, big thanks to Trails for dropping some parts off for me.

Firstly my KW's are finally here. They look awesome and i cant wait to get them on.

Mocom Phenolic manifold spacers

NGK Racing 8's (Sparkplugs) - Seemingly the most expensive plugs on gods earth lol!-

Shame that the pics are cak but i gave the car a wash today and also spent about 2 hours fully degreasing my engine bay as best i can. Lots more to be done here but at least its all dirt free now.

Heres the EJ207's current status. Waiting on my turbo kit till i can go much further now.

Had to laugh when i see this earlier.... what a car boot sale this would be

Scooby_RA · Post by **Scooby_RA** » Fri Aug 29, 2008 9:04 pm

Just tell me where and when the car boot sale will be held

frayz · Post by **frayz** » Sat Aug 30, 2008 6:23 pm

Spent some more time on the engine bay today guys.

Firstly, when cleaning yesterday i noticed there were some small rust bubbles on the brake servo. I made this worse pointing a jet wash at it lol.

Not happy with that i whipped it off the car in preparation to be bead blasted and repainted.

Heres the damage lol

With that out of the way i continued to clean in and about. Moving wires and generally tidying things in preparation for the new motor. I would like the new install to be as clean and clutter free as possible. Some new brackets will need to be made but unfortunately i cant make these until the motor is in and i know how much room i have to play with.

Took the oppotunity to relocate the alarm siren to the passenger side chassis rail as there was plenty of room down there that wasnt doing anything

Also had the chance to finally fit my towing strap to the front of the car. The FMIC does away with the stock towing eye so i had this made and will poke through a slot that i need to cut in the foglight cover. (Cheers Alyn :thumb:)

Test fitted the manifold and spacers to take some measurements etc