WRX Turbo Notch gone balls deep with the Porsche bits again

[Wilfred]

Did it actually leak?

Is there too much power for the box to handle?
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1973 BayWindow running 1.9 110 bhp TDI with flipped gearbox.

[richbaker78]

Bummer about the box - I see you don't have a breather fitted ? Is it pressurising and losing oil do you think ?

[Kai]

[Kai]

[Kai]

evening all, quick up date then.

Bought some super cheap seats from eBay a few months ago, then bought some more seats from a mk3 golf as I wanted to use these for their bases. Shame they didn't fit but I find that everything I want to do, nothing is easy and never bolts in. Modified the golf seats to fit the type 3 seat runners. Spent ages cutting the mounts out for the Subaru seats which originally somebody in Australia fitted some old BMW seats with. So i've gone full circle with the seats. I wanted something more period to the car but also a smaller seat. I've also returned to the original type 3 seat as I intend to fit rear seat belts for the kids and just wasn't happy with the Subaru rear bench which has always just kinda been rested in place.

Out with the old and in with the not so new.




Unloaded my pallet.

Old, new front, new rear





Old tyres are 205's and the new ones are 305's







Gearbox update, pinion shaft is buggared. Ordered the replacement so should hopefully have the box back in in a couple more weeks just in time for the replacement front shocks to arrive also.
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[Wilfred]

Wow, that is some serious rubber! gonna look stunning me thinks!
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1973 BayWindow running 1.9 110 bhp TDI with flipped gearbox.

[splitbusvanatic]

305 wide. Sweet Jesus. What radius ?

I know what you mean by trying to get stuff to just 'fit'
Have you ever felt like you,re paving the way for others
to just buy, fit and forget.
Meanwhile.
We buy. Experiment and spend a fortune.

[trev]

someone has to be the pioneer!

[Cleverchap]

305!!! Holy poo balls!!!

[jp]

Wheelies plauseable?
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1971 Devon Bay with 1800 Ford Turbo Diesel Engine (wip)
1983 VW Golf GTI Campaign
1979 Mini 1275 GT
2013 Scirocco TDI GT

[Kai]

Thanks for the comments peps!!! Always welcome.

Right business. Totally chuffed off. First person to put £35K into my account gets the car. Might even throw in the dog too

Nothing has been going right recently.

First off though big big massive thanks to Rob from RM Perfermance. Wouldn't be here without him.... Technically twice... as it was he who built my original box. He's just moved and gone it alone.

www.rmperformance.co.uk


Gotta say..... Forget about API SUBARU. Enough said.

Almost two months later my box has been returned to me ( no thanks to API ) and is back in. Totally forgot about the Subaru thrust release bearing so had to remove the clutch and sort that out. @11:00 pm on the Tuesday last week I released this. And as much help as my neighbour was for lending me his gearbox jack that night ringing so late to rob his tools might have been asking too much. So I did it by eye. Couldn't get the fecker to go in. So I read on an American forum that when you get to the stage of lining up the two dowl pins and the input shaft its best to stop, have a brew and reattempt it. Best advise I would offer anybody as it went straight in. Gearbox check! With everything back in place felt now was the best time to fit the group N engine mounts. This shouldn't be too hard....... How wrong could I have been. My engine mount is a swine to drop out whilst fitting the engine mounts. It's taken me 2 nights so far. barsteward is in but not without a horrendous repair to the boot floor. Clearly it wants reinforcing but to do this the engine wants dropping and the firewall removing. I'd be glad just to have a bit of the summer driving the thing before I go ahead with that repair. In the mean time the hole that had been made has been welded up and some fat chick washers installed. This repair has taken another two nights. Obviously working nights on the car means noise has to be to a minimum. I can't bust out the welder and grinder at 10pm can I.


Horrid hole....



Horrid repair...



First night work stopped I decided to fit my brand new GAZ front shocks. I'd found a slight warranty issue with my McPherson strut conversion. The struts springs lower plate fouls the inner wing area.

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No problem, fit the smaller coilovers. Easier said then done. Apparently the boxster, Cayman and 996/997 all share the same front ends. Wrong.... Between the boxster and Cayman alone there are 4 variations of strut. Boxster struts will not fit a Cayman apparently. Wished I'd have known that before I was supplied my front struts. Still nobody to blame but myself. I should have known this. So I've had to return my shocks to GAZ who have kindly offered to modify them. There is a 5mm difference in strut diameter. So my boxster struts don't fit my Cayman hubs. They're going to fit a spacer to the strut so it fits my hubs. Problem solved but will no doubt take a couple of weeks as all things tend to in this day and age.



So that's about it. New gearbox with a higher diff ratio. As if the thing wasn't scary fast enough I change from a 3.9 diff to a 4.4 diff ratio. Thing will accelerate even fast now on the 205/45/17's. my reasoning for changing the diff ratio.... I don't wanna lose how scary fast the car is when the 19's go on. Needless to say I don't give a fcuk for scene tax. The large exhaust and spoiler looks outta place on a stock shaped car so the only thing left to do is fit bigger wheels and most probably adjust the ride height..... Oh and probably the width of the car. By 10cm each side. My next chore is do I either do a wide body kit properly and modify my wings or be lazy and fit a set of bubble arches. Next few weeks will tell. But I'm looking forward to testing it on the road with the 4.4 diff. Should make things interesting. I'll admit I'm not a true fan in the choice of wheels but they fitted the brief. Split rim with dish and where dirt cheap.

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Changed my front seats to some more period low back buckets seats.


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Still need to work on that.




And let's not get started on this either.


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[Kai]

Evening all,


Got my shocks back this week. Mark from Gazmatic was a true gent. I explained to him the misshap, he offered to take the shocks back and build me a further correct Cayman set but explained they would have to make them which would take a further 4 weeks. We agreed to modify the boxster struts with a sleeve to enlarge them to the correct larger Cayman size. Well chuffed as it only took them a week to turn them around.




Sleeve modification.




This evening I've got one shock fitted. Shocks are correctly sprung for the front of the car having been corner weighed.



Out with the old





Wheel goes back on, compared to the other side it's clearly about an inch higher, although in saying that the shock is wound down to its lowest position. Springs very very soft. But anything will be an improvement over the PASM shocks I removed which are virtually solid. Clearly though I'm gonna have to invest some time getting the front end set up correctly.



So now only the other side to do. It's an easy job swapping out the shocks just I can't get round that side of the car at the moment as its up against the fence.


So to get the car moving, now that the gearbox is fully installed, just needed 4 litres of oil. Easier said then done, but being that I've done this a few times now I've got it nailed.

This is the 3rd evolution of my filler tube, nothing too special but makes life a lot easier. I say third evolution as the second time when the tube grow to over a meter in length I was just stuffing a 1 litre oil can in the tube and forcing the oil down, problem I found was the air inside the box wanted to burp out of the tube, so would go everywhere when it forced the oil bottle out. Queue awful oil mess over the engine. This time round I needed extra space to catch the burp. Worked perfectly this time round and didn't spill a drop.


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