1997 WRX STi Tarmac Rally Build

[Chompy]

Some of you will know me, some wont, my other car is a 2006 VZ Maloo (VZ 23 WA) with cage, cam etc. well ive grown bored of that for the moment and started on a track/tarmac rally car. Had its first event on the 19th June as a stock car for which i know what it was like and now to improve on it.

MAKE: SUBARU
MODEL: GC8 WRX STi
ENGINE: EJ207 TURBO
GEARBOX & FINAL DRIVE: 4.11 CLOSE RATIO 5-SPEED
BRAKES: STOCK
RIMS: STi 16"
TYRES: KUHMO KU36 215/45/R16
MODIFICATIONS: 3inch TURBO BACK EXHAUST

As i've finished the hill climb, its time to strip it all down and start getting it prepped for the cage and all suspension/brake and engine mods. If anyone has any advice or anything like that I'm open to suggestions.

Todd

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[Joe]

Nice one!

What sort of events are you looking at entering?

Sanctioned events that require your car to meet a certain specification under the rules, or just building it to do No Limits, Hillclimbs, AHG, etc etc?

[Chompy]

building it to the CAMS M2 regulations so hopefully targa west and all that

[Tocchi]

firmer suspension :p


If anyone has any advice or anything like that I'm open to suggestions.
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[Chompy]

hahaha. i know that Tocchi, epic body roll

[DISTRBD]

. If anyone has any advice or anything like that I'm open to suggestions.


BALISTC can do HSD range so hit him up for a price on some coilovers and if you want some good brakes i can do you a good deal :)

[Chompy]

BALISTC can do HSD range so hit him up for a price on some coilovers and if you want some good brakes i can do you a good deal :)

Ive been told he does the HSD range, and I need new rotors and pads (dont believe i can put bigger rims or brakes on as the class restricts the size of rim)
so ill definately be sending you a PM

[Lonewolf]

what restrictions on engine mods?

[ED40]

Cool project mate..
scoobie and a lsx.. best of both worlds!

[JME]

Have you checked what the full M2 regs are?

[Chompy]

can upgrade injectors, run an aftermarket ECU as long as it fits within the original housing (ie ViPEC will fit), exhuast is unrestricted from turbo back,
can run whatever boost, intercooler has to be standard

[Darkside]

^^^^ With the recent move of Octagon (Targa Tas) back to CAMS I would stay tuned on some possible changes to the regs to bring them in to line with the Octagon run events. For example, E85, intercoolers free, rim increase 2" in either direction etc etc. If you can afford to hold off for a little while you migth save yourself doing it twice.

Although that said, there is no guarantee they will fall into line, and if they do, it wont be likely to happen overnight. But safe to say a car built to M2 regs wont be competitive at Targa Tas if you even plan to head east.

[Lonewolf]

can upgrade injectors, run an aftermarket ECU as long as it fits within the original housing (ie ViPEC will fit), exhuast is unrestricted from turbo back,
can run whatever boost, intercooler has to be standard

Turbo swap?
how about later model intercoolers from the same model etc?

[Chompy]

Bit of an update,
booked in for the 23rd of august for ViPec ecu @ Allstar garage, Have full confidence there.
Interior is getting pulled out when I get back from work and getting it prepped to remove as much weight as I can,
I'll be upgrading the brakes and also the suspension with coil overs, heavier duty strut towers and a H-brace

[Chompy]

Bought some coil overs tonight, just for track work and to have some fun with bought some cheap TEIN's,

some more pictures:

http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6078/6048835997_5a7a218080_b.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/66029350@N03/6048835997/)
IMG_0420 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/66029350@N03/6048835997/) by SEES Photography (http://www.flickr.com/people/66029350@N03/), on Flickr

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IMG_0419 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/66029350@N03/6048838159/) by SEES Photography (http://www.flickr.com/people/66029350@N03/), on Flickr

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IMG_0421 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/66029350@N03/6048840065/) by SEES Photography (http://www.flickr.com/people/66029350@N03/), on Flickr

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IMG_0423 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/66029350@N03/6048844519/) by SEES Photography (http://www.flickr.com/people/66029350@N03/), on Flickr

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IMG_0424 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/66029350@N03/6048846087/) by SEES Photography (http://www.flickr.com/people/66029350@N03/), on Flickr

[thrtytwo]

Bought some coil overs tonight, just for track work and to have some fun with bought some cheap TEIN's,


correct punctuation would go a long way :S car looks good!

[Chompy]

correct punctuation would go a long way :S car looks good!

Sorry about that, been up since 3am and flew in from work so a bit scattered. Will try and improve for the future

[Chompy]

Mum was pissed off I took her parking spot

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Untitled (http://www.flickr.com/photos/66029350@N03/6058181647/) by [/url], on Flickr

sound deadening come off easily without dry ice

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The STi parked behind my SS (Pre-coil overs)

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Start of stripping the interior
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[Chompy]

just an update on the progress so far. computer and tune has been done, got 234.4 hp @ all 4 hubs at AllStar garage.

first time ive ever properly had a go on the track with the car running properly and I got a 1'10.5 on the long barbagello's track, 58.54seconds on the short track, this was on Khumo KU36's.

Entered the shannons one day classic rally (with Tocchi as Co-driver) and out a field of 40 cars we placed 15th overall and 10th in the 4WD category. here are some pictures and a small video


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[Gleeso]

Awww yeahh!! That crackling is music to my ears. Your cars dipping in pretty hard around some of those corners.

[Chompy]

haha yeah, its only got TEIN coilovers for the moment, all sway bar upgrade will happen very shortly and anti lift kit etc

[FranZ]

Antilift kit will do wonders to the handling, however for tarmac rally its not legal. Food for thought.

[Chompy]

Antilift kit will do wonders to the handling, however for tarmac rally its not legal. Food for thought.

shit! thanks franz,

[urabus]

Franz is 100% correct but unless you are going to finish in the top 3 (a legitimate non cheater GC8 will not finish in the top 3 at targa west) then I would not worry about it and install it.

Dont worry about installing the roll centre kit. I reckon they are rubbish. My understanding is that Jamie Lister took his out of his GC8 aswell.

Brendon

[c.rusli]

just go with the flow "its STOCK" ;)

[Chompy]

Franz is 100% correct but unless you are going to finish in the top 3 (a legitimate non cheater GC8 will not finish in the top 3 at targa west) then I would not worry about it and install it.

Dont worry about installing the roll centre kit. I reckon they are rubbish. My understanding is that Jamie Lister took his out of his GC8 aswell

Brendon


Oh okay killer
And I know I'll never finish in top position, or even close, just be good to enter one and say I've completed it

Got a long way to go before I enter an event like that anyway

[Chompy]

Cleaned the rest of the sound deadening up and painted the floor boot for a bit of a cleaner look, is only a quick rough job but it's better than what it was.

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[mys1]

Get some lighter seats, Factory seats are killer!

[Chompy]

Haha yeah will do, step by step atm, looking at a couple of the VELO seats when the cage ends up going in

[Riggs]

For a stock seat there not too bad, not as light as racing buckets obviously but I'd throw the money at suspension/swaybars and brakes first.

PS. my 6 pots will fit under your 16's. Buy them so I can go bigger.

[Chompy]

How much you sell 6 pots for??????? Pm me? Lol

[Kaido]

nice work! car was looking good at no limits, what did you end up running on the short track that night?

[Chompy]

Ended up running a 58 again, was struggling to keepy eyes open but cut off 2 seconds from the long track to 68 seconds so I was pretty stoked with that

[scary]

Have a look at you ride heights as it will make a massive difference to the cars geometry and understeer/oversteer. Speak to a specialist in Rally etc as at a glance (hard to tell from pics) the ride height is too low. GC8's really react to changes in the ride height.

[Chompy]

It's fairly high when stopped, just it needs all the swaybars upgraded, I adjusted the camber in the front and she understeers a lot less now, I was quite surprised how a little adjustment changes it.

[c.rusli]

Great car! lots of potential mate!
saw it on no limits ;) it goes hard!

[Chompy]

Great car! lots of potential mate!
saw it on no limits ;) it goes hard!

Thanks it's getting there
I want to get a set of R-comps and see how it goes with them also with suspension upgrade

[Chompy]

Went and saw Gav @ GT Graphics to get an alm uv banner put on, he makes it look so easy!

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[scary]

It's fairly high when stopped, just it needs all the swaybars upgraded, I adjusted the camber in the front and she understeers a lot less now, I was quite surprised how a little adjustment changes it.

GC8's need to sit a little bum high not even to get the best out of them

[breet180]

Looking good Todd :)

Keen to see it pop some flames at Powercruise!

[Chompy]

as some of you may or may not know I crashed it into the barrier at the McRae rally sprint the other night with dad co-driving for the first time and also his first time in a car racing event like that (he has drag raced before but in the 90's), honestly I thought his reaction would be "you idiot', but he laughed so that helped my spirits.
New rolling street registered shell has been purchased and I'll removd the sound deadening from that and the cage installation/fabrication will begin, so Version II will be starting soon, here are some pics and video's from the night.

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My fastest lap
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my crash lap
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[mattyb89]

awww dude that sucks so bad :( was watching the videos and was loving that sound so gay that you ended the night that way

[Buckets]

Geez I didn't think it was enough to write the car off.

[Chompy]

I don't believe it's written off, just got a street registered shell, will out all this gear in the new shell and cage it, then will fix this one and cage it as a spare

[Buckets]

Ahhh, good idea.

[Chompy]

Definitely with my driving style haha

[sprint347]

That was some good driving until the woopsie moment, your Dad's reaction was awesome.

If it's just panel damage throw another guard on it and keep going, save the regoed shell 'just in case' :P

[Chompy]

It's a bit more than just a guard haha
Cam gear snapped ;(

[Chompy]

well this is the new shell an got a roll cage kit also,

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[SSICK]

just a little bit of work ahead of you....

[Gleeso]

Really sucks to see it all screwed up. Driving was great until that, obviously. Glad to see youve got another one.

Good idea having a spare :p

[Chompy]

It is a lot of work but it's going straight to panel and paint where I'll remove the sound deadening, then Cage gets welded in, all panels on lined up and it will be paInted, will happen at a reasonable pace, not overly quick mainly because of me working away but it'll get done.

[Chompy]

Revolution race gear have a sale on with seats and a FIA 6-point harness, so on the phone with the card and put deposit down for two of them.
Couldnt resist so these will be the new seats

http://i293.photobucket.com/albums/mm71/ChompyR8/CobraEvolution-large.jpg

[Kaido]

Revolution race gear have a sale on with seats and a FIA 6-point harness, so on the phone with the card and put deposit down for two of them.
Couldnt resist so these will be the new seats

http://i293.photobucket.com/albums/mm71/ChompyR8/CobraEvolution-large.jpg

welcome to the world of not seeing anything hahaha!

awesome seats just can't see anything to the left or right like the evo

[Chompy]

I cant see anything in front of as it is so i dunno how these will go haha

just an exhaust video

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[SSICK]

Should have sat in them before putting a deposit down. Nothing worse than sitting in a uncomfy seat.

[Chompy]

ive sat in these with no problem before :/

[mc68]

wow, you bought seats locally? especially from revo... rallynuts, murray motorsport or demon tweeks next time mate, save a fortune.

[Chompy]

wow, you bought seats locally? especially from revo... rallynuts, murray motorsport or demon tweeks next time mate, save a fortune.

works out similar price for same equpiment, but then there is freight on top of that from rallynuts..

[Chompy]

but those places have got some pretty good products

[DISTRBD]

Had same seat in the 32 , was not a fan . Factory seat was more solid :P

http://www.youtube.com/user/swbrakes#p/u/23/3MmKrgB-7CA

[JBAE]

pretty sure anyseat is going to flex like that if you put a ginger volkswagen in the thing!


Had same seat in the 32 , was not a fan . Factory seat was more solid :P

http://www.youtube.com/user/swbrakes#p/u/23/3MmKrgB-7CA

[Jordans15]

shit ye car looked nice till crash

[Chompy]

Picked the shell up from JWS aswell as a new bonnet, all I need now externally is a front bumper and I'll be good for bodywork
Car is at west coast smash repairs in welsh pool and all paint/panel work will get done there plus cage fitment too

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[Chompy]

found this photo on one of the other forums of the sti before i crashed....

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