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just got my new laptop today so i can really start tuning on the car. a BUNCH of misc hardware will show up from subaru tomorrow so i can button up the suspension. we'll see how this weekend goes, suppose to help a friend look at an xt6, not sure if ill have to trailer it home for him too

Oh, so your lifting it?

Ground clearance in what way, I've had axles hit the gas tank and exhaust piping before the muffler comes close to hitting anything

What racing event/class will you be running this in?

Why would you place the muffler in the car?

i've never run a standard strut with this tire, only fit them with coilovers so i can't speak on that clearance

Cool? Aside from maybe legends tires and custom carbotechs I don't have enough brake/tire for what I want to do. Again, not a daily.

Yea see, I didn't want to run ea81 tie rods as they are only going to get harder to find with time. I dont really intend on running more than a 225 as that is plenty for such a light car. I do plan on running that new Bridgestone RE-71R IN 225/50/16

Here's my lazy shot as I pulled into work today

I may make different arms in the future, however for right now spacers in the rear to match the width in the front will work fine

Really? Hmm, it was my understanding it wouldn't fit the axle. What tie rod end do you use? I know the ea82 tie rods are not the appropriate size. Also, Disclaimer: for those trying to replicate my control arms I am not responsible for any damage/injury/death that comes as a result of such modifications, mod at your own risk. That being said, I lengthened for several reasons, I already had ea super pro bushings in the arms, I want to use as many current model/ easily accessible parts as possible and for the extra track width. My car is NOT a daily driver, it is a SCCA hill climb/autox/road course/mtn hoonigan etc car. Comfort, noise, vibration, looks are of no concern to me.

Main reason was for my anticipated camber/static ride height I have zero binding from full droop to full compression in the ej axle. Again, the rack is not centered at all, it needs to come to the right and the steering wheel recentered. I'm confident that zero to - toe is achievable. I'll be tinkering after work/next weekend and will let you know. I'm also missing one of the lock washers for the inner tie rod so its all pretty loose right now. But a quick toe plate check says it's 1/8" out right now

The toe is a bit deceiving in that picture. The rack is not centered but it was late and I just needed to get it back outside before I left. That side will get adjusted in quite a bit when its all said and done Control arm is lengthened by 10mm.....ish 04 wrx knuckle/hub/balljoint RS brakes/axles/outer tie rod The only issue(s) I have so far is with my 225 tire on wrx wheels I need a spacer in the rear to get it off the trailing arm but there aren't enough threads for this so I need to find an extended stud that fits, wheel looks off center in the well, I'll need to shim up the radius arms to regain caster, sway bar endlinks need tweaking

Well, here you have it. My 5 lug swap, rear is straight forward, front... Lol on my phone so I'll just upload pics. I'll go into detail if anyone is interested I gotta raise it up some more :/

As for your power estimates, we'll see.... There's a clutch that'll hold the power, gotta have the right resources tho The heads will stay on the block, you just have to think outside the close minded stock is stock box I have a dyno at work so there's no butt dyno going on here. Also, I can't get the damn thing out of low gear, any ideas?

Hmm. I understand the arguement in a late model drivetrain. However if you want late model performance, buy a late model car. Idk maybe it's just me. Now, the rx, had to put it on hold while I worked on my truck.... Now that the ol ferd is not going to fall apart, I'll be back on the Subaru, debating on selling my neon which will change my mindset a tad on the car. Ie:racepack dash and other goodies. I need to get it inside on a lift and finish my 5 lug swap which will differ from your average swap

Thanks its been an adventure, Why do you figure your wrx plans to be way better? Just curious.

Throttle position is functioning. Forecast doesn't look great so I'll have to resume work this weekend when I can get it in on a lift. Need to convert it to 5 lug as well...

Got the throttle cable worked out last night and swapped the alt to one that works. Gunna try swapping power and signal on the tos tonight and hooking up a coolant gauge. Also the fuel gauge doesn't work....

I don't really feel like opening my laptop to post pictures but that works. No more timing drift. Car scoots pretty well around my work. Mostly working on cold start and tip in at the moment. New problem! The tps sucks and flakes below 20% throttle

Starting a new thread as my previous one was a train wreck. car is mostly together and running. however the nissan optical disc i am using isn't up to the task if you ask me. With the igniton locked at 10 degrees and 800rpm it is in fact, 10 degrees but at 1200rpms it drifts to 23ish degrees and wavering. this may be partly due to timing belt deflection and i could sit there and map out a variable trigger map and yada yada but i don't believe itll be accurate 100% of the time. This is the core issue I believe myself and JWX have experienced with the EA. so, I've ordered a couple of hall effect sensors and have a mock up(i say mock up, its pretty damn robust for mock up) 36-1 trigger disc on the crank and a 1 home on the LH cam gear, as soon as I recieve the sensors i will update and see how that goes although i'm more than positive itll run fine. Current setup includes: carb'd shortblock,3gen turbo heads,spyder intake JDM a2w intercooler, forge bov TWE header, bellmouth downpipe, 3" back to a axle dump 08 wrx td04, coolant reroute gm bcs copper 2 row rad, fluidyne oil cooler Haltech Platinum sport 1000 custom harness with Milspec bulkhead custom rails, late model 2.5l top feed injectors, aeromotive fpr, -6 an lines back half, infamous rotory rx, front half JWX's old No.2 wiring still sorting it out +1 home 36-1 trigger

Sold/thrown away. It was all pretty much junk

Right so a bit of an update, The black section you see? Yea that's the infamous rotory RX.... It was a pile of crap, the white section? The last remaining parts of my RX, "No 2" this was the best combination of rust free RX that I could get my hands on, and it's still a pile of crap, but whatever. Moving on, carbed shortblock, turbo heads, jdm A2W intercooler, 08 WRX TD04, custom fuel rails, 2.5l turbo injectors, haltech platinum sport 1000, custom harness that I am almost done with, f150 fuel pump, f150 fuel filter -6 AN fuel lines, Cusco catch can, different coolant routing, 2l expansion tank, forge BOV, TWE header, mmanual rack, RX trans/diff, JIC rear coilovers (working on fronts) Enkie wheels, 185/60r13 federal 595 tires, no interior, massively cut down factory harness, stock brakes (working on pads) fluidine oil cooler off a NASCAR, ahhh some other crap I don't remember. I'm hoping to get it running this week. Might even be able to make the Tougefest in November. It's certainly not the best car out there but it's a Damn site better than it was!

So, its not running..... Yet. But I did some stuff

Ah, good information thank you! It's not tuned per say. The codes have simply been turned off with romraider and a tatrix cable. Plugs are standard NGK. I can try hotter plugs and see where that gets me.