Kavik's Blue Wagon

[Kavik]

I'm bored, thought I'd compile a list into one spot here with the details on my blue wagon.  A lot of this info is already in other places on the site, but I wanted to get one spot to put everything together....probably more for my benefit than yours  


Make: Subaru
Model: WRX Wagon
Year: 2005
Mileage: ~14,000
Current hp/tq: Around 430/400 (going by what I was told, don't have the actual dyno sheet to verify)
Current weight: Estimated around 3,600 lbs  (will be weighing it when it gets back on the road)
Goals:  closer to 500 awhp plus lose a couple hundred pounds


Engine:

Built 2.5l short block w/ wiseco 100 mm pistons
STI heads with crower titanium springs/retainers
ARP head studs
Kelford 272/272 AVCS cams
1100cc DW injectors
Perrin fuel rails
Dual walboros
Aeromotive FPR
AN fittings and aueroquip fuel/vacuum lines
JDM 12 liter oil pump
Gruppe-n motor mounts
Ixiz Concept pitch stop
Greddy timing belt
Perrin lightened crank pulley
Koyo radiator
Samco radiator hoses
Crucial thermostat
Crucial radiator cap
APR CF Alternator Cover
APR CF Radiator Shroud

Turbo/Intake/Exhaust:

Perrin GT35R/82 rotated turbo kit
Perring Cold Air Intake
Perrin BCS
JDM spec C intake manifold
Grimmspeed triple thick phenolic spacers
SSAC front mount intercooler
Tial 50mm blow off valve
Perrin equal length headers
Espilir GT-500 catback


Drivetrain/Suspension:

2006 STI six speed
Spiider DCCD controller
  (currently not hooked up)
Brembo takeoffs front/rear ("WRXBrakes" rear adapters)
Whiteline rear sway bar
(unsure of what's there for a front bar, keep forgetting to check lol)
Kartboy endlinks front/rear
STI Carbon Fiber Front strut tower bar
Whiteline quick release rear strut tower bar
Megan Racing Street Series coilovers
  (Previous owner said it had Crucial racing springs, don't know if the megan springs were replaced with crucial springs, or if he was confusing that with what he had before the coilovers)


Electronics:

Hydra standalone ECU
Hydramist for meth injection
  w/ Jegs 3 gal fuel cell mounted in place of the spare tire
Innovative Motorsports Wideband AFR
  (HydraMist and AFR gauges mounted on steering column)
Prosport Boost, EGT, Oil Pressure
  (Prosport gauges mounted in clock pod)
Auto-Dimming mirror with compass and HomeLink


Interior:

'Classic Soft Trim' leather interior
(Black leather wrapped seats and door cards)
Carbon fiber dash trim overlay
Sti shifter trim
STI center console
Redline goods shift boot
Redling goods armrest cover (with extended armrest)
Redline goods e-brake boot
Genuine Subaru Carbon Fiber e-Brake handle
Ixiz dead pedal


Exterior:

Some retardedly dark tint
Sti Sideskirts
Roof rail deletes
Cleared headlight with angel eyes
Prodrive upper and lower grill
Hella supertones
'04 Sti BBS Gold Wheels
V7 Sti Gold Wheels
WedSport Sa-70 in Bronze, 18x8+50 (going on when the snow melts)

[Kavik]

My goals:

Power:
  The engine came to me rather noisy and going through oil like crazy.  I need to have the whole thing torn down, inspected and hopefully rebuilt and not replaced  
  Once it's back in working order I need to have it professionally tuned.  Right now it's on a weak tune by an unknown tuner, but tuned for 20psi on 91 octane california gas, without the meth injection hooked up.  There were also doubts when talking to the previous owner about whether the AVCS was tuned properly (which could explain some of the roughness)
  Ideally I'd like to take it down to Element Tuning and have them do it all, but we'll see what time and money allows for.
  With the whole engine coming out, I'm also looking into the ported heads they offer.  Right now it's running on stock Sti heads, a little better flow could be nice.

  Also, once everything's back together, I want to clean up the engine bay a bit, straighten out the hoses and wiring mess.  The intercooler was custom cut and welded to flow counter clockwise and keep the cold side away from the turbo, and the welds are holding fine, but they look like shit, so I want to sand them down then paint/coat the piping

Appearance:
Need to adjust the height, it's just too low
Want to get lighter tint to replace the 5-20% that's on it now
JDM fogs
Ditch the hood scoop for either a reverse mount or a smooth hood


Weight Loss Thoughts:
Note: all carbon fiber pieces would be painted to match
Carbon Fiber RS Style hood (If I decide a smooth hood over a reverse scoop)
Carbon Fiber rear hatch
Swapping the leather interior with Kim for her bugeye interior for now, may end up with different front seats in the future
Carbon Fiber Drive shaft
Full Titanium exhaust



Other ideas are welcome on weight reduction.  But I'm not removing the A/C and carbon fiber doors are out of the question (not only do they not make rears for the wagon, but I'm not risking carbon doors, a side impact, and my son in the back seat)

[Kavik]

Pics:

For Dave, you win....

I'll change my signature if I can find a small enough Voltron Icon to replace the Beast



More coming soon, have to find what pics I have available here  I lost a bunch of pics that were stored online, will have to wait till I can dig some up at home



These are all pics I got from the previous owner, at different stages of his build, a lot of things are different, so read the comments on what I'm showing in the pictures...hope these tide you over for now


  Intercooler, Prodrive Grill Inserts and hellas (Sti fogs and HID retrofitted headlights were off the car before I bought it)


  Leather wrapped seats with blue stitching


  Leather interior, carbon fiber trim/stereo surroung, carbon fiber e-brake handle, redline shift boot and armrest cover (defi gauges and touch screen stereo were also removed before the sale  )




Here's a couple from the day before the car was shipped, still in sunny california



And the best shot I have of the rotated 35r, while trying to figure out where that blue hose popped off from lol
doesn't show much, but a rough idea of how big it is


And a more current pic of the engine bay.  When it all gets put back together I want to see about cleaning up the mess of wires and hoses, make it all a little cleaner looking

(oh, forgot the mention the APR CF alternator cover and radiator shroud.....pure bling   )


last dyno run by the previous owner:

428/398, file name indicates 20psi and 91 octane

[deadlydave]

   VOLTRON

[Nismonic]

This thread is useless without pics! 

[Turbaru]

Yeah, pic of that rotated 35 please sir!

[Kavik]

  relax guys, I'm still working on it....didn't you notice the 'reserved' posts?

Goals are listed in post 2 now, pictures will go in post 3 

[TheBigChill]

 CELs ?  And if so, your plan on how to eliminate them and make the car "inspectable" and legal ?     That's a baaad motha'.

[Kavik]

ummmm, technically no CEL's...nothing is hooked up to the OBD-II Port 

there's a thread on the whole inspection issue here

Long story short, it's un-inspectable as the state computer just gets an error message that it's not connected.  I have a work around for it for the time being, but not going to get into that here 

[Turbaru]

Weight Loss Thoughts:

How much do you like Air Conditioning...?

Light weight Braille battery, move that sucker to the trunk.
Light weight seats for sure, but very pricey!

[Kavik]

How much do you like Air Conditioning...?

enough that I listed it as one of the two things that were out of the question for removing  

I agree on the light weight battery, but I'm leery about putting it inside the cabin

Light weight seats for sure, but very pricey!

They are, but is it any worse than the price of a CF drive shaft?  
(edit: or titanium exhausts for that matter.  Some of these things may not happen for a while, or ever, just fun thoughts for down the road  )

[TheBigChill]

 OK.  I have questions about that.. Crude electrical trickery may be the only cure.  Very crude.

[Kavik]

PM me what your specific questions are, I honestly don't remember how much detail was gone into in that other thread, and there was too much there for me to go re-read it all

[gebby1029]

I also vote on seats even if it saves you no weight because you'll be better planted.

[Kavik]

yeah, I've just been holding off on thinking about seats for a couple reasons
1) I want something that's going to be adjustable for me, and comfortable enough to drive around in on a daily basis, for both myself and front seat passengers, without costing more than my first car.
2) It would be great to do nice seats and a harness setup, even a cage wouldn't be a terrible idea just in case, but I have to worry about back seat passengers and bars back there for either a cage or mounting points for the harnesses.  It has to stay within the 'family car' limits


Not saying that is or isn't a possible combination to create, I have no idea, but it's something that would take a lot more looking into before  giving consideration

[spoolordie]

id trade my bugeye seats plus cash for those leather babys lol i know there slippery

[Kavik]

   I've gotten that offer a few times, but they were already promised to Kim.  She might castrate me if they end up in any car but hers 

[skyphix]

id trade my bugeye seats plus cash for those leather babys lol i know there slippery

Yeah, and besides, I have 2nd dibs, and we all know how much that means.

[Kavik]

spent some quality time with the car today......



all intercooler piping was pulled out, as well as the cold air intake.
But the good news is I found a LOT less oil in the piping than I was expecting, I think my initial concerns on that were exaggerated by the fact that the pipe that came off before was the lowest point in the whole system, and probably where 99% of the oil pooled since this was all put together the first time.

I think I'll still end up replacing this intercooler at some point with a Perrin stealth one...but probably not until later this year because of the engine rebuild costs. (unless anyone wants to make an offer I can't refuse while it's off the car?  )


The turbo looks good from what I can see so far.  Spins freely and just the tiniest little bit of shaft play, but according to the Garret site that's to be expected on a ballbearing turbo when there isn't oil running through it, so I think that's okay.  Waiting to hear back from Jeff at Perrin on monday with some diagrams on this turbo, he suggested checking to make sure both restrictors are in place and everything is hooked up correctly before worrying that the seals might be blown.  Considering the rest of the messes with this car I wouldn't be the least bit surprised if something like that was over looked by the previous owner 

Also found one more hole on the intake that needed to be plugged that I missed before...it was on the bottom of the pipe, at a funny angle.

[ESuby02]

I agree on the light weight battery, but I'm leery about putting it inside the cabin

Buschur Racing makes a mini battery kit that goes right in the engine bay

[Kavik]

Yeah, I'll look into something like that eventually 
Just gotta get the important stuff taken care of first
(though, on a side note, I did drain my battery playing the stereo while working on the car today lol)

[Kavik]

Well, I was home sick most of last week, so I spent a lot of time scouring different forums hunting down info on this car from the previous owner.
Adding his last dyno plot to my earlier post of pics.  And found a nice video of a 1st through 4th hard pull while the motor was still in it's break in period 

[TheBigChill]

 I wonder how many he did that were not on video or posted        

[Kavik]

well, he said he put about 4,000 miles on the engine....so probably 3,294 miles worth 

[Kavik]

Well, took a few hours with the car today.  Took out the front leather seats and put them in Kims car (surprisingly, there was only a couple pounds difference between the bugeye seats and these leather seats....not nearly as much as I thought there would be).  Will get to the rears later.

Then I swapped my wheels so we can get Kim's tires mounted up on the v7's.  absolutely love the way they look  


WedsSport SA-70's 18x8, Bronze with Blue, Project Kics extended lugs





Need to take them back off at some point to mount my new tires on them, get hubcentric rings and get center caps  (just really not looking forward to spending $140 on freakin' center caps  )