- Joined
- Dec 25, 2002
- Location
- mont, AL
AIGHT. it's been a year (holy crap almost to the day, what providence!)
this is about to pick back up! ordered the bne street coilover setup, adjustable panhard, and the cool guy strut mounts (with the slick bearings for that there steerin').
The goal is not to slam the car, lower it a little bit but mainly r&r the busted 200k suspension. to that end I also ordered up a selection of poly bushings. subframe will get reinforced, torque rods will get the polys, and that should do'r for a while. brakes look good on the car (new lines up front, haven't checked in the back yet), gonna let that ride for now as well.
Also ordered a walbro 450 to drop in the tank, car has been running increasingly poor lately (due in no small amount to neglect I'm sure, but even when it was running well it had a sudden onset lean-ness with the megasquirt in boost, somewhat implicating a fuel pressure issue), so I'm just gonna do that more as a PM than anything else, new filter, and ditch the under-car pump because not needed.
Also went ahead and ordered up exhaust stuff, it'll have a cat, resonator, and rear muffler.. hoping to keep it drone free in normal operation.
need to work up an intercooler upgrade, still thinking npr oughta be good for the goals. likely gonna use the turbo off the parts R, as well as the injectors off the same. an ipd turbo cam will round it out nicely at some point. I don't know that I'll be able to stage things like I wanted (because I don't want to build/rebuild the downpipe for the R turbo, but we'll see), but I think I can reasonably hit the high points still (intercooler before/after, cam before/after, turbo upgrade before/after.. I mean the 13c with the more or less open downpipe is more or less peak 13c performance capability there).
oh and I have some little things to work out in the car as well.. possibly a manual damper rod for the vent select, since that part is apparently nla and a suitable replacement hasn't been found (plus.. butchering a broken stock one is fine), a/c will likely need a booster shot, fluids checked and changed as necessary, the usual suspects.
edit: photo!
this is about to pick back up! ordered the bne street coilover setup, adjustable panhard, and the cool guy strut mounts (with the slick bearings for that there steerin').
The goal is not to slam the car, lower it a little bit but mainly r&r the busted 200k suspension. to that end I also ordered up a selection of poly bushings. subframe will get reinforced, torque rods will get the polys, and that should do'r for a while. brakes look good on the car (new lines up front, haven't checked in the back yet), gonna let that ride for now as well.
Also ordered a walbro 450 to drop in the tank, car has been running increasingly poor lately (due in no small amount to neglect I'm sure, but even when it was running well it had a sudden onset lean-ness with the megasquirt in boost, somewhat implicating a fuel pressure issue), so I'm just gonna do that more as a PM than anything else, new filter, and ditch the under-car pump because not needed.
Also went ahead and ordered up exhaust stuff, it'll have a cat, resonator, and rear muffler.. hoping to keep it drone free in normal operation.
need to work up an intercooler upgrade, still thinking npr oughta be good for the goals. likely gonna use the turbo off the parts R, as well as the injectors off the same. an ipd turbo cam will round it out nicely at some point. I don't know that I'll be able to stage things like I wanted (because I don't want to build/rebuild the downpipe for the R turbo, but we'll see), but I think I can reasonably hit the high points still (intercooler before/after, cam before/after, turbo upgrade before/after.. I mean the 13c with the more or less open downpipe is more or less peak 13c performance capability there).
oh and I have some little things to work out in the car as well.. possibly a manual damper rod for the vent select, since that part is apparently nla and a suitable replacement hasn't been found (plus.. butchering a broken stock one is fine), a/c will likely need a booster shot, fluids checked and changed as necessary, the usual suspects.
edit: photo!