Topic: Chronicle of Jer's Subarus

[jer]

Yay! Success!  Ready for when I am in town....I mean can I take it for a ride when I am in town?  Or will it kill me?

Great to see it's done now.

PS.  Your welcome for using my engine hoist.  Think you may have used it morn then I have.

Yes you may take it out. Yes it may kill you. Your other half may kill me if it does.

PS - I see what you did there. All I can say is I just use whatever tools are lying around the garage.  Like Matt.

[Munky]

lol. It probably liked the attention....and Matt too.

[ultimatt]

lol. It probably liked the attention....and Matt too.

No. That uckfaying engine hoist hates me, it tried to knock me out.

[snackers]

No. That uckfaying engine hoist hates me, it tried to knock me out.

You woulda had it in the fight too, except you figured your head was hard enough to knock it out.
You were wrong.

[silent]

Those engine hoists are known for their sucker punches.

[GrantC]

After reading more at DCCDpro and from Spiider on nasioc, I've gotta agree w/ silent.

I'd either go for the smart controller, or go for a non-DCCD centre diff.

[jer]

After reading more at DCCDpro and from Spiider on nasioc, I've gotta agree w/ silent.

I'd either go for the smart controller, or go for a non-DCCD centre diff.

I had read that this afternoon and understood a bit more about spiider's unit...

[wayne]

I installed the DCCDPro Universal controller and love it.  Jeff is a great guy to deal with as well.

The controller really doesn't compensate for bad driving, it's more predictable than that.  I find the acceleration/control out of the corners and amount of steering into the corners is worth the price of auto mode in itself.  Overall, you really get a sensation of a well balanced car...  Luckily this crappy snow is letting me play with the actual functionality of the dccdpro under slower conditions.

[jer]

Well... I guess I should update here:

new wheels/tires

17x8 OZ ultralegarras w/ 245/40/17 Kumho XS's

autocross this weekend:

Thanks to alaorath @ ASA

more (thanks GrantC):
http://www.flickr.com/photos/grant_subaru/4612222648/in/set-72157623945205675/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/grant_subaru/4612222742/in/set-72157623945205675/

From the looks of things I need to do 2 things:
1. figure out how to stop the crazy nose-dive on braking
2. change the brake fluid from DOT4 to DOT5.1 - can't believe I boiled the fluid at auto-x!

[LilDrunkenSmurf]

Holy angry stance batman.

[Tenacious_B]

can you post some more pics of the car's stance?  and a few detailed shots of the rear fender to tire?  I want to know what your rear fenders look like.  You must have been locking a rear tire at the auto-x though, holy nose dive batman!

[GrantC]

You must have been locking a rear tire at the auto-x though, holy nose dive batman!

Not necessarily.  In a 100% balanced system 80+% of the braking is done by the front wheels due to the weight transfer forwards...  The stock system is even more front biased than that so the rears might have still not locked.

(And ABS would hide it even if they did. )

[Tenacious_B]

Not necessarily.  In a 100% balanced system 80+% of the braking is done by the front wheels due to the weight transfer forwards...  The stock system is even more front biased than that so the rears might have still not locked.

(And ABS would hide it even if they did. )

I would imagine he still would have felt it lock for a split second before ABS catches it....

[jer]

that's the thing... I felt nothing but a proper brake pedal. no locking and no ABS
I may or may not have boiled the fluid and smoked out the brakes but I didn't feel any ABS/locking.

[Tenacious_B]

that's the thing... I felt nothing but a proper brake pedal. no locking and no ABS
I may or may not have boiled the fluid and smoked out the brakes but I didn't feel any ABS/locking.

Sticky wide steamrollers FTW I guess....wow.

[jer]

Sticky wide steamrollers FTW I guess....wow.

yep. that and stainless brake lines. the lines made a HUGE difference.

[GrantC]

yep. that and stainless brake lines. the lines made a HUGE difference.

The lines, or the fresh fluid?

Even LFB'ing I didn't cook my brakes in a 2 driver car...

[jer]

the lines. Even after having Motul's 5.1 in there before it felt mushy on fresh fluid in rubber lines.

[jer]

en route:
Clutch and lightened flywheel installed and now removed. Gah.

Need to install:
[/s]Stainless braided brake lines[/s]

Need to do:
HPS+ front pads
DCCDpro controller (manual)
Rear subframe bushings

Wishlist:
Koni inserts for the WRX Wagon strut bodies
Engine/tranny mounts
pitch stop mount
27mm FSB + RSB
endlinks
shifter bushings
steering rack bushing
subframe bushings
STi rear lateral links
whiteline tophats (camber/castor adjustment)
STi TMIC
Fender flares (like goldrush: http://www.westernsubaruclub.com/smf/index.php?topic=7430.0)
Enkei RPF1 17"x8" wheels in silver - ended up with OZ Ultralegarra 17x8 wheels in matte black
Header
STi 6spd + rear diff + DCCD - complete! yay!
19T, HTA68, or 16G
DBA 4000 6x6 slotted front rotors
Fender braces

updated for:
rear subframe bushings
wheels
installed brake lines
front pads

[jer]

sooo Mrs UPS (yes delivery "guy" was a *SHE*) showed up today:



Hmmm.... what could it be?!?!?!?!












27mm FSB and KB endlinks!

[GrantC]

So did the bar help?

[jer]

So did the bar help?

definitely. The car is rather neutral now. If I push too hard I get understeer. If I drive the lines properly I get grip or the giggle inducing 5% oversteer.
so. awesome.

in other news... I had another mod on Friday, see if you can tell what it is (thanks to BigDL for the pic)

[snackers]

in other news... I had another mod on Friday, see if you can tell what it is (thanks to BigDL for the pic)

I don't know how you're going to get your kayak to the mountains now, but it does make the car look sleeker.

[Perfect Dark]

Definitely an improvement Jer, lookin mean (for a wagon )

[GrantC]

Something something waist spoiler.