'99 Subaru GC8 RX Impreza

[danielsahhhn]

Woah...does paint normally peel off so badly when removing the vinyl wrap you used?

[SebastienPeek]

Well, it's been a while since I updated this.

Car was changed back to silver. Vinyl ripped off quite a bit of paint so that sucked.



Drove it to Melbourne.



Chilled with the Stance|Works Australia boys.



Then changed the wheels back over to silver caps and went for a shoot with an interstate GC8.


IMG_0552 by sebastienpeek, on Flickr

Big plans in the coming weeks. Front lip, some body work and respray.

[REAL]

such a rad car ! stole the show at eurofest

[Suburuuh]

Man oh man, this build is sooooo good!

In doubt to go for air or static for my future daily (no law to back me down), this is one for air.

Those Bentley's *sick*!

[SebastienPeek]

Need to sort out the Bugatti wheels soon.

This happened tonight too.

https://vimeo.com/82181522

[anth]

Get some fat tyres for them Seb if you're going to daily them, run some meaty fitment.

[Thom]

Get that lip rolled out D: Also the black/red was epic...

[SebastienPeek]

Oh, I will also be keeping them silver.

[SebastienPeek]

Yo seb, didn't one model of imprezza have 5x114.3 hubs. Aren't most subaru parts pretty easily interchangable. The reason i say this is your old rs faces are 5x114.3 plus aren't yours 5x100/5x114.3. Then you could run the wheels without adapters and tuck them them aired out and still be able to run the RS.

Potentially I could, however it is an expensive journey and not one that I wish to attempt at the present moment.

some model of sti is. cant remember the chassis tho.

Correct, it is 05+ STi's.

Anyway, I figured I'd get some better shots of the test fitting of the daily wheels. Here's a few new shots.

Rear aired right up.


IMG_0073 by sebastienpeek, on Flickr

Rear laid out.


IMG_0074 by sebastienpeek, on Flickr


IMG_0078 by sebastienpeek, on Flickr


IMG_0080 by sebastienpeek, on Flickr

Front completely aired up.


IMG_0082 by sebastienpeek, on Flickr

Front completely laid out.


IMG_0084 by sebastienpeek, on Flickr


IMG_0088 by sebastienpeek, on Flickr

Not happy at all with how the fronts sit when aired out. Going to try and see what it is getting hung up on tomorrow night and then suss out what I can do to get it even lower.

For this fitment I need to purchase 2 x 42mm adapters for the rear and 2 x 32mm adapters for the front. I want to run 225/35/17's as these are supposed to be a bit of a meatier fitment. However, if I run a tyre with no stretch I won't be able to get the guard on lip action that is currently happening.

#firstworldproblems

[Thom]

Yo seb, didn't one model of imprezza have 5x114.3 hubs. Aren't most subaru parts pretty easily interchangable. The reason i say this is your old rs faces are 5x114.3 plus aren't yours 5x100/5x114.3. Then you could run the wheels without adapters and tuck them them aired out and still be able to run the RS.

some model of sti is. cant remember the chassis tho.

[Smeeeb]

Yo seb, didn't one model of imprezza have 5x114.3 hubs. Aren't most subaru parts pretty easily interchangable. The reason i say this is your old rs faces are 5x114.3 plus aren't yours 5x100/5x114.3. Then you could run the wheels without adapters and tuck them them aired out and still be able to run the RS.

[SebastienPeek]

Plasti-dipped one of the wheels to see what they looked like black.



I think I am sold. The ivory with the black and red centre caps looks awesome in my eyes.

[SebastienPeek]

Fitment looks good, love how your daily wheels are going to sit as good as they do!

They won't sit like that in the end though, need to run smaller adapters and cut a bit off of the extended studs so that I only need to run 28mm adapters at the rear and 20mm adapters up front.

daily and show wheels...all so balla.

All yo shit dope...keep it up good sir!

Thanks man, I try and keep it fresh

Man this looks so good, you've done a nice job

Cheers!

[99sil-teg]

Man this looks so good, you've done a nice job

[danielsahhhn]

daily and show wheels...all so balla.

All yo shit dope...keep it up good sir!