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Let's start from the beginning shall we? we have much progress to cover!
It all started early june of 2012, Went around looking for a new car and came across a deal
I couldn't pass up. A 1993 WRX Type RA for pennies. When I picked her up she looked
like your average commuter.
But she had many problems. exhaust leaks, blown struts with coilover springs, fucker'ed
coilpacks, cracked cv boots, bad powersteering pump, blown headgasket, bad waterpump.
I bit off a little more then I could chew for sure. But it was a good base to learn on, so I got
to work.
Turns out things were a tad bit worse then I had anticipated. The car has had a blown
headgasket for quite some time and the previous owner in JDM land decided it would be a
great idea to fill the coolant with tap water... over... and over... again. This caused a shit
load of corrosion and a bunch of the coolant lines to become nothing but... well nothing,
really. Heads were warped, valves had been bent, and I cried myself to sleep.However,
There was some good news, The old ~100k km block still had the cross hatches on the
cylinder walls... finally something good.
Sadly this is where the photo's end for this part of the cars life. I ended up getting too
angry and broke to take pictures. I just wanted it to work again.
Fast forward a couple months and I end up conserving myself enough money to buy some
goodies to get her running. Ended up getting new internals and heads. Scored a set of
used ej20g heads off a buddy of mine and had them machined down and got a valve job
dome on it!
Things were finally looking good for once, the car ran amazingly with no fuss, then disaster
struck.
A dick decided it was a great idea to go through a service lane 80km/h in -30c on an ice
rink. ended up loosing control and side swiping my car causing it to hit the car infront of
me. Hit me hard enough to blow my headgasket a-fucking-gain. also mangled my tierod,
steeringrack, and my last ciggerett was broken in the incident...That mother fucker.
Ended up going through insurance for a month and a half as he tried to blame it on my
while I was in my parked car. luckily I had a witness and a police statement from the both
of us, which I stayed with my story and he didn't. So in the end I got $5030.00 to fix the
bugger.
In came new parts. Cometic .30 headgaskets, arp headstuds, exedy clutch, act flywheel,
new tierods, new seals all around. I must say we definatly made her mechanically
bulletproof.
for a while she looked pretty ghetto. but thats just how it was, ugly but it worked.
Then things took a turn for the awesome.
Came across an individual who was selling some speed max (OG XXR's) with rubber for
$250! put em on and drop her low-ish and that's how she currently sits!
In the hopefully near future I am making this RWD, welding the center diff and probably
gonna blow my R160 rear diff. then change it out with maybe a R200? who knows! only
time will tell what will happen next!
It all started early june of 2012, Went around looking for a new car and came across a deal
I couldn't pass up. A 1993 WRX Type RA for pennies. When I picked her up she looked
like your average commuter.
But she had many problems. exhaust leaks, blown struts with coilover springs, fucker'ed
coilpacks, cracked cv boots, bad powersteering pump, blown headgasket, bad waterpump.
I bit off a little more then I could chew for sure. But it was a good base to learn on, so I got
to work.
Turns out things were a tad bit worse then I had anticipated. The car has had a blown
headgasket for quite some time and the previous owner in JDM land decided it would be a
great idea to fill the coolant with tap water... over... and over... again. This caused a shit
load of corrosion and a bunch of the coolant lines to become nothing but... well nothing,
really. Heads were warped, valves had been bent, and I cried myself to sleep.However,
There was some good news, The old ~100k km block still had the cross hatches on the
cylinder walls... finally something good.
Sadly this is where the photo's end for this part of the cars life. I ended up getting too
angry and broke to take pictures. I just wanted it to work again.
Fast forward a couple months and I end up conserving myself enough money to buy some
goodies to get her running. Ended up getting new internals and heads. Scored a set of
used ej20g heads off a buddy of mine and had them machined down and got a valve job
dome on it!
Things were finally looking good for once, the car ran amazingly with no fuss, then disaster
struck.
A dick decided it was a great idea to go through a service lane 80km/h in -30c on an ice
rink. ended up loosing control and side swiping my car causing it to hit the car infront of
me. Hit me hard enough to blow my headgasket a-fucking-gain. also mangled my tierod,
steeringrack, and my last ciggerett was broken in the incident...That mother fucker.
Ended up going through insurance for a month and a half as he tried to blame it on my
while I was in my parked car. luckily I had a witness and a police statement from the both
of us, which I stayed with my story and he didn't. So in the end I got $5030.00 to fix the
bugger.
In came new parts. Cometic .30 headgaskets, arp headstuds, exedy clutch, act flywheel,
new tierods, new seals all around. I must say we definatly made her mechanically
bulletproof.
for a while she looked pretty ghetto. but thats just how it was, ugly but it worked.
Then things took a turn for the awesome.
Came across an individual who was selling some speed max (OG XXR's) with rubber for
$250! put em on and drop her low-ish and that's how she currently sits!
In the hopefully near future I am making this RWD, welding the center diff and probably
gonna blow my R160 rear diff. then change it out with maybe a R200? who knows! only
time will tell what will happen next!
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