A faster grocery getter - 04 WRX Wagon

[Recoil889]

Ohhhh man.

This is definitely a breath of fresh air compared to 99.99% of all other impreza wagons. I can't wait.

cant wait to see what comes! i have always had a thing for subaru wagons i just love them . This is prob one of my favorite build threads for a subaru wagon. Keep up the good work!

dude louvers on a wagon?

YES

I'm so in keep up the good work.

Just read from beginning to end. Love the direction its headed in, keep up the amazing work man!

It's motivating that people are into this shitbox.

Thanks guys. Now I'm back to scraping seam sealer.

[dharker]

Just read from beginning to end. Love the direction its headed in, keep up the amazing work man!

[cosmo135]

dude louvers on a wagon?

YES

I'm so in keep up the good work.

[bdsevern]

cant wait to see what comes! i have always had a thing for subaru wagons i just love them . This is prob one of my favorite build threads for a subaru wagon. Keep up the good work!

[rice4life]

Ohhhh man.

This is definitely a breath of fresh air compared to 99.99% of all other impreza wagons. I can't wait.

[Recoil889]

This is great! keep this up, i can't wait to see it done!

Thanks, man. Don't hold your breath on it being done quickly.

[shredgnar_]

This is great! keep this up, i can't wait to see it done!

[Dremetos]

Chop top for the mother fucking win.

[Recoil889]

Progress!

Shortly after my last post, a buddy and I were able to get all the sound deadening out of the car. After it was removed, I put it down on wheels and rolled it out of the garage for her first bath in over 18 months. Fortunately I had a power washer to use, but the car was absolutely filthy.



Once everything was nice and clean, I installed the mock up block and six speed.
This is a bare motor with no internals. I'm using it for the purpose of giving the exhaust fabricator accurate dimensions to work with while creating the exhaust.

On July 6, Speedfactory racing will take delivery of the car and fabricate the following:
-Exhaust Manifold (Equal Length, Twinscroll, V-band)
-Up Pipe (V-band/T4, Dual 38mm EWG plumbed, Catless)
-Dump Tubes (V-band, merged into a single fender exit dump tube via collector)
-Down Pipe (V-band, Twinscroll, Catless)
-Convert Blitz Catback to V band



Lately I've been working on removing all of the sloppily applied factory seam sealer, excess adhesive and remaining small pieces of sound deadening. This has been very tedious and labor intensive work.



Following the exhaust fabrication, I'll be sending the car almost immediately off to be media blasted down to metal. Because of the soft nature of the media, the car needs to be clean of all of the above mentioned stuff to be worth blasting in the first place. I anticipate about 20 hours of work a week to have it ready before it goes up for exhaust.

After media blast, I'll neatly reapply seam sealer and send the car to a local body shop to be thoroughly cleaned and primed so that I have no surface rust issues. That'll use up almost all of the remaining budget for the year, so I anticipate work on the car to slow down again following the summer. No end in sight..

[Recoil889]

Thanks guys. Hopefully more cool stuff on the horizon shortly.

[SnazzyQ]

Those louvers are the bees knees man.

[DER E30]

I'm also seriously debating chopping the roof line down 2" and replacing all the glass with cut to size lexan.

Yes!!!

chop top this bitch

Yes!

Louvers are always a strong yes.

YES! Chop and louvers!!!

[philohlean]

Louvers are always a strong yes. Keep it up man, can't wait to see this back together, putting that turbo to good use!

[Recoil889]

I vote for a carbon roof skin

Yeeeeees!!!

I don't myself going with a carbon roof skin. I'm not sure anyone makes them for wagons. I'd also much prefer to have a roof vent since the sunroof and a/c is gone.

Here is the car as it sits now. I'm making the final push to remove the rest of the odds and ends and prep it to be media blasted. I'll be removing the sound deadening and power washing all the dirt and grime off the shell this weekend.


The turbo and second ewg showed up on Monday evening. I'm just waiting on the killer b oil pan to be ready to drop the motor and transmission into the car. Hopefully it'll be on its way to speedfactory racing for exhaust fab within the next few weeks.


For fun - here's a quick sketch of where I'm heading with the design. Yes, those are rear quarter louvers.

[klapasch]

I vote for a carbon roof skin

Yeeeeees!!!