A faster grocery getter - 04 WRX Wagon

[SnazzyQ]

Those louvers are the bees knees man.

[Recoil889]

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

[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..

[Dremetos]

Chop top for the mother fucking win.

[shredgnar_]

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

[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.

[rice4life]

Ohhhh man.

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

[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!

[cosmo135]

dude louvers on a wagon?

YES

I'm so in keep up the good work.

[dharker]

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

[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.

[Recoil889]

Here are some updates on the exhaust:

[storey618]

jesus that is absolutely beautiful!

[Recoil889]

jesus that is absolutely beautiful!

Yeah, I'm really pleased with the progress so far.

[SnazzyQ]

Is it done yet