Supraru's swapped 99' Rs

[Supraru]

Well Here it is just about it's current state.



Had a friend detail it before a car show



Then it downpoured



Mods:

04' 2.0l wrx engine
VF-34
Short ram intake
Gm boost solenoid
up pipe
Invidia 3" dp
Blitz Nur Spec R cat back
Base tune
Spec stage 2.5 carbon kevlar clutch
Spec street light flywheel
Wrx trans rebuilt by me with 05' lgt gears

Wheels, Brakes, and suspension:

04 wrx brakes set up
Carbotech pads
Goodridge ss brake lines
Tein Flex coilovers
Comming soon ICS coilovers with track springs
Stock 99' Rs wheels currently powdercoated by myself bronze
Gab front and rear strut bars
Fhi rear sway bar
Whiteline front sway bar

Exterior:

Carbon fiber high rise scoop
Sti fog light covers
Hella FF1000 "fog lights" with hid's when the covers aren't on
Clear corners, side markers, bumper turnsignals
Red and clear tail lights
Rb5 replica wing

Interior:

Version 3 sti seat
04 Wrx dash
Nardi steering wheel
Nrg quick release with shorty hub
Prodrive shift knob
Kartboy short shifter with bushings
Prosport egt, oil presssure, and boost gauge
Aem Wideband gauge and senseor
Defi gauge pod

[Supraru]

arliest picture of my car since I lost them in a computer crash in 2006



My Wyotech days. At this point my rims were painted duplicolor bronze









Ok I lied, this is the earliest. Up in the Pocono's. Spent the whole weekend driving around the snow covered back roads with my other two friends with Rs's. I wanna say 2001.

[Supraru]

Ok now to the swap

First delivery Two 4x4 pallets and about 4' high. As I've said before I did a complete swap. Only thing that isn't from an 04' wrx is the shell and my seats.





The beginning of the quest for more power









Everything in and wired up



About to throw the wheels on



Wheels back on then I saw this and had to wait for replacement parts





First start
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-dvZjwCanY

Ripping through the gears. Stock with just a cat back. Had to wait for the ap and my dp
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhQQf4OZkuY

"Stage 2" with a cobb ots map
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-7Fjn6Nim4

Same mods with the addition of a gm boost control solenoid and an xpt map
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXDL-BnbV6c

Vf-34 time. Xpt vf-39 mapped slightly tweeked
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nR0oHIYzoa4

[Supraru]

This is the more current part of the pictures.

Getting the 257 ready


Last year blew my trans so I swapped in lgt gears with all new syncro's and bearings


Lgt's sitting pretty



New engine so why not new turbo?


Powdercoated my spare intake manifold


My new baby


I love the Nardi wheel

[Supraru]

I'll throw up some random pictures here.





On the left is my times


Over the winter


At a local car meet




Me and a couple school friends after messing around in a parking lot. We were gonna send it into scooby sport but never did. haha

[Supraru]

I'll throw up some random vids

With some friends while I was at school

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VqHXNP5qW5E

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_btgCoorT0A

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6hHv-pCS6E

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUSIaV39nZ0

[740iLL]

Wow, some excellent work in this thread. Definitely looks like ur puttin your blood sweat and tears into this build. Even with all the performance mods you put into this, i still think that Nardi wheel is my favorite haha. Keep the updates comin.

[Supraru]

Originally Posted by 740iLL

Wow, some excellent work in this thread. Definitely looks like ur puttin your blood sweat and tears into this build. Even with all the performance mods you put into this, i still think that Nardi wheel is my favorite haha. Keep the updates comin.

A lot of blood!!! haha. It always makes you proud when someone asked you who did this or that and you say yourself. Only thing won't do is body work. I'm not patient enough.

[omgjacki]

Nice work. I'm looking to swap mine at the end of the summer.

[jen.]

This is a seriously clean RS! I really like what you've done with it.

[httrdd]

Been there seen this. Lol. Seriously the car looks great and nice time slip. Are you tuned with that drag strip run?

[Supraru]

Originally Posted by omgjacki

Nice work. I'm looking to swap mine at the end of the summer.

Nice, with wiring options out there and way quicker turn around then when I did mine it's almost to easy to do a swap on these cars anymore....unless you actually want to swap out the dash.

[Supraru]

Originally Posted by httrdd

Been there seen this. Lol. Seriously the car looks great and nice time slip. Are you tuned with that drag strip run?

The only tune I had for it was the map I currently have. Long story short a friend of a friend had this same exact set up on his swapped legacy, I bought the turbo set up off of him and he wanted the stock turbo set up. Pulled a late night swap and got it done. Got a friend to swap the maps and code them correctly for the right year ecu's then flashed them into each car. The map hasn't been touched since. This turbo has been leaking oil for a while now externally and has seen it's better days. haha

So yes I was tuned on the drag run. I pretty much was inconsistent with launching since I was a little worried about breaking my new gears. My second to last run I said screw it and went full throttle off the launch limiter and got that. Then I got over anxious and my final run of the night I nailed the launch and then missed second. I think I could have eeked out a 12.5 on this set up and tune easily. With a proper tune I'd say closer to lower 12's.

[Reds82]

always love looking at your car wish my car was this clean

[Supraru]

Originally Posted by Reds82

always love looking at your car wish my car was this clean

Your car looks pretty clean to me!!! By the end of this week I'll finally have functional coilovers that aren't blown on again and I'm 85% sure I'll be ordering a ver 5/6 "flat" rear bumper for it. Then I can put on my painted rear spats that have been sitting off the car for 4 years. Won't even have to mod them. lol Also working on a trade for a unmolested wingless trunk.

[Zdrummer15]

Nice work! I've always liked these swaps because of the fact that there has never been a turbo'd Subaru coupe sold in the US (although that is going to change soon).

[Supraru]

Originally Posted by Zdrummer15

Nice work! I've always liked these swaps because of the fact that there has never been a turbo'd Subaru coupe sold in the US (although that is going to change soon).

I love it for the uniqueness which is why I bought the car in the first place. Not many people knew what Subaru's were then. If the numbers are correct I'll still be lighter then the new coupes coming out so I'll at least have that.....Can't wait till we get one on the lot.

[Reds82]

It looks clean in the pic I had a fender bender in may waiting to fix it over the winter so i can enjoy the nice weather in it

[wadud]

very nice.
jim

[Munky]

I give you more props for holding onto this thing as long as you have more so than I do for the work put into it. Not very often do you see someone hold onto a "tuner" style car for that long. I know of only a handful of people that have.