pete25r's bugeye progress by pete25r

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updated the wifey's ride a week or so ago. the CVT is neato but it takes a second to get rolling from a stop.

9-25-2016

About a month ago I did the H6 brake upgrade thing. It's nice, stops a little more controlled and quicker.

I swapped out my seats with some less abused seats from an 05. The owner of the 05 seats had them as leftovers from a 818? build. 818 - that subaru powertrain based kit car.

I picked up a stock air box too. Had to find a hose to go from turbo inlet to box. That was a bunch of on, off, and trimming tell it fit. Still doesn't fit all that well but its good, no leakage.

I'm prepping to swap in some injectors I bought a while back. Got turbo plans.

I don't know what I wanna do first. I plan to go ELH and 16G. Both the oil pan and current turbo are leaking oil. The pan has been "seaping" for a while, it's old. On the turbo it's just the drain tube clamps have slid down. Them things are a pain to get on where they are supposed to be.

I got an uppipe I need to put on as well. Probably do that during turbo swap.

So what do y'all think ELH or 16G first? I haven't bought either yet.

10-19-2016

This landed on the install pile today...

1-13-2017

So me 0, motor mounts 2

I can't seem to get a wrench on the bolts that are on the rear of the engine. The steering linkage and rack are in the way, big time. Almost rounded the driverside, rear bolt. Lots of cursing.

I'm going to give it another go after I find some roll pins and change the front cv joints and ball joints. Ball joints are toast, cv joints aren't gone yet but could use a swap.

Was thinking about buying beater POS car and pulling my WRX's engine, refreshing all gaskets, seals, etc, cleaning it, engine mounts, and just all around go nuts.
That might happen next year.

Still got ELH and turbo plans. I don't have my heart set on a particular turbo. There are two, actually three, I'm torn over. 16G yeh that's textbook awesome on a 2 liter. 19T is pretty sweet too. I wanna do something weird though. Just to be weird.