Time To Get Busy With The Mods

[craigdmcd]

Right, finally getting some time to start to fettle the car this Saturday, so will be starting with the following:

As a few of you may now, I have an original 1989 Legacy RS, with a large pile of bits to make it a rather fun "sleeper".

Stupidly decided to bugger the cost and go get a Helix clutch, which is starting to be needed rather desperately. The only dilema I have is whether to use the TTV 6.7kg flywheel or the really Gucci but light TODA 4.3kg. Any opinions by anyone who has run either of these weight of flywheels?

The next lot, has to be an all in one job really. Yet again, I thought long term, and went and got the beautiful RCM headers (that I got from Phil on the UK Legacy forum) coated by Zircotec. These will flow in to a low mileage TD05H that came off a low mileage GC8 RA. Then they will head down the Mongoose exhaust (again from Phil). This will then enable me to put the series 2 ecu in with the VOS chip

When I am in there, the sump may get replaced by a very nice baffled sump that was lying about. This is further down the list, but makes sense if I have all the exhaust off for access.

If I manage this in a day, then I'll be quite happy, and realistically very tired.

This is just the start of a few more days work that is required.

[JohnSt]

Good to see you making progress Craig.

I wouldn't bother with the really light one unless it'll never see a traffic light/junction/whatever !!

---john---

[Guest]

glad to see your making some progress mate

Edited January 2, 2009 by Ciaran

[craigdmcd]

Thanks for the well wishes troops. Hopefully will have it out at some of the meets this year. It does have an old retro feel to it, which I do enjoy, especially showing things like a Porsche Boxster S the way to go one night. There is nothing quite like a £30K car getting outpaced by a 1989 "japanese bit of what is that".

John, I know you are right about the flywheel, but the 6.7kg one is at my mum's, and by the time I get there, remove the gearbox of the engine that it is on, and get back home, I'll have 2 hours less in my day. I'm going to chance my arm, throw the clutch in with the TODA flywheel and see how we go. The car is to be used much more as a toy - and if it ain't right, I put the car back on the ramp and swap it over at a later date.

I'll have to find more time after this, as I have 4pot fronts, 290mm single pot rears, KW coilovers and a KS3 knock analyser to fit amongst lots of other bits and pieces.

[craigdmcd]

Well, got the clutch and 4.3kg flywheel put in, and there is absolutely no problem with how it drives. The biggest noticeable point with it is how fast the revs drop on the over-run when slowing in to junctions. It doesn't try to stall, with the ICV not really noticing it's there. The clutch is slightly heavier than I was hoping it would be, but not too sharp which is an upside. The reason I actually bought a Helix Autosport is that I actually had one previously in the wife's Celica GT4, and found it very good.

The TD05 is on also, along with the Zircotec coated RCM Headers and Mongoose exhaust. It's still running standard boost, so feels a little flat at the moment, and the TD05 spools up later (but hangs on longer up the revs) and is in desperate need of more boost to make it come alive.

New timing belt, fuel filter and spark plugs all fitted when I was there.

The only omission was the baffled sump, which I'll get to at a later date.

It's now trying to get time to fit the KW coilovers and bigger brakes.

[st3ph3n]

Sounds good Craig. I did enjoy hearing about the plans when I was down seeing you last year.

[fai17]

Craig...what baffle sump did you get?

[craigdmcd]

Stephen, as usual with all my plans, they take longer than anticipated, but get there at some point.

Peter, my sump is the same as the one in this thread (top of page 2) Old sump thread that came up recently

[thewelsho]

Good luck mate