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Blimey! thats more than youve managed in the last three years - did someone slip you a gallon of red bull for brekkie?

No new garage 100 yards from the house gave me motivation.

Next is P1 engine out and full respray plus a little bit of attention to detail when it comes to the underbody

busy busy!

not realy only a days work

Well a little update

Old car on the ramp in the new shed

engine on its way out

Engine on the stand

An heads off and all looks good

PPG box is also off and will be rebuilt over the winter forgot to take any pics though.

Back to work for a couple of week on tue. Will get the engine out of the P1 next time I am home

So you had no luck selling it then?

What RPM do you get full boost at?

oh crap not good.

Hope the engine and dry sump are okay

You have the best Impreza mapper in Britain if not Europe a couple of hours drive from you.

Its who i use

http://www.andyforrestperformance.co.uk/index2.html

Paul Balmire (zen performance) comes highly reccomended as well. Heard nothing but good things about him

The bright flitter is nice on the P1.

Didn't know some came with gold wheels, a factory option I guess.

Yes they came with 17" or 18" wheels in gold, anthracite or silver

Anthracite or black for wheels, you put gold wheels on and it'll look like a type r trying to be a p1.

Keeping the external colour sonic blue?

Of course staying sonic Blue. Some P1's came with gold wheels as standard. Could go bright silver

Well picked up the AVCS heads.

Never actually got around to pulling the 2.1 out of my old car yet.

Plan however is to pull out the 2.1 and stick it on a stand and clean it up and paint it.

Pull the engine out of the P1.

Full respray due to now having own paint shop in the garage ( don't worry also have a mate who is a paint sprayer to actually paint it )

Engine bay will also get painted to match the external colour of the car.

Have the wheels blasted and the painted (colour yet undecided graphite or gold?

Clean up all brackets, inlet manifold etc and paint them.

Strip all the suspension parts off the car have them grit blasted then paint everything and polly bush the whole car.

Then rebuild it all with all the tasty bits I have and hopefully we will have a mint 450-500bhp P1.

I appologise for the lack of pics.

All will start when i get home 2nd of october and the car will.....will....will be back on the road for my 30th at the end of March

Well engine issue is still not really identified.

It seems to only knock when cornering. Car drives normally but the idle is poop

I have the forged 2.1 in my old car so it's coming out and will be fitted into the P1 with AVCS heads

Started stripping the old car for the engine coming out this week

Must remember in future that you need to release the refrigerant gas in the air conditioning before undoing connections

Will be fitting the reverse inlet manifold manifold so air con will be going in the bin.

That was a drop gear. It lives in the centre diff and takes power to the rear wheels. Snapped it clean in two and left me with the fastest FWD subaru at crail that day.

I have a spare set of drop gears so not so concerned. If it breaks it breaks will just have to make it better so it doesn't break

Is that the ppg kit? I have the same and found the limits of one of the standard parts the kit doesn't replace doing the same

What is that? I will take my chances

Dunno about the laptime but you should beat that quarter mile time easily if you're willing to be brutal with the launch.

Have no got alot of experience of knockhill but managed 62 with the old car with 2.1 and 20g so hopefully with some training, improved spool and better suspension i should be able to do it. As for 1/4 mile I have no problem launching it. Was doing a full bore 6k launch when I ran 11.68 and have the transmission to handle it

I recently purchased P1 #494 which = Project 494

Have decided seeing as the build number isn't that high a number why not use it as a target

Car was bought with knocking engine so that will have to be replaced

Parts I have to fit so far

Engine

Fully forged 2.1 CDB

Big port JDM AVCS heads

Un-equal Gruppe s headers

Billet fuel rails

960cc injectors

Reversed inlet manifold

HKS intercooler

Walbro lift pump

Bosch 044 transfer pump

Swirl pot

Drivetrain/brakes

5 speed 3.9 DCCD box with straight cut PPG gearkit

Plated R180 3.9 rear diff

Stage 5 uprated driveshaft shop rear R180 shafts

AP 330mm 6 pots

Brembo 2 pot rear brakes

Suspension

Set of BC coilovers

24mm rear whiteline anti roll bar

22mm front anti roll bar

Whilteline adjustable lateral arms

Whilteline anti lift kit

Whiteline subframe brace

I still require a turbo and ECU

Looking at SC46 and will be running a syvecs ECU

Aim is a sub 60 second lap of Knockhill and to be my 1/4 mile PB of 11.68

More pics when the engine comes out later in the month

Should be good with a 2.1 and avcs.

Bolt on turbo such as sc42, md321t or 20g billet will all the great for road use.

Will be giving you a race next season at crail mate.

Will be nice and reliable with mid 400s and perfect for the road May just have to see if i can be my 11.68 as well

You been taking optimism pills arch?

If you need a spare gearbox, mine will be up for grabs this winter - I HOPE!

No need have a PPG box with quaife ATB diff and DCCD to fit

And it will be back on the road spring 2013

What you putting in?

SW built 2.1 out the white car

Did you find the knocking noise?

Yip new engine required. Means a good excuse

ooooh it is blue, does that mean it will be FAST too?

Possibly we will see

Love IT!

Has it got any mods or what not?

Just full stainless exhaust with sports cat and re-map maybe 320ish

Very nice mate are you going to use it or is it getting stripped

She is a keeper everything else is in the process of being stripped and sold off minus the good bits which are going on the P1

Looks good where did you take the pics???

Pictures were taken about 5 miles from my house on the back road to glenshee

Very nice mate are you going to use it or is it getting stripped

Will be getting used. New engine to go in this week then just enjoy driving it.

Very nice, another nur spec I see

From Aberdeen?

No janspeed exhaust. Not loud enough that I cant here the engine knocking

Well seeing as I am off it would be rude to not put up some pics of the new toy

Hope you like

Nice p1.

I thought it was a running?

It runs but has an engine noise. Yet to be diagnosed. It is still driveable. The guy is using it every day and dropping it off in Aberdeen for me. At worst it's the bottom end at best its something I can fix

The cut is pretty tidy actually and my IC was a nice fit to it, it's the bumper bar that's rough as ****

Well I will be up in Aberdeen to pick it up prob Tue or Wed. Will be in touch. Maybe we could come to an arrangement as I need somebody to pick me up from home to pick the car up