The Bomber... Just another Impreza?
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Have kept checking this thread after each updated but having re read it all it's just incredible, the level of detail as mentioned on numerous occasions is astonishing. It's great to see you're going for a factory WRC look rather than the typical approach of reading the demon tweeks catalogue and buying x amount of parts which a lot of people do when it comes to creating a fast road or circuit car.
Have you got a specific time for the build to be completed ? Still enjoying the GP as well ?
Have you got a specific time for the build to be completed ? Still enjoying the GP as well ?
melvster said:
Have kept checking this thread after each updated but having re read it all it's just incredible, the level of detail as mentioned on numerous occasions is astonishing. It's great to see you're going for a factory WRC look rather than the typical approach of reading the demon tweeks catalogue and buying x amount of parts which a lot of people do when it comes to creating a fast road or circuit car.
Have you got a specific time for the build to be completed ? Still enjoying the GP as well ?
Hi Melv, Have you got a specific time for the build to be completed ? Still enjoying the GP as well ?
Yes its a painstaking process for me but mostly Dave who is doing all my fabrication work. Obviously my budget only goes so far but im hoping to somewhat blurr the lines between a WRC car and a road car. She will be as close to the real thing as I think anyone is likely to get without it being a genuine car.
As for the GP, yes I love it. She does 250/300 miles a week with me and is due some rear discs and pads but other than that, shes a cool little motor and provokes many looks and questions where she goes.
frayz said:
Hi Melv,
Yes its a painstaking process for me but mostly Dave who is doing all my fabrication work. Obviously my budget only goes so far but im hoping to somewhat blurr the lines between a WRC car and a road car. She will be as close to the real thing as I think anyone is likely to get without it being a genuine car.
As for the GP, yes I love it. She does 250/300 miles a week with me and is due some rear discs and pads but other than that, shes a cool little motor and provokes many looks and questions where she goes.
Yeah, great to see the panels actually being fabricated, rather than just buying the bumpers and plastering the original panels with filler. I mean, obviously there's skill in that and the end result is very similar if not the same, but it just feels a little like cheating to me...Yes its a painstaking process for me but mostly Dave who is doing all my fabrication work. Obviously my budget only goes so far but im hoping to somewhat blurr the lines between a WRC car and a road car. She will be as close to the real thing as I think anyone is likely to get without it being a genuine car.
As for the GP, yes I love it. She does 250/300 miles a week with me and is due some rear discs and pads but other than that, shes a cool little motor and provokes many looks and questions where she goes.
Cheeky mock up using an S9 rear door looks promising.
Daves now got the painstaking task of making the rear doors flares & returns from scratch, good job he's not bad at the metal lark.
Can't use the doors he already made as the S9 onwards used wagon rear doors with a higher latched strike pin. This allowed for larger wheel clearance when the rear wheels were bought even further forward on the S9 onwards. As it is the S7/8 brings them further 15mm to standard.
Daves now got the painstaking task of making the rear doors flares & returns from scratch, good job he's not bad at the metal lark.
Can't use the doors he already made as the S9 onwards used wagon rear doors with a higher latched strike pin. This allowed for larger wheel clearance when the rear wheels were bought even further forward on the S9 onwards. As it is the S7/8 brings them further 15mm to standard.
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