This is basically a TL;DR of the year on how much you've done in terms of vehicles, before the new years hits, let's share some stories!
Anyways...
How did the year 2014 go with your project car(s)?
This is how I started off in the year,
Sittin' pretty in the garage while I was at work in a land far far away.
At this time, the car was the usual, exhaust, downpipe, gauges, seats and the only thing differentiating it from any other STI were shitty flares (to this day, they are the biggest regrets I had on the car), and I was missing a passenger seat.
I bought the car out shortly afterwards late January from Richmond Subaru, and this is where the stupidity began.
The car made a short trip to Burnaby to The Speed Syndicate, where they pretttttttttty much built the entire thing.
JTanner & Qster photobombing my Pooparu.
Parts kept arriving, so TSS quite literally had my car from March -> June, and at the end of it, nothing on the car was stock anymore, with exceptions of the Aero and Engine Block, as the Varis kit had not arrived yet.
After this giant hurdle, the car was send downwards to Pacific Import Auto for the tune.
Of course, things don't go your way when Pistons fire the wrong way
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I made about 375WHP on the Mustang Dyno before the pistons cracked, and the ringlands gave way, reasons were still up in the air, and we figure out why much later in the year.
At this point, I was a little butthurt, as I've driven the car maybe 3 days in the year, and the definitive stereotypes of a Subaru staying in the shop more than it driving was becoming realized....
So I bought Narita Dog Fight's S2000.
It was a little dirty, slapped some wheels on, and called it a day. It's still sitting in Cali, will be importing it up early next year
Now it's about July in the timeline, I decided to rebuild the STI with a sleeved motor & forged goods. The head's have new valves from the piston's melting on to it.
Funny enough, I was driving my two good friend's car more than my own in the summer.
August 15th is the day I won't forget, I finally got the car back!
August 16th...and back to TSS it goes....
For all the right reasons
The Aero is finally on, and the car at this point
really had no stock parts anymore.
For those of you who went to the TSS track day this year, I actually got the car ready & tuned...the night before.
Bracing installed.
Helmet secured.
Oil swapped from Organic & break in fluid -> Synthetic
Hit 350WHP/300TQ on the Mustang with a break in tune the night before track.
Vroom vroom, chasing the old turd.
My dump pipe was seriously destroying my side skirts, so I kept re-wrapping it in heat tape which obviously did nothing, I was having too much fun.
Extraordinary day with extraordinary drivers & cars.
A month after in October, I'm getting my final tune.
Low and behold, I am again misfiring, and would've destroyed another motor if not for the Benson sleeving.
Turns out, one of the Douchework injectors was not firing properly, leaning out one of the cylinders causing misfire, gotta come back another day....
Swapped them to FiC 900cc injectors about a week later and safely made 402WHP/372TQ!
3 days after that I drove to SoCal expecting some track events.... but it was down time and I ended up going to Year.Six instead.
Got the car back up here no problem
Then I went to Japan/HK, came back...and here I am jetlagged
So that's my journey with the car this year, I'm expecting some grand events next year too with a rotated turbo, cage, paint, and upgraded aero!
Please share your story!