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Bit more work on the rig this weekend love having a bit of free time.




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This one saw the sun for the first time in 2 years. Started test fitting up my genuine full e3 kit I imported from Japan a few years ago. Also got into removing all the old glue that the previous owner used to glue down the floor underlay which was a prick of a job.

Alright finally downloaded tapa talk let's see how it goes.

Firstly installed the missing light and found myself a set of amber corner lamps.



By now it should be no secret but I now have a full genuine evo 3 body kit.

I've taken delivery of the fenders, bonnet, bumper wing, and side skirts. Last night I purchased the rear bumper from japans which the pods will be removed and sent in the coming day.

This has been single handedly one of the biggest expenses to date but I feel a car of this quality is worth it.

As a result it has chewed up most of the 'getting the car' started fund. So that will be on the back burner for the next few month.

I feel that the plan will be to get any of the parts that have damage repaired and rear fit them onto the car.

I still have a bit of wiring to do and a fuel pump relay box to build

I will then attempt to save to have it started, all I need is the haltech wired up, dump pipe and cat installed, and new intercooler setup that will limit cutting of the bumper.










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So it’s been a while between updates, unfortunately life just gets in the way however finished off the Oil cooler today, Tick. The list is getting smaller.  It’s all stuff I can do myself just don’t want to pay someone else for things I can do.

 

The end result of the oil cooler looks good and mounted sturdily. A coat of Saturn black sets it off. shame it will be hidden under a bumper.

 

 

 

 

A bit more progress this weekend, Finally mounted the engine oil cooler. I felt the universal oil cooler fits a bit awkward and a bit low so to lift it up I cut out the panel behind and make some mounting brackets and angled the cooler so it sat as high as possible. It fits well with the lights in and doesn't touch the bumper or inner arch. I may get a tigher AN10 180 degree fitting for the lower fitting down the track but it currently has plenty of room. There is a dropper bracket behind that holds up the outside corner and is quite rigid.

 

Current mod list for my giant paperweight

Engine
Mitsubishi Vr4 4G63t conversion
Mitsubishi Vr4 wiring Loom

Bottom End
JE Forged Pistons
JE Piston Rings
SCAT Forged Rods
ARP Head Stud Kit
ARP Main Stud Kit
ACL Main Bearings
ACL Conrod Bearings
Stainless Steel Head Gasket
Gates Racing Timing Belt
Engine Blueprinted
Engine Balanced
Factory 6 bolt crank

Cylinder head- Not Currently Installed
1G Cylinder head machined to suite
JM Fabrications Intake Manifold
Falcon throttle body
Modified Larger Breathers on Head cover
Tomei Adjustable Cam gears
BC 272 Camshafts
BC +1mm Oversized Inlet Valves
BC +1mm Exhaust Valves
BC springs and Retainers
Supertech viton valve seals
Supertech Valve Guides
Supertech Valve Locks

Exhaust/Turbo
Garrett GTX3071R
Custom made tune steam pipe manifold
Turbosmart Ultra gate
3 Inch mild steel exhaust System
Rage muffler

highflow cat

Fuel
Bosch 1300cc injectors
2xBosch 044 Fuel Pumps
Proflow Fuel Regulator
AN 6 Braided Feed lines
AN6 Braided Return Lines
Proflow anodised fittings.
Billet Fuel Rail
Walbro 255Lph intake pump
Aeroflow undercar surge tank
Proflow Fuel filter
Proflow Check valves

Electronics
Haltech sprint 500 ECU-awaiting installation
Blitz Turbo Timer
Coil on plug Conversion
Subaru WRX ignitors

Intake/Induction
Custom Air box in Font bar
GFB BOV
Cold air Induction Piping
100x300x600 Core Aluminium Front mounted Intercooler
Stainless Intercooler Piping-needs to be modified to suite JM Fabrications Intake Manifold
GFB Blow off Valve

Cooling
standard radiator
Dual 10 inch Thermos Fans mounted on front of radiator
Oil cooler
Power Steering cooler

Suspension/Handling
G4 Adjustable Coilover suspension
Front Whiteline Strut Brace
Rear Whiteline Strut Brace
Standard Front Sway Bar
Whiteline Rear Sway Bar
Rear Adjustable Camber Arms
Pedders camber pins

Braking/Wheels
Satin Black Powder coated Evo 7 Enkei wheels

ABS Delete
Mitsubishi EVO 8 Brembo Calipers
Racefab Brembo  rear adaptor plate
Mitsubishi Evo 5 Brake Master cylinder and booster
Braided Front and Rear Brake Lines
Stainless Brake lines Upgrade
Evo 4 Drum hand brake

Drive Train
Evo 4 5 Stud Conversion
Evo 4 Front hubs
Evo 4 Front control Arms
Evo 4 Hubs in GSR Trailing arms
Evo 3 GSR Gearbox
Evo 3 Front LSD
Evo 3 Transfer Case
Evo Rear LSD
Exedy Sprung Button Clutch-will need upgrading

Exterior- currently not installed
Genuine Aluminium Evo 2 Bonnet
Evo 3 Fibreglass body kit

Interior –currently stripped
Stripped out sound deadening removed
Safety 21 6pt Roll cage
Sparaco pedals
Genuine Red DC5 Integra Recaro Seats
Battery Relocated to boot
AC Delete

Mods to come
New engine loom for Haltech-possible digital dash
New dump and turbo intake pipes
Install built Head
Evo 6 or 7 front and rear seats.
Genuine Evo 3 Body kit
Possible Auto conversion?

Anybody who has bought speed flow fittings will understand my pain.

This was only for the fuel system.

The amount of times I've walked out of the speed shop saying that I'm done with spending anymore money on fittings is in the double digits now.. I'm at a point that I actually have usually stock of lines and fittings!

 

Know this feeling well, Looking really good

Mines been sitting for 6 years as well. Damn life always gets in the way.

Its been a while since I last posted, unfortunantly not much has progressed with the car since april however I had some spare time on the weekend,

 

I finished off a few jobs that I had been meaning to do for a while, Fitted the thermostate housing gaskets, Black proflow fittings and baid fuel lines in the engine bay, and installed the battery tray in the boot. I plan to finish off the rear surge tank and fuel lines this week as well as starting the wiring for the fuel pumps. The plan is to hardwire the 3 fuel pumps to the battery in the boot with some relays and fuses. I also need to sort out a mounting braket for the font mounted thermo fans. This may require brakets fabricated to the radiator to mount them

 

Thermostat housing secured

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New Lines

 

New Lines 2

 

 

Battery Tray 1

 

Battery Tray 2

 

Battery Tray 3

Well its been a quite last month however managed to get a few things done on the car to a stage where it is ready to head up to the workshop to have the haltech installed.

 

Firstly managed to get the gsr sway bar to mate to the evo 4 control arms with a fabricated metal bracket. Note still need to weld in some gussets however it will do the trick.

 

 

Next I finishes off the fuel lines. The Under car lines were made up and fitted, however Iv decided to change to black fittings for the braided line.

 

 

 

I Also bought a new tow ute. No hate please because its a Holden.

 

 

So now the next stage of the build begins. The haltech will be installed with a fresh brand new loom, intake pipe, exhaust and dump fabricated, and started. Off to AM Auto in the next few weeks

 

 

Another big day working on the car,

 

Firstly we realised that the senders for the fuel pump had not been plugged in so out came the tank.

 

Next the front sway bar was reinstalled to the car. We are currently devising a suitable way bar link that will work with the evo 4 lower control arms and the factory gsr sway bar. Mitsubishi EVO Spares https://www.facebook.com/evoemporium came though with the left hand brake cable and the Brembo conversion was complete. They have only just started trading in evo spares and offer spares with out the evo tax that is usually associated with the brand name. They are currently dismantling evo 4 and 6's however should have a larger variety of stock in the near future. Check out their page and support them.

 

Finally the shifter was then reinstalled with new solid shifter bushes. Even just sitting in the car going though the gears it felt a lot firmer than the original 22 year old plastic items.  

 

Thing are starting to look good with the car and coming along nicely.

 

More updates really soon.

 

 

 

 

 

So finally back at work after a few weeks off and had great success with the car. My first week off was spent with the family however the second week was were the major work began.

The brake system is now finished and bled up with a rock hard pedal. I pretty much replaced every hardline and replaced the soft line with braided lines and fittings. What and absolute crap job it was doing the hardlines I will never do them again on the ground without a hoist.

Next the clutch system was reinstated however we quickly realise the master, slave and soft lines where stuffed from sitting around for several years. The master and slave were replaced as well as new braided soft line. Now the car has a nice hard clutch pedal.

Next the fuel tank was reinstated. A new one was sourced by Josh and was in mint condition as my old one disintegrated while being hydro cleaned. The tank went back in and easily cleared the remade brake hardlines. The rear sway bar was also installed.

I found out the hard way with the brembo handbrake cable though. I had evo 4 left and right cables and discovered the length issue between the 2. Thanks to Brent I have another left hand cable on order direct from Japan.

I'm currently in the process of reinstalling the front sway bar. Originally I was going to go evo 3 swaybar however due to the lack of them being for sale I've decided to run the gsr factory sway bar with modified swaybar links to fix to the evo 4 control arms. This saves me a heap of time and money.

The last thing to sort out is the fixing of the 3/8 fuel and return lines to the car. I have some extended custom mounting brackets being made and should tuck the line tight up to the underside of the car.

As you can see plenty of work has been done still lots to come.

The car had some progress after the weekend,

 

Friday night came and josh popped over with my fuel tank, Its mint, not a mark on it. Even better it was free after swapping some gsr parts for it that I had accumulated over the year. No more progress was made that night as we ended up chilling out in my garage talking shit for several hours.

 

 

Futher progress was made on Saturday. My mate Lucas popped over and that's were the real work began. Many hours later 1am in the morning, the turbo the GTX 3071r was finally fitted and all lines installed. The car is slowly making process. Its great having a large garage now to get stuff done.

 

 

 

 

 

Next on the list will be remaking the rear brake lines so the tank can go back in. After the tank is back in I can finish making the fuel lines under the car. Other little projects include, fitting the radiator and thermos, fitting falcon throttle body, sourcing and installing a evo sway bar. I also think I will be going a black and white and machined steel finish in the engine bay from now on.

 

The fitting that was originally in there was just a steel fitting and it worked fine for the old garrett 2860rs except it was an3 where the new line is an4. It's deffiently not tapered after running a thred chaser through it. That's not to say it may not have had a helicoil run through it in the past. Anyways went back to pirtek and they rekon it was possibly casting failure. They gave me another one and it its in there fine now. I would have asked for steel but they didn't have any in stock and I wanted to install all the turbo lines this weekend. No other way better to spend a Saturday night 😀