Engine Bay Treatment and Injectors

Posted on by Tim Neil

So when I have the engine out of the car, I’ll be taking off the fenders, hood, and front bumper and doing a little bit of tidying up. I’ll be taping off everything and painting the engine bay black.

As well the firewall will be getting a treatment of adhesive heat sheild that arrived just the other day. This material will also be finding its way into my cold air box that I will be building.

The cold air box will be part of some new engine bay covers that I have up my sleeve šŸ™‚

I was also able to pick up a set of Power Enterprise 800cc injectors from a member of the Toronto Subaru Club that was no longer in need of them

 

 

The Modding Begins Again

Posted on by Tim Neil

So this year’s project is about to get underway. The idea of the build is to really show an upgrade path for us Hybrid builders and to do so using some of the newer vendors and products on the block.

Like most guys who ended up with a hybrid motor (2.0L WRX heads mated to a STi Shortblock) I had been modding my 2.0L engine. I had just performed a TD05-16G upgrade, with STi pinks and low and behold, the main bearing went on the engine.

When we took the engine apart we had found that the oil pan had been taken off the car before. So the previous owner had to have done “some kind” of work on the engine before I purchased the car. The car was one of the first cobb Stage II packages ever sold and installed on a WRX in Canada and was one of the testing beds for the packages.

So that is where the hybrid road began. In went the 2.5L STi shortblock mated to my WRX heads and I added on a FMIC for good measure. Like most of us guys who have done the hybrid thing, you soon find out that the turbo you chose before doesn’t really match your new goals and engine setup. Also the heads and flow characteristics aren’t what you want either.

So this spring I began talking to a bunch of vendors and compaines with new, or newer, products out there to piece together a build for a nice street setup. The idea was that I wanted to do a build that would be relatable to a lot of Hybrid builders out there.

And I wanted to do it with companies that were not the “big” and “usual” names that you hear. Giving the newer guys an opportunity to show that their products can stack up with the best of them and get some real world coverage of a build that would showcase their products and show the gains that were achieved.

Most people doing progressive upgrades have parts from multiple vendors and there really isn’t a lot of good information on how they work together. Typically you get one company showing the gains of using all of their products together. Understandably because they are selling their products.

First I started talking to Derek at Group-A performance who I have known through the Toronto Subaru Club and they were happy to get involved when they heard what I was wanting to do. They have an ever expanding product line that is being picked up by many of the different vendors out there. These guys have some great products that I will be using in the build.

– Front/Rear endlinks
– Pitch Mount
– Alternator, Power Steering, Crank Pullies
– Subframe locking kit

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