Here’s a bit of a sneak peek of the work that’s underway in the trunk
Still a work in progress, but the subenclosures will be connected to be one unit and it will be covered in carbon fiber.. and well… you can see what I’m doing with the floor of the trunk
It is a false floor that has the two amps and a cap under it. The fuel door is an access door so that I can place a 110 amp breaker in there and flip the switch if I want to kill power to the car
I was able to take top prize for Subaru at Scrape By The Lake yesterday.. The weather held out for the most part.
After a week off, I’m going to get started back in on the trunk. Here are a couple of shots from the show:
Here are a few photos from the JRP event where the TMBLER won Best Subaru Elite.
Alrighty… New alternator is installed and she’s running like a champ
The new alternator isn’t powder coated but it cleaned up pretty good with a wire brush attachment on the drill. I buffed it up using that attachment and it came out pretty good.
Off to Fourstar first thing tomorrow morning for an adjustment tune and vacuum bleeding of the brakes to get the remaining air out
Here are a couple of pictures on how the alternator turned out. I transferred some of my new bolts onto it for some BLING factor. Couldn’t get the screws to come out around the pulley so I wasn’t able to use the new hardware for them.
Here are a few pictures of the car in its current state. I forgot to bring my camera to the car show, so they are “in the garage” pics again.
My cleavage:
Crappy Exterior shot:
And some engine bay pics with my panels in place… No carbon fiber yet 😦
Well the car got put together, and the paint was still drying on the passenger panel as I was putting it on.. but the car is up and running.
The brakes are still a bit mushy. We think I need to do a reverse bleed to get the air out of the high spots. Hopefully that does the trick.
Fired the car up this morning and there was smoke billowing out from the thing when it warmed up. I was crossing my fingers that the smoke was from the previous oil leak that got down on the headers and the up-pipe wrap.
That damn valve cover bolt that sheered in the head had caused a bunch of grief. Good thing I was able to drill it out and back out the broken bolt. She is all sealed up and good as new.
I put the water hose in there and washed/sprayed everything down and she was good to go :thumbsup:
I still didn’t have that much confidence with her to take her all the way across the 401 with those mushy brakes to the show at Mosport, so I went down to the JRP TASR show and picked up Best Subaru Elite
Of course on the way down there, I stopped to pick up some cash, get back to the car and the battery is dead. Not that big of a deal so I called up CAA. The crappy part was that my trunk cable is whacked and I couldn’t pop the trunk for the boost since the battery is in the trunk… So I had to remove the rear seats and pop the trunk.. Good fun in the Royal Bank parking lot, and good thing I packed a mini toolkit with me
Looks like my alternator isn’t pumping out that much juice.. it was 12.8 volts that the CAA guy measured. I’ll have to get that sorted out. Plus I think I’ll rig up some posts in the trunk in case I need another boost after I get my audio equipment in there. But first thing is to fix that freaking trunk cable!!!
Now tonight.. I will REST… crappy part is the power flicker from the Thunderstorms popped my cable box and it is dead.
A fairly eventful Sunday
Man.. am I ever starting to get exhausted!! Working all day and then working late into the night the last few nights.
I need to get the car mechanically sound to flat bed over to Kyle at Budd’s Subaru tomorrow morning so that they can give it a once over and bleed/burp everything and cross my fingers.
Tonight I need to finish:
– tighten down the manifold
– tighten one last fuel line
– tighten one last coolant line
– connect valve breathers to intake
– run/flare/bend drivers side brake line with T to passenger side
– connect starter wires
– fix trunk latch so that I can open the trunk and hook up the battery (trunk is stuck closed)
– create throttle cable bracket.. last nights attempt went sour
– re-attach fenders/fender liner/lights/bumper/wipers/cowl
Here are some pictures of the last two LATE nights..
Brake lines are run up through the wiper cowl…
Fun with the line flaring tool…
Well that was one hell of a hot day to do fiberglass work (95F + Humidity)
I had the day off of work so I tried to get as much done as I could. I was visiting relatives for the weekend.
But the drivers side panel is ready for the two top strut tower pieces to be glued on and the aluminum rail for the bottom piece.
I managed to get the car up on jack stands today too. I had to pick up a new floor jack so that I could get under the car to the right spots, but I wanted to get a decent one for a while now anyways.
Tonight I have the following I’m hoping to accomplish:
– Glue panel pieces
– Load up rims for new rubber tomorrow
– Fix my one fuel line
– Finish my starter wiring
– Take my first stab at the Carbon Fiber work
I’ll be picking up my nice shiny intercooler pipes tomorrow at noon too!!
Before Fiberglass and Resin….
After Fiberglass and Resin….
I’ll be letting it sit overnight and the pop it out… then the gluing, sanding and shaping begins all over again.
After a night of sitting the panel popped out like it was meant to be….
Yahoo!!! ABS is OUT!!!
Now it’s time to start on the passenger side cover 🙂
The TMBLER 