My Couch Pulls Out, I Don't: The Resurrection

[Gordo 0]

I want the SubaRat !

Didn't read the whole thread, what engine will it get ?

[Dewback9 0]

Already has it: '03 Honda 954RR motorcycle engine. Bitch is going to RIP.

[Gordo 0]

You should start a contest, to see how many laps you make until it crashes

[ChriSOL 0]

that's pretty much what LeMons is.

 

Glad to see you back here tool. I know you were overnighting parts from south of the border for your ghetto ass build. i'm hoping you had the car blessed and some virgin mary/aztec mural airbrushing going on as well. also, your wheels should be 14x10 wires with whitewalls for the upcoming season?

[tuner4life 0]

Lemons aside, the build on this cressida is inspiring to say the least. Well done!

[ChriSOL 0]

i spent the day reading through crab's subie build thread on ZT and i have to say im thoroughly heartbroken those guys at lemons won't pass it. i hope he follows through and drives it around urban chicago to piss people off.

[WhoreMouth_Jr 0]

those pictures bring back memeors of GT2 the pikes peak escudo was so good

[ChriSOL 0]

bump.

[Dewback9 0]

 

The hibernation is over and the resurrection has begun….

[Gordo 0]

[Jason 0]

where is the aero from, when did you order it, when did you get it?

[Dewback9 0]

On 7/10/2021 at 2:56 PM, Jason said:

where is the aero from, when did you order it, when did you get it?

Kit is authentic BN Sports ordered through Mastermind/Faction Motorsports at the end of December 2020, delivered June 16th, 2021. Originally they quoted 5 mos. lead time but it ended up being around 5 1/2 mos.

 

The flares are from Monsterservice out of Russian which are for the Mark II. Ordered second week of June 2020, delivered end of July 2020 (~6 weeks). Took about 3 weeks to make & 3 weeks ship time.

 

I also just put in an order to DApexWorks for a hood, rear roof wing & a set of widened front fenders that have the correct Chaser sidelight cutout & Cressida rear edge. Hopefully the shipping lead time is the same as Monsterservice since they're coming from Russia as well. BTW, they now have a Paypal option so no more worrying about wiring money to some stranger in Russia & getting flagged by the FBI.

 

As you can tell, the flares (especially in the rear) are gonna be a job to get them to fit correctly since the doors profile, door handle placement & rear quarters are different between the cars. On top of that, I need to figure out how I'm going to blend both ends of the skirts to the flares. I might just chop off the lower section of the front flares below the body molding line since that's the top edge of the skirts & that part of the flare was meant to hug the body anyway (see 3rd pic) but there might be a weird gap since that part of the flare is meant to curve into the rear of the wheel well as well. I'll wait to mess with that until the fenders show up & I can go from there. There's a lower piece of the rear flares that's not mocked up in the pics that will need to be blended to the rear of the skirts. The Monsterservice kit comes with taller OEM style skirts,  so grafting it shouldn't be too hard if I take my time to not make it look like shit. I'm more concerned with the fit of the rear flares at the rear door line, so again, we'll see. Nothing is ever easy with these stupid cars, so I'm blazing my own trail.

 

 

For an overall update, here's a quick overview to get everyone up to speed:

 

As you guys know, I mothballed the car & my partial hoard of parts back around 2012 because I back then I was just a broke college student & couldn't fund my vision for the car for several years. I decided against doing "partial builds" along the way & instead chose to hold out, keep buying parts here & there and eventually build it the way I wanted. Well a few years turned into 5, then 7 and now it's pushing 10 years so I said to myself "Enough is enough. You have the money & aren't selling it so fuck it, let's do it." And...here we are. I'll start updating this more as the build progresses but I figured I'd get everyone up to speed on what's going on.

 

Current plan is out with the straight piped, stripped out bassboat & in with a streetable yet fully capable & setup high horsepower track car i.e. full interior & AC for the street & a coolshirt setup for the track. First order of business is getting the stance/look of the car figured out since the fiberglass work will be the most annoying/time consuming and wait times on aero parts take the longest. After that, I'll turn my attention to the engine.

 

So along with the aero stuff, I already have a full set of XM rear links & PBM S13 Limit Break front arms. The reason I went with the Limit Break arms (aside from the change in the front tension rod mount & added adjustability), was that I could use the extra length in the S13 arms with the wider front fender setup & still get the steering angle I want with added castor while still running baller deepdish wheels. I initially ordered just the front arms to start out, but after test fitting them to the car I found out a couple things:

 

1) I will need significantly longer inner tie-rods (even with the extended outer tie rod ends maxed out)

And

 2) Going to the absolute minimum length on the control arm by removing the extra "reinforcement sleeve/jam nut" & full positive on the camber plates still had camber at something north of -4 or -5 deg. so I will need the Limit Break tophats as well.

 

I'll keep you guys updated as I figure out this front suspension & how the erector set goes together.

[BoristheCat 0]

Have fun getting fucked by DapexWorks. We all got fucked, even with PayPal. 

Read my thread. Read the Dapex for sale thread.

Sorry for your loss

[Dewback9 0]

46 minutes ago, BoristheCat said:

Have fun getting fucked by DapexWorks. We all got fucked, even with PayPal. 

Read my thread. Read the Dapex for sale thread.

Sorry for your loss

I saw your thread and hopefully don’t get fucked. They sent a confirmation video almost immediately of the parts in stock ready to go so who knows. Maybe the pandemic made them get their act together to actually follow through on orders but only time will tell. I’ll keep everyone posted on my order status.

[Gordo 0]

How are you planing to support the nose?

[Dewback9 0]

6 hours ago, Gordo said:

How are you planing to support the nose?

Out of necessity to make room for the front mount & the state of my original bumper beam, I need to do a custom tube style with a support skeleton that'll go around the mouth and along the lower lip. I don't plan on trashing the car, but it will see regular track time abuse, so I want something that'll hold up & look nice. Dzus fasteners, quick release pins, etc. where needed plus it'll make mounting the oil & trans coolers and undertray a hell of a lot easier.

Although I haven't been drifting since the car was mothballed, I have been crap-can racing in the 24hrs of LeMons on & off ever since, so I wanna have a multipurpose car that isn't just some drift missile shitbox. My overall vision is something along the lines of "If Toyota homologated the X8 in period, what would that look like?" Think BMW 3.0 CSL Batmobile & E30 M3 Evo, Mercedes190E Evo & CLK GTR etc. etc. De-tuned racecar for the street with lots of trick parts but "comfy enough" for the street.

Now you can appreciate why I've had a bit of space shuttle syndrome with the car.

[Gordo 0]

46 minutes ago, Dewback9 said:

De-tuned racecar for the street with lots of trick parts but "comfy enough" for the street.

Now you can appreciate why I've had a bit of space shuttle syndrome with the car.

I say fuck the "de-tuned" part, because all motor hear, but agree on the rest. Have the type-1 BM nose myself.

I want to do two cross tubes, one at the bottom, and one at bumper height, plus lay some extra 'glass into the bottom to keep my nose from disintegrating if I come across a raccoon at night.
Wish I had access to a tube bender, but am at the mercy of some damn cage builder, so pretty sure this will be a can of worms.

Someone on here did make up a nice 'bash bar', don't remember who it was, but it would have done the trick. Seems like I asked about getting a duplicate, but don't remember ever getting a reply.
I will have to do some digging later. Just checked, didn't keep a copy of the image.

[Dewback9 0]

1 hour ago, Gordo said:

I say fuck the "de-tuned" part

It will be anything but "de-tuned". I meant that more in the sense of having creatures comforts and not a stripped out hardcore racecar.

Overall, the goal is to (at most) max out what a stock block & R154 can handle which, conservatively, is well known to be somewhere in the ballpark of ~700whp. I already have most of the NA-T stuff, minus an intake manifold and turbo, so right now I'm planning out how I want to setup the injectors & engine management. Massive injectors are notoriously shitty for low boost street driving, so I'm toying with the idea of running a dual rail, staged injector setup where I'll maintain the stock 230's as the primaries & then run something like a set of 650's upstream closer to the plenum. In theory, it should make for great street manners but when you give it the business it wakes right up. Only caveat is you now have to tune & sync 12 injectors instead of 6 but that ain't my problem, it's the tuners. I've already found a reasonably priced source for the manifold, so now it's down to figuring out what'll be the most reliable engine management solution that isn't astronomically expensive.

Another idea I've always thought would be fun to try, and along the same lines as staged injectors, is a compound turbo setup where you blend a small & large turbo setup together where the smaller one comes on first to help fill out & flatten the torque curve to minimize lag until big momma starts cookin. Again, it suffers from the same added complexity & lack of support because they are so difficult to get right, but they are fuckin awesome. On the flipside turbo tech has come a long way with things like the Borg Warner EFR & billet wheels where they've been able to minimize a lot of the drawbacks larger turbos used to have, so doing a compound setup today might be nothing more than trying to win a dick swinging contest.

As you can see, I've had 10 long, daydreaming years of space shuttle syndrome & how to theoretically build the best turbo setup I can think of.

 

1 hour ago, Gordo said:

I want to do two cross tubes, one at the bottom, and one at bumper height, plus lay some extra 'glass into the bottom to keep my nose from disintegrating if I come across a raccoon at night.

1 hour ago, Gordo said:

Someone on here did make up a nice 'bash bar', don't remember who it was, but it would have done the trick.

I'm pretty sure we are thinking of the same person, because I remember the same thing. I've seen it on a couple of 240's and it looked like a great setup. BN makes really nice stuff, but like you said, I did notice some thin spots in the corners so I will be beefing it up where needed. 

[Gordo 0]

The Bosch EV14 injectors are supposedly meter fuel at very low pulse widths, which make secondary injectors unnecessary.

I have 750s going into the 7M, for doing sequential injection, with them only being on when the valves are open, instead of up to 80%, and fuel puddling on the valve before it opens.
Had to do a lot of digging to find split flow, in a horizontal pattern, but I did.
Bosch # 0280158123.
Everyone had them in an angled pattern, with one fuel stream hitting the roof of one port, and the base of the other. Makes for poor fuel distribution in the combustion chamber, which leads to detonation issues, unless you set it up overly rich.

[Dewback9 0]

Updates:

Looks like I didn’t get fucked by DapexWorks after all. Fenders showed up 1 week after being shipped, so now I’m just waiting on the hood. The fenders were flown, so I’m assuming the hood is going to come by boat which is why it’s taking a bit longer.

They’re nice, for the price at least, but they will definitely need some beefing up because of how thin they are. I’m waiting for the hood before I add the front corners but overall, I can’t complain. Here are some mock-ups and comparisons to Keith’s stock fenders:

 

 

 

 

The flares are going to end up aligning perfectly with the top edge, which is what I wanted and will look great. Overall, the fenders added another 1”, which will help bring the fronts out to be more even with the rears.

I also started trimming the flairs a bit and got the rears pretty much where they should be so now I just have to deal with the lower piece that goes on the skirt. The fronts are almost there, but I haven’t touched the DApex fenders yet, so the flares are a bit forward of where they will actually be.

In other news, I’ve been busy ordering all sorts of cool shit:

Finally found a set of my personal unicorn wheels in 18” the other day and in a decent width so I’ll be able to at least mock up proper specs with some cheap slip on spacers before ordering new lips/barrels:

I also found a set of aftermarket RUCA’s so I don’t have to deal with just adding bushings to the OEM junk:

 

Also on order are a set of the Acostal front castor brackets so I don’t have to hack something together using the thin OEM garbage with the PBM Limit Break arms. Considering how hard I’m going to beat on this thing, I’m better safe than sorry and why not, more cool shit.

Last but certainly not least are brakes. I’ve been obsessing over what to do and I think I’ve finally settled on a solution. CTS-V 6 pots up front and then adapt my current set of Z32 fronts for the rears. Should be a simple set of easy to make aluminum adapters and I’ve been looking for an excuse to pick up a mini mill anyway, so fuck it. I still need to decide on the second rear set for the hydro, so I’m not sure what I’m going to do. I want beefy rear rotors, so I’m not sure if Z32 rears will be wide enough. Might just do a dual set of Z32 fronts and be done with it.

That’s all for now, but it’s official. I’ve gone over the edge and don’t give a shit anymore. I’m building a 3,200lbs F1 car.

[Dewback9 0]

I guess it’s about time I give an update…..the resurrection continues….

 

 

 

Oval tips go WOOWOOOOO….

 

 

 

Next on the list is turbo, injectors, new exhaust manifold and another set of rear wheels. Plan is to get it on the road by spring 2023. The saga continues…

[Gordo 0]

Holly fuck, didn't know that Allis Chalmers upper arms fit a Toyota...
But being tractor parts, I doubt you will ever bend them.

Nice seat!
Where is the other one?

[ChriSOL 0]

damn big sexy, you been crawling the arab sites for that storage console piece?

[Dewback9 0]

On 6/27/2022 at 3:25 PM, Gordo said:

Holly fuck, didn't know that Allis Chalmers upper arms fit a Toyota...
But being tractor parts, I doubt you will ever bend them.

 

I prefer my tractors green, not orange, but they'll do.

 

On 6/27/2022 at 3:25 PM, Gordo said:

Nice seat!
Where is the other one?

 

The other one is on the floor. Just did a quick mockup with my cheap rails, which makes my head hit the ceiling with a helmet. Time for some custom fabbed low mount brackets...

 

On 7/2/2022 at 8:52 PM, ChriSOL said:

damn big sexy, you been crawling the arab sites for that storage console piece?

 

YJP actually had a few pop up, which is surprising.