So my buddy bought this car off of some kid almost 5 years ago. It has a lot of nice parts but the more I work on it and get into it they just don't seem to jive with the power it is supposed to have and how it spools. Figure some of you will enjoy my misery in fixing other shops/peoples mistakes. Sorry if this is long just kind of a lot of random stuff to get to.
Issues
1.No high beams/one ballast out, 40 dollar hid kit garbage in stock housing in super glare blue. Ripped that ricer garbage out.
2. Car won't start after you fill it with gas for 2-5 minutes. Whole evap system was misrouted so when you filled it with gas the vent went straight into intake without stopping at any evap solenoids. Rerouted everything back to stock
3. Tried to replace brake pads and rotors. RH side Brembo Caliper was either torqued super tight or the steel and aluminum bonded so tight it took the threads out with it. Timesert kit on the way to drill out and fix
4. Manual boost controller, thing spools rather late and it was opensource tuned so I don't get why they didn't use the stock EBC/upgraded controller. Thoughts? only ever mildy tuned my Z so noob here, just figure it would spool faster.
5. Cam seals on one side are seeping oil a little.
6. Exhaust is hanging rather low for how high this car is sitting. I feel it is a combo of the stupidly large downpipe and the catback chosen.
Mod list (to my knowledge, let me know if in the pictures you think differently)
Some oversized 3 plate clutch system.
Perrin Equal length headers
Turboxs 4 inch downpipe
HKS carbon-ti exhaust
APS front mount kit
16g turbo ( I question why such a small turbo with all the other stuff)
pyrometer + boost gauge
MBC
Rota Torque 17 inch 5x100
Opensource ecu tune
2.0 WRX motor rebuilt 58k miles on odo (According to previous motor)
06 STI transmission/differential ( I question the diffs being changed given the hubs are still 5x100 and not 5x114 if they really did swap the whole drivetrain like was said)
04 STI brembos
Looks like stock sti suspension with some form of blue lowering springs (cobb maybe)
Previous kid was supposed to give my friend the build sheet, and didn't. Supposedly this 2002 WRX was in a shop for like 18 months being built. It is some custom VW color. Somehow my suspiscion is it was at DS1, but I have no proof of that. My buddy says it was a shop in Naperville that only did WRX's and Evo's. Just seems like a whole ton of expensive parts were thrown at it but they ran out of money when it came to the turbo/MBC/fuel system. Dyno 5 years ago supposedly was 330hp. I don't believe it coming from driving my Z.
DP
HKS potato shooter, hanging low. Need to replace one hanger but still.
Supposedly a 16g.. just looks small to me.
Whoever decided to put the Evap clusterfuck here.. I hate you.
Any idea what these connectors are for? I was guessing the diff controller as it is an STI transmission in a WRX body. Or maybe emission related equipment.
Also this connector?
Issues
1.No high beams/one ballast out, 40 dollar hid kit garbage in stock housing in super glare blue. Ripped that ricer garbage out.
2. Car won't start after you fill it with gas for 2-5 minutes. Whole evap system was misrouted so when you filled it with gas the vent went straight into intake without stopping at any evap solenoids. Rerouted everything back to stock
3. Tried to replace brake pads and rotors. RH side Brembo Caliper was either torqued super tight or the steel and aluminum bonded so tight it took the threads out with it. Timesert kit on the way to drill out and fix
4. Manual boost controller, thing spools rather late and it was opensource tuned so I don't get why they didn't use the stock EBC/upgraded controller. Thoughts? only ever mildy tuned my Z so noob here, just figure it would spool faster.
5. Cam seals on one side are seeping oil a little.
6. Exhaust is hanging rather low for how high this car is sitting. I feel it is a combo of the stupidly large downpipe and the catback chosen.
Mod list (to my knowledge, let me know if in the pictures you think differently)
Some oversized 3 plate clutch system.
Perrin Equal length headers
Turboxs 4 inch downpipe
HKS carbon-ti exhaust
APS front mount kit
16g turbo ( I question why such a small turbo with all the other stuff)
pyrometer + boost gauge
MBC
Rota Torque 17 inch 5x100
Opensource ecu tune
2.0 WRX motor rebuilt 58k miles on odo (According to previous motor)
06 STI transmission/differential ( I question the diffs being changed given the hubs are still 5x100 and not 5x114 if they really did swap the whole drivetrain like was said)
04 STI brembos
Looks like stock sti suspension with some form of blue lowering springs (cobb maybe)
Previous kid was supposed to give my friend the build sheet, and didn't. Supposedly this 2002 WRX was in a shop for like 18 months being built. It is some custom VW color. Somehow my suspiscion is it was at DS1, but I have no proof of that. My buddy says it was a shop in Naperville that only did WRX's and Evo's. Just seems like a whole ton of expensive parts were thrown at it but they ran out of money when it came to the turbo/MBC/fuel system. Dyno 5 years ago supposedly was 330hp. I don't believe it coming from driving my Z.
DP
HKS potato shooter, hanging low. Need to replace one hanger but still.
Supposedly a 16g.. just looks small to me.
Whoever decided to put the Evap clusterfuck here.. I hate you.
Any idea what these connectors are for? I was guessing the diff controller as it is an STI transmission in a WRX body. Or maybe emission related equipment.
Also this connector?
