Archives for November 2008

BMW M Cars Switching to Turbocharging

Read all about it over at AutoWeek

Project Resell : Day 26

The biggest hang-up right now is the lack of a turbo inlet pipe. It’s holding me back from installing the entire intake manifold, TGVs, injectors, and fuel rail assembly (which is ready to drop in place).
The OEM flywheel is at Doug Schooley Engines for resurfacing as of yesterday. The ACT Streetlite flywheel is [...]

Project Resell : Day 19

Wouldn’t you know, after getting a call about them, I forgot to pick up my parts Friday. Idiot.
A few days ago I mounted the injectors and completed the fuel rail connections, so the intake manifold assembly is ready to drop in place once I figure out what I am going to do about a [...]

Project Resell : Day 17

I’ve been waiting on parts and a slightly absent-minded parts salesperson for the last 4-5 days. This weekend’s work on the car was bust because of it. I could have started on other tasks for the project, but I have so much up in the air right now that I want to finish [...]

Details : SPT Intake

I just noticed something nice about the SPT (Subaru Performance Tuning) short intake. It has little holders cast into the pipe for the OEM coolant lines. It’s all in the details, folks.

The end of Harman Motive, for now.

The Harman Motive blog has a press release stating that the facility, equipment, tools, and their STI are for sale due to the upcoming closing of their shop. The last quoted sentence, “Certainly this is a difficult time for all of us, but I am confident that we will emerge better and stronger than [...]

How DeatschWerks Rolls

When I extracted the Denso ~550cc injectors (EJ207-STI “Pinks”) from Project Resell, they were crusty and not something I could reinstall as-is in good conscience. Having used RC Engineering before for injector flow-testing work, I decided to give DeatschWerks a shot this time. I was happy with RC, but their cost was a [...]

Project Resell : Day 10

Well, I have gaskets for the intake manifold and TGVs in place. I prematurely installed the intake manifold assembly and realized I could not get the coolant pipe (black, near the RHS head) in place with it on. So off came the intake manifold. After installing the coolant pipe I noticed it [...]

Cusco/Tomei STI Wins Super Lap Battle at Buttonwillow

Congratulations to the Cusco/Tomei team and Tarzan Yamada for winning the 2008 finals of the Super Lap Battle series at Buttonwillow Raceway (Unlimited AWD Class).
I’m sure it won’t be long before we get more details, but I am also sure several media companies have the footage on lockdown.

Project Resell : Day 4 Pictures

Project “Resell” Day 4 pictures are up. Click the image to go to the album.