Graham, have you got an adaptor plate yet?

Hi, what it's a TY-75?

It's a 1999> Subaru transaxle. The one they use for the Subaru gears conversions. I don't think it's so popular with this forum :screwy:

It makes sense size wise and it can be used with aircooled motors. I think it might catch on over time

Not yet Kai but I have got my name on one from a mate but he seems a bit reluctant to let it go.Why do you ask ?

WELL! Assuming that a KEP 915 adaptor plate is compatible with a G50, then I'm your man. I so happen to have my adaptor kit left over from before I went with the Subaru box. If your interested By all means say so :)

Did I mention I now live in Surrey.

Ive sent you a pm kai

Off to collect the car at the end of the week the Porsche G50 is finally in place :D:D:D

Ok time for an update,

For those of you that know about the f___ing Idiot who previously installed the engine it will come as no surprise to you that nearly every part of there work needed ripping out and binning. Including the water pipes and fire wall. What more can I say, Professional W__ker....

THANKFULLY Darren Coleman over at http://www.dccustoms.co.uk now has the car now for the engine install and finishing.( Check out Darren's Facebook page to see what he is capable of )


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Its getting there :D:D

That's going to be loud! Have a think about breaking the return coolant line into sections so you don't have to remove it when you drop the engine...

Good idea on coolant line Rich

Hi

Looking good.

Make sure you break the coolant line in a straight section, that way you only need to carry straight bits as spares.

See how you like the noise level from your muffler, I think the noise level on my car is OK, when I go to track days everyone comments that they cant even hear my car because its so quiet. It all depends on how much attention plod will give you.

Steve

Noise tests this year for UK circuit and track day cars are down to 100DB, that is VERY tough to achieve, drift cars are out at Some venues as they don't comply, air coolers may doubly struggle.

Same here but turbos do quieten things down a lot, screamer pipes make a lot of noise.

One track I go to is 95dB at 30 metres the other I cant seem to find the regulations for the other track but next door to it is a 1/4 mile track with no restrictions

Thanks for the pointers fellas :cheers:

Reference the above, news just fresh in, we have just lost the Apex festival, the new noise test levels are biggining to bite, Drifting is already excluded from many venues for noise, we are ALL part of this and need to add noise suppression into our engineering of new builds as a priority, go hard or go home, make noise and go home.

Thats a real shame about the Apex Festival.

Not sure on how loud its going to be, hopefully not too excessive otherwise its back to the drawing board :rolleyes:

Agreed! There are enough people out there disliking our hobby. In California, someone was trying to introduce legislation to prevent ANY modding of cars regardless of age. Fortunately it was shot down but this doesn't bode well for our hobby. We need to do what we can to keep our detractors from having fuel to go after us.

I truly apologize for the slight hijack of your thread.

That sucks. I'd follow the trial of dominoes, if any car manufacturer was backing that legislation in California it wouldn't surprise me. Forcing us to abandon the old cars and only buy new ones.

I rented a car in Ireland years ago, they wouldn't even allow you to open the hood as it had a special key. They talked about this legislation in Holland also of owners not being able to even mess with their own cars, etc.

Also sorry for the hijack.

Hi

I just got back from an event in Sydney called Powercruise, http://www.powercruise.com/ (check out the videos) its a 4 day event where you get to drive your car around a race track at moderate speeds with tough street cars and have little races against other cars on the straights up to 130 kph or sometimes a little over that, they also have drags, drifting, power skid comps, burnout comps etc.

What the car haters don't take into account is the money spent on cars to turn up and run this event and many other events, its a hidden economy that would disappear if we couldn't touch our cars.

Steve

No worries about the Hi Jack's fella's.

If I remember there was some talk about coming down hard on classic car enthusiasts/modifiers/tuners in the Uk a while ago. It will take a brave and stupid politician to try to implement any drastic changes, its a big industry with lots of followers and livelyhoods involved. for this reason I can't see anything too drastic happening. But I think the noise issues are quite rightly founded if its out of hand, noise is a pollution at the end of the day and its not pleasant, a bit like Death Metal :D

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Darren at Dc customs has been working his nuts off masking up the car and prepping the cage for a fresh coat of paint. I can't imagine how much of a headache the masking was as the car is in full paint with a headlining. Thanks Darren :goodjob: You can see from these and other pics that he is taking great care not to damage the car whilst working on it :goodjob: ithttp://i1185.photobucket.com/albums/...t.jpg~original~original[/IMG]
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Now that colour choice :eek:

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Once agin thanks Darren for the cage paint, climbing in and out of the car with the paint gun must of been bloody hard work .

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Now I've just got to keep it looking that way. I am thinking about wrapping it in 3M helicopter tape. Anyone got any other suggestions ?

Gorgeous! Not sure if its available on your side of the atlantic but check out xpel.com. I work in the car care product industry and its definitely the best clear protective film on the market and will let the true color and flake in the red to come through.

Hi Thanks for that I will look into it.

That's awesome, love the car! I'll hopefully get a full roll cage installed in my project soon.

nice colour

Time for a long overdue update.

Had tons of issues to sort out but it's slowly getting there. The engine is in and running. Next I need to fit some bigger pink injectors to suit the larger turbo. Unfortunately life is in the way at the moment and work has had to stop for a couple of months. But I just thought I needed to update this thread.

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The coilovers seen here in the pic are from LA performance and made by AVO. If you mention the word AVO to the majority of people who have track cars they normally laugh. I wish i'd done some more research before I brought them. Parts of them rusted on the car just from airborne moisture and When the car was taken off the ramp one of them collapsed and stripped the thread on the adjustment ring. If you are running these you need to keep a serious eye on them. There are lots of reports of the poor build quality of these and brakages. I have now ordered and fitted a pair of Protech shocks. The built quality of the Protech's looks very impressive. I looked at loads of different coilovers and pound for pound they came out on top. [IMG]http://i1185.photobucket.com/albums/...k.jpg~original~original[/IMG]

I can't upload any more pics to Photobucket for some reason :( argh I'll try some other time.

That front suspension looks familiar!

I pilfered the idea off someone on here :p :lmao:

Hows you and your car Rich ???

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You can just see the top mount for the rear coilovers are now tied into the cage in double shear.

All good, boringly reliable but now a bit more driveable and faster courtesy of an RCM header and Harvey Smith up-pipe, I also added a splitter in the bellmouth downpipe!

Faster :eek:that must be a blast :D

I'm mostly enjoying the improved drive-ability and smoother idle, haven't properly put my foot down yet as I want to check the fueling correction table and do some logging