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Ari's WRB GC8 Turbo Build - Lots of Pics!

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Hello there, since I am pretty bored I decided to do a Members Journal.

My name is Ari and I live in Iceland. In 2011 I found this car wrecked outside a garage in a town close to where I live. It had no engine, no gearbox, no exhaust, and every single window, light and body panel was smashed. Right away I wanted to buy it and use the hood, bumper, seats and such to make my Outback nicer.

A few months after I found it I bought it and got it home. When it was home I changed my mind and decided I wanted to rebuild it, thought it was going to be easy, cheap and quick, well in short... I was wrong hah. I finished it two years later, took such a long time because I didn´t want to spend too much money on a turbo engine and tranny so I got a cheap parts car with a 2l N/A and swapped everything over to the GT as we call it here. Then when it was time for bodywork my friend talked me into buying a turbo swap. So I started again... Swapped everything back out again, don´t regret that at all now lol.

I´m not going into much more detail about the process since I already did a build thread on another forum. But I will show you some pictures though :)


When I found it and got it home. Both front wheels, 4pot brake calipers and something more was missing from the car. Might have been stolen since it was there for 2 years or something...



Home sweet home















I´ll skip over to the turbo stuff... Bought an 2l turbo engine, orginally from a Impreza GT and just like the engine orginally in the car. With the engine I got: 5speed GT Turbo gearbox, 3" exhaust, XS Power headers, 4pot brakes, wire harness, ver6 MOMO Steering wheel, ver6 seats (front and rear), orginal RS/GT 5spokes and some more stuff I´m most likely forgetting.









Did some basic maintaince on the engine, timing belt, waterpump, valve cover gaskets, spark plugs, fuel filter changed all oils out for Motul and more.

















Then it was time to swap the harness once again...





Sandblasted and got the wheels painted







Then it was time to take it to a shop where I work were my co-workers helped me with the body work.







All ready for primer and paint









Then the assembly







Painted the lower half of the interior black. And yes, I also painted some parts blue, and I personally like it











Custom made licenceplatelightholderplate (is that even a word?!? :lol:)



Custom gauge pod





Gettin it all together



And on the streets for the first time after rebuild! Oh the joy!





And first time back home after rebuild



New lights arrived





Custom licence plate holder I got made for me





On a local carshow last summer



And here is a roof spoiler I bought way back, it is a bit shorter than the window it self so I wasn´t sure if it would look good enough...







This fall I had a minor accident...



But thats fine, I just got a new fender and it gave me a chance to paint some new stuff, new parts, new look











8000k Xenon installation





Blitz BOV istallation with a custom made mounting plate











New gear knob





Got LED´s for the park lights to match the Xenon







Sparco pedals









And the last thing for now, I started making a trunk lip. Made a thread for that here




Mods

Engine/Drivetrain
XS Power headers
Complete 3" exhaust from turbo
Vibrant Muffler
New radiator
K&N Air filter

Suspension/Wheels
Team Dynamics Pro Race 1.2 17x7"
GT 4pots in front
GT 1pot rear
ABS disconnected
PB Coilovers

Exterior
World Rally Blue
Antenna Delete
Full trunk debadge
Black DEPO´s
Black DEPO turn signals in bumper
Black DEPO turn signals in fender
Fog covers
GT/RS spoiler
WRX Roof spoiler
Spare trunk, Debadged
Ver6 Grille
Blue Logo in Grille
8000k Xenon

Interior
Ver6 Seats
Short Shifter
Sparco pedal covers
Auto Gauge Boost Gauge
Auto Gauge Oil Pressure Gauge
Auto Gauge A/F Gauge
Custom painted interior parts
LED´s in interior lights

Radio
JVC Headunit
Pioneer 400w Speaker in the rear
Stock speaker in front for now
JBL 1200w Subwoofer in the trunk
Toxic 2000w Amplifier

Future plans
Megasquirt and a Remap
Manual Boost Controler - Owned
V6, P1 or C-West lip
17x8" +35 Wheels
STi Taillights


Soooo... Hopefully you enjoy reading this thread and viewing the pic´s. The other thread I made is on a Icelandic car forum. My thread is in Icelandic but it has some more pic´s and details.

Icelandic Members Journal
 

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#186 ·
Long time since last update huh, been lazy... Anyway, I fixed the idle thing. It was just a part of the tuning and the car is much better now



Some cell phone pics I took













Then I lowered it and I'm rather happy with the height for now, just wish the wheels were about 1inch wider...









And right now is a car festival in my town and my car was at the annual carshow yesterday









Engine bay still needs some work and clean up so the hood was actually closed during the show... And I ordered a turbo blanket due to the massive heat that builds up when I let the car idle for some time.

I'm also having a really annoying knocking noise from the rear right wheel. Shuts up when I turn to the right but keeps going when I turn left. Has all the symptoms of a wheel bearing but there is no play and no noise when I spin the wheel with the car lifted...
 
#188 ·
Thanks man! I actually got a few more pics that I've been too lazy to post lol

These are at a small meet during the festival (Bíladagar/Cardays)







And then I did a quick photoshoot, comments and advices welcome :) I think I need to spend more time on editing and practice some more...















 
#195 ·
looking good. maybe i missed it in the thread, but with you running that low, are you running roll center adjusters in the front? it was a night and day difference when I got mine, and I was nowhere near as low as you (before the RCA install - i went lower afterward)
 
#207 ·
I like the STi tails alot :)



I just need to get some proper pics... A friend of mine offered to take some and he takes amazing pictures but before that happens I need to get my P1 lip fixed and mounted. And I kinda need to lower it maybe 1cm on the front because it seems to have slightly bigger fender gap there than on the rear, which is not nice lol
 
#212 ·
Indeed I do haha! I also just met my friend earlier, whom I was hoping to get to take some pics of the car. He was cruising with some other friends of mine and had the camera with him and snapped some rollers, hopefully he will send me some of those soon!



Here is a pic taken by him for reference :)
 
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