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Guess whos back....
Back again...
Sleepys BACK!!!!
TELL .... nobady! who cares lets RACE SOME CARS!!!!

After a 10 year break? trying to remember when my wagon got Tboned and sold. I have fought the fun car itch. Raced some Miatas for a bit (seriously fun cars to drive) a saturn SC1 because it was free and a 1.8 Turbo golf still. the golf really kicked it off again having a car that is kinda fun to drive made me miss loving a car and then a friend had some beers and bought a dirt fish weekend rally class. now hes registered for the 23 season of NW Rally Cross and im going to be late to the season but should be joining.

So after a lot of searching and forgetting these cars are getting old and hard to find I finally found a sad sad 1998 GC4 that is missing half the interior. door cards are swaped to pre 97 and not wired in. half of the dash has been spray painted white and falling off. no carpet no rear bumper and some shotty body work from a light accident on the rear driver corner. bald tires that are two big and rub on the fenders. and a broken windshield so i knew it wasn't going to go to a good home

the GOOD

Clean title
running and driving
no fender arch rust
no rocker panel rust
can't find any front end damage
at 235k miles the motor runs so smooth i can't believe it
some how its a NON ABS car? didn't know you could get those in 98 but no pump and single stage brake booster and brake lines don't look touched
already converted rear disk
5 speed
no aftermarket parts in the engine bay and full stock exhaust
spare 2.2 with single port heads
spare SOHC duel port heads
pre 97 dash
set of forester struts and springs
a trailer hitch
and a pile of other crap thats 98% trash

and its was all 900 bucks!!!

So with the interior is crap shape and body damage i don't feel bad finishing gutting it and building a rally cross car.

i will start a part out thread for the interior/A/C/Seats blah blah blah all cheap to free because i would much rather see these parts go to a forum member and keeping these cars on the road as long as possible

(ill get more pictures up once the sun comes up)
 

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broken exhaust removed. what was left of the interior is mostly removed. A/C 80% removed didn't work anyway.
 

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Dash is out time for dry ice for the sound deadening this weekend and damage investigation revealed it’s. It toooo bad
 

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Slow progress.
AC condenser removed from dash.
Manual window regulators (still searching for cranks handles)
Door wiring and rear speaker wiring removed
Sound deading removed
New tires
rear driver wheel bearing is FUCKED lol i get almost 1.5 play in and out on the wheel im glad i got the parts subframe i hope the hub is savable we will see

Then stopped working on it to clean up and get a scrap metal run done and with some new tools im going to finish the shop up so i can work on the car alittle eaiser. Prez day weekend i should have some new shop pictures up going to work on it all weekend. then back to the car

been part collecting for the most part to be honest


Picked up
complete front and rear suframes with hubs/control arms/struts/axles and rear disks for - 100 couldn't say no
Sparco steering wheel and quick release for - 200
Sparco driver seat bracket and Planted passanger seat braket and Sparco seat mounts - total 180
Seat belt buckles because the ones in the car didn't work - 40
rear quarter panel clip/2 coupe tail lights/rear bumper and beam/trunk with hinges - 280
Goodyear Wintercommand 205/55/16 snow tires
Picked up a 20 ton press to do wheelbearings and start bending metal -150 almost new
Ordered 06/07 backing plates (figured if im doing wheel bearings a backing plate swap is cheaper then kartboy mounts) - 160
Ordered the Good RS front bumper skin - shipping is a bitch on them but the local dealer said if i order it will call there is no shipping... so 170 for a brand new bumper SCORE!!!

My question is any guess on what strut/spring combo might be on the car? i know i have some weight out of the car but thats alittle high still rear bumper beam is currently removed but thats alot of gap.

He mentioned forester struts and there were some monster general grabber tires on it but it doesn't look tall enough for forester struts
 

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Hummmmm doing duel moniters and looking at forester strut pictures beside my pictures that does actually look kinda close
 

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Oops…. Bought a new motor.

2001 rs right around 200k saw it running before pulled for STI swap

for about 700 bucks i got

Complete motor
Complete wiring harness (dash and engine bag both fuse boxes... EVERYTHING)
ECU (made in japan tuneable from delicious tuning)
exhaust manifold - ill probably end up doing some UEL but atleast i have them
complete upper dash
Cluster
HVAC controls

and i jokingly told him i would take all the extra parts before he scraps the wreched donnor when he gives up selling them from gutting the car for the swap..... so i might end up with some extra shit lol

so ill get the motor and harness all cleaned up this summer and probably swap this fall/winter
 

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A couple updates (ill get alot more pictures this weekend)

Rear wheel bearings replaced and swapped to 2 Pots in the rear
Front 4 pots SUPER don't clear 05 WRX wheels even with 5 mm Spacers i need atleast 5 more. im just going to get new wheels after a sucessfull test drive

in the process of pulling the rear hubs off i found a new way to do a drum to disc conversion...... they just cut the backing plate in half to swap it without removing hub.

Also picked up a V3/4 5 speed 4.44 for 200 bucks

gave away 90% of the interior to a local dude who wanted to swap to black panels so that was super sweet.
 

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Also the throw out bearing noise i thought i had might be more related to the fact that the current tranny doesn't even have enough fluid to hit the dip stick so ill change that tomorrow night if it stops raining
 
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