Got a second wind and got a few more pieces in. I threw a seat in after and the shifter feels fabulous. I gotta find my shifter bushing thing a sketch up a plate to mount it to, then mount the driveshaft carrier. Then it's a toss up between getting and mounting seats or doing floor pans
ya door bars are last. I havent finishe visor bar yet since i need to put the roof X in before welding the visor bar in. Its there and lightly tacked. I keep tell my 10 year old not to swing on that one
Green is tacked done
Red is planned to be done
Yellow is rough idea, not nailed down yet. and i still need to add some in the back and to the front strut mounts to sure up the crossmember pipes
The time has finally come for me to organize a members journal! Ive been a member here since I purchased my 98 2.5RS in late December of 2005. My car, not unlike myself, has been through a lot since then and made many changes. And now, upon organizing parts and information for my swap, I...
This is going to be the tale of my second rs build.
I purchased for 2k the catch is that it had a blown head gasket...12/1/14 also found some rod bearings were bad too. instead of putting more cash into the current 2.5 i went apeshit AND bought a jdm full sti swap and copious amounts of clean...
So..
picked me up another chassis. $600 and it runs, mostly!
Still have the ej20g, gearbox, RobTune and iWire harness, stance coilovers (I had just bought to replace my godspeed crap) and lots of other parts... so here we go again!
From the ashes, she will rise!
past build for...
This is mostly the progress of my srp 2001 L coupe, but also some 98L and 2018 brz stuff.
Backstory:
I got the car in August 2011 with 100,500 miles. It was my first car, and it had lots of problems at the start. Almost sold it a few times, but once I read about all the swap stuff, I...
This is the second member's journal that I'm making, in part because nobody here pays attention to non-swapped RS journals, and partly because this really is the second phase of this car.
The old member's journal can be found here: Razor7's homebuilt 2000 RS
I also want to document an...
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