Project RS

[Senor_Taylor]

Such a great feeling having 100% fresh coolant. Popping the rad cap to see a bright color instead of brown goop takes a load off of your mind. Great work.

[*insertusernamehere*]

Such a great feeling having 100% fresh coolant. Popping the rad cap to see a bright color instead of brown goop takes a load off of your mind. Great work.

Is it really that satisfying? Lol

[Senor_Taylor]

Such a great feeling having 100% fresh coolant. Popping the rad cap to see a bright color instead of brown goop takes a load off of your mind. Great work.

Is it really that satisfying? Lol

Yes. A BMW guy such as yourself doesn't appreciate the joy of reliable cooling systems.

[ScottyB]

Yes. A BMW guy such as yourself doesn't appreciate the joy of reliable cooling systems.

i just love the feeling of not having to worry about stuff anymore after its been refreshed. aaaaah relaxing :lol:

scored a nice craigslist haul yesterday:
• STi steering shaft u-joint
• 2 90A turbo alternators

i've wanted to stumble on a deal for a higher-amp alt from one of the turbo cars for a while so i could comfortably run some auxiliary lighting. stock is 75A and these are plug and play. nabbed these 2 for less than the cost of 1 reman. i'm thinking of running a 20" single or double-row LED bar in the lower radiator opening, or possibly 2 LED foglight units.

below is the difference between a standard WRX/RS steering shaft and an STi "solid" shaft. i have what's on the left which is damped by a big rubbery donut and it dulls steering feel. the STi unit has no give to it, so its a great mod to heighten steering feel and i'm really looking forward to it.



big install day coming up for all the crap i'm hoarding, just gotta figure out when it cools down enough that i won't melt into the garage floor.

[Senor_Taylor]

That picture with the rubber flex disc gives me BMW PTSD. I bet the steering feel will be night and day. WRX's seem like the ultimate car to mod because of all of the STI parts that just bolt on.

[SlimKlim]

Such a great feeling having 100% fresh coolant. Popping the rad cap to see a bright color instead of brown goop takes a load off of your mind. Great work.

Is it really that satisfying? Lol

Yes. A BMW guy such as yourself doesn't appreciate the joy of reliable cooling systems.

Well say what you will about them but one thing BMWs don't deal with is nasty old coolant. They spring a leak far, far before the fluid has a chance to get gunky. :lol:

[ScottyB]

WRX's seem like the ultimate car to mod because of all of the STI parts that just bolt on.

its both awesome and super frustrating to know that you can change so many parts...but the fact that you have to change them in the first place sucks. that's how it goes with cars that are sold in "performance tiers" though, and i'm at the bottom :lol:

[*insertusernamehere*]

That picture with the rubber flex disc gives me BMW PTSD. I bet the steering feel will be night and day. WRX's seem like the ultimate car to mod because of all of the STI parts that just bolt on.

Haha the steering has a guibo. IDK why that's so entertaining to me. They literally tried to take feeling out of the steering.

[ScottyB]

They literally tried to take feeling out of the steering.

that's what the customer *wants*, crazy as it seems. steering that jiggles and kicks back and vibrates comes across as "unrefined", low cost and tinny. that's why they could only get away with it on the STi, where customers actually expect and want it all the time as part of the experience.

just my opinion. anyway, who cares, its getting fixed!

[*insertusernamehere*]

So.... Do you still rallycross this thing or nah?

[ScottyB]

am i doing it right now? nope, i'm not willing to put the car into competition until i get the new clutch/flywheel/front tophats installed, because i don't think they can take the abuse right now. my helmet is also expired and i don't compete in the middle of the summer because the heat is miserable right now.

if i'm lucky i'll get 1 in this year in the fall. with kid/job/family stuff it takes me 4X as long to handle maintenance stuff to keep the car reliable, and by then i've missed half the events anyway. that's life.

hoping 2017 is a lot more action. i miss it.

[*insertusernamehere*]

Looking forward to reading/watching it

[Maengelito]

with kid/job/family stuff it takes me 4X as long to handle maintenance stuff to keep the car reliable, and by then i've missed half the events anyway. that's life.

only 4x?

[ScottyB]

only 4x?

well, normally i'd assume i could bumble through a first-time clutch job in about 3 weekends. all the parts have been sitting on my bench for a year sooo....i might have fudged the numbers a bit :lol:

[rherold9]

Well for the time being not doing rally cross you should attend some track events

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[ScottyB]

Well for the time being not doing rally cross you should attend some track events

got this one on my short list :thumbup:

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[ScottyB]

went on a drive last week to handle some business needs up in VA. decided to stop over in Roanoke at my folks place to split the drive up and it occurred to me that i'm completely stupid. i never realized that its just as fast to take backroads + the blue ridge parkway as it is slugging along up 77 and then 81 whilst dealing with the shitshow that is semi trucks pacing each other up the mountains in both lanes. i felt like warden at the end of Shawshank Redemption. how did i miss this?

so i had myself a pretty excellent time getting back to one of my favorite joys in life, which is bombing mostly deserted old appalachian roads deep in hill country. from VA exit 1, 77 at Fancy Gap i climbed up into orchard lands and then north through the hollows and vineyards of the BRP in Floyd county. then jumping off onto 220 just in time to drop down Bent Mountain and down some familiar short streets to the house.



i don't have a whole lot to report other than it was a nice reawakening. i forgot what i bought and built the car for. kind of forgot what the seat bolsters feel like when they're doing their job, and how the steering isn't alive until its really loaded up. it made me remember that feeling of being a kid and sprinting across the yard just because you can, pushing against the ground and the ground pushing back. the exhaust sounding a call into the deep rhododendron thickets and hearing it call back with the riot of a million little bugs and things constantly disappearing past the open window. after hours and hours of interstate it was like being handed the keys to a kingdom.

i reached the first of the route at sunset and almost never saw another car. it was sublime. every flavor of banked, off camber, decreasing radius, gut-drop elevation change, chip-coat to fresh black asphalt. i had the windows down and kept cranking the heat up because i was shaking. it wasn't until i was wiping sweat off my temple that i realized i wasn't shaking because i was cold. when you're away from "home" that long without realizing it, the excitement can just be too much.



it broke my heart to watch those mountains recede in the mirror again when i took the onramp back to the low country of GA to get back to my house at the end of it all. back to the maps for next time.

[BLINGMW]

Thanks for stopping by!

[ScottyB]

Thanks for stopping by!

yeah yeah. wish i could make a grand tour! if this detour had cost me too much extra time i would have had to skip it as it was. tight schedule all week.

we need to meet up at an in-between spot....like someplace that rhymes with Birginia Winternational Faceway :dunno:

[Senor_Taylor]

You artsy-fartsy people sure have a way with them fancy words, huh.

That was beautiful.