pghiocel

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We are a LeMons Race team and have started campaigning a '87 RX. Originally, we raced an '84 300zx for 6 races in the past couple years but we are all Subaru Owners ('05 STi, '00 RS, '06 STi, '12 BRZ) and because Subaru Cars/Motors are not very common in LeMons, we wanted to try and raise it to contention. We also wanted something that had not been raced yet in LeMons and both the XT/XT6 and RX have not.


So earlier this year, we picked up an RX. (You can see my '05 STi there too).

It turns out it had an MPFI NA motor swapped in (missing Turbo)

And was generally an Oily Mess

With some rust spots too


Well, we ended up picking up a 2nd motor (Turbo from a 90 Loyale Wagon) but it too had some issues:






Well, we put together various parts to put it back into its Turbo form and we managed to make if to the 2nd day of the last race of the season at Sonoma Raceway this past weekend and went from Start to Finish!!!!






Here is list of picture albums of our build of the engine/car/roll cage. While it was our 7th Race, it was our first time putting any engine together and our first time building a roll cage.

Theme Material
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?...1&l=560f3bf560

Documentation
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?...1&l=a2c723e688

First Work Weekend
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?...1&l=e69603ab82

Taking Apart Turbo Engine
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?...1&l=733934dba1

Pulling the NA Engine from Car
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?...1&l=db6580406a

Pulling Interior
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?...1&l=6d632330de

Further Engine Work
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?...1&l=783f8fc493

Engine Rebuild
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?...1&l=d6eb7577ad

Cleaning Up Sound Deadening Material
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?...1&l=06cde21dde

Seat, Steering Column
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?...1&l=96c4cd5b27

Roll Cage: Part 1
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?...1&l=7b24cef617

Thanksgiving Week Work
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?...1&l=4238ee63d0

Engine Building and Final Prep
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?...1&l=1801b7292e

Pictures From The Race
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?...1&l=58f671f333

Pictures Of Other Cars From The Race
(The Orange/White Beetle has an EJ22 in it and there is a Subaru Legacy Wagon).
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?...1&l=d1954b6bcf

The Judges and Organizers liked the car so much that they made mention of it in their post wrap video!
It starts at about 45 seconds in.


I will keep this post updated with pictures of development of the car. (I also posted on the Ultimate Subaru Message Board and Japanese Nostalgic Forums)

Thanks for looking and have a great new year!

~Patrick

pghiocel

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So we are planning to attend the LeMons race at the end of the month at Miller Motorsports Park in Utah.
If you are in the area and want to watch crappy cars with rediculous themes zoom around or rust in the paddock, feel free to stop on by.
Return of the LeMonites - Events & Results - 24 Hours of LeMons

I am making a tshirt for our team. Initial Version


Here are some pictures of us updating the roll cage and building a new engine.
Album: May 2014 Work - Imgur

Installing Radio


Updating Rollcage for 2014 Rules



We aren't going to retheme the car for this race.
We will be adding some new decals and touching up the paint next weekend.


I was able to get a 2nd set of Peugeot 15" rims


New Lugs thanks to [member='4x4brat']


Oily mess from broken CV boot from last race



The Broken CV Boot



New CV Boot & Axle




Some Gen 3 Heads to clean






Meanwhile we took the old engine out of the car.




Short Block ready for heads


More Head Cleaning



Done (note the marks from some previous carnage, maybe piston rings)




Where the cleaning happens


The valves ready to go in.




Longblock Kind-of-Assembled



Ops. Need to fix this....