Got the car back yesterday. Looks pretty good.
Still need to get the mud guards installed and painted, and get the 22B vents installed and painted.

Hopefully the weather stays nice and I can take off the snow tires and wrx wheels and put the 18's back on.

Man I love that RB5.

 

Nice ride!

 

Sweet, Dom.

 

Lookin good Dom

 

very nice...

 

Sweet! I want one

 

damn DOM... it's been a while since we've heard from you! Cars looking good!

just watch out for those snow banks

 

Still looking good!

So how's that hydra doing for ya?

 

Hydra is great.
Why do you ask?

If you hadn't heard, I got a sponsorship from TWE. They are building me a pretty awesome engine. When it gets here and I install it, I'm going to element tuning to get it dyno tuned. That should be an experience I'll never forget.

 

Something looks familiar about that car...

 

I wanted to eliminate my MAF sensor. I don't want to run into MAF restrictions with my project.

I still have my txs tuner; if I can figure a way to rig it to the hydra, then I won't have to spend the extra dough for the Hydra wideband.

Does the Hydra use a Bosch wideband that is directly connected to the EMS or does it work like the Utec that uses a separate box (the txs tuner)?

Congratulations on the sponsorship! Any details on the engine . . . cams, heads, stroke, bore, sleeved, pistons, and rods?

Can't wait till your engine arrives!

-C.

 

That's because, other than the RB5, it's going to look identical.

However, that's only an intermediate stage. I have a lot of other tricks up my sleeve for this summer.

 

The engine is a Built Semi-Closed Deck (STi) Turbo Short Block

1. New STi Engine Cases (No Core Charge)
2. New STi Crankshaft
3. Tech Works High-Quench Forged Pistons (99.5mm)
4. Light Weight, hollow piston Pins and Clips
5. STi Piston Rings (99.5mm)
6. Parabolic I-Beam 4340 Billet con rod set w/ARP 2000 bolts
7. Heavy Duty Crankshaft Bearings
8. Heavy Duty Connecting Rod Bearings
9. Milling (decking)
10. Crank checked and trued to less than 0.0005" run-out
11. Crank Grind to achieve ideal tolerances, all pre-measured to +/-
0.00005", temperature controlled to +/-0.5 deg C
12. Rotating assembly balancing (Crank/Rod/Pistons) to +/- .05 grams
13. Rod bolt stretch measurement
14. Dry assembly with plastic gauge for bearing tolerance measurement
post-check
15. Deck height measurement to confirm exact quench clearance
16. Cylinder bore measurement (Straightness and out-of-round checked to
+/- 3 microns)
17. Oil galley clean and pre-lube
18. Assembly
19. Moly-graphite piston skirt coating
20. Ceramic piston crown coating
21. ARP Head Stud Kit
22. Cometic High Pressure Head Gaskets with bore shim


The above package sells for $5489 which includes all brand new parts,
including the block and crankshaft.

Our Stage II SOHC Cylinder Head Package includes the following:

1. Disassembly and cleaning
2. Port refinishing and bowl contouring
3. Custom 5-angle Valve Seat Machining
4. Hand Blending of the Port/Valve Seat Juncture
5. Combustion Chamber Cleaning
6. Valve resurfacing using the 'center-less' method which also measures
the stem and head run-outs to 0.0004", Valves are replaced if this run-out
is exceeded
7. Exhaust port balancing,
8. Milling of the cylinder head (depth is appropriate for application
and combustion chamber work)
9. SOHC Stage II Camshafts
10. Heavy Duty Valve Springs
11. New Subaru Valve Seals
12. New Subaru Cam Seals
13. Assembly of the Cylinder Head
14. Setting of the Valve Lash
Porting for Turbocharged and Supercharged applications have more significant
modifications performed on the combustion chamber and exhaust ports, while
less work is done on the intake ports so as to properly balance flow.
15. Graduated intake port finishing
16. Exhaust Port polishing
17. Combustion Chamber modifications, measurement and matching of combustion
chamber
volumes, polishing, and valve un-shrouding
18. Titanium Retainers




As for the Hydra, it totally controls the WBO2 sensor. I'm using the NTK, but I don't think it has to be that sensor. When Phil or Andrew make the harnesses I'm pretty sure they can put the Bosch sensor wiring on it. It's a 275-300 dollar option. But I'm sure you could probably get some good $$ for your TXS thingy.

 

Damn Doms,

That's some good ish!

So, does sponsorship mean that this is yours at the sponsors cost, but have to showcase the product at their convenience?

 

Hey Dom-

How's the drivetrain holding up these days?
and is the Sti block 2l or 2.5l?