My rally car is no more!!

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well I still have all the part to put it back to gravel spec but at the moment its getting set up for BEST MOTORINGS "AMERICAN TOUGE 2"

Thats right my car was selected to be one of teh finalists for the new BMI vidoe that will be shot on December 20th at Willow Springs on the "Horse Theif Mile" course

So I have a ton of parts going on it to get it up to par with all the big dogs thatI will be going up against. Ive recieved a ton of help from some amazing companys so be sure and check the links at the bottom of the page

Heres what we have going so far......

The Tockico D-Spec struts are coming out and being replace with Megan Racing Coil-Overs. Since its going to be lower speed course were running there street springs that will provide a little more girp at low speed





OK, so coil overs alone arent going to do anything to help by them self so Norm Reeves Subaru in Temecula CA is donating STI Aluminum Controll arms, STI Pink Trailing arms, STI Pink Lateral links, and a STI Tranny mount. This alone is going to make a huge difference.

From there I have orderd a few Whiteline goodies as well including an Anti-Lift Kit, Steering rack bushings, Rear sub-frame locks, Rear Sub-frame bushings, front and rear sway bar

All these parts will be installed by McKinny Motorsports (huge in the drifting sceen) in Murrieta CA. After the install they will be corner balancing and aligning the car.

Travis- The Gravel Crew
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www.cobbtuning.com
www.normreevessubaru.com
www.garagetuning.com
www.mckinneymotorsports.com
www.i-speedusa.com

Stock height




The cage!!!!!!

 

OK, so now that the car can handell Im sure your wondering what were going to do to make it go fast and stop.

So for Power we contacted the 2 companys that know RS' best. The first person I got in touch with was Trey Cobb of COBB Tuning in Salt Lake City, UT. Trey is helping out with this project with the addition of COBB's very own equal length header, a 12.36 lb flywhel and one of there clutches. The car is also equipt with a 2.25" mandrell bent exaust, spintech muffler, lightweight pully, and a Custom intake that feeds through the WRX hood scoop

COBB Header


COBB Flywheel


COBB Pro-street clutch


All these parts will be installed by teh boys at Garage Tuning In Irvine CA. Also when the car is there it will recieve a port and polish on the intake and exaust side freeing up a few more horsepower. Also my car now has the rear end from Kevin's 00 RS so its sporting LSD

Once it leaves Garage Tuning it is headed down to see Bill Knose of I-Speed USA, the best RS tuner in the country. Bill has developed a tune for the RS that blows all the others out of the water. Once there the car will be hooked up to the dyno and begin the process of making even more power



Now that the car has some get up and go its time to make her stop. Id go for a BBK from someone like Prodrive or stoptech but thats just more rotating mass that Im going to have power for . So a set of Subaru 4 pot fronts and 2 pot rears will be installed with stainless lines and, sloted rotors, and Ferodo 2500 pads. Wrapping those will be a set of 16X7 Volk TE37s and Dunlop R compound DOT tires




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OK so all in all I feel that im going to have a pretty good chance at this all. Like I said I wouldnt be able to do it without the help of all the companys that were mentioned above so be sure and check out their links.

www.cobbtuning.com
www.normreevessubaru.com
www.garagetuning.com
www.mckinneymotorsports.com
www.i-speedusa.com[/

So heres a few shots with the coil-overs on from last week, it will be lifted up a little for the competion







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Just got off the phone with NITRO 2 GO, there going to be taking care of the graphics for this project. Heres a good shot of what they put together for the car last year.





check em out!!!! www.nitro2go.com

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www.normreevessubaru.com

Well heres todays up date. These parts showed up at Norm Reeves Subaru yesterday afternoon along with my new wheel bearing and hub.

Also Heres a few Pics of John and Oscar, the two guys that run the Parts department at Norm Reeves. They know what there doing and stock all the parts that have gone on my car for this build so far

Whats in the box?


STI aluminum cantroll arms


STI Pink lateral links


John making sure there OK


Pink Trailing links make Oscar Smile


www.normreevessubaru.com

 

A few pics fron today....

So the Car showed up at McKinny Motorsports to have the new arms, lateral links, and trailing arms installed a couple days ago. So here we are with all the new parts on the car. The suspension still needs to be picked up a little cause teh suspension geometry is off. Monday the car will be aligned, corner weighted and then its off to Nitro 2 Go to get all the vinyl done

New controll arms


All the pretty pink links


car set up too low


My car getting attention as the Shop Car is overlooked





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Very cool! Keep updating!

 

So today I drove out to the Laughlin Intl. Rally and met up with a few friends. Turns out that my good friend Kevin was the person that make stese amazing intake ducts for the 04- 05 fenders. He already has a few sitting in his garage so I am off to get mine tomorrow night. Once instaled I will be switching back to my COBB intake so that I am pulling the coolest air possible..... and in graet style





Plans for the week

Monday- car leaves Mckinny with suspension finished

Tuesday- Nitro 2 Go to get the graphics done

Thursday- Garage tuning to have new COBB clutch, COBB light weight flywheel, COBB EL Headers, STI tranny mount, and the exaust ports polished

Next WEEK- Go down to I-Speed to have the car tuned!!!!!

Travis- The Gravel Crew
www.gcrallyx.com

 

..Just a quick update for you guys, Travis and I picked up the intake-fender last night to go on the car, It'll make it just that much more unique and maybe a little help in intake temperature... =)








- John

 

UPDATE!!!

Got the ALK on today as well as the rear subframe bushings and subframe locks. Its going in for an alignment at 8 AM tomorrow. All I can say is that it handles better than an EVO right now....... and that scares me

Travis- The Gravel Crew
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that intake duct look freaking swt ... is kevin selling them? im interested let me know...

 

He could be. They will also be available for the GC chassie if anyone is interseted. I just have to let my friend who makes them know. So if you want one call kevin and he will get in touch with me

Travis- The Gravel Crew

 

update!!!!

the graphics got finished up last night and we took some shots today at the dealership in the light. Lookin' good!! now it's off to i-speed to get tuned...


*BIG pictures*

http://www.shift-lock.net/travis/P7140680.JPG

http://www.shift-lock.net/travis/P7140681.JPG

http://www.shift-lock.net/travis/P7140675.JPG

 

umm you have kevin's number? cause i dont ><

 

Just IM him on NASIOC. I dont like to give out phone numbers






Well today went great! I didnt make the final cut but they said that my car was great to drive just needed more power. They pretty much said the suspension was perfect and wouldnt change a thing..... It just came down to the fact that there was a 600+ Skyline in the 4WD class and my RS just couldnt pull him.

Well anyways heres some pics from today







And I HAVE to include these!!!!!











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