you let a guy pee in your but

 

well that is great for you but I am not planing on building my car as a way to get alot of people from point A to point B. I am building my car to be fast form point A to point B and if I dont have show quality paint and body that is find with me. why would you want to put all that time into something you are going to take into the dirt I dont know what your guys deal is but I have never seen a full out race car in perfect condition. Have any of you gone to sema? half the cars there have been sideswiped or have alot of road rash yet they are still in the show hmmm WTF.

 

I've been to SEMA a number of times as well as been involved with a number of shops prepping cars for mutiple motorsports disciplines, and even the vehicles that are "battle worn" at SEMA were originally done right. For motorsports, that means little things like mechanical adhesion (rivets or screws) and not pounds of body filler or unnecessary glass, because that adds weight and is more difficult to repair.

I hope you're swapping out suspension; Tein SS coilovers are a street setup only and are not suitable for competition, and you'll destroy your car trying to run dirt or gravel on non rally-spec coils, especially that low.

Personally, I don't care about built motors and drivelines until you have the suspension, brakes, and rolling stock to back it up. Running anything with a lip for looks to fit a body kit, suspended by what amounts to a spring/strut combo with soft street rates, does not compute. Are your fenders cut away under that kit so you can make use of all that extra space, or are you at least planning on doing so? I see all these kakumei bits.......but talk to Frank at FourStar about how he secures his (very nice) widebodys on competition cars, I'm pretty sure he recommends more than just glassing them on and uses structural adhesive and other epoxies.

 

bing, bong.
:wiggle:

 

wait, so these body panels are bonded on?

do your self a favor and use some stainless or zinc plated steel fasteners with fender washers on both sides and some adhesive that remains flexible when it cures.

honestly, my "beef" with your setup is the safety. it looks like a car that weighs more than stock, makes a lot more power than stock, has marginally better suspension and brakes than stock, is going to be subjected to a fair ammount of abuse, and body panels that may or may not come off at speed.

if those panels are really just bonded on, there's a very good chance they will pop off when you're out having fun with the car. fiberglass and sheetmetal expand and flex differently and can cause the adhesives to fail.

 

epoxies is under the frp (frank @fourstar is the one that told me how to do this and this is also the way that he did his full 2002 spec C wrc replica). I just used frp insted of body filler to do the molding and the body filler is just for surface. and I do know that I need to change my coilovers the tein SS are to stiff for dirt even at there weekest seting not to mention not very strong. and also I will be geting rid of the swaybars for rally. I will probly run no swaybar in the front and posable a stock wrx bar in the rear. and you cant tell me that the 05 front end that I have (and am planing on using for dirt) is not good enough for rally. this is why I wanted the tilt front end I can go back and forth form the 05 (rally) to the bugeyes (street) I am also planing on going with paul's (primitive) skid plates front and rear. as for breaks I dont realy want to upgrade yet because I am planing on runing a 15" wheel for the dirt and I am probly going to run them first. We can go on all day I have lots of time into this and I probly have answers for every question you have. and the things that I dont know I will be glad to admit it openly. I am just not sure why you guys are bashing me all the time. sure my spelling suck but realy there is not to much you can realy bash on my car for. I am a guy that probly makes as much or less money than you guys but I spend every dime on my car. hate on it all you want but in the end I will have a sick car so I realy dont care

edit: oh yeah about cuting out the rear fenders yes that is the plan. it was just that when my engine showed up eveything body just stoped on the car. that is why nothing else is done to it like (the back fenders need to be sanded,the rear bumper needs to be molded and then the car needs to be preped for full paint.

 

hey if you are cool with givin me advice on my car that is sweet. I am always up to learn more things and I would be glad to hear out your opinions and experence. I just did this the way that fourstar told me to .

 

youre converting your WRX into an Mcoupe??!?!?!