New Girly with a 96 WRX V-Ltd
21 May 2009, 09:13 PM
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New Girly with a 96 WRX V-Ltd
Hello all
This is my first post here, so it only seemed appropriate I introduce both myself and my scooby at the same time.
This is me:
My name's Alanna. But sticking to the more interesting car stuff I'm the other half to a customising addict who is semi-computer-phobic (prefers to be in the garage or on the track) and between us we have built a fair amount of motors - from roof chopped split screen morris minors to rock crawling daihatsu fourtraks - but we both have a soft spot for those highly tuneable jap engines.
So before getting our scooby, we had a Nissan Skyline R32 GTR. But the other half has been getting more and more into drifitng, and that is one hell of an expensive car to run, wreck *and* convert to RWD, so we had to say goodbye...
(but here's a picture of me posing on it just for old time's sake)
... and in it's place we decided to take the easy route, right? That is we decided to get a GC8 and convert that instead! Hell, it sounds better going sideways than a Skyline, as long as we keep those uneven headers and parts are much easier to get on with.
So this is our scooby. She's a (very early) 96 WRX V-Ltd (not to be mistaken with the pretty blue STI V-Ltd) and at current is looking pretty damn standard:
(and just to show off the badge that ultimately means nothing to us...)
So yeah, hardly anything too special right now. The previous owner had her on the rollers with Alan Jeffery in Plymouth, so she's running nice as standard, but that won't stay for long. Completed mods so far are front mount intercooler and new induction, giving it the old asthmatic darth vader sound, but the achingly obvious thing we have planned is the RWD conversion. But I'll make a separate thread on that as it progresses, assuming I haven't been stoned and pitchforked by purists for our *******ising the obviously very cool AWD
And that's pretty much it for now. Look forward to conversing with you all
This is my first post here, so it only seemed appropriate I introduce both myself and my scooby at the same time.
This is me:
My name's Alanna. But sticking to the more interesting car stuff I'm the other half to a customising addict who is semi-computer-phobic (prefers to be in the garage or on the track) and between us we have built a fair amount of motors - from roof chopped split screen morris minors to rock crawling daihatsu fourtraks - but we both have a soft spot for those highly tuneable jap engines.
So before getting our scooby, we had a Nissan Skyline R32 GTR. But the other half has been getting more and more into drifitng, and that is one hell of an expensive car to run, wreck *and* convert to RWD, so we had to say goodbye...
(but here's a picture of me posing on it just for old time's sake)
... and in it's place we decided to take the easy route, right? That is we decided to get a GC8 and convert that instead! Hell, it sounds better going sideways than a Skyline, as long as we keep those uneven headers and parts are much easier to get on with.
So this is our scooby. She's a (very early) 96 WRX V-Ltd (not to be mistaken with the pretty blue STI V-Ltd) and at current is looking pretty damn standard:
(and just to show off the badge that ultimately means nothing to us...)
So yeah, hardly anything too special right now. The previous owner had her on the rollers with Alan Jeffery in Plymouth, so she's running nice as standard, but that won't stay for long. Completed mods so far are front mount intercooler and new induction, giving it the old asthmatic darth vader sound, but the achingly obvious thing we have planned is the RWD conversion. But I'll make a separate thread on that as it progresses, assuming I haven't been stoned and pitchforked by purists for our *******ising the obviously very cool AWD
And that's pretty much it for now. Look forward to conversing with you all
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21 May 2009, 10:05 PM
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Don't Cusco do the conversion kits for RWD specifically for drifting?? I'm sure I've seen it while drooling over JDM loveliness on japanparts.com.
Do what you want to the Scoob, as long as it makes it quicker and doesn't include stupid bodykits!
Do what you want to the Scoob, as long as it makes it quicker and doesn't include stupid bodykits!
21 May 2009, 10:08 PM
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Aye - my father was always lecturing me on how turbochargers worked and what the historical relevance of a quarter mile was as a young 'un, and now the boyfriends gone and made me worse with his custom antics! Thanks for the welcome
Well, on the GD driveshaft it can be not exactly straightforward but can be done with minimal aftermarket parts required by means of some handy welding. But the GC is kinda the wrong way round to do it reliably, so we're having a spool imported from PPG down in Oz that should assist in converting and has been rated up to 800bhp (we're not planning more than 450 ultimately, mind, but tis good to know you're covered). It's the rear diff itself that worries me more, so we might look at taking that from an S15 or similar. Will probably go ahead and blow up the original first though, lol
Sorry boys, but my girlfriends a bit camera shy 
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How you planning to do the RWD conversion? I hear the are noutouriously unreliable. Gonna mate up a dedicated RWD gearbox from another motor?
21 May 2009, 10:13 PM
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Mind you, I have a bad habit of looking at Jap pages and not understanding a word they're saying, just looking at the pretty pictures. It was drooling over Team Orange's motors in that pursuit that got me inspired in the first place..
Abso-bloody-lutely. No melted cardboard-box jobbies on my car - what's the point? It'll only get knocked off anyway, haha!!
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