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[vicelore]

Yup that makes sence that was a impreza wiki... My bad.. Signed up for import monster now..

[dks51r]

Vicelore. Rev A-C is 98-01, Rev D is 01 to 03. Not sure if it makes a difference for dash clusters tho!

i will be looknig into a Gen 3 STI dash cluster as they have 260km/h limit whereas legacy has only 180km/h (JDMYO!)

[Ben_20EJT]

Vicelore. Rev A-C is 98-01, Rev D is 01 to 03. Not sure if it makes a difference for dash clusters tho!

i matters, rev a-c and then d-e. you can mod the dash harness to make them different revisons work.

[Sam]

Vicelore. Rev A-C is 98-01, Rev D is 01 to 03. Not sure if it makes a difference for dash clusters tho!

i will be looknig into a Gen 3 STI dash cluster as they have 260km/h limit whereas legacy has only 180km/h (JDMYO!)

300km

[dks51r]

knew i'd messed up!

Thanks to graham, i can use Rev A-C stuff except for the front end!

Red D-E is harder to find on IM!

300km

[vicelore]

So im going to pick up the half cut tomorrow, Looks like its going to rain.. Might be a stupid question but is there anything i should worry about getting wet ?

Cheers Vice

[Sam]

So im going to pick up the half cut tomorrow, Looks like its going to rain.. Might be a stupid question but is there anything i should worry about getting wet ?

Cheers Vice

Don't let your hair get wet, it might go frizzy

[vicelore]

Hells yea.. Frizz ..

[Xon]

Chuck a tarp over the whole thing. None of the mechanical bits will care but if you get water in the wiring things can become unpleasant. Pretty unlikely, but considering how much money it's costing, better safe than sorry.

[vicelore]

Thats what i was thinking Xon.. Going shopping for straps and a tarp tonight.

[vicelore]

Well after around 4 hours we had the half cut off the ute and on car stands in the garage..

Absolute pain in the ass getting it off tho and what i would call very dangerous..

The main problem was the height of the ute was too high for the engine hoist to get any lift. so we pretty much had to remove the pallet from under the engine to get a bit more clearance, but this still didnt get enough height. we tried putting the whole hoist on blocks but that still wouldnt do it so we just ended up sliding it off.

At the point the cut came off the end of the ute the whole hoist was front heavy and went ass over tits.. ended up getting a jack with wheels under the front of it and wheeled it into position..

Defently something I wouldnt do again.. well id put it on a low trailer lol.. anyways its in and ready for me to start tinkering.

As for the cut.. It looks like it was a race car at some point of its lift.. The pannels are 'ed.. steering wheels a race one.. Bonnet is made of fiberglass..

Im just praying i havent just wasted 8 grand on a thrashed ***ked car.. Oh well time will tell..

Cheers Vice.

[allpaw4]

That would explain some of the nice bits that were attached to it when you bought it. Don't dispair just yet though - track cars are normally maintained to a much higher standard and also a much higher frequency than a road car. Not to mention it may have some nice aftermarket forged goodness inside it too. Japanese track cars aren't cheap affairs.

[Morgan]

Sometimes they can be the best ones. Hasn't been babied and won't blow up the first time you hit boost!

All the best mate looking forward to seeing progress

[Xon]

Maybe it just had a replaced steering wheel, and someone crashed it

[vicelore]

Anyone see any issues with me checking the oil/coolant hooking up a battery and firing this thing over ?

Cheers Vice.

[vicelore]

another few things i noticed.. It didnt have a pin pad for the imoboliser.. throught that seemed strange.. also no control for the DCCD.. SO im guessing i got a 6 speed without it ??

Iv been sick the last few days so going to get into it allot more tonight/tommorow.. Ill also shoot a heaps of pics for everyone.

Cheers again, Vice.

[allpaw4]

Alarm keypad in a WRX sits where the Gen 3 foglight switch sits, have a good look around the dash for it. If the previous owner removed it or replaced it with something else, count yourself lucky. The Brandt alarms are painful, although in the WRX's they were a bit nicer. Maybe Japan didn't fit them standard like Aus did. Back in 2000, there was a huge run of people in aus using WRXs for ram-raid cars, so Subaru Australia dropped in the alarm/immobiliser as standard from 01 onwards. Maybe about the DCCD, but with the high possibility of it being a track car, you might have an aftermarket controller there somewhere, or it just didnt have it.

[aekOne]

if it's a JDM cut it won't have a brant

[Xon]

As above, the keypad alarm was fitted by Subaru Australia, so your JDM cut won't have one.

[Scott]

yeah we were the only lucky ones to get the brandt system

is the cut a bug eye?