since selling my old SF5 Forry i was itching to get back into another one. and the 2012 OzFoz Rally was the best excuse.
the car was built in under 3 months (was a bit of a race for the Rally)
it started as a 98 NA forester bought off Ebay, Daniel_B4 and i flew down to Sydney, caught a few trains and wolaa there she was waiting for us.
from there the GPS was set and off we headed to South Sydney and Ichiban Imports! (couldn't recommend Scott and Ben enough)
where we fitted the car with STB STI gear: Tailgate, taillights, rearbar, sideskirts, doortrims, bonnet, headlights, grill, front bar etc
with an Unregistered permit we drove the "bitsa" forester home to QLD
once home the real playing started, found a Version 3/4 STI halfcut in Bris, pulled the motor out
Forester motor out..
stripped engine bay got a clean and paint
skip a few (as i didnt get pics)
both the looms got striped out and sent up at AM Auto up Sunshine Coast QLD to get spliced together
STI motor/gearbox/rearend was installed into Forester
Turbo housing was rotated and FMIC piping was fabed up with a thinner core (still retains 90% of reobar) and Alloy Radiator installed
loom was picked up and re-installed into forester
CAR STARTED
dash was re-installed, Walbro was installed, a few more bits and pieces done.. SUCCESS CAR DRIVES
Cage fabed up
seats went in on custom rails
interior went back in
car went in for paint at CDR at Archerfeild with there $2500 resprays (cost me a bit more as i had holes welded up, and had them do inside the door jams/boot/bonnet etc)
Colour is: BMW Steel Grey #400
custom SS 3" was fabbed up with two resonators and ShotGun pipes (as close as possible to body/ center bearing)
that proved to be excessively LOUD so had a Varex put on and wheel alignment (4 days before the Rally)
3 days before the Rally had a Sub/battery box and floor knocked together by the Brother in Law, while he was doing that i was installing HID spotties behind the grill
(flew to Melb and drove back to the Gold Coast in Dani's MY10)
2 days before had the 100kms service done on the motor as i did not know the history
1 day to go, got the forester back, rego'd the XT in QLD. LED's, BOV etc washed both cars. a few more bits and pieces done
BAM! RALLY TIME!!!
Where the car won OzFoz Rally Champion 2012
Future plans..
PPG Gbox (sourced)
R180/R200 rear-end (still looking)
TRACK THE CAR!
right off.
