I am now the owner of 2 GC's....

[Orion]

OK, so the whole project started last Aug when I found the 2001 Sedona Red Pearl RS that a member of the local Subie Club traded in at a dealer. I bought it for a darn good price at the time, $5800. It wasn't perfect, but it was in decent enough shape for the price. The plan then was to trade my '05 GD RS in for a new car for my wife (despite the fact that she LOVED the way the GD handled) and have some mild fun with the GM6. She got her new '07 Outback in Nov and I started the RallyCross buildup plans for the red car...

Original plan was to stay NA and add a front LSD to the car for reliability purposes and not having to deal with turbo lag. That all changed when we tore the block down and found lots of issues with it including not being able to get the wrist pins out to get inside for bearing and ring replacement. Along came a nice 1995 WRX RA 2.0L closed deck motor for a good price and the plans quickly changed to boost! Just before the RA motor was due to arrive, another Subie buddy and my codriver for the Nat level RX events found a wrecked Aspen White 2000 RS with a Salvage title for $3800. A couple quick phone calls and we got the car AND the parts for the asking price. With 2 cars available the plan was to take the best parts from both and put them on the Daily driver (and STS Solo car). That way the junk could be thrown out as we weren't going to need it for an M4 RX car! Fast forward to today and the red '01 is getting the motor out of the wrecked car as I type this and the RA motor will go into the white Salvage car!!!

Pics:

Blue 05
http://i167.photobucket.com/albums/u132/orionf/DSCF0790.jpg
Red 01
http://i167.photobucket.com/albums/u132/orionf/22.jpg
White 00
http://i167.photobucket.com/albums/u132/orionf/Impreza%20WRX%20RA%20Rally/2000ImprezaWRXRARally008.jpg
RA motor
http://i167.photobucket.com/albums/u132/orionf/Impreza%20WRX%20RA%20Rally/1995ImprezaWRXRAfront.jpg
Wrecked parts
http://i167.photobucket.com/albums/u132/orionf/Impreza%20WRX%20RA%20Rally/CrunchedFender.jpg

[Blix666]

i'm really diggin' that red RS...LOVIN' all the rally-bling

[409industries]

Looks like you have project cars up the a$$ now! This color is awesome...

http://i167.photobucket.com/albums/u132/orionf/22.jpg

Good luck with the build up!

[Orion]

I've been gone too long from here (that and I've had MAJOR issued with that horrid IE7). I'll post up updates as lots of work is being done right now!!!

I'm a happy camper to say the least.

BTW anyone looking for a super clean sub-10K mi 2005 RX-8?! I don;t have room for 4 cars and the non-Subie is the odd man out unfortunately...

[409industries]

Thats right... give the mazda the boot!

Well, were glad to have you back on the fourms. Keep us up to date with all these project cars! I am super interested in what you end up doing as ill be in the same boat soon enough! (i know i keep talking about it... but i will get a GC)!!!

[lminette]

Nice!! Welcome to the GC Club. :twisted: Sedona Red Pearl Rocks. Too bad mine is Silverthorn Metallic.

[Not All There]

very nice man, looks like a good selection of toys/projects!

[Orion]

Here's the current state of the garage......

http://i167.photobucket.com/albums/u132/orionf/2000ImprezaWRXRARally012.jpg
http://i167.photobucket.com/albums/u132/orionf/2000ImprezaWRXRARally011.jpg
http://i167.photobucket.com/albums/u132/orionf/2000ImprezaWRXRARally013.jpg
http://i167.photobucket.com/albums/u132/orionf/2000ImprezaWRXRARally014.jpg



The motor is back in the Red one, it'll be ready for DD duty on Tuesday. I should have the P1/AGX combo on it Wed and be back out at the track on Sunday for a Solo event.

[Blix666]

MAN.....i need to buy a house, so i can make my garage look like this

[409industries]

you have my exact jack! i love that thing!

[Orion]

The red one is back on the road!!! I've been driving it for 2 days now and realize I missed it dearly. I can't beleve the clarity of the road in it compared to the RX-8. That thing is like a hrose with blinders!!!

It's got some issues to attend to and some more mods on the way on Friday. We have an AutoX on Sunday so hopefully our Region Photographer will catch some great action shots!

[I Like It Sideways]

Hey what did you do with the rs motor? I need one...

I am jealous... share the wealth!!!!

Congrats on owning two GC's!

[409industries]

Yeah, im in love with the Sedona Red... :)

[Not All There]

Nice looking garage, whens the buildup?

[Orion]

The buildup is happening right now. The red one won PA and took 1st Overall at this past weekend's WOR event (Elliot was missed by everyone). It will be filling in at the NE Div/National coming up this weekend at Oakland Acres in Orange, VA. It's not really built for RX, but it is borrowing the 3/16" Primitive skid plate and the Kumho R700's for the weekend....

Here's an action shot courtesy of Seth:

http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i302/seth32680/rallyx4/RallyX4034.jpg

[409industries]

Not built for Rallyx, but it looks right at home out there!

[Orion]

Not built for Rallyx, but it looks right at home out there!

Not built for Rallyx BUT it was enough for the PA win at the Oakland Acres National!!!

www.dcrally.com results should be posted soon.

I'm ecstatic right now. I was ~8sec down after Stage 1 and 2 but made it up on 3 runs of Stage 3!

Now it's time to fill out the paperwork..... Kumho - $300, Subaru - $250, Team Dynamics - $100 certificate.

[Not All There]

nice congrats, throw up some pics

[Orion]

Well, it's been a long time since the last update, but the motor is in and the spliced harness is on it's way back from ECS!

It'll be a couple weeks before any more progress is made due to the RX Nat Champ in Nebraska next week!

[worldrallyblue]

Just saw your forum... Nice Looking garage you got there. Looking forward to the updates.

[Drew84]

Nice cars, I need a rally-x GC

[Orion]

OK, so it's been, well, FOREVER!

Here's the Cliff notes on the last year and a half...

Bought car. Bought JDM motor. Hired someone to do the swap. Swap went way wrong and took too long. Pulled JDM motor. Built NA motor. Put NA motor back in. Car is almost ready for it's debut Oct 4-5 at the Detroit National!

http://i167.photobucket.com/albums/u132/orionf/DSC01381.jpg
http://i167.photobucket.com/albums/u132/orionf/DSC01390.jpg
http://i167.photobucket.com/albums/u132/orionf/DSC01391.jpg
http://i167.photobucket.com/albums/u132/orionf/PIC-0093.jpg


Teaser vid:
http://s167.photobucket.com/albums/u132/orionf/?action=view&current=MOV01577.flv