They gave us a tour of the plant, and we sat in the go-cart 818S, and the 818R. We'd been researching and drooling for a bit, and it was all we needed. Handed over the credit card (rewards points!) and filled out the paperwork.
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| Tamra in the 818S roller |
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| Andrew in the 818S track test car |
Fast forward to Saturday the 10th, and after a significant amount of time spent on Craigslist, I'd found a good candidate via a local subaru forum (CTsubie.com). We went over and inspected the car thoroughly, or so we hope. There were some worrying things, lots of zipties holding the bumper on, slightly ratty interior, assorted small dings on each and every panel, and a rear sway bar holding on by a few rusty threads in a halfway bolted on bracket.
Well, it had a strong feeling EJ257 block with 2.0 heads (hybrid build) and a VF 22 turbo with appropriate tune, so we were sold.
We brought the car home, and promptly began de-ricing it. Swear stickers were first to go, followed by all the rest and some plastidip.
I registered the car with temp plates, paid my dues to the taxman, and drove the car to work for a few days. Somewhere in there, I gutted everything behind the front seats. All the trunk plastics and carpet, along with the rear seats & hatch cover plastics. Got several CELs- P0301, missfire: cyl 1 on my drives to work. Seems to be common with built motors & lightweight flywheels, which this has. The car doesn't noticably stutter when the code comes on, so we will do a compression check before pulling the engine from the subaru, and if that passes, assume it's something we can deal with later. Glad to be done commuting in it- the level of noise coming out that 3.5" straight exhaust was a bit conspicuous.
There's a bit of shuffling involved with 4 cars & a motorcycle.. The driveway is plenty big, but we have two small separated 1 car garages. The build will be taking place in one of them, at about 200 sq ft.
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