914 WRX Build Options

[waltonsm]

After seeing some recent posts, I decided it was finally time to thank everybody on this forum for years of encouragement and scope creep on my long term project. As with every real project, this will never be done, and there are certainly many things I would do differently a second time around. But I am 80% of the way there, and I am enjoying driving it as much as I am working on it for the last year or so.

I plan to add more photos of my build process over the next few weeks. You may see some of the advice you gave me realized, and probably some bad or good ideas in metal, fiberglass, and wood.

Hopefully I can help someone else out too.

-Steve


Here are some recent photos:





And a few from about 4 years ago:

[Retroracer]

Very cool build - pls keep the posts & pics flowing! Some really nice details on this, love the vents on the headlight lids!

- Tony

[waltonsm]

Very cool build - pls keep the posts & pics flowing! Some really nice details on this, love the vents on the headlight lids!

- Tony

Thanks Tony!

This was one of the areas i struggled with a lot on the design side. My goals were to make all changes in the direction of improving the performance of the car, and also retain as much of that amazing road trip/race track storage capability as possible. I wanted to vent the air over the hood, but boxing out the entire headlight bucket area was a pain!





Very early i knew this was the plan, but it took until bout 3 months ago for me to finally execute the splitter and the headlight vents, and "fog lights". I have LED projectors in the turn signal housings (super cheap ones) and the foglights (expensive ones).

the radiator vents started as scrap kayak building material
the foglights as toiletbowl brushes (NEW)
the splitter as a fiberglass LE spoiler