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:

[waltonsm]

Time to add some more photos: Trying to capture mostly what was done (and since modified) for the rear subframe.

Objectives:
-make the subframe a rolling cart with adjustable corners for simple motor drops for engine work (proven, unfortunately)
-use it to box out the rear end of the car
-hang as much off the subframe as possible
-get the engine as high and forward as possible, ground clearance and cg

In the end I mounted the intercooler, oil cooler, muffler, and rear sway bar on the subframe, of course in addition to the engine and trans.

I used Subaru group N engine mounts, I later added the pitch stop off brackets at the rear of trans to manage axial motion to stiffen it a bit. I have enough degrees of freedom to adjust the up-pipe, turbo,downpipe,exhauts tip location.

I did end up making a small cut in the rear trunk to fit the turbo, this was an early design error that I just ended up going with (to keep the turbo in stock location).