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]

It is time for an update on what I have been up to with this car. I spent a bunch of time enjoying it over the last few years, and did several road trips and used it as my daily driver for most of the summer.




That includes driving to trailheads on on forest roads to go hiking and camping. I got turned around a couple times, and started getting the itch to put together a more capable offroad set of wheels/tires/suspension. So I could change it up when I feel like it. I started collecting some parts to work on the project over the winter.

Instead I had the opportunity to get started earlier... on the way to the hike below. I had a pretty amazing bang while driving 70mph in 5th gear over Snoqualmie Pass. After the shock and some quick troubleshooting at 50mph, decided it to drive to the ranger station and have my friends pick me up for the hike and deal with the problem later.



I had a great time talking to the driver on the way back to Seattle, brainstorming scenarios of what might have gone wrong.