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:

[Chris914n6]

Can you elaborate on the Boxster parts on the trailing arm. I was thinking of doing the same thing (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

[waltonsm]

Can you elaborate on the Boxster parts on the trailing arm. I was thinking of doing the same thing :D

I'm going to just dump a bunch of pictures here at the moment.

Part summary on arm: 951 stub axles (spacer added to prevent bottoming out in hub), boxster hubs, modified boxster bearing retainer to clear the hubs.

e brake hardware on arm: fabbed carrier with sheet and bar. made a bracket out of rectangular tube for the cable at the end. all boxster hardware pieces parts (springs, adjuster, cam, pads, etc. Both brake and shift cables from Custom control cables.

I also used the turning/cam casting from the boxster so I could keep the cables close to the firewall with the center mounted e-brake handle, along with with a 986/996 ebrake handle.