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]

Made notable progress on my replacement tuning solution after Cobb locked me out. The open source Subaru community has made significant improvements over the last 5 years and I have more experience too. So I have committed to that now.

I spent a weekend converting my personally developed Cobb map to an Ecuflash map for the 2011 WRX ecu I am using. I set up ecu flash for tuning and romraider for data logging, along with my personal python scripts for data analysis all on a 250$ 10” windows 10 tablet. (Thanks glen for the gauge matching artwork)

Turns out I am really excited about this integrated solution and am looking forward to continued map development because of it. Although I’m not sure if if I need much... I can probably spend some time further improving cruise fuel economy :)



In parallel to that significant detour, i remounted the passenger seat to improve adjustability, and bought some new trail running shoes.

These re-inspired me to finish my prior wheel plan, but with a waxed matte finish instead of gloss this time around. I will be joining the west coast rally unless I blow something up first!