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]

Now that it got cold in Seattle, I decided it was time to continue the suspension work..

When planning the road/safari modes I had planned originally to extend the control arms .5 to 1.5 inches to get the camber where I want it for different applications. This requires new upper strut mounts to make work easily, or fabricating camber boxes. I decided I can get the safari or track camber with stock strut mounts, and road camber with KW adjustable mono balls and track camber with either. I would also need the long turbo tie rods and play with my bump steer adjustment.

Another big part of this was replacing my worn poly bronze bushings. I decided to go back to rubber, 914 rubber. Planning to swap the rears back to rubber after christmas.

Several pics of my process below, but apparently didn’t document any of the bushing swap because it was time sensitive as they are cooling off. I mostly followed Ian Karrs video.

Below is cutting and mock-up to determine to go with 0.75” extension for both road and off-road application. Doesn’t affect scrub radius here really, so mostly just managing clearances and camber.