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:

[RKramden]

Sorry, I thought of one other question. I see you have a LED turn signal bulb. Is this visible when the lights are on or do the lights turn off on the side the turn signal is flashing like I have noticed on some new cars?

[waltonsm]

Sorry, I thought of one other question. I see you have a LED turn signal bulb. Is this visible when the lights are on or do the lights turn off on the side the turn signal is flashing like I have noticed on some new cars?

I started with the clear lens. Attempted polishing it, didn’t work. I sprayed clear on them and that help reduce scattering. The scattering reduced the throw and made everything near field too bright. I currently have 1/4 acrylic on there that I also laser cut I think, but a router template would be more that sufficient to make from
Wood and fair smooth.

I used a round over bit too, but this is all temporary for now, but I will likely leave it as acrylic long term. Optically clear and cheap to work with. You can get scratch resistant acrylic and polycarbonate too.

The turn signal needs the scattering to be easier to see, so in later pictures you may see that I have scuffed a frame/ring around the perimeter using fine sandpaper where the projector doesn’t pass through (they have awesome cutoff too for bright lights that don’t bother oncoming traffic too much). I am going to scuff the bottom similar the two color turn signal lenses soon.

I also like the idea of alternating with the headlight like new cars. I don’t have it wired that way, but it would be pretty simple to add a circuit into the harness to make that happen. Maybe in the future (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)