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]

Did the work to swap the stubs this morning. Start to finish just under 3 hours. The slowest part was making coffee and refilling the trans oil. It’s a lot easier to work under the car when it is a foot off the ground. I left it on the ground.

Drained fluid. Replaced plug with oem seal. Inspected. It was nearly brand new. So I reused it.

Welded counter sunk fasteners on the end of the stubs so I could get a short slide hammer on securely. Yanked stubs out no problem. Slide hammer to unseat seals then Pried oil seals out with pliers Cleaned, oiled, prepped for reassembly.

Used the short slide hammer/seal removal/install tool to install new seals. Used slide hammer on small wood board to seat stubs. Replaced axles. Torqued my cvs until my wrist clicked at 30 ft lbs. need to finish torque later.

Refilled fluid.

All the part numbers in my prior post worked as intended.

Now to get a beer.