Impreza Group-N project.

[Aram]

Today I went further on the heater connections.
After making a start yesterday I increased the hole a bit further for positioning and finished it off to fit the rubber:








The finishing touch:




The loom holes were up next:






To give some background info, we had to do this predure about 30 times.
Building in the heater unit:

Empty!



Left side, this has to be wiggled between the cage and firewall and then be moved to the right for the heater element to fit:








Heater element, the pipes have to go through the hole first, then the left half can be pushed over it:








Then the right half can be mated to the left half:








Then the airco unit, and the 2 covers left and right.
After that it can be fixed to the chassis:











Et viola!!

[Aram]

The next step is the steering column, it's fixation points do not match the ones in the chassis.
So we had to put in the chair and dashboard for alignment fitting.

With the GL we needed a day to make the chairframe fitting.
In this chassis the guys at Prodrive have welded in some tubes for fixation.
I could fit the chair in just sitting on his side supports,so no frames were needed!!






Dasboard:




Chair had to be test fitted of course:






The steer sits perfect in line!:




Unfortunatly the hole in the firewall is to big for this collumn,this has to be adressed too:




We also removed some of the pedals from the old car and put them in the new chassis:




This was it for this year, more next year!

[banpei]

Only two pedals? Are you installing an automatic? >
Seriously: are these pedals stock?

[rwdlover]

NICE

respect

[Aram]

Today and Thursday I did a bit of work on the car.

Thursday:

I did a little bit more on the steering column, it didn't fit on either side, it needed attention.
First I cut of the fixation plate from the bar that runs underneath the dashbord, so it can be welded to the new chassis:




And we fixed the last bracket on the heater, now it is locked down really well:



Today:

I had to cut out a piece of firewall from my old car to fit into the hole in the new chassis.
But I had to remove the master brake cilinder first:



So the fuel filter has to be removed and my home made brake bracket:



Et viola a clean area:



After cutting:





Before welding it into the new chassis I cleaned all the edges of the parts that will get new sheetmetal with a brush:






Then a sorry attempt to weld.
I only spot welded the plate for the steering column because I need to check if it is in the correct place later when then steeringhouse and subframe are attached:







It's in!!
Well almost, I still need to weld the fixation points on the dashbar, that will happen soon:

[Aram]

Was a busy night but for some reason it doesn't look like much was done.
Probably because most of the time was spent building the components in and out of the car.

Anyway,

I wanted to fix the other side of the steering column, for which I removed the original fixation plate.
Unfortunatly it didn't fit very well so something new had to be found.
We had a strip of metal lying about with just the right thickness and width plus on top 2 holes that the bolts fit through.
So we cut it in half and used both parts.

As said it doesn't sound like much but it was pretty much work anyhow.

Testing:




Test positioning from the driver view:






Finaly on it's final resting place :




Cardboard design, this will be lasered from metal sheet:



More to come.

[Aram]

Got me a brakebalance devider:



Friday I started on the throttle, the fixation points on the chassis were slightly different to the GL.
So a hole needed to be drilled and a piece of metal needed to be welded:












Then the final part of the heater, this would not fit easily I already noticed:



Because the cage sits in the corner the heater cannot go into it's original position so it has to move to centre of the car a bit, making it to small to fit between the cage and the other heater part.
So I cut a small part of and it fits immediatly!
Meanwhile I cut the fixationpoint and welded it into the correct place:






Finaly I had tap a bulge in the fender for a better fit:



It fits, Aram happy!:



Because it has moved a bit to the centre of the car I have to adjust the opening in the chassis too, that's why I made a cardboard version that can be lasered from metal later:



Now that most work on the dash is done, I can concentrate on the final part, the loom, after that the interior is almost done!

Today I started tearing the GL down a bit more, starting with the most important now, the looms:






After putting the GL on a steeck (Jeff Dunham brake), I drained the iols and removed the exhaust, next is the engine/drivetrain:





This aluminium after 2 years on a car, the smooth piece is original:




Tommorow we continue!

[Richie]

This is an awesome project!!!

[Aram]

Today I started with the welding of the lasered plates on the firewall:








So that's where my money disappears....:



I could just save it and replace it by something cheaper:






My friend Alex lasered the sharkfins I made the cardboard copy for, so we welded them in also:



So now almost everything is complete concerning the firewall, just a few small things left to do.

After that we started on the old car, removing the internals.
I wanted the subframe to fit into the the chassis, to see if the steering column is in the correct place.

I didn't like the idea of removing all parts one by one, so I put a pallet under the engine etc. and lowered eveything on there.
After that we just lifted the body up.












But after that much work sometimes you kinda had it:



And you start to make mistakes:



If that happens you know you gotta rest, so we did :




After a good nap I had decided to mount the whole thing into the new chassis, instead of just the subframe:










After that I checked if the steering column was ok and put the heater back in for trial fitting:















There's a lot left to do but I'm very happy with the progress sofar, I hope we can keep up this speed.

[rwdlover]

NICE job

dit ziet er echt top uit man het is wel een heel karwei