Impreza Group-N project.

[Aram]

Today I had the IC core cleaned.
I wanted all the dirt n' grime out of it before welding up the endtanks.
So first it went into a degreasing bath and after that it had a few dips in an acidbath.
Took some pics from the acid bath, the fumes were not long life improving, I lost a few years today I think.





The brownish fumes came off the aluminum, you can see a bit in the second picture also.
When they put it on the box from out of the acid, there were big clouds of the stuff coming of the core, like it was vaporising.........which it probably was too.
They said it would be gone in 10 minutes....
Anyway, I think all of the dirt is out now.






Now it looks like new!
I'll pick it up tommorow and maybe we can weld the endtanks on as well!

[robokill]

clean man!

[Aram]

Thanks!

Picked up the cleaned core yesterday, looks nice and clean now.

Before:




After:





So today the tanks had to be welded on so I started with cutting them to the correct length.
From the leftover pieces I created the bottom plates:





The welds will be treated afterwards but I leave them like this untill eveything is welded on and it is tested.

I must say I'm pretty pleased with it, and I really, really, really hope it doesn't leak.......







Inside:



Also done a bit of brakeline again, I got new adaptors for theinner fender and I wasn't satisfied with the last version so I made a new one again.
Now I'm happy:







Started with a dummy for the right side, looking good sofar:

[gon]

amazing project ....
please continue so we have the pleasure to see it .....

[Aram]

Thanks man!

Off course the updates will continue.

[Aram]

The brake lines on the front are done!
Fabricated the last part today, tomorrow we start with the rear:






On a USDM tank there is some kind of enviremental system, I don't need that.
So my friend Alex lasered some nice aluminum plates.
They will be anodized in a later stage, but because I need the tank under the car for the next step I tried them on.

Before:



After:



And while we were at it:



Tomorrow more!

[robokill]

yesyes its becoming a car

[Aram]

Hmm, almost, almost.

So, tomorrow is today.

We have done another small step today, again my good friend Alex dropped by to give mental guidance.

But I had already done some preparations at work.
First I stripped the feulpump assembly, I'm going to weld parts on it so it has be clean.

Before:



After:



The other thing I did was put the dampers on the surgetank:





After creating some freedom for movement after removing the "backseat" we created a nice bracket:



In the car:











The eventual bracket will be 5mm lower.

The only "problem" is that the hose comming from the pump is a bit short, so the filter will be either on a pretty high bracket or perhaps in another place?.........

[Eric]

or just take a longer one?

[Aram]

You obviously have no idea what a hose like that costs?

I went on with the feulconnectors:.

Spent half a day trying to find a piece of thin walled 10mm tube, after failing that I did find a piece of 12mm tube with the same inner diameter.
Cut the piece in 2 and made some bends in them:



Reworked the weld pieces to match the tube inner diameter.

Before:



After:



Welded on the bracket:






Fitting!!:










And I made a cardboard template for the bracket of the surgetank:




After wrecking the last one I had to get another radiator so I just bought a new one: