Zaider's RSTI Project

[Zaider]

Originally Posted by MGigantelli44

Looks amazing man! The only thing I would change is that grill... dont understand why anyone likes that thing! Besides that it looks incredible to me. Always nice to see some N/A to STI cars, gives me inspiration.

Thanks. Yeah, its on the list.

Anyone have an MBP JDM STI grill they want to sell me?

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[Zaider]

Picked these parts up today....

Blouch Dom 1.5XTR

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Garret Core

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71mm XT compressor wheel

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56.5mm turbine wheel and internally gated

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Its ported... that was a nice surprise

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Also in my order were

Top Feed O Ring Kit

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Samco Afta Maf Hose

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I expect to be installing all this, headers and DW750's on Sunday.

[od_man99]

I'm from Quebec, I know how you feel about winter. God it's horrible. But our subies wouldn't be love as much if we didn't plow through those snow banks and ice with them.

[Zaider]

Couple of pics from the progress of today's turbo swap and header/uppipe install


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Yes, im aware the DP isn't torqued down properly.

I just have to button a few things up, buy a couple bolts im missing and im good to go get tuned

[Zaider]

Car is misfiring (no CEL) and has a low idle when warm (~700rpm). Going to go see my tuner today to see if he can figure out whats wrong. Im thinking one of the DW750 injectors I installed is faulty.

In other news, I got this last night.


Carlabs X-Brace by zcherniawsky, on Flickr

I need to track down the two bolts that attach the X to the strut tower braces and then it'll get installed. I've got the 12L Spec C tank in the trunk but I ordered a set of spacers from Oswald Performance so I can run both. Apparently the install is a PITA.... yay. :sarcasm:

[vipers]

man....that sucks about the misfire :/...always harder too when no codes pop up...... on a brighter side, i LOVE that cross bar!!

[Zaider]

Ugh. I know. Tell me about it. I've been driving it with some injector cleaner in it... but still the same issue.

[Eww Evo]

Nice job.

[Zaider]

My tuner, Airboy, was concerned because everywhere in the engine bay that I measured, the voltage was steady, however the ECU was seeing varying voltage. He pulled the ECU out and started testing wires. Sure enough, all the ECU grounds had an extremely high resistance (4+ohms). Something was wrong with the grounds. I called Brian at iWire who did my wiring merge and he said that all the ECU grounds terminate at the Intake Manifold.

Fast forward a few minutes to this bolt:


Bolt by zcherniawsky, on Flickr

Somewhere along the line, this bolt was undone and not tightened back up which meant that the ECU wasn't grounded properly. Sunny cleaned up the grounds and the grounding point and tightened the bolt. Started the car... ECU is seeing steady voltage. Better than that, the Idle was normal. Better than that, no misfires when we revved the motor up.

Huzzuh!

The car is now ready to be tuned whenever Airboy has an opening. We did a couple of pulls, turbo should make full boost by around 4200rpm-ish (yay Altitude!). Once you get up there, it feels pretty damn powerful... but thats compared to me limping the car around with misfires and an unhappy ECU.

Huge thanks to Airboy... amazing work as always.

[vipers]

Very glad to hear that! Good info too for anyone having a misfire issue and has checked all other options!

[Zaider]

Originally Posted by vipers

Very glad to hear that! Good info too for anyone having a misfire issue and has checked all other options!

Thanks. Yeah, I hate finding threads that have the same problem as me and then no solution. I try to post up when I find whats wrong.

[arf80]

Great car.

[Zaider]

Originally Posted by arf80

Great car.

Thanks. I like it (most of the time).

I installed my Carlabs X-Brace today. The install wasn't as bad as I'd heard. Took me about 2 hours start to finish and I was working by myself. Sorry about the iPhone pics.... my DSLR battery was charging.


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[Zaider]

Might as well post these here too.



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Sigh. Winter mode sucks.

I updated my mod list. I think I've got everything now...


Power
V7 EJ207 Swap - 2001 JDM STI Motor (2.0L Turbo, 8000rpm redline)
Maddad Unequal Length Headers, coated by Top Gun Coatings and wrapped in DEI Titanium Wrap
Blouch Dominator 1.5XTR Turbo with PTP Turbo Blanket
Tuned by Airboy - 280whp/240tq limited to 18psi, full tune soon
DW 750CC Injectors
Walbro 250lph Fuel Pump
Perrin Turbo Inlet
KS Tech 73mm Short-Ram Intake (to be installed prior to next tune)
Perrin Divorced Downpipe wrapped in DEI Titanium Wrap
Maddad Whisperback 3" Cat-back Exhaust
Aquamist HFS-6 Water-Meth injection (to be installed)
12L Spec C Tank with 2qt Surge Tank (to be installed)

Suspension and Drivetrain
V7 (2001) JDM STI 6 speed Transmission
V7 (2001) JDM STI R180 Rear Diff
V7 (2001) JDM STI Brembo Brakes (Fronts painted black with Gold RSTI Custom Decals)
OEM Rotors with Hawk HPS Pads
ST Coilovers (made by KW) wrapped in Neoprene covers
Whiteline Lowering Camber Plates (Front) and Group N Rear Tophats
Ebay Strut Tower Bar (Front)
Kartboy Front Endlinks (to be installed)
JDM STI Front Swaybar (21mm)
Whiteline Adjustable Rear Swaybar
Whiteline Rear Endlinks (C-Style)
V7 (2001) JDM STI Aluminum Front Control Arms

Exterior
V7 (2001) JDM STI HID Headlights
Sonic Tuning ST8 (18x8.5 +35)w/ Bridgestone RE760 Sport (245/35/18) – Summer Wheels
Gold Rota G-Force (17x8 +45) w/ Nokian Hakkapalita R (225/45/17) – Winter Wheels
Velocity Carbon FRP Trunk with molded Mines rear lip
JDM STI Hood/Hood Scoop
JDM STI Sedan Front Grille
Prodrive Front Lip
04/05 Tail Lights
Hella Supertone
JDM Power Steering Cooler
35% Tint on back 3 windows
LED Reverse and License Plate Lights
WRX Sideskirts
JDM Vent Visor Kit (Window Rain Visors)
Custom Made Rad Shroud (from WRX_RA)
JDM STI CF Side Marker Deletes
JDM Aero Pieces (front and rear spats)
WRX Side Mirrors

Interior / Sound
Defi Link Gauges in ATI Clock Gauge Pod - Boost, Oil Temp, EGT
AEM Wideband O2 in Subie Gal Pod
05+ Centre Console Swap painted black
JDM V8 STI Cluster
JDM Hazard Switch
LED Dome Light
Kenwood Double-DIN DNX5100 w/ Ipod in Glove Compartment and Bluetooth Handsfree
Phoenix Gold Speakers
MTX 2 Channel Amp for Sub
MTX 4 Channel Amp for Speakers
HVAC Colour Change to Red
WRX Auto-Dimming Mirror

Oh, and here's the current tune, limited to 18psi. I hope to get onto the dyno for the full tune soon, but its been hard to find times when both myself and my tuner are free.

[MGigantelli44]

Sweet new grill dude
Nice dyno as well

[Zaider]

Originally Posted by MGigantelli44

Sweet new grill dude
Nice dyno as well

Thanks. I love the grille. Too bad its covered in dirt and slush right now

I think im going to paint the single supertone and repaint the power steering cooler. With the new grille, they're even more visible and it kind of ruins it a little for me.

Hopefully the dyno graph improves a fair bit.

The extra 40whp right now isn't worth the increased lag... better get some more top end once we up the boost to 21-22psi.