Spamby's '08 STi

[Spamby]

AOS should be here Monday. Looks like next weekend for the install unless something comes up.

Just finished with dipping the wheels. Perfect weather as it was about 75*. However, it was terribly windy, like 30 mph winds, so I couldn't open the garage door. Man did I get woozy! Now I have a killer headache.
Hopefully I got a good solid finish but will have to see in the morning once I go to put them on. Also need to sober up from huffing this crap.

 

[Spamby]

Install instructions are not so great. Go out an buy an extra T for your system so that the PCV isn't dumping oil back into your intake instead of it going through the cans.

Also, the link in your journal for the dyno goes to someone else's stuff...

Looking back through posts, here is another note:
Use a buffing compound on the tails to remove some, but not all of the VHT, then reapply. Then apply a clear coat. That should make it last a little while longer.

I'll get another tee

Fuck me. Their shits unlinkable. Fixed with image.

I'll do some magic to it eventually. Funny thing is that I did put a clear on it. It seems to be washed out on the top edge, both sides. Acid rain, lol.

 

[Spamby]

Sounds good, let me know if you need help.

Will do.

 

[Spamby]

The BBS wheels were an absolute biznatch to coat. 17 hours of dry time and they still felt a little green but I went ahead and bolted them up as the temps took a 40 degree dump today.

Crappy pics but fuzzy porn is better than no porn.

Money shot^

 

[Spamby]

Full spread

 

[Spamby]

So this lovely showed up at my doorstep tonight while I was stuffing my face. This is a very substantial product.
Thanks to Fast Tuning Products for the hook up and great communications.
Install may be this weekend.

 

[Spamby]

Fuji,

What type and size tee were you referring to? I wanna see if I have one at work or a store before I get into this. I hate stopping and running for parts!

 

[Spamby]

AOS os going on today and while I'm in there I will do up some DP/turbo blanket.

Fuji,
Keep your ears on, if you will, may need a Q&A today.

 

[Spamby]

AOS installed. Pretty straight forward. Fit and finish was good however, there are some things that that I didn't like: The main harness didn't fit back where it should have. The harness was moved considerably farther forward and it was a pita to get that stiff SOB to move up.
Turbo to IC silicone hose is a bitch to get clamped without squeezing the hose off of the turbo compressor outlet. I don't remember have this problem before when I have removed the IC. Oh well.
HAd a very tiny amount of oil in the turbo to IC hose. Overall, everything was very clean.
Definitely going to have to plumb some drain lines from the ball-valves to the under carriage as there is zero space to drain into a cup.

Took it for a short spin and brought boost to about 15 psi. So far no leaks.

 

[Spamby]

Update:

Thanksgiving was cool. No drama and most of the family was elsewhere so I spent some time with the inlaws which means no running from house to house.

Subaru is dirty and has had no attention nor will for the time being. She is just gonna get rode hard and kicked out of bed like the dirty tramp she is... for now.

Porsche is f-ing giving me an ulcer. On another post I was talking of CEL pertaining to catalyst efficiency. This has gone the way of the dodo, I suspect for the winter? Light went out when the temps finally broke into the sub freezing range. Great, just what I need, a weather related gremlin. Or it could be maybe a fill with 100% gas at the time prompted this? Maybe it's just a picky bitch that needs to be smacked! Keepin the pimp hand strong!

Brake booster faulty, information center said last week. I spent part of the weekend rebuilding the plumbing for the brake booster system. Porsche utilizes an auxiliary motor to draw a vacuum and assist the brakes and other stuff. They used hard plastic lines for the plumbing, about 20 feet of the brittle plastic shit. The plastic ages quickly and cracks so you get a lot of little vacuum leaks and cause all sorts of brake and other issues. Revamped the entire system with rubber hoses. Fixed!

Driving to store on Sunday and BAM! screen reads a "brake pads workshop" then a big yellow exclamation point brightly in my face. get home and check the pads and rotors. They are toast. Time for a pad and rotor change and flush and fill. Ordered all of the pads and rotors, e brake kit, mounts, clips, bolts and springs and the wear sensors. 3 liters of ATE super blue and a euro adapter for the motive bleeder. Also had to find the 3 legged unicorn "15mm XZN, triple square bit" required for the rear brakes. Tis fucking bit cost 38 bucks and took an hour of rabid googling to find.
10 minutes and a grand later I have a brake job for this weekend. yea!! And to find out that the mounting bolts on the front 6 pots are 200 and 130 lbft of torque. FOOOOOOOOOOOOOOKK MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE! This is going to be fun.

On top of all of this I have been switching to Bob Villa hat and remodeling a bedroom to a nursery. It's a girl and she is due in March.

I need serenity. I will pay top dollar for a bottle of it. I'm going to bed.

 

[Grinder34]

Porsche utilizes an auxiliary motor to draw a vacuum and assist the brakes and other stuff.

Why? Is this so you can left-foot-brake rally style?? You'd think for anything else manifold vacuum would be enough?

I dont really know what I'm talking about though

 

[Spamby]

I have never seen this type of setup outside of some race setups when the motor is making too little manifold vacuum. Even then, it is mostly in the form a vacuum canister.

The manifold vacuum may not be sufficient to assist in braking.

I do know that the CTT comes in at around 5500 lbs, very heavy. It utlizes a 350mm disc and very large 6 pot calipers. They are as big as basketballs and fill the 20" wheels very well.

I do know that without the pump operating, you need to literally stand on the brakes to make this thing stop. So it is not something that is there to just make the braking feel better.

The plumbing snakes from the manifold to the pump, the brake booster to the pump, and the cabin fresh air make-up to the pump.

I do know that Porsche engineers have made some very piss poor choices in plastics in critical areas. These are very well documented issues yet do not get acknowledged by Porsche.

Why does the engine have a dry sump oiling system? Locking center and rear diffs? Torque multiplying low ranges? Approach and departure angles that of bult offroad machines? Air suspension from 6 inches of ground clearance to about a foot? And on the flip side can do a 0-60 in 5 seconds or a quarter in 13 sec? Out handle most all trucks and SUV's and a good portion of even performance orientated cars?

Why? Because they designed a thingamajig. A race car-rally, mud bogging, hill climbing, track day, soccer day, shopping day, towing the boat day, towing the race car, trans-siberian rally, Paris/Dakar running, whopper jawed holy shit did I just get smoked by that ugly thing, over engineered people mover with different and violent personalities. wheew I got all of that out.:tard:

In the end, Porsche has over-engineered some systems of this ride to the point they are failure. Systems that a more simple approach could well have been taken. In the systems they have used simple tactics, these parts are steadfast and very robust.

I too am still green at this type of auto and am learning with each day as to what makes it tick.

As you can tell, I have zero car friends to talk to about cars. Sorry if I get windy.

 

[Spamby]

brake job this weekend...

 

[Grinder34]

Those rotors look like plastic.

 

[Spamby]

lol.. they do. Whatever coating it has is very thick

 

[Spamby]

Ever wonder how super blue works as a contact lense rewetter? Pretty well, aside from the initial blindness and subsequent burning.
Things got slippery, hose popped out of the catch bottle and presto, a blue facial!

Got the rears done. Kind of a pain as I must have pounded on the pad reatiner pins, with a five pound hammer, for ages.

Fronts tomorrow.

 

[Spamby]

So, now you know what a smurf bukake feels like

Smurfy kind day. haha, yep. And just like Smurfette, I spit, wiped and went back in.

 

[Spamby]

Didn't forget about you, Lenny!

No. I just did the rear and they are not that impressive. Red 4 pots about the size of our fronts.

When I do the fronts tomorrow, I'll snap some of the 6 pots. They are more of a boner material.

 

[Ghostwhite]

Keep us updated on the AOS drain. Mine are always a pain to drain but I fear with a drain hose that stays on the car will drip residue from the hose unless they are plugged on the end. I might experiment with a makeshift funnel to the bottom of the car that I can drain with and remove.

 

[Ghostwhite]

Yes but like he said getting a container underneath of them is nearly impossible. The dripping I was refering to is if you have a drain hose hooked up, the oil residue in the hose after the valve is closed would drain slow creating an oil mess a little bit at a time over a long period.