Ben vs Mk3. Round 2.

[GoLfMan]

hell yes! Looking awesome dude where all the set up pics at?

[Ben J]

Thanks guys

Ground to na lip is about an inch at a guess. It's close to laying frame but not quite there. So its not low enough. Yet.

At the moment its all only just connected up, most of the interior is out and the boot is one huge mess of wires, air lines and unmounted compressors/tanks. I wanted to get it in and working before I made it all pretty. It's just how I work. Ill finish it all up properly on the weekend hopefully.

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[Ben J]

Put some carby/throttle body cleaner through and also a can of Subaru upper engine cleaner, which basically foams up and cleans out all the crap in the upper engine (if you've heard of "seafoam" on the american forums, I think this is pretty much as close as you can get in australia) and the things running realllly nicely

Also pulled the timing chains and head off the vr6, although really not sure when I'll get that finished as Im moving out really soon, and will not have a garage in brisbane :/

Still havent gotten around to making all the air components look pretty or mounting the gauges properly, did secure everything down though.

Bags have been going reallly nicely, they're a lot of fun. So comfortable. I missed the looks on peopels faces when you drive a stupidly low car, haha. Had a police scare already but that was okay, got out of that one very luckily.

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Dirty Head


Dirty Block


$10 valve spring compressor (big mother****in clamp and an already convienentally broken socket from an old supercheap socket set I had bought, before I realised why good tools cost good money and got better ones )


3 wheelin'

[Ben J]

Its been far too long since Ive had this happen...


The original drain plug was just so inefficient, so some train tracks decided to make a new one


Anyone know if 1.8 and 2.0 sumps would happen to be the same?

[ffoff]

Cracking your sump even on bags = boss!!!!!!!!

[dom123]

sorry it has to be said " do u ever learn?" hahaha then again do any of us.

[Ben J]

I drive all day everywhere much lower then I did on coilovers, I literally hit the cats eyes on the road (and im talking average sized ones, not the big ones) at the height I daily drive it at I refuse to learn anything! haha. The sump never really hits anything though and this is the first time ive scraped it, it sits a bit higher then the subframe and everything, so im not sure how I hit it. Ohwell. Might just do a dodgy patch job and hope it holds until I get the engine swapped in.

Looking at photos of 2.0 sumps they look identical, and you can pick those up for under $30 in the US, is a shame I rely on this car to get me to work and such and really cant wait for one to come over...


Turns out the tow truck driver is a big mk3 person and owns a couple himself so had a good chat on the way home

[ryana89]

Was this before or after the head was cleaned?
That's some seriously clean internals.

[Ben J]

Before (: the engine barely had 100ks on it, and had an amazing service history

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[vdubin]

LOL dude bags are so you can slam it when need be, not drive it fully slammed..ahwell Im sure youll learn soon, Good effort!

Im yet to try three wheels on the ground too !!

[gecko2k]

....not drive it fully slammed..

you mean 'drive it fully slammed', right? (That's what I would do too^^)

[Ben J]

I disagree, bags are to slam it whenever possible, only to be pumped up for driveways, speedbumps and police I drive it at the lowest height it will roll

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[vdubin]

Yeah thats fair then, I dont have gauges yet so thats why I dont ride super low I never know what height im at !
And the fact of never wanting to change my oil pan as I have plenty other on going issues lol.

Boot install pics soon ?

[Ben J]

My boot install is still basically a rats nest of wires and lines on a piece of bare mdf at the moment haha, i could get some though. Making it all super pretty isnt a priority at the moment, im sure it will happen soon enough though

[Ben J]

Now ill be the first to admit that thisis far from ideal...


But its holding oil

I do have a new sump on the way from GAP so this is a temporary solution at best. Basically patched it up with some metal epoxy kind of stuff.

Self notch progress:


Oh and also said goodbye to this for the last time today