Art's 818 build

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INDEX

107 Acorns in cooling system
102 Battery cable end crimper - DIY
29_ Beading tool for larger pipes
55_ Beading tool for smaller pipes
56_ Bending aluminum tubing
108 Body - Clamshell hood
168 Body - Clamshell hinge
195 Body - Clamshell lock
196 Body - Clamshell anti-drop slowdown device
197 Body - Clamshell motion control components
256 Body - closing the sides behind seats
254 Body - coupe roof intake air channels - fixing leaks
216 Body - doors - windows seal
253 Body - Headliner and Console
241 Body - Louvers - hood
249 Body - Overhead console from Saturn Aura
266 Body - Painted
274 Body - How much paint
276 Spoiler - wing
245 Body - visors and overhead console
67_ Carbon fiber intake
95_ Carbon fiber airbox details w/variable induction valve
136 Consol/Dashboard customization / vinyl covering
281 Dash area wiring layout
215 Cruise control lever on steering wheel
59_ Customizing Subaru combo meter
159 & 281 Ducts for airflow under dash
41_ Exhaust header clearance for EZ30D
46_ Exhaust curled up
258 Exhaust shields
314 Exhaust version 4 - finally no drone
195 Fiberglass - epoxy bonding tests
178 First drive
90_ First start
43_ Floor pan oil canning fix
34_ Fuel tank build
163 Glove box
239 Headlight buckets
287 Headlight cover lenses - no screws, no paint mounting
337 Headlight bucket and projectors - gaskets
238 Intake air filters - carbon fiber
283 Interior finished
40_ Motor mounts for EZ30D
151 Mounting/bonding parts into ABS plastic
2__ Polishing combo meter face
4__ Reset Odometer
205 Seats
116 Shifter - another design
188 Shifter - jack shaft details
320 Shifter - power assisted shift linkage
257 Steering wheel recovered w pigskin
143 Subaru dashboard switches - mountings
11_ Suspension - 2008 Legacy suspension into 818
200 Tail lights - custom
42_ Tilting motor/trans down in back
320 Trunk box
198 Upholstery - re-doing seats
244 Wheels refinished
218 Windshield wiper
106 Wiring engine harness
101 Wiring & fooling ECM/TCM auto > manual trans
5__ Wiring plans for 818C - 2002 JDM EZ30


818C after starting with an S

Took me 66 years to finally order an 818S. But then again had to wait for FFR to design it...

Booked last week. FFR said lead time is now 1 month. I asked for August 1 (still in parts prep stage, big honey-do list from moving last fall).

Although my inclination was to do this car since I first read about it 3 years back, I COULD blame it all on Mechie3 - last November he was kind enough let me sit in his project and chew his ear off about my life's history. Thanks for being patient with me! FFR should pay him salesman commissions on these (regular I think) visits he hosts.

Not sure I'll have a lot of posts - there is so much wealth here already - it's hard to imagine adding much more. But I'm doing my own wiring/schematics for the LL Bean US doner ECM for this JDM EZ30, and oddball suspension (below). So where I think I've something to contribute, I feel I should pay some respect to others before me by following their lead.

I'm an electronics tech (engineer wanna-be). Spent my life servicing medical imaging - CT scanners, MR, X-Ray NucMed and all the rest. Designed/built a lot of oddball stuff including thinkgs like miniature CNC machines for the R/C hobby-motor and other industries. Raised two girls to become nurses. Wife is an ultrasonographer. Medical life and on-call 24/7 has kept us all busy and a kit car just hasn't been in part of life's plans. Today I work full time as a medical data systems hacker - pulling patient data from recalcitrant systems that vendors want too much money to do it, and moving it to my employer's radiology systems (3,000+ employee nationwide radiology company).

Jan finally said last summer "let's move to a home with a garage where you can build that 818". Whohoo! Done. Found 8 acres in NW Indiana in the woods, but no garage. Even better = 24' x 40' done my way. By Christmas the garage was up.

A month ago I grabbed a JDM '02 EZ30 and all the rolling parts from a JDM '07 Impreza at Midwest JDM, Cincinnati. This started out to be just "get the 3.0" but the '07 stuff was just laying there in the JDM shop begging to become 818 fodder. Yup, that's right 07 Japan. Read that as '08 all aluminum arms and stuff in USA technology. Hey building a kit car doesn't mean it's all planned out for you right? I had the feeling in Scargo's early posts he was maybe looking into something like this, but his later posts show superb design work using other non-Subaru suspension exotica.