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I'd remove the tubing used for the center tunnel and run a battery box down the center with those batteries two wide in a nice aluminum box. The tunnel serves no purpose in your build, in our's it only provides a space for the wiring harness and support for the shifter and Ebrake...
Dan
818S #17 Picked up 8/1/13 First start 11/1/13 Go Kart 3/28/14
These batteries are just a bit too tall for that unfortunately and I am using the tunnel for the shifter and ebrake. It would hurt the seat selection as well. What I am considering doing is cutting out the tubing and putting the shifter and ebrake on the floor.
Holy batteries! I've been on the wrong threads.
neat!
FFR 1879, Blown DSS 306,REDLINE management, VeryCoolParts Tuned 460RWHP
FFR 818S, The Flash, Chassis #5, 2.0L, LSD, Electromotive TEC-S, VCP Tuned, 278RWHP 265 RWTQ
FFR 6651, Green Lantern, 408W Crate, Hellion 66mm Turbo, JGS Waste gate / Blowoff valve, Tec-GT management, VCP Tuned, 575 RWHP, 690 RWTQ
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Are you scaling this 818 as you go along to get the desired weight distribution? It looks like you might have some real advantage compared to a conventional engine build.
Thanks, WEK.
FFR MkIII 302 (ATK), EFI 75mm TB with custom box plenum chamber, 24# injectors, 4 tube BBK ceramic, cold air sys, alum flywheel, crane roller rockers, T5, Wilwood pedals, custom five link with Watt's link, 4 rotors, coil overs, power steering with Heidt valve, alum FFR rad, driver's crash bar mod, mini dead pedal mod, quick release steering wheel hub #6046
It's the Batt-mobile. .
You can have Batt-mobile if I can be the Green Lantern
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It is just plain amazing to me that there is not one but multiple electric 818's being built so early in the 818 program. You guys have cahones!!
Nice glider!
Frank
818 chassis #181 powered by a '93 VW VR6 Turbo GT3582R
Go-karted Aug 5, 2016 - Then May 19+21, 2017
Tracked May 27/July 26, 2017
Build time before being driveable on Sep 27, 2019: over 6000h
Build Completed Winter 2021
I'm not sure if anyone noticed but I got the sport konis with my kit in the front and the yellows in the back. Are the reds going to be too stiff? The yellows were very soft in the rear comparatively.
Got my new headlights in. They have the new DRL feature which should be cool.
My buddy Matt calls this the "Aerosol Overhaul"
Boxes with the battery bars to hold them down. I'm learning so many new disciplines on this build it's not even funny.
All done. Now to polish them up so they look nice.
Last edited by ehansen007; 10-12-2013 at 10:48 AM.
That transmission looks amazing!
I like those lights. Is the projector the low beam or high beam? A long term plan of mine is to go aftermarket and do a proper HID retrofit. If I do it now though, and don't modify the stock lights, I might be able to sell them and recoup some value.
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I believe those are a hid low with halogen high.
That's correct.
did you crack the case, pull all the bolts, paint and then paint or just masked them off?
lol
Nice.
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I got mine from protuninglab.com but I think they are the same. They were $309 including the HID conversion. Some places advertise cheaper but then charge for the HID upgrade. Make sure you have the option to select the color temp. I picked 6000K which is ICE White (slight blueish hue)
Last edited by ehansen007; 10-14-2013 at 10:55 AM.
Those are the headlights I bought two months ago (first thing I bought for my 818R). They look great.
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818R-SOLD!!!- Go Karted 7/20/14/ Officially raced NASA ST2- 2/28/15
2016 Elan NP01 Prototype Racecar Chassis #20
1969 Porsche 911ST Vintage Race Car
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Your build is amazing dude!!!!!
Very clean!
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It's a projector. Its the one out the outside not the inside.
Also, after a huge snafu with the brake setup (found out my "donor" was an Impreza) I found a set of GC8 brakes, rotors, hubs, etc on ebay. Started putting some lipstick on that pig as soon as the truck dropped them off. I already have new rotors and pads as these are pretty much gone.
Shipped these from Canada! Although they've been sitting out for a while and the rotors are gone the rest was in pretty good shape! I think the owner took them off because he thought a bearing had seized but it turns out a broken ABS toner ring was jammed in the works.
Turns out the 98 Impreza GC8 (Japanese STI) carried over to the 2002-07 WRX.
4 Pistons are better than 2! Should be great stoppers for sure. Not sure if I'm going to highlight the Subaru logo or not. The back doesn't have it.
Hey Erik
I love those brakes because they are lighter than mine. You will only need them for panic stops as regen will take care of normal stops.
Bob
its not to late for the angle grinder.
Last edited by ehansen007; 10-15-2013 at 11:32 AM.
Ha ha. Yeah, the guys at EV West were saying we could have the car running in a week and I was saying that we're not running anything without brakes. They said we'd just turn up the regen to 100%!! Not sure how much regen I will run on this. Pretty exciting really as this is all new territory for me.
Those front brakes are the same as the 06/07 WRX brakes except the USDM WRX didn't have the raised Subaru logo, but a sticker.
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Should I grind it off or pay tribute to the Subaru underpinnings?
I'm torn myself. I had mine blasted and powdercoated. Part of me wants to put the subaru stickers back on while part of me wants to put something like "FFR 818" or something else. While I want to pay tribute, I don't at the same time want people thinking it's some new fangled Subaru. Not that I dislike Subaru (my DD is a WRX afterall) but I want the car to be unique and a mystery. lol.
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FFR 5369 Pin Drive, IRS, Trigos, Torsen, Wilwoods, FMS BOSS 302 "B" cam , Mass-flo. CA SB100 (SPCN) Registered
Delivered 4/23/06. "Finished" 4/2012 (still not done!)
Grind off the 'SUBARU'!
I'm glad they changed the later WRX 4-pot to a flat face; it made it easy to sand off the logo, repaint with Duplicolor caliper red, and add a special touch:
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Not to mention the added spoke clearance.
1997 RSVX Impreza Awesomeness!
1999 RHD 22B RSTI
2002 WRX
2005 Saabaru
2008 STI
2013 FFR 818 #30
Nice logo.
How did you do it so cleanly?
Frank
818 chassis #181 powered by a '93 VW VR6 Turbo GT3582R
Go-karted Aug 5, 2016 - Then May 19+21, 2017
Tracked May 27/July 26, 2017
Build time before being driveable on Sep 27, 2019: over 6000h
Build Completed Winter 2021
Thanks, but I can't take credit, I had them printed here:
http://www.vinzdecals.com/createcaliper.html
OK I take back my last statement. Get the 818 logo!
FFR 5369 Pin Drive, IRS, Trigos, Torsen, Wilwoods, FMS BOSS 302 "B" cam , Mass-flo. CA SB100 (SPCN) Registered
Delivered 4/23/06. "Finished" 4/2012 (still not done!)
Too cool! It looks like it was made to be there from the get go. Great job so far.