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Hi guys,

I'm new to the Liberty scene, and have decided to post my brother's 2008 Liberty Spec B tuned by STI (6MT) on which I've been working over the last year.

So, it was purchased new a few years ago, and nothing had been done to it...until the warranty ran out. So far, it has done (believe it or not!) only ~29,000km.

I found it hard to find parts for this car from Japan, because of the differences in JDM and Oz-spec cars.
I've learnt the hard way. So far, there is a brand-spanking new HKS metal catalyzer (ie. front pipe) which was designed for the twin scroll turbo (as I learned later) sitting in the family room.
There's also a brand new bloody rear Cusco 1.5way RS diff that had different spline diameters and teeth.

However, we've managed to make some correct purchases so far, with successful fitment, albeit with some fiddling and swearing.

- HKS Premium suction with drop-in filter...a bitch to fit in to the compressor inlet because the HKS hose-clamps were a bit thick and kept hitting the flange of the intake manifold.
- Blitz SI Drive controller, running max 1.1bar
- HKS twin power
- Cusco front suspension member brace
- Cusco rear suspension member brace
- Pleasure Racing front TV-link pillow bushes.
- Pleasure Racing aluminium transmission member collars.
- HKS Hipermax III BB tune coil-over-damper kit
- Removed the bump-stop rubber at the back.
- Prova 'Rigi Cola' (Engrish, for sure) I think they meant rigid crossmember collars; machined aluminium spacers that were sandwiched in-between the front and rear suspension member bushes and chassis.
- Pleasure Racing differential mount (rear) urethane inserts with Aluminium plates.
- Laile differential mount (front) with uprated urethane bushes.
- Laile rear strut-tower bar
- Laile Direct Brake System (master cylinder stopper)
- Zero-sports side strakes.
- Zero-sports front carbon grille.
- Zero-sports 'cool radiator II' aluminium shrouding.
- J-Speed "Super Sujiganekun" front crushable zone triangular strut.
- AVO top-mount bar and plate intercooler.
- AVO front-pipe with sports catalytic converter.
- HKS centre pipe - used a double olive to link the front-pipe to the centre pipe because they were different types of flanges.
- HKS SSQV 4 BOV, recirculated.
- HKS Turbo timer
- Cusco 1-way front LSD, type RS; had to have two spacers machined 3mm on big end, 6mm on small end (could be the other way around...), to enlocate the differential in relation to the crown wheel mounting surface and the pinion. No problems...yet. This was a bitch to do...two fresh NTN bearing were sacrificed in the process! Arrgh!
- HKS LA Twin-plate clutch
- DBA front and rear slitted rotors (series 4000) one-piece
- Project Mu Type HC+ brake pads Fr & Rr
- Rolled front and rear guards
- RAYS G25 wheels, 19x8.5J+45
- Yokohama ADVAN sports 225/40s

Problems to rectify...
- Engine and transmission mounts are way too soft. Hard changes cause the whole bloody thing to rock & twist, and there's a bone-chilling bang from the exhaust hitting the chassis. So...taking it niiiice and eeeeasy until the STI mounts arrive.

Future mods in the pipeline...
- Light-weight crank pulley; to be chucked in when the timing belt is replaced.
- Interior LED lights to replace the incandescent ones.
- ECUTEK tune to optimise AFR, iginition timing and etcetera to suit mods so far.

We were considering a cosworth engine drop-in, turbos and what-not but decided to keep it at a not-so-expensive light-tune level!!

Nice list of mods,

Have you got any pictures of the car?

Where are you posting from?

First welcome. And second very nice build on the car,any shots
Cheers George

Photos so far...unfortunately, I need to photoshop the others to get rid of people and such.
I'm posting from Melbourne.
Will have to hard-park somewhere nice and take flattering photos :p

Nice looking rig. Confusing username. And that coming from someone with my username.
I wonder if that cusco rear centre you have fits an r160 and not the r180 the 6 speeds have.?...If so, you might be able to sell it to someone with a 5 speed.

Oh, and that intake pipe looks the business.

Niiice rims!

Welcome.

More pics please, from side and low and front on angle high would be great.

J

Edited to add pic request

looks great mate. i love when a build thread full of awesome stuff comes out of no where.

couldnt help but see you mention "So far, there is a brand-spanking new HKS metal catalyzer (ie. front pipe) which was designed for the twin scroll turbo (as I learned later) sitting in the family room."

what will you be doing with that?

Welcome to you and your brother's car. Looks like you're very handy with your.. umm.... hands. I suppose your bro is lucky to have you around to help him with the mods.

yoshi? lol

great looking wagon

stew07gt wrote:looks great mate. i love when a build thread full of awesome stuff comes out of no where.

couldnt help but see you mention "So far, there is a brand-spanking new HKS metal catalyzer (ie. front pipe) which was designed for the twin scroll turbo (as I learned later) sitting in the family room."

what will you be doing with that?

hey hey! Well, it's taking up space so I was going to use it as a down pipe for the gutter at the back :p
haha, j/k I'd love to sell it to someone who has the model that it's designed for.

neilgero wrote:yoshi? lol

Neil?!!

That's right, you had that Liberty with titanium mufflers.
How's the 110 clutch? Did you get it sorted?

Also figured it's time to ditch the iphone camera and use a real one.
Sorry guys, the pics are sh*t.

I'll have to get that front low angle shot tomorrow, Jslayz.

I will be waiting,
Looking forward to some good shots of this car!

J