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Recently I have given it a thorough inspection and found a few issues, but amazingly not as many as I thought, or as urgent! I have got some cheap second hand coilovers from Tommi which I will fix the damaged mount on and fit, and I have bought a gen3 Macintosh headunit and amp. I have the cable from te h/u to the amp, and the plug for the amp, but I need to acquire, or find the pin out and make my own headunit plug.

Headunit will come first, then coilovers, followed by a service.

It went alright on the SA cruise last week but it is overfueling bad, and regularly throws afm engine code. Believed to be a dry solder. This will be fixed soon also.

All in all, happy so far and have big plans for it

Nice Karl I hope to see it on next cruise !

Dummy fit the Mcintosh headunit and amp tonight with a mate. The headunit seems to operate ok, gets radio, has signal, illuminates and dims etc, hooked the amp up - no sound. Anywhere, of any type. I'm yet to plug my sub into it, but for now we are just trying to get the basics working. Gave up for tonight and will give it another shot in a couple of days when I get time again.

Dropz wrote:Dummy fit the Mcintosh headunit and amp tonight with a mate. The headunit seems to operate ok, gets radio, has signal, illuminates and dims etc, hooked the amp up - no sound. Anywhere, of any type. I'm yet to plug my sub into it, but for now we are just trying to get the basics working. Gave up for tonight and will give it another shot in a couple of days when I get time again.

Did you try turning it off then on again?

Ha. many times. tried powering amp directly from battery also. no dice. we checked continuity of the headunit-amp wire also.

weird thing is the amp has power at its plug, and it doesnt appear to have any dry solders/ stuffed capacitors etc. It was all working when removed from the B4.

Haha, there's not a separate signal wire to the amp telling it when to turn on and off?

There is, in the cable from the headunit. The power wires are in the output connector which has all the speaker wires also.

UPDATES:

Stereo is in! Wired up the stereo on the bench, no dice. Found a pinout for the McIntosh DIN cables and cut a plug off. Wired up some RCA plugs and tested it with a 2 channel I had in the shed. It worked sweet, so that was chucked in very rough Friday night then on Sunday when I had the day I bought a cheap 4 channel amp - Jaycar ran out so I got a Jensen from Repco for the same price, and also got some cheap Response 5.5" 2ways because my front woofers were crackly - here is why:




Along with all this I rewired my bluetooth so its alot neater, moved the controls to a spot where they are out of the way, and where they actually stick for more than 5 minutes! And I ran a charge wire for my iPhone from the cig lighter:


Also bought an AUX - tape adaptor for my iPhone to go in the McIntosh system. works a treat - better than my old FM transmitter, much clearer sound.


Along with all this a parallel turbo conversion has been done by simply rerouting some vac lines, but now I get even MORE C.E.Ls so this needs to be reviewed or put back to crappy sequential stock. (this was for interests sake, it will still get a single turbo swap later down the track) I found it had alot better driveability though when its not throwing C.E.Ls as I can now cruise off boost instead of on boost/entering the V.O.D Also when I get a C.E.L and it goes into limp mode I can ignore it because I can happily cruise under 3000rpm which is the rev cutoff in limp mode, whereas before that was on boost and the car jerked alot.


And today I did a fluids service (no coolant - headgasket is shot and it will just burn it anyway, water is fine hehe) and swapped over the fuel filter, and also removed my towbar tongue and repositioned my towbar plug until it needs to be used:

Coming along nicely mate! Makes my re-wiring work and putting new cluster globes in last week look like childs play!

Love the original look of the headunit, and interested to see how this Tape iPod adaptor works...Good effort

Cheers, I did have alot of help from a mate - simply to speed things up. I can work out all the shit its just that he is faster with this sort of stuff. But I'm getting better, there is always room to improve!

I got bored on the weekend, I actually WASHED the car, inside and out, for the first time in about a month. (woo)

It also got an AFM from a gc8 cos mine was up the creek. Amazingly this afm works with my twin turbo ecu without logging codes (unless I'm riding 7,500rpm, which of course I NEVER do due to my almost stuffed engine It almost lives on 7,000rpm)

And I changed the RHF outer cv joint for one I had laying around off an 01 Lib, currently has a magna boot fitted because I didn't realise I didn't have one (and the shop was shut) - HA! So it's pissing grease still -.- But it's quiet now (Picking up a new boot tomorrow and fitting it on the weekend) And have just paid for a V3/4 STi 6S ECU which should rock up in about 10-14 days which will suite my future engine conversion/mods nicely

Dropz wrote:And I changed the RHF outer cv joint for one I had laying around off an 01 Lib, currently has a magna boot fitted because I didn't realise I didn't have one (and the shop was shut) - HA! So it's pissing grease still -.- But it's quiet now

Hahaha, I thought you were kidding - oh well, I'm glad my junk came in use!

I was bored, it fixed my noise until the manual conversion, which will receive new shafts. Couldn't justify a $70 joint for a couple months use when it'll be changed.

Ok so recently... Nothing has changed.

I bought a JDM STi v3/4 ecu off eBay, and I am currently searching for an 01-04 STi donor car from the auctions for my engine swap and manual conversion. If anybody knows of any auction houses other than pickles, or of any wrecked STis let me know!

Other than that the car is still neglected because I've been busy tidying and reogranising my shed to make it a more productive space.

Good stuff Karl!

Thread needs more pics though