club.liberty.asn.au

Hi peeps,

Thought now's about the time I started a build thread.
Here's my MY06 TBSTI Wagon...well this is what it looked like the day I bought it. Completely stock apart from a HKS panel filter.



Initially I wasn't going to touch it, for some reason I couldn't help myself and now I'm destroying it part by part lol
Mods so far are as follows:

Engine:

HDI short ram piping
Perrin Air filter
PSR silicone turbo inlet pipe
Blouch TD05-18XTR turbo
Garrett turbo beanie
Mishimoto R-Line FMIC
HDI cooler piping (It fit with minor modification)
GFB Respons BOV
GT Spec unequal length stainless steel headers with ceramic coating
Invidia 3" dump pipe with cat (modified offset to fit)
Invidia Q300 centre piping
Twin Varex VMK10-250 mufflers
3.5" Zetti stainless steel tips
Mishimoto cooling fans & aluminium shroud
Aluminium radiator
STI radiator caps
Kobe silicone radiator hoses
Proflow aluminium coolant overflow bottle (OEM one removed to fit FMIC piping easier)
DeatschWerks DW65c fuel pump
DeatschWerks 1100cc side feed injectors
Turbosmart 800 fuel pressure regulator
AEM TRU-BOOST boost controller with 3-port solenoid
AEM digital AFR gauge
AEM digital fuel pressure gauge
AEM digital oil pressure gauge

Transmission

Hexmods F1 valve body (Courtesy of Graeme, hands down the coolest guy here - thanks Graeme)
*NEW* Hexmods brass bushings for planetary gears (Also courtesy of Graeme) - UNFORTUNATELY NOW REMOVED THE VALVE BODY FOR SALE OF VEHICLE

Suspension

Tein street flex coilovers
Whiteline 22mm front sway bar
Whiteline 20mm rear sway bar
Whiteline front & rear sway bar links
Whiteline front lower control arm inner rear bushes with anit-lift/caster correction
Whiteline adjustable rear control arm upper outer bushings
Whiteline adjustable ball joint & tie rod ends
Whiteline rear control arms adjustable front & rear assembly

Brakes/tyres

Brembo front & rear calipers (Courtesy of Norm - thanks Norm )
Dixcel slotted rotors - (now removed)
DBA 4000 slotted rotors front & rear 326/316mm
HEL gold braided brake lines
Project MU HC800 brake pads
Goodyear Eagle F1 D5's

Interior/Exterior

Carbing carbon fibre dashmounted gauge pod
Kenwood KAC-8105D amplifier
Kenwood DPX-U5130BT head unit
STI gear knob
Ultrex grill (thanks Norm) - REMOVED
Ultrex eyelids - REMOVED
Custom LED heads lights and HID's courtesy of Mr Burns - Thank you - REMOVED

Mods still yet to install but taking up space in my garage

(to be installed for next tune)
Whiteline rear diff mount bushes - PROBABLY GOING TO SELL
Setrab transmission cooler - PROBABLY JUST GOING TO SELL - OEM ONE WORKS FINE

Future mods I would like to do

Cryo everything (Alexei/Graeme style) block, shafts etc.
more clutch plates to tranny etc.
Close deck & sleeve
2.2 stroker kit
Kelford or Brian Crower 272 cams
Garrett 3071R
and the list goes on...



Had a tune last year at PITS on the Gold Coast, but had a big fail due to an oil pressure issue. Thank you to Matt Spry for not killing it on the Dyno for me.
After a lot of stuffing around with my mechanic and chatting to dr20t and others on here, it only turned out to be the AVCS solenoids. All sorted now, was an easy fix. Ready for the dyno again. Will post results when that happens.

#wagonlife

UPDATE!

Road tune by Kido - impressed, just needs dyno now and e85

Woah hefty list of mods and you've only just created a thread damn.

Use an image hosting site like imgur for your pics!

Great build!
Has dr20t or anyone said anything about your gearbox being able to handle the power?
They all scared me out of pushing mine any further haha

peadya100 wrote:Great build!
Has dr20t or anyone said anything about your gearbox being able to handle the power?
They all scared me out of pushing autonomous further haha

What a list mate, very nice work

He has done the Hexmods valve body and centre diff bushings upgrade, which does make it fairly strong AFAIK

If only it was that simple. That's why Mick and alexei both dropped the price if an engine build on their gear boxes.

I thought that the pre face lift gearbox might have been stronger or something?

I keep telling Cody that autos are crap, but he doesn't listen!

PreFL was weaker (supposedly), but most of the internal parts are the same (interchangeable). The biggest difference to postFL would be the TCU (how well the box is controlled) and the design of the solenoids that do the controlling.

The 5eat box is pretty tough, it's the centre diff that keeps breaking for everyone who makes some good torque/launches too much.

Valve body mod is fantastic to firm up the shifts and to keep the clutches together, once you're making too much torque

Brass bushings are meant to help improve the design of the centre diff to handle launches better, but it's not a 100% bulletproof design. Still need to worry about things flexing and the loading on gears getting out of nominal position, on stall up before a launch.

IMO as long as you don't launch the car and keep it on 98, the stock box (and more importantly c diff) will last a lot longer, even at 250-300kwatw. But then again, it's not ideal, and that's why so many libs have busted bits and pieces and that's why HexMods get so much business on their upgrade parts

The most expensive part of the gearbox build were the upgraded hi-torque clutches (nearly half the cost of the total build). My stock clutches handled everything fine after a VB mod, but it's a longevity and reliability mod too and it does hold the power a little better

Nice wagon and impressive parts list! You sound like you are familiar with Subaru's.

Jordan.k wrote:Woah hefty list of mods and you've only just created a thread damn.

Use an image hosting site like imgur for your pics!

Thanks Jordy. Don't know what imgur is mate...or how to use it lol

peadya100 wrote:Great build!
Has dr20t or anyone said anything about your gearbox being able to handle the power?
They all scared me out of pushing mine any further haha

Cheers mate.
I'm not too scared yet, I think once I get to Alexei's power level though I may start getting serious with clutch packs and cryo etc

AJ RS wrote:Nice wagon and impressive parts list! You sound like you are familiar with Subaru's.

Thanks AJ. Not really, I'm learning as I go mostly

Most important new mod...Hexmods VB installed! just a little bit exciting.
shifts harshly from 2nd to 3rd smashing the CD. hopefully that goes away soon

Injectors done!
Road tune done!
I'm happy but there is more to do.
Everything in now from what I've done so far, now lets boost this bastard up and switch to e85 and see what happens