Delayed but worth it.

Well it's been about two weeks since my last update, and stuff has certainly taken a turn for the speedy.

Before I go on at all, I'd like to put out some good vibes to anyone in Japan right now. I've been in California for the last 10 days on vacation, sipping wine and relaxing on the beach, and while all thats been going on, people have been dying in a massive show of power by Mother Nature, people just me. If you really sit down and think about what life would be like if it all turned black right now, and you never saw anything or smelled food, or listened to your favorite bands ever again, thats what death is like. Just nothing. I hope all of you are doing whatever you can to help these folks in need.

On a much better note, lots of stuff has come in, and gone on, since we last spoke with ya'll.

Transmission:

The tranny was rebuilt with new internals, and shorter gearing (JDM gears) to keep the car in boost more, as well as prevent grinding to allow faster shifts. It's not a dogbox or crazy racing transmission, but it's a street based unit with a race build on it to allow it to hold the power. I slammed a couple shifts though the car today and it is super solid through all the engagements. The JDM gears are thicker than the US ones, so it will hold more power.  Very stoked to shift under load when we can.

Motor: 

Also on the menu when I left was getting the Cylinder heads rebuilt and back from Reid's Performance, who hand ported and re decked them with new valves, guides, and lifters. The cylinder head finally came back in this morning, and was on today. The cams have been installed, and we got the valve cover back on, we still need some gaskets, so it's not 100% done, but the Tomei Head Gasket is on, so the head is secured to the block. Good luck chewing through a steel gasket. 

Also the parts Tomei hooked me up on came in, and they look AWESOME. Big thanks again to Tomei for hooking a boy up. These Adjustable Cam Gears and that Head Gasket (1mm) will keep us safe from the engine going BOOM!! so we appreciate it. 

Also Thanks to Injector Dynamics For these 1000cc Injectors, we got them on today as well. 

Seat: 

After over a month of sitting an waiting, and wishing, and hoping, and sitting again, the Seat is finally here! The pictures I posted before were of the 2008+ Model, but i got the first 2011 Model around! This seat is super pretty and even lighter then the older model, as well has having slightly more breathable padding, all muy bueno points. You can see the OMP brackets in a couple of the shots, Im going to hold off until we're ready to go to caging to put the seat in, so we can get it fairly snug with the Main Hoop and Harness bar sections of the cage. 

Start of a big week.

Not much to report for the start of this week, i'll keep you guys updated as necessary.

My ID 1000 injectors came in this week. If you haven't heard about these your in for a surprise. Big injectors have been used to fuel high power machines since Motorsport was really popular. In the most basic idea of an Internal combustion engine, the more fuel you burn, the more power you make. This is only half true, on a bad "tune" your engine may be burning tons of fuel, but is doing so without efficiency. In this, a car with smaller injectors and better tuning will outperform a car just burning too much fuel.

 You have to think about injectors like the fixtures in your sink. The smaller amount of water you want to get, the smaller you can make the droplets, conversely, the more water (fuel) you want, the more it turns from droplets to a steady stream. The same is true in injectors for race motors. The more fuel you try to push, the larger the droplets, and the more un-even the fueling becomes. This is the wonder about the ID's, they don't do it. The spray pattern, beading, and droplet size of these fairly large injectors (1000cc) In essence, they make these injectors run far far better, with better throttle response, idle quality, and  then any injector in its size range.


Well enough with the raving about fuel injectors. If you want to read more, check them out here

http://www.injectordynamics.com/ID1000.html

The new Evo Specific hub for the OMP wheel should be here early this week, and i'll probably bolt it in on Wednesday. The HTE seat and brackets should be arriving no later then next week, as the 10th is the deadline I've given the Motorsports dealer to get it to me.

 I have no doubt they will get the seat to me on time. I purchase most of the Motorsports "accessories" for my cars from HMS Motorsports in Danvers, MA. My suit, helmet and interior safety pieces have all come from them, and they have always taken care of me there.

In other news, my cylinder heads "should" be back this week, and we'll try to get the motor rebuilt, sans turbo, in prep for caging and after-market ECU install. I'm super stoked to see the new heads, and see how they were upgraded and ported out to give our fairly large turbo room to breathe. This head started out as a dimple re-decking, but with all the cost of getting it out to the machine shop, it was better to do it right the first time and get the head up to race-specs. I won't be running my full HP this season, for a few reasons, but when we take this setup all the way next year, I want the Head's to be fully capable of supporting the weight.

I'll have multitudes of pics up of the new Heads when they come in, as well as a few shots of the new injectors later today.

I am unsure of where the current car in Chris Howard's shop is with it's current roll-cage fab, So i can't be sure when my car will go in, but it has been in for a week, so it's likely Chris won't be done for another 2 or three. However, that really depends on how intricate the cage is. As we saw in a previous post, these are extremely intricate cages with real craftsmanship in them, craftsmanship which saves lives. Not just 1 or 2 lives either. Lots.

In other news, DSG got back from the 100 Acre Wood Rally in Missouri yesterday. DSG'supported driver and Ex-Subaru factory Driver Ramana Lagemann was involved in a nasty crash with his SP class GR Subaru, but thankfully Both Driver and Co-driver are both ok, and i'm told the car will be repaired by the next event. This is a common event with Rally Racing, but its never fun to see or hear about people you know crashing. The Lawless Project Wishes Ramana the best and hope he remembers "thats why they call it fishing, not catching"

Rally Tire competitor and Open Class car driver Burak Tuglu also had a crash, giving him a DNF (did not finish) for the event. Burak drives an Evo 9, and one can be certain that he will be back to continue his campaign. In better news, Rally Tire team-mate and another DSG maintained car, driven by Lauchlin O'Sullivan, Driving the STI, placed 2nd in SP class for the weekend. Keep at it guys!

The start of a terrible thing.

So here I am. I suppose some explanation is necessary.

I am Phillip. I'm a 20somthing male who works in the outdoor sporting industry. I enjoy comedies and cake. Usually in that order. I live outside Boston, and this is where our story begins.

In June 2010 I purchased a Subaru WRX STI, new, from a dealership in New Jersey, trading in my Lexus SUV. I had never felt like a car suited my personality better, and I still do. When I returned to boston, I highly enjoyed modifying my car with subtle but noticeable performance upgrades that you could feel from behind the driver's seat, but not see in front of it. Then I saw it. On a popular forum site, a small post about a "hillclimb" race in New Hampshire in the following month. I'd wanted to push my car a little harder and felt I was damn competitive as is, so I signed up.

 It turns out, "hillclimb" races are races of extreme speed and dangerous conditions up mountains, usually raced on otherwise closed Park Access Roads. Sound Scary? You bet, but incredibly rewarding and adrenaline-boosting. I've been autocrossing, Kart racing, and done many forms of motor-sport at amateur level, but I was not prepared for the event i arrived at.

This is has widely been criticized as a bad move in hind-site.

I went to New Hampshire, And I can't say my life has been the same in the months following, I became addicted to Motorsports, and realized quickly that my STI, for all its amazing capabilities, could not keep up with dedicated track cars. So here I am. I caught the bug, and now it's time to start my own dedicated track project. This project is an original 2005 Evo VIII, and if you're reading this, you probably don't need me to tell you the significance of this amazing car, so i'll skip it.

This blog is dedicated to my new project, dubbed "The Lawless Project". I picked the name not because it sounds "badass" but as a critique on a government that strictly regulates what car's can be driven in the USA. Pretty much all RHD (right hand drive) and JDM (Japanese Domestic market) cars are illegal to own and operate in the  USA, and even for people dedicated to only using them on private courses, the process is lengthy and expensive.

As such I was forced to use a USDM car, but even THEN i have to fight for my car to be street legal with the modifications i will have to do to make it competitive. If you don't have the exact kind of of plug on your car, if it doesn't sound EXACTLY as loud as it's supposed to, if you like having a certain kind of steering wheel, you're out of line.

 To be frank, it's bullshit. I wanted to call the car "the Republican Evo" but i'm not actually sure that explains my sentiments. This car, and this blog, are both representations that people can, and will, find ways to do what makes themselves happy.

Because we only get to live once, and I won't have anyone telling me how to spend my only years.


Phill.