boostedwrx

Howzit,, JND, i dunno mate, was on it when we brought it, pretty sick kit tho, but front clip is way too iow ae, it sits about 55mm off the road, any if not all driveways require about 5mins of navigating lols,, all ive seen on the kit is a business type card layed under final layer of f/glass, with corazon kits on it . hope that helps bud,, also any body got any manual conversion kits for one of these,,, cheers boosted,,,

Reset the timing on the foz, found last owner had been driving with it out since belt was done lols,,out 1 tooth on each cam , never mind goes much better now tho

Installed new t/belt and tensioner, fitted new water pump,installed new wastegate actuator, installed all accesories onto engine and put the bloody thing back in the hole lols ;D ;D, to get,, engine oil, vaccum line, and new thermostat, then fire it into life and see if all the hard work has paid off :-\

98 sf5 forry, full corazon kit, slammed on its arse lol,, just waiting for paint now ;D ;D

Sorry tolerance,,, its sitting @ .27mm exhaust,,,,, yea i should do but atm, i just wanna drive it lol, id seriously consider it,,if say it was .05 +or over but hey knowing my luck ill run a bottom end in two weeks time lols,, and have to pull it again anyways

Was quoted by subaru taranaki, about $12a shim, and only if i cld supply part# or someone elses vin tag lols :-[ so yea not bad ae, have all shims in mota now and only and a gap.02 mm over on one exhaust, thank godcos it took me a week of measuring and swapping and measuring and swapping but hey was worth it, now who wants to help put moter back in place, lols Might have to drag the wife to the shed for the night ;D

Yayah, got shims from the machine shop today, $60 bucks for 7 now correct size shims, awesome job they did too,, cheers reid machining ;D ;D ;D now its gonna be a long nyt but worth it ;D 8) ,

Haha very cool, ;D ,, but where\'s the two moons possums lols ;D

thought id be nice to the wife and buy her one of these... ??? ;D .

Wow rosssub, uve outdone urself thats awesome man, theres alot of info there and definetly gonna be usefull for someone 8) cheers for the info bro, appreciate it

Awesom rex leggy ill gve him a go aswell, i take it thats his workplace ,, armstrongs,, and as for getting shims slightly ground its only $10 ea to get done, an $20 to get one made up aswell, so for ease of going up the road and an hour later thy done thts not bad lol,, ;D ;D ;D still gna ring armstrong tho, because the more info i can get on these pita shims, the better, then everyone can share the knowledge, as im sure this topic has/does catch alot of ppl out, that also need the information also, cheers ppl, enjoy the stinkin hot weather while it lasts

Awesome rosssub tht b a help lols, went to a reputable machine shop today to see if they can make shims for me,, pozitive outcome ,,, yes they can 8) 8) ;D, finally i can gt the motor back in, if i go down tht route, but ill wait to hear whatu come back with first,,, ive had absolutely no luck in finding a v4 sti, that someone will let me use their vin numba, any hu cheers ppl

Hi all, just updating progress on head job lols, all shims moved measured moved and re measured, all valve clearances within 0.02mm, altho i do have 1 exhaust valve at 0.33 wich i think is still to big also, if any one can help maybe, has anybody got a couple of shims i could buy, i need 1 @ 2.35mm and ill remeasure the other tommorro, and update again My local subaru dealer cannot and will not supply shims for my heads without a vehicle vin code to match them ... grrr fustrating. Be ok if i actually had a genuine v4 sti lols, till tomorro, boosted, 8)

Yeeha,, measurements nw takn,, 2.25mm shim, x1 required then its boost tym,, ;D ;D

Yup i realise tht, and just waiting on new digital verniers to measure valve to inside buckt clearance , have measured cam to bucket allready,, jst need to add the two together and wullah, minus .25 clearance for exhaust, wld that b about right?.