South East Scoobies  

Go Back   South East Scoobies > The Showroom > Members Car Profiles

Members Car Profiles Show & Tell Your Pride & Joy

Reply
 
Thread Tools
  #1  
Old 05-03-2014, 05:34 PM
riiidaa riiidaa is offline
Rest in peace Jodie.
 
Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: Wallington
Posts: 1,407
Default SportShift WRX saloon, automatic newage

SportShift WRX saloon

After a 4 year hunt, I found one already in the UK that was the right colour and not in Aberdeen.



These are unicorn rare, I'm not a fan of bugs but the only ever example I've seen in blob form was on http://www.zerotohundred.com/newforu...tiptronic.html in KL

So, with this factory made SportShift JDM WRX saloon coming up for sale late last year (and only months after buying a wagon variant to cannibalise) I decided that at £3500 the bought not built approach would be a better prospect.

It was originally listed for £4700 on Autotrader but kept getting reduced until it fell to the magic number whereby cannibalising the SportShift Wagon into a blob saloon shell would have cost more than owning both, so my brother-in-law kindly collected it for me on Nov 5th from Hertfordshire on his way home from work.



First mods were organised asap

Get my plate off retention and swap wheels over from the bug wagon...

Bought an STi rear bench and door cards for it off a breaker on s/net (need a hand to fit if anyone would be so kind)






Then bought a turbo-back exhaust system off StoneJedi for £300 and had Slowboy racing do an oil change and fit it ready for JGM to map it at SRR on Feb 5th, the oem pipe was so normal car sounding it could have been a mondeo firing up if you shut your eyes.

Certainly sounds more SUBARU now it has an Afterburner Vortex and Prodrive Performance cat fitted.





Remapping of my SportShift automatic Subaru Impreza, a 2001 JDM WRX remapped by JGM at Surrey Rolling Road on Feb 5th 2014 when it was still in Surrey.

Remap footage



Modifications:
Decat up-pipe
4" angled vortex afterburner tailpipe with 2.5" straight through centre and Prodrive performance cat
STi intercooler (Purchased from and fitted by Moley )


The calculations for transmission loss are set up for manuals on the rollers and the transmission loss maths for autos are different, so although the graphs of truth show 265.3 hp both Charlie and Simon estimate it's actually putting out 280 since remap, maybe this is why the yanks favour whp readings?

JGM http://www.jollygreenmonster.com/
SRR http://www.surreyrollingroad.co.uk/

Last edited by riiidaa; 10-03-2014 at 01:57 PM.
Reply With Quote
  #2  
Old 05-03-2014, 05:43 PM
Scruff's Avatar
Scruff Scruff is offline
Silver Member
 
Join Date: Nov 2008
Location: Crawley
Posts: 690
Default

Dude, this things cool! I've never even heard of one.
Reply With Quote
  #3  
Old 05-03-2014, 05:46 PM
riiidaa riiidaa is offline
Rest in peace Jodie.
 
Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: Wallington
Posts: 1,407
Default

thanks mate, yes proper rare. I have two auto wagons to sell now - and they although are a degree less rare are still pretty hard to find.
Reply With Quote
  #4  
Old 06-03-2014, 12:29 PM
ralliart didz's Avatar
ralliart didz ralliart didz is offline
Gold Member
 
Join Date: Aug 2009
Location: outside
Posts: 1,812
Default

nice 1 riiidaa, I think the bugeyes look great.
Reply With Quote
  #5  
Old 06-03-2014, 01:07 PM
riiidaa riiidaa is offline
Rest in peace Jodie.
 
Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: Wallington
Posts: 1,407
Default

Once a wagon is sold, I'll have funds to facelift it.
Reply With Quote
  #6  
Old 10-03-2014, 12:50 PM
thepieman's Avatar
thepieman thepieman is offline
Platinum Member
 
Join Date: May 2011
Location: home
Posts: 1,984
Default

great rare find there, we looked for one a few years back but none about at the time

great to see the plate sitting on a nice back ground again
Reply With Quote
  #7  
Old 23-03-2014, 05:42 PM
riiidaa riiidaa is offline
Rest in peace Jodie.
 
Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: Wallington
Posts: 1,407
Default

sold one of the wagons, so this got a new present this weekend, STi spoiler / bootlid.



Will debadge it though, in due course
Reply With Quote
  #8  
Old 23-03-2014, 05:43 PM
riiidaa riiidaa is offline
Rest in peace Jodie.
 
Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: Wallington
Posts: 1,407
Default

Supplied and fitted by 'Anger' too
Reply With Quote
  #9  
Old 23-03-2014, 08:19 PM
Mortster's Avatar
Mortster Mortster is offline
Gold Member
 
Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: Milford, Surrey
Posts: 2,432
Default

Nice one , whats next?
__________________
2001 Bugeye - Project Black/Red, 1997 JDM Type R, 1995 V1 WRX, Defender Tithonus MOD Styleeee!
Reply With Quote
  #10  
Old 23-03-2014, 08:29 PM
riiidaa riiidaa is offline
Rest in peace Jodie.
 
Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: Wallington
Posts: 1,407
Default SportShift WRX saloon, automatic newage

Well I guess I need the uprated boot torsion bars so the boot if open doesn't try and decapitate anyone with the slightest breeze

I have the funds to acquire blob conversion parts for the front end

I also much prefer blob rear bumper and so will update the tail lights

Oh and blob side skirts probably

Last edited by riiidaa; 23-03-2014 at 08:31 PM.
Reply With Quote
  #11  
Old 23-03-2014, 08:35 PM
Hongkongfooi's Avatar
Hongkongfooi Hongkongfooi is offline
Platinum Member
 
Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: East Sussex
Posts: 5,783
Default

Is it just auto or tiptronic?
Reply With Quote
  #12  
Old 23-03-2014, 08:36 PM
riiidaa riiidaa is offline
Rest in peace Jodie.
 
Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: Wallington
Posts: 1,407
Default

SportShift = tiptronic
Reply With Quote
  #13  
Old 23-03-2014, 11:50 PM
riiidaa riiidaa is offline
Rest in peace Jodie.
 
Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: Wallington
Posts: 1,407
Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by Hongkongfooi View Post
Is it just auto or tiptronic?
Reply With Quote
  #14  
Old 06-04-2014, 10:06 PM
riiidaa riiidaa is offline
Rest in peace Jodie.
 
Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: Wallington
Posts: 1,407
Default

Sorted out the cloudy lamps yesterday with a restoration kit.


Reply With Quote
  #15  
Old 07-04-2014, 10:27 AM
thepieman's Avatar
thepieman thepieman is offline
Platinum Member
 
Join Date: May 2011
Location: home
Posts: 1,984
Default

amazing how just brightening up the lights makes a huge difference to how a car looks..........

looking nice and fresh now, good work
Reply With Quote
  #16  
Old 07-04-2014, 11:28 AM
riiidaa riiidaa is offline
Rest in peace Jodie.
 
Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: Wallington
Posts: 1,407
Default

Thanks Ron
Reply With Quote
  #17  
Old 07-04-2014, 05:27 PM
scotty's Avatar
scotty scotty is offline
Platinum Member
 
Join Date: Aug 2012
Location: In ma bed
Posts: 5,807
Default

Good job you done there riidaa .
Reply With Quote
  #18  
Old 30-04-2014, 01:21 PM
riiidaa riiidaa is offline
Rest in peace Jodie.
 
Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: Wallington
Posts: 1,407
Default

So today arrived these bits I bought off a breaker last week:

the blob rear bumper £80
the blob tail lights £100
the blob sti under tray £60
Sti boot springs £20

Not unwrapped them yet
Reply With Quote
  #19  
Old 11-07-2014, 03:46 PM
riiidaa riiidaa is offline
Rest in peace Jodie.
 
Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: Wallington
Posts: 1,407
Default

Cambelt service done inc pulleys tensioner etc etc

Oil changed
Reply With Quote
  #20  
Old 19-07-2014, 12:27 AM
riiidaa riiidaa is offline
Rest in peace Jodie.
 
Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: Wallington
Posts: 1,407
Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by riiidaa View Post
So today arrived these bits I bought off a breaker last week:

the blob rear bumper £80
the blob tail lights £100
the blob sti under tray £60
Sti boot springs £20

Not unwrapped them yet

So this package finally got opened yesterday, it was extremely well packaged up by MB Developments.

Then with much thanks to TGovins and my Dad the rear end transformation finally got done, spurred on by losing a rear number plate while I was on shift earlier in the week. We had only used minimal number plate tape on my first plate because the bumper change was not meant to have been put off so long, such is life.





Thanks again mate, very pleased.

Just need to get someone to wire up the rear fog, and de-badge it now and the back is done.
Reply With Quote
  #21  
Old 19-07-2014, 10:14 AM
Steve_PPP's Avatar
Steve_PPP Steve_PPP is offline
Admin, Meets/Events Organiser
 
Join Date: Sep 2008
Location: Burgess Hill, Sussex
Posts: 13,267
Default

Nice one mate

The blob rear lights really lift the back of the bug don't they
Reply With Quote
  #22  
Old 19-07-2014, 10:30 AM
Bytes's Avatar
Bytes Bytes is offline
Silver Member
 
Join Date: Jun 2013
Location: Orpington
Posts: 902
Default

Yep, looking good
Reply With Quote
  #23  
Old 19-07-2014, 11:15 AM
oldskool oldskool is offline
Bronze Member
 
Join Date: May 2014
Location: brighton
Posts: 466
Default

Looks great ,, do the sti boot springs make a lot of difference ?
__________________
------------------------------------------------------

2005 wrx300 2.0 with ppp - SOLD june 2015

daily driver - new astra 136 elite nav - GONE THANK GOD

DAILY DRIVER 2019 - BMW 220d xdrive active sport

fun - v6 shogun swb - FOR SALE @ April 2019 - £2000
Reply With Quote
  #24  
Old 19-07-2014, 02:40 PM
riiidaa riiidaa is offline
Rest in peace Jodie.
 
Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: Wallington
Posts: 1,407
Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by oldskool View Post
Looks great ,, do the sti boot springs make a lot of difference ?
Having done the job on my Classic, yes. Still got to do it on this one.

Yup, the blob tail lights and rounded rear bumper I really prefer Steve_PPP.
Reply With Quote
  #25  
Old 02-08-2014, 05:41 PM
riiidaa riiidaa is offline
Rest in peace Jodie.
 
Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: Wallington
Posts: 1,407
Default

Yesterday another shipment from MB Developments arrived, putting money where my mouth had been, operation blob not far off now hopefully


Today my Dad and Uncle Wilf unwrapped the pallet load of goodies


This is how well stuff is wrapped




Reply With Quote
  #26  
Old 03-08-2014, 11:01 AM
Steve_PPP's Avatar
Steve_PPP Steve_PPP is offline
Admin, Meets/Events Organiser
 
Join Date: Sep 2008
Location: Burgess Hill, Sussex
Posts: 13,267
Default

Nice one, looking forward to seeing how this moves forward
Reply With Quote
  #27  
Old 03-08-2014, 02:37 PM
riiidaa riiidaa is offline
Rest in peace Jodie.
 
Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: Wallington
Posts: 1,407
Default

need wings to get on with it
Reply With Quote
  #28  
Old 06-08-2014, 06:33 PM
riiidaa riiidaa is offline
Rest in peace Jodie.
 
Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: Wallington
Posts: 1,407
Default

Years ago, in anticipation of one day finding / importing a SportShift bug, I bought this Chargespeed bug to blob adaptor kit via ABW

http://www.chargespeed.com/english/gdb_ab_cd-e1.htm



I only pulled it out of the shed on Sunday, so with the rear end already done with no issue as far as I can tell, the rear adaptors are surplus to requirements, perhaps they'd have been of use if cutting in to a bug bumper but I sold mine after fitting the more rounded rear bumper from a blob.

Not sure whether I'll end up buying a blob slam panel or just chop mine to make use of the front adaptors, maybe I'll try the chargespeed way first and then decide after. Because either way the existing slam panel will be facing a session with a grinder.
Reply With Quote
  #29  
Old 27-09-2014, 10:21 PM
riiidaa riiidaa is offline
Rest in peace Jodie.
 
Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: Wallington
Posts: 1,407
Default

Well, here's my blob conversion write-up http://www.southeastscoobies.co.uk/v...ad.php?t=19039

and end result








Before and Afters



Reply With Quote
  #30  
Old 04-06-2015, 09:57 PM
riiidaa riiidaa is offline
Rest in peace Jodie.
 
Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: Wallington
Posts: 1,407
Default

Finally sorted my brakes, upgraded the fronts to four pots* in a funky colour thanks to A.J. Turners of croydon.
*Auto WRX's do come with crap brakes as standard...



Just replaced pads and discs on rear, because I couldn't put it off any longer.
Reply With Quote
  #31  
Old 04-06-2015, 10:02 PM
Rdlangy1's Avatar
Rdlangy1 Rdlangy1 is offline
Moderator
 
Join Date: Mar 2014
Location: Isle of Sheppey - Kent
Posts: 4,924
Default

Sweet
__________________
Subaru Impreza WRX STi Prodrive Type UK 2002:
"Tinkered With!"

Maintained and Modified by Super Jules
&
RM Performance http://www.rmperformance.co.uk
Reply With Quote
  #32  
Old 10-06-2015, 01:11 PM
Abz_17 Abz_17 is offline
Regular User
 
Join Date: Jun 2015
Location: London
Posts: 7
Default

Very nice
Reply With Quote
Reply


Currently Active Users Viewing This Thread: 1 (0 members and 1 guests)
 
Thread Tools



All times are GMT +1. The time now is 09:24 PM.


Powered by vBulletin® Version 3.8.11
Copyright ©2000 - 2024, vBulletin Solutions Inc.

Opinions expressed are not necessarily the opinions of SouthEastScoobies or any individuals directly or indirectly involved in this website. No responsibility is taken or assumed for any comments or statements made on this or any associated website. Visitors who use this website and rely on, or act on any information do so at their own judgement, discretion and or risk. SouthEastScoobies or its content providers shall not be liable for any loss or damage arising from or otherwise in connection with your use of SouthEastScoobies forums. It is not possible for the Administrators of these forums, or the Moderators participating, to fully and effectively monitor Messages that are submitted for infringement of third party rights. If you believe that any information within the forums infringes your legal rights, or gives cause for concern you should notify an Administrator or a Moderator immediately giving such information to enable the recipient to amend, delete or remove in its entirety the message, at their earliest convenience.