Impulse's Sportivo [WA]

[Tash]

Love the chair :D The giant Yoshi is even better!

[clifton]

Love the mods!

[ImPulse]

So just a quick update, to keep this 'blog' going.

I've been stuffing around for almost 3 weeks now trying to get the Bride to fit. Tried to do it the 'cheap' way, so I sourced universal aftermarket rails to bolt them to a custom fabricated frame which would then mount to the bottom of the car. This was purchased off another member, but unfortunately after all the modification I had to do (new holes - and in 3mm steel this isn't as easy as it may sound), the seat was left sitting much too far backwards and low for my height.

So in the end, I ended up purchasing genuine Type RO rails from Perfectrun.com. Thanks to members Dennis and Guni for their help in obtaining the correct part number.

Moral of the story? Do it once, do it right. I spent half the cost of the rails trying to stuff around with custom work.

Will update once the rails arrive =)

Alf

Just for reference:

BRIDE RO-type Seat Rail R/H driver’s side (Part Number: T187RO)

[nathan19]

really great thread! pics of the new bride seat in :P !

[ImPulse]

Thanks for the comments guys, always nice to have something to read when I recheck this haha.

The Bride has been put on hold as I'm waiting for the rails to come in from Japan. Combination of the Easter long weekend for us and the Golden Week holiday for Japan... They won't even be sent until 8th of May =(

In the meantime, these arrived:

Usefulish for a bit of rice. And also to keep an eye on the engine on the track days.

Alf

[clifton]

Guages are awesome for track! Where are you going to mount them?

[ImPulse]

Guages are awesome for track! Where are you going to mount them?

I ended up mounting them on top of the dash - not ideal because the dash is so high, but I cannot for the life of me figure out where else to put them haha..

Well a massive update now, just because I've been lazy. I have fitted a whole heap of ultra racing braces.

Front 3 point lower and rear lower bar

Looks decent build

Bride CUGA is finally in

That's it for now. Haven't installed the rear sway as of yet so will do that before going for a run up in the hills :D

Cheers

Alf

[ImPulse]

More photos:

Rear 19mm sway and front upper strut (tower) bar

Low as fvck! haha

Rear lower bar

Front strut

And the Apex-i gauges are in there, not connected so purely RICE at the moment >.<

[ImPulse]

Debadged rear and replaced it with a Camry Sportivo badge. A bit smaller but for $3.75 who can complain? :D

Work RS-R locknut [open ended type]

[lateralus]

your car should feel as though it's driving on rails now!

[ImPulse]

Haha, haven't had the chance to fully try her out - have another skidpan day booked with mates for hopefully mid June. I figure there's not too much point chasing power out of my daily so I'll just try to make that daily commute as fun as possible :P

I must say though, the Bride recliner makes a world of difference - just gives you that extra confidence to throw her into corners without having to worry about the bum sliding everywhere over the leather.

your car should feel as though it's driving on rails now!

[anfyy]

Nice mods. I just received my rails from perfectrun and I find them hard to slide back and forth, need abit of force to slide them. I was just wondering if your was the same?

[clifton]

Nice! Handling mods ftw :)

[ImPulse]

Anfyy - yeh mine are a bit tight too, apply petroleum jelly to the sliders (you'll know where to as there is already a bit of grease there) and it should fix it up a bit =]

Nice mods. I just received my rails from perfectrun and I find them hard to slide back and forth, need abit of force to slide them. I was just wondering if your was the same?

[and1]

Looking good! I had a custom a-pillar made up from Beyond Custom in Morley. If you go to their website you can see it there.

[ImPulse]

Haha nah I'm kinda over the whole 'gauges on A pillar' thing, but yours did look good - a very clean install. At the moment I've just got it perched on the dash top.

Le sighs... DIYing always leads to issues. For anyone who considers these gauges - the Apexi TEMPERATURE gauges are a M12 x 1.25P plug, while most sandwich plates (that sit under the oil filter) have 1/8 NPT fittings.

So while the oil pressure sensor fits fine, I'm currently waiting on a local auto store to get back to me on whether they can get me an adapter. Apparently ENZED does things like these too?

So gauges are currently reading nothing :/

[Defyant]

So gauges are currently reading nothing :/

But they do look very cool! I'm sure enzed would have an adaptor if not you'd just brass one up.

Pirtek i used alot for one off hydralic fittings too.

[ImPulse]

Still waiting for Autopro to get back to me on the gauge fittings, seems theres some delay. Might just head to Enzed..

In the meantime this arrived :D

Apologies for the iPhone photos, couldn't be bothered getting out my camera haha

Will attempt installation tomorrow and report back. :D

Alf

[lateralus]

good investment :)

have fun getting the thing in, the holes are a pain in the **** to line up

[HERMIT-CRAB]

woooow! nice car! inspired to get myself a sportivo!

[ImPulse]

You sir, are a very wise man <_<

have fun getting the thing in, the holes are a pain in the **** to line up

Spent a great proportion of sunday trying to get this in, mallet, wood and all. Lined one hole up but could not perfectly line up the second hole. Spent Monday morning trying to get the bar out, for those of you who know, it is a very tight fit in the axle beam.

Decided to call my 'local' tuning house - for those of you in WA - CYPHER INDUSTRIES. Good people they were, got me in that afternoon to have it fit.

So now its time for a spirited drive :D

Thanks go to SuperDave and KenshinX for their help through PMs and threads.

Alf

p.s. is it just me or does everyone get injured doing DIY stuff? :S

[-DAvo]

love it!

when we gonna meet up again and take some pics of this beast???

[clifton]

Huge fan of this car, keep it up :)

[razzmadazz]

totally loving this build!!

[TheSaint]

saying hi from down in busselton!

im a moderator on ozhonda.com and a part of the subaru rally team down here =)

we also have a 05 acsent that we are about to trade in for an 05 sportivo =D

i have had vtec cars in the past (Dc2 Type-R) but i want something more refined and newer

cant wait to see how Lift goes =)

i love what your doing here

ultra racing make great quality parts - i have every single brace available from them for my EG Civic

would be great to see this car in person one day!!