Your 2014 Journey

[belaud]

This is basically a TL;DR of the year on how much you've done in terms of vehicles, before the new years hits, let's share some stories!

Anyways...

How did the year 2014 go with your project car(s)?

This is how I started off in the year,

Sittin' pretty in the garage while I was at work in a land far far away.



At this time, the car was the usual, exhaust, downpipe, gauges, seats and the only thing differentiating it from any other STI were shitty flares (to this day, they are the biggest regrets I had on the car), and I was missing a passenger seat.


I bought the car out shortly afterwards late January from Richmond Subaru, and this is where the stupidity began.



The car made a short trip to Burnaby to The Speed Syndicate, where they pretttttttttty much built the entire thing.

JTanner & Qster photobombing my Pooparu.







Parts kept arriving, so TSS quite literally had my car from March -> June, and at the end of it, nothing on the car was stock anymore, with exceptions of the Aero and Engine Block, as the Varis kit had not arrived yet.

After this giant hurdle, the car was send downwards to Pacific Import Auto for the tune.



Of course, things don't go your way when Pistons fire the wrong way .

I made about 375WHP on the Mustang Dyno before the pistons cracked, and the ringlands gave way, reasons were still up in the air, and we figure out why much later in the year.

At this point, I was a little butthurt, as I've driven the car maybe 3 days in the year, and the definitive stereotypes of a Subaru staying in the shop more than it driving was becoming realized....

So I bought Narita Dog Fight's S2000.



It was a little dirty, slapped some wheels on, and called it a day. It's still sitting in Cali, will be importing it up early next year



Now it's about July in the timeline, I decided to rebuild the STI with a sleeved motor & forged goods. The head's have new valves from the piston's melting on to it.





Funny enough, I was driving my two good friend's car more than my own in the summer.



August 15th is the day I won't forget, I finally got the car back!



August 16th...and back to TSS it goes....



For all the right reasons





The Aero is finally on, and the car at this point really had no stock parts anymore.

For those of you who went to the TSS track day this year, I actually got the car ready & tuned...the night before.

Bracing installed.





Helmet secured.



Oil swapped from Organic & break in fluid -> Synthetic



Hit 350WHP/300TQ on the Mustang with a break in tune the night before track.



Vroom vroom, chasing the old turd.



My dump pipe was seriously destroying my side skirts, so I kept re-wrapping it in heat tape which obviously did nothing, I was having too much fun.



Extraordinary day with extraordinary drivers & cars.

A month after in October, I'm getting my final tune.



Low and behold, I am again misfiring, and would've destroyed another motor if not for the Benson sleeving.

Turns out, one of the Douchework injectors was not firing properly, leaning out one of the cylinders causing misfire, gotta come back another day....

Swapped them to FiC 900cc injectors about a week later and safely made 402WHP/372TQ!

3 days after that I drove to SoCal expecting some track events.... but it was down time and I ended up going to Year.Six instead.







Got the car back up here no problem



Then I went to Japan/HK, came back...and here I am jetlagged



So that's my journey with the car this year, I'm expecting some grand events next year too with a rotated turbo, cage, paint, and upgraded aero!

Please share your story!

[Project_240]

Qster would love to update you with my journey but may as well wait for a 2015 thread instead hahahaha

[threezero]

Wish my 2014 car year is as exciting as your.... Basically I put in a strut bar, intake and some comestic bits.

Than I got a beater and put a bunch of money into fixing it up

[320icar]

Any story following belauds will be a disappointment... This year for me was really relaxed.

- Bought my '14 focus at last December. Decided not to modify the new car
- bought an old focus wagon as a parts hauler and for the girlfriend
- bought a '79 Kawasaki kh100el and cafe'd it
- bought a '91 gti but sold it to my bro. He's fixing it up
- bought an '05 gsxr 600 which I rode this morning in the pouring rain

And yeah... Slow year for me

[smoothie.]

hurry up with the s2k


so you can say, "Too soon, junior." all day long!

[Godzira]

this year went by too quick..it didn't seem like I did anything to it except drive but I guess its all pretty boring little things. I have very big, expensive upgrades to cover in 2015!









pink hids

put in a grounding kit

project mu rotors and pads




shift boot & datsun knob


hicas delete


act 6 puck clutch kit


yellow jacket coils & Strut bar

[westopher]

All of my first HPDE events were this year. Pretty cool to be a part of.
Car started the year looking like this.

then this

Did some of this

Bent this
Fuck by westophervan, on Flickr
Just as well because the car ended up looking like this

Added this

Got rid of the horrendous looking stock exhaust.

Refinished some wheels and got it all wintery.

Used it.
[IMG]
Don't worry, its clean again.

[mb_]

Fixed like 4 different coolant leaks over the summer, found another one while I was taking the transmission out

Put my RPF1s on, blew my struts at Auto X then replaced it with Koni Yellows then clutch went at the very next Auto X


Currently waiting for more $$$ so I can finally get the damn thing back together and drivable lol. Will probably be done in January.

That's the boring summary of my 2014 journey

[meme405]

Still awaiting to see what you do with that S2K. You told me it was going to be even crazier than the STI. Epic build on that STI, good job for not giving up when you lost that first engine.

I'll share a little bit just for the hell of it. Most of you will probably know this years story for me if you read my build thread (in the siggy). Otherwise the TL;DR version:

Literally took this photo on January 1, 2014:

DSC_0348-Final by meme_405, on Flickr

By middle of march:

DSC_0174-Final by meme_405, on Flickr

At her second anniversary at the beginning of october:



And how I will end up finishing the year (with no good pictures):



First thing next year will be a set of wheels, to replace my dearly departed GTR's. Going 22" this time. Beyond that the only other definite plan is a BBK.

[GG]

Is there a reason why u aint painting your kit? cuz it looks ghetto as hell

[belaud]

Originally Posted by GG

Is there a reason why u aint painting your kit? cuz it looks ghetto as hell

Went to Japan.

[meme405]

Originally Posted by GG

Is there a reason why u aint painting your kit? cuz it looks ghetto as hell

Cause money doesn't grow on trees, and something as epic as the STI above takes time to be built.

This isn't NFS Underground. You don't drive into a shop and come out with a built and kitted car 2 minutes later.

[white rocket]

Smashed up the ITR in July. Finally got approval from ICBC to fix it yesterday. Fucking assholes took 5 months to figure it out while my caR just sat outside. Hope it doesn't go over the limit they gave me or else they will just write it off.

I was gonna do the whole tuck bay thing but decided to just fix it and shit kick it at the track next year. The money saved will be going towards my next car, which I'm hoping to purchase in the next 2 years.

[dared3vil0]

I don't feel worthy enough to post what little i've done in this thread with Belauds STi in the first post lol.

Oh well.


18x9 Bullitt motorsport wheels,
255/45/18 BFG Sport comp 2's (from brand new in April to 4/32nd as of October 1st lol)



Hawk HPS pads, ATE Super blue fluid






Track day, ORP





Tons of BMWCCBC Autocross' 50 runs per session for $160>15 runs for $50



Ordered everything needed to re-gear my car from 2.73's to 3.73's.

Also bought an SCT X4 with MPT 91 octane tune.





Next year will be Bilsteins, Maximum Motorsports springs, bunch of BMR goodies, possibly a Watts link, 18x10 (undecided) with a 275/40/18 square.

And as many track days as I can fit/afford into my schedule lol.

[trollguy]

2014 TL;DR = bought wheels, washed car, sold wheels, washed car, bought wheels, washed car, sold wheels, washed car. nothing exciting

[gilly]

Picked up 05 STi fall of last year.


Got a roof rack and winter tires and rota rims


Summer came and I installed Greddy coilovers, invidia n1 exhaust and XXR rims on stretch tires.


Then I sold it 2 months ago

[trollguy]

and mr lau; correction - chasing mrs old turd

[meme405]

Originally Posted by slowguy

2014 TL;DR = bought wheels, washed car, sold wheels, washed car, bought wheels, washed car, sold wheels, washed car. nothing exciting

I'd imagine if you replace every instance of "washed car" with "buy new car", you would have some idea of what Tofu's year was like...

[duy-]

this looks fun, ill play
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Spoiler!

January
started with no motor
finished it up and attended ubcscc slush event 2?





February?
attended ubcscc slush, paradise240 and mb can be seen


March
headed over to Capital D for drift practice


April
started building new motor


May
intake catches fire lol
attended VCMC Mission track day with some horrible pictures
had some pretty decent ones of a red lambo though



June
VCMC Ridge track day



July
missed the trackday signups so just hardparked and worked on my other car
trademark burnt stacks



August
mocking it all up and tying it all back together
ubcscc track day, grim and noran can be seen
then hardpark just because
wow it was a busy month
then got my car impounded for excessive...








September
TSSxFFD ridge track day
nice cruise through chuckanut
made the best of it with my daily because i was stupid enough to lose my track car
grim let me drive his s14, totally gained new respect for the car, and lost more respect for his driving but thanks for letting me drive it





October
still bitter about not being able to drive my car at the ridge but ubcscc slush is back


November
Capital drift again! brought more buddies out this time



December
why am i so broke, where the fuck did all my money go... started snowboarding and repairing the cars from all that wear and tear

also noticed a lot of revscene members attending HPDE events this year and somehow i missed a lot of you guys, we need a sign up next year

[bcrdukes]

Sold car.

Rode bicycle.

[richardmozis]

2014 has been a hell of a year.
I really 'cleaned' the C55 up. Basically all I did was a long list of maintenance, but by the end of summer I was actually content with the way the car drove. It was in really nice condition for a car with about 140,000km - until you see westopher's M3.




As for the E55, I can't wait to start working on it

[Mr.C]

Started the year with a 1998 Oldsmobile Aurora, for the really cold days (below -30):



and with a 2000 740iL for the not-so-cold days:



But, unfortunately, the cold and poor maintenance in the past took its toll on both cars; the Oldsmobile developed a strong lower oil pan leak, and the 740iL had a massive chain guide failure, resulting in this:



which led to this:



and eventually this:



Had some major life events, wherein I moved back to Vancouver, and, while not thinking straight, bought this with fucked up brakes, supercharger, and a massive oil leak:



Had a moment of clarity and traded it in for this:



But couldn't resist picking up another BMW for practically nothing, with "possible timing chain guide failure":



Ended up being bad cam sensors, ha!

Currently sits like this:



Even though it started really shitty, not a bad car year for me.

[mb_]

Originally Posted by duy-

totally gained new respect for the car, and lost more respect for his driving

[punkwax]

Not mine, but here is someone's 2014 Journey!

[Grim]

So much has happened for me this year..
Spoilered for long post.

Spoiler!