JGM Project Car

[bigemp]

gonna be awesome,love the colour

Looking great Simon

[Scooby_Greg]

Well, we'll all recognise it on the road - looking good Simon. Can't wait to see it finished!!

[Jolly Green Monster]

Looking forward to the look on peoples faces when they hear what sounds like a porsche coming and then a bright green subaru comes around the bend.

Simon

looks fantastic Simon.

[asperformance]

Originally Posted by Jolly Green Monster

Looking forward to the look on peoples faces when they hear what sounds like a porsche coming and then a bright green subaru comes around the bend.

Simon

you need to see some of the rally stuff for confusing images............

mk2 escort with Subaru running gear, Focus & 206 WRC style shells again with Subaru stuff inside............

[Jolly Green Monster]

What a day... Lol

Got over to see the car for the first time with paint on this morning like an excited kid. Very happy with colour etc.

Set about fitting windows and rear was nice and easy along with rear sides.

Stew helped fit windscreen, at that point I went to get brake lines and few other bits.

Came back to find Stew and Ian (bod) working on it and they had fitted master cylinder, handbrake and cables, clutch cylinder and the boot and were in the process of fitting passenger door.
Bonnet, wings were slotted on and arches fitted mainly to stop the risk of damage with them sat around.
It then went on the ramp and stew and ian piped up the rear brakes in braided lines

I am over the moon with todays progress and never dreamed we would get this far.


Some panels still need polishing but will be going back into paint shop for polish and wax etc
Simon

[AndyWRX]

Very nice mate Very good finish on the paint too, are you going to coloursand it before polishing?

[Jolly Green Monster]

I am not doing the paint, neighbouring paintshop are.

They are flattenning the paint with something and then polishing yes.

Bonnet and wings are flattenned but not polished in the pics.

They are having the car back tomorrow once stew has fitted the drivers door

Simon

[SpecB]

Looks great - can't wait to see/hear this in the flesh

[Tyler]

I love it!!!!!!!!

[majorscooby]

Loving those arches!

[Hongkongfooi]

How's the engine coming? Going in soon?

[AndyWRX]

Originally Posted by Jolly Green Monster

I am not doing the paint, neighbouring paintshop are.

They are flattenning the paint with something and then polishing yes.

Bonnet and wings are flattenned but not polished in the pics.

They are having the car back tomorrow once stew has fitted the drivers door

Simon

Thought the wing and the bonnet looked a slightly different colour in the pics, deffinatly going to be a head turner when its finished

[Jolly Green Monster]

Can see flat of bonnet paint a bit better here


Sparce interior, with more bars than town centre


Simon

[SpecB]

Looks excellent!

[AndyWRX]

Looks really good mate

[Jolly Green Monster]

More progress.

Car now has brakes that work and a wilwood bias valve.



Lights


Bonnet catches

[BIG"E"]

Looking Good Simon,

Purely just of interest why are you not using copper brake lines?

What is the advantage of the flexible ones apart from ease of bending,

are they more efficient I suppose they must be?

[Jolly Green Monster]

Fire exting

Doorcard trial fit

Its sleeping with something else fast at the mo so hopefully help


Simon

Looking better and better every post mate

[Scooby_Greg]

Looking good Simon!!!

Cracking Si.
Cant wait to see this in the flesh

[Jolly Green Monster]

Originally Posted by BIG"E"

Looking Good Simon,

Purely just of interest why are you not using copper brake lines?

What is the advantage of the flexible ones apart from ease of bending,

are they more efficient I suppose they must be?

Ease of fitment, quick to fit.
If anything they probably flex in operation more than copper lines but with servo unlikely to notice. Having driving with no servo and a pedal box I prefer with servo and a little more pedal movement is fine for feel. They bleed up really nice and pedal feels solid.


Simon

[Krissyb]

Looking awesome mate, keep up the good work

[majorscooby]

interesting viewage. still want to see it in the flesh when done to appreciate that awesome colour!!

[Jolly Green Monster]

Take a bit or cardboard and a bit of ally, some tools and a fair amount of time


And i have a boot floor


Take some waaaaafa fin carbon and some tools and time etc


I need to clean paint pen off carbon

Take more carbon shaped by someone else and 2minutes and a screw driver



Take some plastic and sticky tape


Trial fit

Paintshop nearly finished




Starting to feel more like a car

Magazine rang today wanting to feature the car, blimey can it be finished first

Simon

[Jolly Green Monster]

[Scott.T]

Looking Goooooood......I can almost smell that fresh paint from the pictures.

[SpecB]

looks good - I'm guessing no ABS then!

[Jolly Green Monster]

Originally Posted by BlueBugEye

looks good - I'm guessing no ABS then!

no

Looking stunning mate.

[AWD_Scott]

Just looked at all the pictures from start to present and WOW.
I'm loving that colour most of all...

[Jolly Green Monster]

That is looking the absolute dog ******** mate

[ralliart didz]

Originally Posted by worzel

That is looking the absolute dog ******** mate

i 2nd that

[SpecB]

You know I've always really liked the subtle look....!

Stunning mate.
Yours and Tones side by side will be one fantastic picture

[majorscooby]

+1 one that!

[Jolly Green Monster]

Road trim spoiler






Simon

[Jolly Green Monster]

Road trim spoiler






Simon

[Hongkongfooi]

you must be very pleased posting those twice and all!

[AndyWRX]

Love this thread, looks really good mate

[Jolly Green Monster]

With totb coming up thought it time to get some jobs on the car sorted.

Main thing being it needs to be able to dress in drag and still play on the handling circuit and track.

Trailered the car over to tfs racing today for us to work on it


New suspension
New brakes
New wheels and tyres
New handbrake
Clutch switch and flatshift setup
Oil and filter change

Will sort some better pics but you get the idea







Massive thanks to stew, craig and ian.
Also thanks to Alyn at as performance for posting out brakes bits at short notice

Simon

[Bigtel]

Looking Good

[asperformance]

a good quality "aeroquip" line will not flex compared to copper but offers more permutations as above.........

[Jolly Green Monster]

best fun possible with your clothes on

Friday used a hub dyno at tdi to play with the fuel map and check over of the car. Due to time constraints mainly played on vpower but was v happy with 662hp (around 800@flywheel) at 1.4bar on vpower and similar lb torque. Did have brief check on vpower plus 20% meth and made similar power at only 1.2bar. At which point I had enough data to be happy to map from datalogs when car was being used in anger.

Then travelled north for totb and installed a "how can you miss it" big rev counter and shift light and a toucan display for monitoring ecu data, and a couple of new graphics on the car.

Weekends playtime and really pleased to get a baseline on this setup and get a good feel for the car.
Its first quarter mile run ever being 11.11secs on the toyo r888 tyres.

With little alteration physically to the car all day just map tweaks and alterations to my driving and hoosier drag radials the times slowly dropped to 10.01secs which I did twice lol. Not run on racefuel yet or used flatshift so still more to come hopefully, especially if I can get a clean run in.
Massively pleased with how the cars behaved, and massive thanks to team JGM pit crew and support (CJ, Damien, Ian and Stew@TFS racing) and anyone I have forgot.

couple of vids, amazing how much you learn from them, it felt like I was putting lots of heat in the tyres but clearly I wasnt..

http://s950.photobucket.com/albums/a...imonandrob.mp4

not actually proper slicks, just devoid of tread...

http://s950.photobucket.com/albums/a...urrent=104.mp4

Did then manage to strip teeth off first gear lol oops

Simon

[asperformance]

you just need to take up Andy's offer of that "box" and get it cranked reet-up.........

[Jolly Green Monster]

shhhhhhh thats a top secret discussion thats on going

[jonnyricer5]

this is awesome and congrats on the cover feature of banzai!!

[Jolly Green Monster]

after digging the car out of its hiding place and bringing it home for a wash, impressed with race battery - started first time and not been touched for four weeks.

Morrettes with middle lens removed at totb

new graphics which were added just before totb


the you cant miss it rev counter and Toucan display also added just before totb


Simon

[asperformance]

"saashages"

[Jolly Green Monster]

Lol

[Jolly Green Monster]

Trailered the car over to stew @ tfs racing and back last week and we removed the gearbox I broke at totb.
Some metal on the drain plug so definately stripped first gear I guess.
Awaiting a hawkeye gearset arriving to build it back up.

While there the exhaust system was redone to exit the rear of the car.
The side exits did their job and were quiet measuring 88db at totb although that was with down turned tailpipes, they didnt believe it could be that quiet and remeasured with the mic nearer and said 92 and 94db.
The problem with the side exists has always been extraction on the dyno.
So set stew the task of making them exit at the rear bumper.
Rather pleased with the results.



Simon

[kartingsteve]

Nice job

[Jolly Green Monster]

Busy week for the car and me, tfs, teg sport, ian (bod).

Realised there was a test and tune day at santapod coming up on 21st sept that worked with my mapping schedule perfectly so rather than the relaxed fix the box when I get around to it, it became a rush and last minute dot com.
Thanks to teg sport for building the box nice and quick.
I didnt want to risk it being delayed by a courier so dropped it up there and then on wednesday headed off to collect it (2x650mile round trips). Had a busy mapping day at tfs on the thursday so whilst I mapped the cars stew and ian fitted the box. Clutch was being a pain in the ass and box came out and back in several times late into the night to get it sorted and I cancelled the dyno time booked for my car at surrey rolling road to tweak for the new exhaust and I headed north with a working car strapped on the trailer at 10ish and started the task of searching for a hotel that had a room spare and space for car and trailer and that I could be happy leaving it.
Friday morning came way to quick and rolled up at pod at 8am.
First run on r888s straight off the trailer and all good but car felt slow, it didnt scare me.
Think is was a 10.7, which wasnt bad on the r888s but car was noticably less powerful.
Checked logs and rich and so made some adjustments but my mind wasnt happy as it shouldnt be rich.
Another run on r888s and it was better but still down on power.
Then notice in the logs the battery voltage is 11.7volts - doh.
Tried few checks and wiring all good, thanks to stew and ian for help. Conclusion was alternator dead, which was always a question mark over whether it would be okay and it had been fine until now. Logs from elvington show 13.9v.
To an extent I was pleased to find that and pleased I was correct it was less powerful.
As everything else on the car was 100% and I was there and had paid for the day thought whatsit to it and put drag wheels and tyres on and used jump pack to start it as battery got lower still and ran with electric powersteering off and enjoyed running it anyway, more quarter miles under my belt, all good fun.
Quickest was 10.14 if I recall correct.
So no 9s for 2012, that can wait until 2013.

More Pics and videos to follow



Simon

[Hongkongfooi]

Nice one Simon, let's face we would all dream of a 10.14!

[Tomma]

Thats still very very quick!

What gearbox do you use in the car?

[Jolly Green Monster]

Thanks.

Wr1 6spd with forester gearing

[Jolly Green Monster]

would have been quicker had I not tried to hold 4th across the line and twatted the limiter

car trying to save weight during the run by shedding the fog light cover

I think this was the 10.14.. blast limiter again lol

last run of the day I think (you can see the weather coming in) I was sat watching the water temp climb going "come on ffs"..
whose got the biggest crack (on gearchange lol)


Simon

[Jolly Green Monster]

[Tomma]

Like the last photo, should try and get a photo from the same spot each time and when the times get faster compare how smaller your car looks in each one until its fast enough to be obscured by a parachute!

Is there any difference between the forester gears and say what gears I have in my bug sti? Strength or ratio-wise? Is it right that the hawk onwards gears are stronger than the earlier 6 speeds?

[Jolly Green Monster]

length of gears only difference.. along with I think the bulk rings changed and the selector fork tips but nothing strength wise is different

[harvey05]

the time should be there as andy forest got an 8.6 with the same engine but he might be quicker now as it was testing kept boging down off the line

[Jolly Green Monster]

He has larger turbos, sequential box, no full weld in cage (ie. cars lighter).

[asperformance]

Originally Posted by harvey05

the time should be there as andy forest got an 8.6 with the same engine but he might be quicker now as it was testing kept boging down off the line

to be fair to Simon, Mr.Forests car is built to do a specific job whereas Simons is still (to a degree) a road going car with less power and more importantly less development that Andy has put in

it also has a largely unbreakable sequential box wheras Simon is still attempting to keep all of the gears in his factory spec 6spd........

[Jolly Green Monster]

As I have said to Andy I want to be as fast as him when I am his age

theres a lot more to it than a big power figure

[asperformance]

i'll tell him next time i see him mind...............

[Jolly Green Monster]

Originally Posted by asperformance

i'll tell him next time i see him mind...............

I have said it to him. Speak quite often.

[asperformance]

i'm joshing

[ralliart didz]

JGM wot size are your works xt7 alloys and r888 tyres please

[Jolly Green Monster]

255/35/18 and about to go up for sale

[ralliart didz]

Originally Posted by Jolly Green Monster

255/35/18 and about to go up for sale

lol,yours are 100 pcd arnt they,i need 5x114.3

[Jolly Green Monster]

Yes or they might be both. Cant remember

[ralliart didz]

pm me a price if there 114.3 and size and offset please

[Jolly Green Monster]

Replacement Alternator ordered as current one is definitly fubar...

I know there is more in the car on the current turbos, but........ ordered some new bigger ones

Weather today had me wanting to take the car out, so keen to get it back up and running and map it on new turbos now

Collecting my daughter from school in it is always amusing

Simon

[Hongkongfooi]

And the turbos are and will allow what power?

Did you get my pm?

[Jolly Green Monster]

Will allow an theoretical 1200hp but will be aiming for 1000

Not aware of one. Will check

[Jolly Green Monster]

Engine bay with no turbos

The new turbos from Lateral


Look small in the bay


Simon

[BIG"E"]

Quality

what BHP are you expecting to make with them.?

[Jolly Green Monster]

Aiming for around 1000 which will max current injectors. Unless I get chance to change them first. Have had 600 on a couple of cars running one of these.

What sort of torque will it end up with if you get the 1000bhp will the gearbox cope?

[Jolly Green Monster]

I will restrict the torque so as not to lift the heads etc.

The sequential dog box arrives later this week so hopefully that wont break

[Jolly Green Monster]

Gearbox repaired and ready to install again.
Thanks to Stew @ TFS racing for collecting it today


Simon

[Jolly Green Monster]

I have been manic with work so not had chance to do anything on the car myself.

In the mean time Stew and Ian have done a fair bit. The clutch hub for the carnetic clutch I use I bought a replacement to match the new larger input shaft on the new box. Unfortunatly because the input shaft is machined to mount to an impreza flywheel but isnt an impreza diameter we have a minor issue with the clutch hub.
Have a solution but only 80% happy with it. Talking with carbonetic about them possibly making a one off for it, either that or I have to change to a different make of clutch but the current one has been very good and so when something works I try not to change. This is delaying box fitment.

In the meantime another gearbox has been fitted to ensure the engine is in the correct position and Stew has cracked on with making the new manifolds for the new turbos



Simon

[Jolly Green Monster]

Simon

[Tomma]

Looks like Santa has come early this year!!

do you think it will be back running again soon or with the new turbos before the sequential box is in?

[Jolly Green Monster]

No gearbox to run it on other than sequential

[Steve_PPP]

Those turbos look very cool

I assume you have arch liners to refit to stop crap getting in the engine bay, does the turbo pipework get in the way?

[Jolly Green Monster]

Originally Posted by Steve_PPP

Those turbos look very cool

I assume you have arch liners to refit to stop crap getting in the engine bay, does the turbo pipework get in the way?

Narrrr add weight that would

[Jolly Green Monster]

Stews been working like crazy

Wastegates now on and manifolds complete.

Downpipes and turbo plumbing and filters left to do

Simon

[SpecB]

Are the filters going to come through the light housings?

[Jolly Green Monster]

Few options on filters but not decided fully yet

[Jolly Green Monster]

Stews worked another blinder.

Turbos mounted and wastegates and downpipes


More to do as always

Simom

Originally Posted by BlueBugEye

Are the filters going to come through the light housings?

Fine mesh maybe ???

[Jolly Green Monster]

One of the options and probably

[SpecB]

Not much room for a std shape cone, possibly a mushroom filter? Or sod it and run them open!

[Jolly Green Monster]

this might give a clue for another option

http://i950.photobucket.com/albums/a...EFA8398780.jpg

[SpecB]

I can see a set of these poking out of there!

[Jolly Green Monster]

Originally Posted by BlueBugEye

I can see a set of these poking out of there!

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