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!!