555sexydrive Work In Progress
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Joined: Mar 2014
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From: Hawaii: relocated to Western Canada Sept, 2015
That is one SEXY looking FIT!!!
Great seats, spectacular wheels and like how those skirts blend-in. Awesome looking!!! Good job.
A perfect cherry-bomb to go with them cherry blossoms!!!
Great seats, spectacular wheels and like how those skirts blend-in. Awesome looking!!! Good job.
A perfect cherry-bomb to go with them cherry blossoms!!!
Well I had just a week prior arrived back from vacation in the states (my excuse for speeding, not really), was heading over to Yokohama Minatomirai Super Autobacs to see friends from J's Racing as they were holding a New Year's sales event there. On the way, was a on a 2 lane road (1 lane each way), speed limit was 40km/h and we were doing like 22km/h and I was already about 30 minutes behind schedule, due to the wife slowly getting ready. Anyways, the lane finally opened up to 2 lanes and I just jumped at the chance to get around the slow early-Sunday morning drivers. Police were on the side of the road doing a New Year's Safety Campaign catching those speeding and my detector went off, but it was an industrial area so I thought it was a false detection. Red light ahead of me, started slowing down and I saw 3 dudes running down the sidewalk and realized it was the police. They made it to my car before the light turned green, not that I would have run off or would I have? 
Anyways, they knock on my window and ask me if I knew why they came to my vehicle and I answered I did. They then showed me the ticket, 110km/h in a 40km/h zone, but they did tag me earlier than what I did get up to, my SoloDL showed a GPS speed of 125km/h and if my car was Japanese plated, it would have been impounded on the spot actually even with the 110km/h speed. Took awhile before my case finally made it to the Yokohama Prosecutor's Office, which I had to pay a fine of ¥100,000 to the Japanese Government and then the base suspended my license for 6 months starting on May 3.
So the rebuilt engine (twice actually), if that shows anything, runs pretty well as the car went from about 25km/h to 125km/h in just about 150m, give or take some meters. It's still quite slow in reality, but it definitely moves much better than stock and the head's internals are still all stock as all the Bisi stuff ended up causing more problems and even with tuning saw about 15ps less than when the engine was full stock. So the engine has bumped compression to 12.5:1, .25 overbore Honda pistons (which are now floating compared to stock, because of the Bisi pistons first installed) and the head is port and polished.
Anyways, they knock on my window and ask me if I knew why they came to my vehicle and I answered I did. They then showed me the ticket, 110km/h in a 40km/h zone, but they did tag me earlier than what I did get up to, my SoloDL showed a GPS speed of 125km/h and if my car was Japanese plated, it would have been impounded on the spot actually even with the 110km/h speed. Took awhile before my case finally made it to the Yokohama Prosecutor's Office, which I had to pay a fine of ¥100,000 to the Japanese Government and then the base suspended my license for 6 months starting on May 3.So the rebuilt engine (twice actually), if that shows anything, runs pretty well as the car went from about 25km/h to 125km/h in just about 150m, give or take some meters. It's still quite slow in reality, but it definitely moves much better than stock and the head's internals are still all stock as all the Bisi stuff ended up causing more problems and even with tuning saw about 15ps less than when the engine was full stock. So the engine has bumped compression to 12.5:1, .25 overbore Honda pistons (which are now floating compared to stock, because of the Bisi pistons first installed) and the head is port and polished.
In that first video, motor was completely stock and only had the J's exhaust and an intake and was using the Honda Access suspension still as well. Seems so long ago.
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thanks for the info.
Much appreciated Mr.Impreza.
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Tonight installed the Sabelt Top Formula A harness for Saturday, though not leaving it in as driving around on the street with a full harness is really dumb in my opinion, sure you are safe, but at the same time you can not move to see around things which could put you in an unsafe scenario. Unfortunately I have already owned this one for a little over 4 years and it expires at the end of this year. Sucks because the last 2 years it sat in a box as I couldn't really use it in the S2000. Oh well I'll try to use it as much as possible through this year and I'm sure for small events they aren't really going to look at the tag. I can hope right?
The last pic, the angle is about 40~42°(as measured by my iPhone), maximum allowed by the FIA is 45°, but ideally it should be about 10°. I now know why J's made their rear belt bar, there are only 3 holes that fit the standard eyebolt, the other 4 holes are a smaller diameter and possibly pitch. Thankfully I had another L mount that I used with 1 of the stock bolts used to bolt the rear seats in. Planned on eventually picking up the J's rear bar. I could of used 1 of the other holes, but 2 of the 3 are lined up more so behind the passenger seat and I didn't like the angle of the straps.
I can hope right?The last pic, the angle is about 40~42°(as measured by my iPhone), maximum allowed by the FIA is 45°, but ideally it should be about 10°. I now know why J's made their rear belt bar, there are only 3 holes that fit the standard eyebolt, the other 4 holes are a smaller diameter and possibly pitch. Thankfully I had another L mount that I used with 1 of the stock bolts used to bolt the rear seats in. Planned on eventually picking up the J's rear bar. I could of used 1 of the other holes, but 2 of the 3 are lined up more so behind the passenger seat and I didn't like the angle of the straps.
A few days ago I ordered up some new exterior pieces and then a day later just happened to come across a front pipe that was too cheap to not get. Yesterday both items were delivered. I still need to get the J's titanium front pipe repaired, but as I said the price was just too good to not go ahead and grab up the other one in the mean time to regain some upper end at the loss of low end.
This one weighs 1.46kg, so 820g more than the J's titanium piece, but is 1.84kg lighter than the stock secondary catalytic convertor.
Charge Speed carbon Bottom Line side sills. Still debating if I want to swap to their rear diffuser piece to include the ends from the J's carbon diffuser.
This one weighs 1.46kg, so 820g more than the J's titanium piece, but is 1.84kg lighter than the stock secondary catalytic convertor.
Charge Speed carbon Bottom Line side sills. Still debating if I want to swap to their rear diffuser piece to include the ends from the J's carbon diffuser.