Hayden and Cliffos Mk4 R32 build

[Water Boy]

Can confirm limiter in 1st - 2nd and 3rd sounds the BEANS

[Water Boy]

And bloody well done mate. For a shoe string budget car you are living the dream!!!!

[thestu]

Ladsssssss,

Car performed very well at nats!!!!!

[HaydEn]

Been having clutch slip since before the track day, finally started happening in lower gears, (2nd/3rd) so got a new clutch kit and wavetrac LSD Installed while the box was out.

Went to the drags on Wednesday night. Only got 3 passes in, the drive down from Newcastle was the break in.

Managed a 13.655 @ 100 on the first pass, 2nd pass something happened with traction control and it caused the car to bog even though it was off.

Third pass bettered my first pass with a 13.603 @101.84

Still shifting slow to at least get to the other end knowing there would be so few attempts possible.

Car is relatively power wise stock.
Carbonio Intake, dirty old pod filter
APR “tune”
Stock intake, full stock exhaust (bashed out cats)
18” CH’s
Weight reduction 1386kg’s driven
And 283,000km’s on the motor


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[HaydEn]

Bit of an update:

Just been driving it to work and what not since the last post.

Installed a few new things along the way.

Competition Haldex controller, as much as everyone raves on about this things. I don’t think it has done much to the handling, nothing the LSD already took care of anyway. The best part would be how easy it steps the rear end out in 1/2 gears from a peel out. (In the wet)

Also installed a Miltek resonated cat back, not my first choice in exhaust, but got it cheap!
Don’t have any photos of these as there isn’t much to see, and there’s already thousands of photos out there.

I also fitted a 034 billet dogbone Mount. Used dirty photo as I didn’t take any at the time!


More recently I went on a bit of an update in preparation of a bit more track work this year.

Starting with an external oil cooler. In the spirit of this thread, tried to do as cheaply as possible.

So I got myself a Mocal thermostatic sandwich plate (in hindsight pointless as it lets more oil pass through the cooler than it stops), and a random eBay cooler and hose kit.


I wanted to remove the factory exchanger, to do this without spending the extra money on the mocal cap, I cut down a standard oil cooler cap and carried the thread further up the rod.


I cut up an adapter fitting that come with the eBay kit to use as a sleeve inside the Mocal sandwich plate so that it wouldn’t be able to move around on the mating surfaces under pressure


I cut up the factory reo, this served two purposes, to make room for the hoses to go underneath it and the front bumper and to shed some more weight!

Kept it as I’ve ditched them before and the bonnet is a pain to close, so the factory mount is still used for the bonnet latch.

Instead of making a useless bracket (nowhere to mount to without having a large bulky bracket) I bolted the core straight to the factory radiator shroud, this wouldn’t be possible if the a/c condenser was still in place.


Sandwich plate fitted


I just used water caps to block off the coolant ports left on the crack pipe and block


And finally found some 17x8 5x100 light wheels.



Wedssport TC105N wrapped in 235/40 Nitto NT01.

I also fitted a carbon front lip from a 06’ WRX/STI hard to see in photos but looks pretty different in the eye and fits well considering!

I also had Ian at FIS Cluster Care install a ColourMFA to replace the old hardly working display. (Sorry for the blurry pic!)



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[dylan8]

Looking good H.
Getting plenty done. Give me them CH now you have no use for them!

[sambb]

how are the aero fittings going on the cooler - any problem with weeping oil? mine have been a headache.

[HaydEn]

how are the aero fittings going on the cooler - any problem with weeping oil? mine have been a headache.

Funny you mention that Sam.

One completely let go and lost pretty much all the fluid after a couple days.



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[dylan8]

Lost fluid like you lost cliffo?

[sambb]

oh no that sucks man. Was it the hose coming off or the threaded fittings?
After a weeping fitting on the mocal sandwich plate I found that the aero fitting supplied with the plate was wrong. The fitting had an NPT thread but the Mocal wanted a straight thread (I think BSPP) with washers like these: Stat-O-Seals - O-Rings & Washers - Fittings & Adapters - Aeroflow Performance. The NPT probably only had the top two threads actually engaged in the plate and could have been stripped easily if I'd gotten stuck into it and was nowhere near able to form a seal.
Engine ok?