as some of you might know, my car was been down since august after getting a bad road tune by a local shop. With the help of some locals and great desire to get the car running. sold and sacrificed alot of mods , built it up and finally shes back. better than ever :devil:

checking out the new v7 sti ShortBlock
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slightly spun bearing??
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running rich?
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christmas goodies for my baby
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and so it began.. newly micro polished crank w/ acl coated race bearings
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block assembled
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last time im gonna see the wisecos shiny :)
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put the car back together and towed it home from a local buddy's garage
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THEN THIS CAME!! :p
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sti 6mt yo!
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new gauges to monitor the newly built motor (apexi EL gauges with control unit)
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cars running now, has a little under 400 miles. been running wastegate pressure and so far.. SOLID. i missed it soo much. :( i almost gave up on the car and got rid of it.. im glad i didnt.. im simply inlove with the gc since alot of my time and effort has been invested in it. car is far from done. still has a bunch of mods sitting in my room i havent installed yet since chicago is still a bit chilly. everything was done with very limited funds and in the end all the hard work paid off. hope you guys like it.

Very nice build! Kinda sucked you had to do it though from somone else's fuck up. Gotta go get some #'s for us when the weather is nice

from this:
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to this:
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and im sure we all agree to this..................

http://i151.photobucket.com/albums/s145/xtianjdmgc8/S5030118.jpg

:thumb:

Subie motors are weird lol......... looks awsome. Glad to see you got it running

mmmmm...JDM STi motor.....that ones a closed deck one right?

and yes the lovely 6spd STi tranny!!

congrats on the build and glad you love it!

Nice GC! Looks like a very nice build!
-Joe

beautiful car!!!! nice work and have fun with it

I'm jealous as hell. :( Badly want mine back up and running. Great to see yours is coming along. ;)

Scotty