Impreza Group-N project.

[The Doctor]

that sucks!

bad about the lost parts too!

[banpei]

Auch... Lucky there were only parts in the factory and not employees.

[Aram]

A friend of mine who works with fibers made a hood for me, molded from a non-turbo model.

When the rad pack set-up is fixed to the car he will also help me make the cladding from the bumper to the IC and from the radiator to the hood.

When that's done we will finish the front end of the car concerning panelgaps.
This is more important than most people realise I think, when the gaps are uneven or different in size ultimately the end result will look unfinished and unproffesional and that's defenitly not what I want!

Pics:










greets.

[Aram]

Today I got a present from the cranedriver who is tearing down the old building.

A Brembo brake caliper!

It was in the hottest part of the fire but it seems to be "unscratched".
Even the seals are still in.

Time for a cleanup!

[Eric]

You got just one of them?

[Aram]

Yip, the haven't found the other one.

[Mux213]

whowie... sucks to hear about the fire... well calipers generally are designed to take alot of heat, but still, not sure if I would want to trust my life on breaking power after knowing the history of these brakes

Looks like she is slowly coming together though! Shame I might never be able to drive in her

[MACK 10]

What a epic build! Just spent the past hour and a half reading this thread. Great work mate. Any update's?

[Aram]

Hi Mack!

We'll, I've saved up some cash and ordered some parts.
So hopefully updates soon.

greets.

[Aram]

Small update.

Not actually the car itself this time, but something that will help build the car when it's done and works.

I removed a welder from the burned factory, it's a Fronius Magic Wave 3000 Job.
It was a year old and apart from 2 parts and alot of smoke it seemed to be fine.

I don't know if it works yet, but I cleaned it before I test that anyway.
2 reasons for that, the smokedust can conduct electricitity and there was cristal forming everywhere, also between the components on the circuit boards, so to reduce the chance of a shortcut I cleaned it anyway.

This is how it looked when I got it:








And then dismantling it:










Undertray:




The alu plates were acid cleaned, the bolts yellow plated and the circuit boards proffesionaly cleaned.
The casing I left as is for now, first I want to know if it works.


The parts cleaned, note the white on the alu parts, it is corroded by the chlore in the water that they used to put out the fire, nasty stuff :








Building again:














That's it sofar, this week i'll test it, then if it doesn't explode I will order some parts that I need to actually weld with it, and if that works I will clean the rest.