Impreza Group-N project.

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Stitchwelded and panels removed for some more welding:



Then made the sleeveholes in the fenders so the bonnet would fit, this is the result:








Then fitted the rearwings and WRC style front bumper, my preference tends towards the standard bumper though:












Then I noticed that my right front wheel was leaning too far back.
Err....??... so I pushed it onto the carlift.
Spend an afternoon measuring the whole bottom of the car and found a few things which did not make me happy, my enthusiasm was fading even more after it already had been dampened by finding out the not so glorious past of the car.

Measured everything and compared it with my red chassis which never had any damage.
I found that cross measured eveything was ok, max 2mm from front to rear, but the width was wrong.
It turned out that the whole front of the car was 10mm too narrow.

Aaarggggggggggggghhh....

Car on the carlift, front wheel on the other side was to far back:





I was afraid the right chassisbeam was leaning in 10mm which would f**k up my suspension geometry so I feared it would have to end up on the straightening bench for the 3rd time.
I spoke to the guy who had repaired the chassis and he told me he had used the original templates when restoring it, so at least the suspesion points were 100% correct, well it turned out not to be so.
Then when I had bought it I had it checked again to make really sure it was ok, and again they said it was ok, but again, not!.

Luckily a friend of mine works in a repair shop where they have lasertool to measure everything which I could use.

So yesterday it went to the garage once again:






It would only be measured but the guy doing the measuring was very helpfull and soon he was using his 10ton press on the car.
It turne out the front was 3mm to narrow on both sides and the rear 2mm on both sides, so I had a gap of 6 and 4mm.

After using his press the figures wre 0 and 0, it was square and straight as could be!!

So the car had the color of a banana but not the shape thank god.

The only thing we could not fix was the 5mm shortness which was actually far more than only the front inner wing.
It goes bak through the whole leg, so the rear mounting points of the front right suspension arm is 5mm back also.

Luckily Mr. Subaru has made some sleeve holes in the subframe and mounting points so that 5mm gap should be overcome quite easily making the suspesion 100% ok!

The 10mm narrower inner wings we left as they were the sleeve holes in the fenders fix it well enough, pushing them apart would only tear things up.

After a lousy 2 weeks I can now work again with full confidence on my Chiquita!

Car on the straightening bench: