Sunday, April 26, 2009

HKS SQV fitted

New SQV arrived from RaceBreed.fi and is fitted to Impreza.
Assembly was very easy and it took only 20 minutes including BS
with Domo-kun.
Parts were high quality and all of them fitted perfectly.
Again one good reason to buy genuine parts and not fake ones.


HKS SQV ready to be fitted.


Content of kit.


Removed air bypass hose.


Stock valve removed and air bypass plugged.

Bracket assembly to IC.

Flange fitted to IC.


SQV connected to IC with a flange and joint hose.

Vacuum hose and filter.

Nice and clean package.

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Friday, April 24, 2009

Keepin' it Real!


Hymm... Express Mail from good old US of A.




Jay is the man. Keeps he's rides nice & clean. No short cuts with builds.
He's blog & JDM EGO are my daily fix since day one. There's always something cool to read on he's blog. Peep it out.

To support he's car builds and wise words against fake shit like Rota Wheels, get your gear on: iloveracing.com



It's all about attention to detail. Research & Development.




And if you still don't get it... then this is a must read: fake wheels

Thanks Jay! Muchos respecto SIR!!!

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Tuesday, April 14, 2009

Bee*R – Call of Duty

My friends from MDS called me bit over month a go to help out. They had a car show coming up in Easter and they didn’t have cars for the stand. So I stepped up the cry – 5 mins after closing the phone I realised I couldn’t take “the same car” in the show 2 years in a row. It needed a new look, something different. Right – the game was on.

New wheels, sourced as second hand. Bargain deal, but they still needed some new twist to stand out. I wanted semi-vip style and rat-look at the same time. Let’s call it Rat-Vip ;)





The new "pots" are 9,5x19 and 10x19 Work Euroline DH’s. Front ET is 0, rear ET -6. The rims were quite new, made in last year. Still wanted to give them a something, so a new paint to match the cars exterior and new ruff styled rim screws or spikes if you will. Now they look mean but classy.


Front lip is 3,5” and Rear lip 4,75” – Nice dish. Team Falken helped out with FK452 tires in 265/30/19 all around.


The new setup needed graphics as well, so I had few late nighters behind the Mac again. I wanted the car to be mean and brutal looking, so I ended up in a urban war theme – Full Metal Jacket.


Attack of the Killer Bee*R


RB26DETT – the weapon of choice


B324R = Urban Assault Weapon, the greatest street terror machine of all time :D


I had 8 other project cars to finish to the show, so my car was the last of them. HC Graphics aka Henri (me) & Casper did it again – totally different look. Not everyone’s cup of tea, but do I really give a shit? Nope.

Hifi update!
Alpine sorted me out with the latsest IVA-D106R media player/head unit, cheers to the new even better tunes!

Ooh, and peep out some pics from the show by Juhis: American Car Show / Tuning Car Show 2009

Thanks for the help again boys!

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Bee*R gets full Zaino treatment

After removing the vinyl graphics from last seasons theme, it was time to give the exterior it’s shine back.

First I removed the graphics… 5 hours later it was ready for good wash with strong car shampoo to remove all that sticky dirt. Zaino Clay Bar (Z-18) is excellent for the asphalt tar stains.



After that we started with Zaino (Z-PC) Fusion Dual Action Paint Cleaner & Swirl Remover. This stage was done by machine.



Masked for machine polishing.

Next stage was done by hand, the Zaino (Z-AIO) ALL-IN-ONE cleaner polisher. It’s really easy to apply and remove.
Then we started the polishing stage. The Zaino (Z-2) PRO Show Car Polish for Clear Coated Car Finish was chosen. Three coats of Z-2 with ZFX Flash Cure Accelerator Additive witch accelerate the drying process.




We alsso sealed each layer of the Z-2 to build as strong and deep shine as possible. The Zaino (Z-6) Ultra Clear Gloss Enhancer Spray and Zaino (Z-8) Grand Finale Spray Seal were used.
To top of the cake the Zaino (Z-CS) Clear Seal was applied, it’s easy to use. Just spray a thin mist on the surface, no wipe. It drys of leaving beautiful shine.



The 11 stage Zaino polishing session was done. It took a bit of time but it was well worht it.

Thanks to Pade, Santtu & Teme for the help.

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Monday, April 6, 2009

Electroluminescent graphics!

Last weekend was the Exciting Car Showdown in Nagoya. The new craze was these electroluminescent vinyl car graphics.


Red Line Oil RX7 had their graphics made by EL Lighting.


Electro Luminescence Car Vinyl at Exciting Car Showdown (1) from Powervehicles.com on Vimeo.


Electro Luminescence Car Vinyl at Exciting Car Showdown (Nagoya) [2] from Powervehicles.com on Vimeo.
I wonder how much they cost... the new craze is here!

More pics of the show at Speedhunters.com by Dino – great to see your quality work at SH ;)

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Sunday, April 5, 2009

Summer tyres on !!

Oi! Here´s couple new photos of Teemu´s breza on brand new Buddy Club p1 18" wheels.













Subaru gallery here --> http://molsa.pictures.fi/

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Friday, April 3, 2009

The power of Holset – 1033 hp

Ok chaps,

So we live in Finland. In a land where winter is 8 months of year – it snows even during summer, hah.

During those long snowy winter months we hit our stupid heads together to create something seriously ill shit, like this.


In the belly of this satin black beast lies something truly insane…

How do you get 1033 horsepowers out of Nissan’s RB26DETT engine (yes, 2,6 liters)!?!


"– Well, hit the boost to 2,3 bar and a drop in a pair of Holset HY35 turbos."

To keep things happy inside the new power plant, a counterweighted and balanced R33 GT-R crank is the foundation of the bottom end. Also CP-pistons were added with Eagle H-beam conrods. Still running oem head bolts.
Upstairs has parts like, Tomei Poncams 282 with 12.8mm lift and Tomei cam pulleys. The other belts have Greddy pulleys. The Greddy plenum is feeding air to the head witch is fully ported by JR-Tehokansi. The 1,6 mm head gasket is by Tomei. To feed this beast, a Hestec Ecu is used (Tuned by Seppo Harinen), a heafty loads of boost is offered by Hestec boost controller. To keep juices flowing a set of two Walbro and two Bosch Motorsport 044 fuel pumps are used with 18 mm fuel lines. The Sard fuel rail with Aeromotive’s fuel pressure regulator will keep the 1000 cc MSD injectors happy. Sparks are delivered by Bosch Motorsport 034 ignition coils.



The 100 mm cooler has company of Koyo radiator, other coolers are custom jobbies as well, like the relocated Mocal oil cooler and totally removed/relocated water circulation. Oil and water are pushed with Nismo’s high performance pumps.
To handle all that torque – a 989,6 Nm to be exact, a Nismo Twin Plate clutch is barely taking it – it’s starting to slip so the boost is kept where is it at now.
Exahaust is a custom 4” job. With those monster Holset HY35’s, is a pair of Tial 60 mm wastegates and Tial blow-off valve.





The additional goodies are inside the cockpit. The Defi meters for water temp, intake temp and oil press. Greddy’s for boost, oil press, oil temp and egt. Vems wideband meters for both of the turbos. You might noticed that there were two oil press meters, well the oil press is metered at two different points.



To keep all the power on the track, a set of Mickey Thompson 275/40/17 street radials are used. For the street use (yes, this car has license plates) 275/30/20 TSW’s are under the arches.
Ride height is taken care by K-Sport suspension and the handling is improved by poly bushes all around. Safety cage is an improvement as well. The brakes are under upgrade at the moment – something big with loads of force to stop this beast.



Oh, yes and that Dyno sheet.



All measured with Inertia Dynamometer (at Special Tuning Harinen).

@ 2.3 bar (max 8800 rpm)
• 1033 hp (DIN) [759,77 kW] / 1018.85 hp (SAE) – Panta 115 oct fuel
• 989.6 Nm / 100.88 Kgf / 729.36 lbf

@ 1,95 bar
• 890 hp (DIN) [654.60 kW] / 877.83 hp (SAE) – Shell V-Power pump fuel.
• 820 Nm / 83.59 Kgf / 604.72 lbf

And for those thinking "one lucky dyno queen shoot"... the cars been on the dyno close to 50 runs - more than some drag cars can take. Every time pulling figures like this.

More to come, carbon – alots of carbon!

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Update! (the dyno sheet is from the first runs, running a limiter at < 8000 rpm - now it's past 9000 rpm).

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