Project GC8 AKA USDM STi Killer

[goodhart]

Kick ass man, just in time to be a new daily while your tranny gets fixed!! haha

[ylimert01]

Awesome!! glad to hear its fixed!

[cmspaz]

I couldn't have been happier to get a phone call at work, answer it and hear "Hey, listen to this..." through the handset. The sound that followed brought one of the biggest smiles of the past few months to my face.

I'm glad this project is coming to a close, so I can enjoy it instead of swear over it!

[awd-drifter]

nice work man. gotta give ya an applause man, that is so much work. I was hangin' out with my cousin that has a GC8 with the jdm sti swap this weekend and man, that thing is a beast and from what he has gone through with the wiring, drive train, mods, etc is just insane. props to you man.

[DoughtCom]

Thanks a lot guys for the kind words. It's been a very very stressful few months, especially since Friday LOL. But when I got on the onramp and gave it 60% throttle and it built 7PSi of boost... it was totally worth it.

I get fuel cut past that point and again I have a few bugs to fix. But the car is coming together really well. I also called God, I mean Shane @ DB, and scheduled an appointment for Monday and I plan on getting it aligned tomorrow night so hopefully it'll run and drive really well in the next week!

[DoughtCom]

So I made the BOV recirc last night and went for a drive and the car drove like a champ, decided to do another loop on the highway (about 2 miles round trip) and got on it a bit on the highway and I hear a POP and the car stopped making power.

Of course I think "first time I give it more than 50% throttle and I blew up the engine... should have waited for the tune moron" but I keep my cool and pull it over. I take the keys out of the ignition, put on my dorky head lamp, go to the trunk, take my hood rod out pop the hood, put the rod in (yeah that's what she said!) and start looking around. Of course it's fucking cold and windy so this made it a bit uncomfortable.

I see the recirculate pipe has popped off, well shit that's my problem! No big deal just put it back in and drive home... except it won't stay in. I start looking around the car for things I can rig it with. Window scraper, nope that won't work, my GF's blanket... that's not going to do anything and I don't want to get yelled at, my electrical manual for the car... nah, a 1' wire... maybe? I start figuring out how to make the two tubes stick together with that... but it's gauge is too thick and I can't tie it enough to make it stay.

I start to look around again and what do I find? My dinner for a few nights that spaz brought over... party size three musketeers. So I sit and think, well I have two of these left... I GOT IT! So I grab them from the back seat and make my way to the engine bay and I look at the recirc tube back to the intake pipe and look at the two musketeer bars and proceed to stuff them in my recirc tube so that they're snug.

I start the car and drive home, life was grand and I'll always have a candy bar on hand now.

The End.

[A//// Guy]

hahahahaha need keep more zip ties and duct tape on hand!

[Febo]

LOL By far the best fix I have ever heard.

[Matt D.]

Haha, he called me last night about something and between the phone breaking up a bit and his laughter I almost didn't believe what I heard.

I thought, "He used a candy bar to fix his car? Maybe he meant the wrapper." I'll be damned.

[turbotalon1g]

Total awesomeness