New guy? Back to race in Lemons. Now a build thread! (Page 6 of 9)

It was a headlight from a cts where the high beam and low beam are stacked vertical.  Halogen bulbs.  Dunno what the projector lenses are made out of. 
The bulbs get super hot but the lenses do not get nearly as hot.  If junk splashed around the lense and got on the bulb it probably would be bad for it but didn't do insane bike miles. Likely his rac3 car won't rack up daily driver miles.

No, I think they'll be fine? I'm not using incandescents or HIDs. I'll be running LED bulbs in these projectors.
My thought is the LED bulbs themselves don't produce a lot of heat, it's the emitters/housings that generate all the heat. And as long as I have good air flow across the heatsinks, they should be fine. However, I guess we'll find out.

Edit: Projector lenses are super thick glass. We'll see how they hold up over time. There are also rocks, Colorado hail and peoples racecar parts falling off on the track... to be concerned about.

Sorry I've been absent the last 2ish weeks. We added a new grandkid to the mix, had a couple birthdays, graduation parties and been teaching my 2 youngest how to drive stick. All that to say, I haven't really touched the car in the last 1 1/2 weeks.

I did get everyone signed up, registered and paid for. So we are official for the BFE GP @ HPR. My brother has been working on the Livery for the car. Doing his graphic design magic.

Here is my revised punch list from earlier that keeps getting longer?

NEEDED
Set the shift light
Figure out what's up with the stupid fuel light, it has a mind of it's own
Verify chassis bolt torque
Witness mark bolts
Double check all fluid levels
Clean, wipe down, vacuum car
Clay bar the entire car
Maybe cut and buff
Setup suspension and do math (Comp, Rebound, Ride height/droop)
Redo alignment
Cut vents in rear lexan
Camera gopro mount or mounts
Cut out vinyl on cricut
Apply vinyl livery / theme on car
Change oil
Reroute oil cooler lines
Add chaffing and vibration protection if needed.
Night time number board lighting
12v power for above lights
Adjust headlights
Safety wire/pin harness buckles
reflush cooling system

COMPLETE
Livery / Graphic design
Positive terminal cover
Add a second battery hold down tab

This last Saturday, my daughter and I headed down to Wine Country Motorsports. Got the family some final gear. Pretty good selection to try on and get fitted properly. When we got back early afternoon, I started hitting my punch list.

Set the shift light in the tach and started playing with the fuel light.

Using a resistor to trigger when the light comes on.

I like how you painted the spreader plates blue but cage green that' looks great!

I've owned a ton of gd imprezas and iirc factory toe is 0.  We run our gc with 0 toe as well, and it's really balanced to drive.  We do need more camber judging by last races tire wear, but one of the judges mentioned last race how anything over 2.5deg in the front eats ball joints (he tracked a subie).  Idk. 

I do know that hub flex is why the 2005 sti moved to a 5x114 bolt pattern.  Apparently the 2004 5x100 resulted in hub flex and with the fixed brembos it would push the pads back into the caliper when turning (on the track)  so coming into the next turn you have no brake pedal!  Apparently some guys put springs in the pistons.

We are 0 toe all around.  Car feels stable at speeds to me (when we broke the wing the rear felt floaty until we got the old wing back on...)

That being said I haven't experimented with other amounts of toe, so maybe it could be better?

We also run much less camber due to adjuster limitations,  iirc we have 1.5deg front and 2deg rear on DIY fabricated adjusters,  next project is to increase front camber to 2.2deg.  I would have run 2deg before but we are on stock front adjusters.

Our hope is we need less than a GD chassis cause we are lighter (2400lbs)

I also ran 0 toe on my 04 STI, and had no issues, but that was a street car so...

For this next little mod I broke out the multitool and heat gun. I stuck my stickers where I wanted them and got to cutting.

Then the heat gun and torch.

One of my daughters came over this afternoon and wanted to clay, cut and buff the car. So, let's do it!

In my list previously, I said the camera mount was done. You can see it in these pics. It hints towards our theme. We'll see if anyone pics up on it.

I was digging through my gear and happened upon some old patches. I found a pic of the old gashole from '16. This is the year we won the IoE.

Before I went to the shop, I stopped by metal distributors in Fort Collins and picked up some aluminum drops. Then when I got home I started on the number board lights!

Aluminum

Brake

Layout

Threw on a little paint

Grommet

Fitting

Fitted

Gotta make sure the door opens

One week till race day!