Subaru Impreza S202 STI Version

[ZoomZoomMX-5]

Originally Posted by freakray

I've only seen S202's in the blue or white, go with the Yellow I think, the bugeyes look awesome in sonic yellow. I think Chrome Yellow is a good match to sonic yellow - it's the color my bugeye will be.

Yellow is good. But every time I see a bugeye in yellow (not the pale yellow from '01, but later) I think only of "Velveeta".

Ray, I'm expecting a new WIP thread from you. Three kits; Revell WRX + Hasegawa WRX wagon + Fujimi's new WRX + much cutting, gluing, and cursing = The New Ride. You can finish it by our NNL, right?

[bhop73]

Lookin good so far.

[Jay!]

Thanks again, guys. Doing my best to keep moving on this. The fact they just released GTA:LCS for PS2 isn't helping!

Originally Posted by freakray

I've only seen S202's in the blue or white, go with the Yellow I think, the bugeyes look awesome in sonic yellow. I think Chrome Yellow is a good match to sonic yellow - it's the color my bugeye will be.

Originally Posted by ZoomZoomMX-5

Yellow is good. But every time I see a bugeye in yellow (not the pale yellow from '01, but later) I think only of "Velveeta".

Well, before you guys get too far ahead of me, I'll give you a peek of what's still to come...



Did you know that all 400 of the limited edition S202s started out as white Spec C Type RAs?

[Jay!]

Okay, still working...

I'd built a Tamiya STi before, so I knew the chassis was ... simple. No die-cast plate mind you - but still. Come on, Tamiya!

Here it was, when last we saw it:


Then I came to my senses and realized I needed to knock out the muffler... and part of the pipe ... and you know ... as long as I'm down there ...

One of the highlights of the S202 is the suspension, which features the best of all available STI parts. Like this:


Look at all the pretty colors! Cherry Blossom Red, STI's signature color!! Well, magenta, mostly. Pink, if you must.

Hmmm... Chop, chop, putty, plastic, glue!


Plus the heat shield for the new slimmer muffler:


Not good enough - lets go nuts...

Minus a little bit of this... Plus a little bit of Revell WRX rear end...




That's starting to look pretty promising. The only real weird part so far is that the frame rails between the Tamiya and Revell kits don't quite agree, so right now that sway bar is bolted to some nice empty space. I'm still working that one out...

Oh yeah, S202s all started out as Spec C Type RAs, remember? The Tamiya kit has the STi Version 7 sideskirts, but a Spec C Type RA has no side skirts. Off come these...


The non-sideskirts are pretty flat and straight forward:


Since they're so simple, I spent a couple days trying to build some up from scratch, but it wasn't really working out. I was digging around in my pile of Imprezas, and figured out that I got the Fujimi '06 STI Spec C (but won't be building it as such.) And the side skirts were exactly right! And molded as a separate part!! Thanks Fujimi!!


You can see there the attachment rig I made up based on the attachment points of the Fujimi kit.

Next, one of the real visual highlights of the S202 is the sweet little oil cooler peeking out from the lower grille...


Will was kind enough to source me the oil cooler from a Supra kit, and I made it fit...


And mocked up:


Upon review, I need to narrow it a bit and file down the depth of the fins on the face, so when I add the "STI" decal, it keeps it's shape.

What else...?

S202 seats are remarkably like version 7 STi seats (a.k.a. the seats in the kit), just with a special all-black color scheme:


But I wanted an element of "used" in it to give it some character, so I made a minor adjustment:


I also trimmed the seat rails so the passenger seat will be set back further than the driver's seat. That's how it always is in my real car, so why not?

Still working on the shape of the front grille. Add putty, add Mr. Surfacer, file it down, sand it smooth, rinse, repeat.

That's about it for this update. Comments, notes, red flags, criticisms, ways to do stuff better, etc... All welcome!

[robrex]

Great work!
Brings back memories of my old STI!

[675datsun]

This is so cool! Love the oil intercooler and major suspension/exhaust mods!

[Heihachi]

Modifications are great,I looks forward to your finally

Fantastic build!

[Mr. Me.]

wow! keep it up, dude!!

[blubaja]

Wow Jay!! I'm still taken back that you are actually building agian! Keep up the great work!

[MidMazar]

Glad to see ya back with a impressive build, keep us posted.

[busy]

nice work,

Great make every details.

[winstona]

Wow! That's all I can say. What attention to detail. This is going to be a great Suby!

Winston

[COZMO6476]

lovely convesion so far. looking forward to more progress

[willimo]

Wow, dude. You're all good at building and junk. Why don't you do it more? You're spray-work stand is coming so it'll be there in time for paint.

I'm still amazed by the suspension work. Too bad the oil cooler isn't quite right, I don't know of any others with fins that go that way. RMoM makes amazing oil coolers, but the fins go around the short way instead of the long way. Maybe the oil cooler (cut in half) from the Z-Tune GT-R (and Tamiya detail-up parts) would be better?