March 2018....
With the announcement of the new class SSC, and the news that the twins in DS will soon become obsolete with the addition of all boost buggies from BS, I decided to start an STX build. At first I simply had the intention to do wheels, suspension, exhaust and tune. Nothing "extra".……..
I installed a Tomei UEL Header, Tanabe OP, Berk Catted FP, and an HKS catback (its loud).
So loud, in fact, I had to come up with something to not go over the sound limit at national events.....
Allow me to introduce the shin destroyer!
Its just a 90 degree bend stuffed with steel wool.
Im working on a new one for this season...
Ok so moving on.
I brought it to a reputable local race shop to install / convert my coilovers from street class to STX spec, and to install my Raceseng crank pulley.
First, the race seng cam cas plates were not jiving with my MCS. After a few phone calls to him we got it sorted and they were functional. I was running 450# square springs.
Moving on, I knew that after 4 years of basically 200 autocross runs per year that my clutch wouldn't be in the best shape, but I didn't have any TOB noise, and from what I could tell it wasn't slipping.
The shop attempted to install the crank pulley and first things first, with the car in gear and the parking break on, when they attempted to loosen the bolt the engine was turning. FFFFFF
They took the starter off and was able to hold the flywheel some how, but the stock pulley damaged the key way, and the threads for the bolt. So between that, and finding that the clutch was slipping, I decided to go all out on this build.
I ordered Whiteline steering rack bushings, trans mount insert, differential and carrier inserts, and rear subframe inserts. Followed by perrin motor mounts, Verus rear lower control arms, mann engineering rear sway bar, and SPL rear endlinks.
So yea. I wanted to build a semi all out STX build. I figured if they were pulling the engine they might as well put a bunch of other stuff in there.
Ill update this thread some more tomorrow.