Murph's GC Race Car Build

[Murphy2012]

Hey Everyone, I know it's been quite a while and I am back to try to get back in touch with old friends and meet some new people. I have been very busy with life itself including work and building this thing. Hopefully you all like it! I have spent countless hours on it since buying it from AWDisallidrive and am happy with the outcome so far. It started as an 01 RS 2.5 with a hydrolocked motor and has since evolved into the most fun vehicle I have driven to date!

Mods Include:
06 EJ253 block with stock 251 heads (heads completely redone)
Stock intake manifold blasted and cleaned, port matched to heads
Walbro FP
Parallel Fuel Rail setup with Adjustable FPR
Custom Murph Intake
06 Legacy Transmission (For better 1st and 2nd Ratios)
BC Inverted Coils with Swift 10k/8k springs
Custom solid rear diff mount
Custom Solid Trans Mount
SPT Engine Mounts
Front Whiteline 22mm Swaybar
WRX Rear Swaybar
Kartboy Endlinks F/R
Whiteline Race ALK
Whiteline Bump Steer/Roll Center Kit
Reinforced Lateral Links with SPT Bushing
SPT Trailing Arm Bushings
Front WRX Calipers SS Brake Lines all Around
Sparco 383 Steering Wheel w/ Quick Release Hub
Kirkey Aluminum Intermediate Road Race Seat
6 pt Camlock Harness
Custom 10 pt Roll Cage
Diamond Racing 15x10" Wheels
Hoosier A6 275x35-15
Sunroof Delete along with a lot of other weight saving

Here is what I picked it up like:
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4034/5078861904_644594920e_z.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/52873037@N02/5078861904/)
RS (http://www.flickr.com/photos/52873037@N02/5078861904/) by Murphy2012 (http://www.flickr.com/people/52873037@N02/), on Flickr


And here it is now!
http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6076/6066245570_61af8268a9_b.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/52873037@N02/6066245570/)
Untitled (http://www.flickr.com/photos/52873037@N02/6066245570/) by Murphy2012 (http://www.flickr.com/people/52873037@N02/), on Flickr

First Race of it's new life!
http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5102/5647264106_371e6bd42a_b.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/52873037@N02/5647264106/)
RS (http://www.flickr.com/photos/52873037@N02/5647264106/) by Murphy2012 (http://www.flickr.com/people/52873037@N02/), on Flickr

And with my teammates car, the Shenglehoffer (Which will never look that pretty again thanks to turn 19 at Mt. Okemo)

http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6008/5990330460_b6b13ceb27_z.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/52873037@N02/5990330460/)
261600_874251411111_11009516_42844095_6712005_n (http://www.flickr.com/photos/52873037@N02/5990330460/) by Murphy2012 (http://www.flickr.com/people/52873037@N02/), on Flickr


So, there it is, I hope you like it. I do have some videos too that I will link on here. Click my user name under the photos for a link to the build pics.

http://www.youtube.com/user/shenglehoffer#p/u/13/RFKvkUqJf70

Here's an FTD Run the same day as above.
http://www.youtube.com/user/shenglehoffer#p/u/21/5K_w9F1bMAY

And the death of the Shenglehoffer: Don't worry, itll be back tube framed and turbo'd!
http://www.youtube.com/user/shenglehoffer#p/u/9/y5jXNIfT3UQ

[Murphy2012]

Hmmmm, maybe move this to the Journal Section?

[jwebsta32]

Any hill climb plans.

[Murphy2012]

Yes, I will be at Ascutney in two weeks, as long as I get a new tranny or fix mine. In any case I will drive that or someone elses rig.

I also am going to get my SCCA License next year and start road racing, starting to grow out of autocrossing. It's a good time but it's time to get to work on the original plan which is road racing and now hillclimbing as well.

I also have recently got an 07 WRX Motor thats going to be built with a VF37 setup, both of which I got from one original Seacoast Subarus member and another from a site sponsor (I believe)

[jwebsta32]

I dont think I'll race in a couple weeks, but I plan on doing a hill climb in October.

[trunkmonkeymaniac]

DO WANT!

[Air_Jordan99]

Nice looking RS you have there.

[hiprsha666]

This car is sweet. I love it.

[Seraphinwolf]

Ya! Terry's back in action on NES!!! :)

[Berge56]

Nice work mang! Car looks great.

[jmb1983]

This thread sucks!


























































































I hate you because I miss you.

[F. Boombalatti]

...I also am going to get my SCCA License next year and start road racing...

Yesssss! Welcome to the dark side.:D

[Joe]

Terry's back! :spin:


Nice, purpose-built race car!

[BogeyBones]

omagosh loooks fast! nice project murph!

[DHGurs]

Never saw that vid of Eric's crash. Ouch! Welcome back Terry.

[Antihero]

Hey Murphy, are you Terry Murphy's kid? I drive the blue bugeye wrx that goes down your road every Friday lol

[Murphy2012]

Never saw that vid of Eric's crash. Ouch! Welcome back Terry.

It was actually Matt. Erik now owns a modified chassis that's getting a 4g63 and a t56 and staying rwd. No more autocross for him, he'll be running the hillclimb series and some road course events.

Gary, want to run the autocross program next year?

[DHGurs]

It was actually Matt. Erik now owns a modified chassis that's getting a 4g63 and a t56 and staying rwd. No more autocross for him, he'll be running the hillclimb series and some road course events.

Gary, want to run the autocross program next year?

Just saw this. I'd love to, but I'm hurting for time as it is with the two munchkins and 50 hours of work. I'll try to come to some of the meetings though.

Can't wait to see what becomes of his monster? Will it be similar to anything from CTTC?

[AllWheelDriveIsAllIllDriv]

Hurray for a sweet donor car!. that cars been everywhere.

[RCKSTR]

Love the new chassis Terry and welcome back :D SCS OG FTMFW :squee:

[98Wagoon]

Hey Murphy, are you Terry Murphy's kid? I drive the blue bugeye wrx that goes down your road every Friday lol


silly Joe, he IS Terry Murphy.. unless theres a few of them.. :hide:



oh, and car is pretty sweet.

[jonny-rockets]

damn that crash is gnarly. that's matt the welder right?

good to see ya back on NES!


silly Joe, he IS Terry Murphy.. unless theres a few of them.. :hide:


he comes from a long line of Terry Murphys.

[98Wagoon]

it happens!

[Antihero]

Crap. Shows how out of the damned loop I am eh?

Thanks Wagoonus Maximus.

[Seraphinwolf]

Hurray for a sweet donor car!. that cars been everywhere.
LITTERALLY! I don't know how it's in as solid a pyhsical shape will all the miles you drive sir!

Terry wanna make a copy of your fuel rail and lines setup for me. :)

[Murphy2012]

Crap. Shows how out of the damned loop I am eh?

Thanks Wagoonus Maximus.

I am Terry Murphy of Terry Murphy's Court St. Auto's Son, yes. My dad owns the shop and I am there a lot of my day's off and weekends working on this turd.

LITTERALLY! I don't know how it's in as solid a pyhsical shape will all the miles you drive sir!

Terry wanna make a copy of your fuel rail and lines setup for me. :)

Gaddis, no problem. Do you want it with the same components? I can price everything out for you if you want and give you a good discount as I got everything through my work, except for the AN fittings which I get from a local supplier, but they aren't cheap no matter where you get them. Let me know what you want to do, and I can modify yours a bit to make it a cleaner setup, mine was done in rush mode.
I did do quite a bit of body work but the car wasn't in very bad shape underneath. I cleaned the whole rear of the car when I had the enitre rear end out and resprayed that as well. Once I have time, which most likely won't be until winter, the exterior will be repainted a new color!

[Murphy2012]

This thread sucks!


























































































I hate you because I miss you.

My phone still works! :D

[Murphy2012]

So the last 3 weekend were spent racing and it's been great! Finally got the speed sensor issue worked out, thanks to an R/C airplane electric motor with a stand alone battery and old reostat to control it! The car and myself entered into our first hillclimb and all I can say is that EVERYONE needs to try this out! It is the most fun form of racing I have done in my life, and it's coupled by an entire weekend of hanging out with some awesome people. You basically form a small racing community and everyone is cool as hell. Here (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARK19tJbHtk) is a video from one of my Saturday runs, yes, the sound is off, I hate youtube. It was about 20 seconds slower than my fastest run, which of course I didn't capture (don't let your 60 year old father try to operate a gopro!). Anyway, I suggest everyone at least come check out a hillclimb and work it or just say screw it and come run, its a blast!

[GeoffC8]

I'm Jelly. That looks like a lot of fun. And the sound works on this end.

[Murphy2012]

The sound works, but it's delayed, at least on all the machines/phones I have viewed it on.

[GeoffC8]

Ah, I thought you'd meant that the sound was turned off completely. I did notice that the timing is off.

[DHGurs]

Blump?

[etaks99rs]

kin...

[polycrono]

Love the car and Ascutney. The fender flares and front valance really make the car look super badass. Keep up the good work!

[Murphy2012]

Not much to go over at the moment. The wrx motor is apart as far as its going to get for now. Have to double check my bores and order pistons, valves, springs, and retainers. Thinking possibly some gsc stage 1 cams, and a vf48. Still not 100% decided on the turbo but this is the front runner so far. I am also in the market for a 6 speed swap but it depends on how much money I can conjure up from now till April.
Cage work will start in Feb. planning on adding more door bars and a lot of gussets. The hillclimb series will be here before we know it.

[Seraphinwolf]

So if you are wanting to run cable throttle body instead of DBW why not use the 251 intake manifold. Then you delete the TVG's too. Unless it's 00/01' manifold with air assist.... 02/03' one to have MAP for speed density tuning on the standalone.

[Murphy2012]

Well, it's been quite a long time since the last update. The car has made some minor improvements over the winter but most importantly, it got painted and looks halfway decent now. I went with a flat red, something different and something that wouldn't clash horribly with the still stock paint engine bay. The mods over the winter were: Relocation of battery to trunk, Removal of spare tire well and patched with aluminum (Bead Rollers are awesome!), New dash setup, howe steering quickener installation, removal of ABS system and added a proportioning valve to the rear. I also added a rear JDM Bumper beam and made a customer front bumper beam, much more rigid and less than half the stock weight. Came out nicely! I finally found some 6 spoke RS wheels, with 4 layers of paint on them. Brought them back to aluminum, properly primed and painted duplicolor bronze. I decided to go with some 245-45/16 Hankook Slicks all year, until the other owner of the car insisted on some more 275 A6's as well, hard to argue with that! There is still more to go, which will happen slowly throughout this season, as well as the very slowly paced 2.5L turbo build. Might be a year or two, but it will be in eventually. Home ownership is on the horizon in the next two years so I need to spend some cash while I have it! Here are some pics, blast away!


Rear Spare Panel/Battery Relocation:
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7072/7053470055_6f76a1e42e_z.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/52873037@N02/7053470055/)
Untitled (http://www.flickr.com/photos/52873037@N02/7053470055/) by Murphy2012 (http://www.flickr.com/people/52873037@N02/), on Flickr

New dash setup minus steering rack and new starter panel (took out key switch):
http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5117/7053469109_8e8801a4cb_z.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/52873037@N02/7053469109/)
Untitled (http://www.flickr.com/photos/52873037@N02/7053469109/) by Murphy2012 (http://www.flickr.com/people/52873037@N02/), on Flickr

New RS 6 spokes painted and mounted:
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7197/7053466885_6a93c67fe0_z.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/52873037@N02/7053466885/)
Untitled (http://www.flickr.com/photos/52873037@N02/7053466885/) by Murphy2012 (http://www.flickr.com/people/52873037@N02/), on Flickr

Bumper Beam:
http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5447/7053462963_29a468f2ff_z.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/52873037@N02/7053462963/)
Untitled (http://www.flickr.com/photos/52873037@N02/7053462963/) by Murphy2012 (http://www.flickr.com/people/52873037@N02/), on Flickr
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7225/6907374396_3bef3c95c1_z.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/52873037@N02/6907374396/)
Untitled (http://www.flickr.com/photos/52873037@N02/6907374396/) by Murphy2012 (http://www.flickr.com/people/52873037@N02/), on Flickr

Paint:
http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5462/7051431555_ba17181d83_z.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/52873037@N02/7051431555/)
Untitled (http://www.flickr.com/photos/52873037@N02/7051431555/) by Murphy2012 (http://www.flickr.com/people/52873037@N02/), on Flickr
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7093/6905339338_fb86cd1bb0_z.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/52873037@N02/6905339338/)
Untitled (http://www.flickr.com/photos/52873037@N02/6905339338/) by Murphy2012 (http://www.flickr.com/people/52873037@N02/), on Flickr
http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5464/6905334364_336f92fce9_z.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/52873037@N02/6905334364/)
Untitled (http://www.flickr.com/photos/52873037@N02/6905334364/) by Murphy2012 (http://www.flickr.com/people/52873037@N02/), on Flickr
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7072/7051423849_69d760940c_z.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/52873037@N02/7051423849/)
Untitled (http://www.flickr.com/photos/52873037@N02/7051423849/) by Murphy2012 (http://www.flickr.com/people/52873037@N02/), on Flickr

[Murphy2012]

Here's a shot of it two nights ago getting loaded to come home. I'm happy with the outcome:

http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5326/6953230702_faf917eb28_z.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/52873037@N02/6953230702/)
Untitled (http://www.flickr.com/photos/52873037@N02/6953230702/) by Murphy2012 (http://www.flickr.com/people/52873037@N02/), on Flickr

http://farm6.staticflickr.com/5448/6953231698_45631de093_z.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/52873037@N02/6953231698/)
Untitled (http://www.flickr.com/photos/52873037@N02/6953231698/) by Murphy2012 (http://www.flickr.com/people/52873037@N02/), on Flickr

And a funny picture of the two slicks stacked up against each other. The 245's say they're 9" tread and the Hoosiers say 10", I think not.....

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7108/7053461743_9768953edc.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/52873037@N02/7053461743/)
Untitled (http://www.flickr.com/photos/52873037@N02/7053461743/) by Murphy2012 (http://www.flickr.com/people/52873037@N02/), on Flickr

[jwebsta32]

Very nice. Planning any hill climbs this year?

[Murphy2012]

Yup, I am trying to run the entire series this year. Hoping I can swing enough time and money to run the hillclimb and autocross series this year, as well as a day or two or track events.

[My25RSL]

paint looks good man.

[jwebsta32]

Yup, I am trying to run the entire series this year. Hoping I can swing enough time and money to run the hillclimb and autocross series this year, as well as a day or two or track events.

Im out for the may race, but I am planning on running ascutney in September.

[Seraphinwolf]

Looks great Terry!
BTW Dana said you had bunch of magnet material. Have any left you wanna sell me?

[trunkmonkeymaniac]

Love the flat red, looking good

[nhrocker]

Love the look of the car! Hopefully I'll get over to watch some of the hill climbs this year and can see it in action.

If you don't mind me asking, where did you get that front lip?

[Berge56]

Wow awesome dude! Love the car.

[Murphy2012]

Love the look of the car! Hopefully I'll get over to watch some of the hill climbs this year and can see it in action.

If you don't mind me asking, where did you get that front lip?

That's front lip is lawn and garden trim! I'm working on an alums lite front diffuser to go with it for the hills. Just need to order a sheet.

[nhrocker]

That's front lip is lawn and garden trim! I'm working on an alums lite front diffuser to go with it for the hills. Just need to order a sheet.
Haha, wow! I've seen that for years on Jeeps/trucks to extend fender flares and cover the tires... Didn't even recognize it on your car! Looks like it was made just for that! :lol:

[Murphy2012]

Here's a video from last weekend's Mt. Ascutney Hillclimb. I set a new personal record at 3:08.21 and came in 3rd in the P2 class which was great considering my competition was two vehicles with over 300whp.


Mt. Ascutney Hillclimb 5-20-2012 Impreza 2.5RS - YouTube

[DHGurs]

Nice driving as always Terry. Grip>power

I'm jealous of your qrack.

[yaya]

That looks like a blast!

Well done.

[Berge56]

Now I want to hill climb! :lol: Nice job dude!

[Murphy2012]

Thanks everyone. Although at this point I do need more power to keep up. That little old N/A can only pull me for so long!

[jwebsta32]

Nice run man. You see nick up there?

[Murphy2012]

Which Nick? Grabau? Yes, but I don't know him at all. I talked with Kevin a bit and also Matt.

[jwebsta32]

K rhoads is a good driver

[Murphy2012]

Kevin is great but always breaks. He made one run with the sti and blew the turbo.

[jwebsta32]

hes rough on equipment.

[DHGurs]

Was that the one that blew at CTTC too?