@Fawkes posted a new topic, subject "Fawkes Little justy that c(an)ould". It read:

   I-am building a justy just for the fun of it really.  
    After kicking off in the L1's Garage thread i decided to make my own topic on it.  
    All updates on the car shall be posted here.
    
    Welcome!
    
    L1's Garage
    
    > So i got my two AWD Su(zuki)baru Justys,
    > 
    > The white one i managed to get for 800,- and the parts justy (green) for 200,-  
    >  The white justy is in very good shape rust wise for its age!  
    >  However it has been lowered and one strut is leaking and bouncing around.  
    >  Good thing i've got the parts justy.
    > 
    > Took out all the stupid subwoofers and cables
    > 
    > managed to sell it for 65,-
    > 
    > Took suspension out of the parts justy and did some cleanup, rust prevention, painting and lubing.  
    >  Also the antenna that was broken on the white justy.
    > 
    > I'll put them in today hopefully.
    > 
    > Here's the parts justy, it has rodknock because of overheating but the entire drivetrain has not even seen 1k Km's

So @Fawkes replied

    So small update,  
    I fixed the front suspension by completely replacing the strut assembly's.  
    Good news, it does not bounce around anymore! and i can drive over speedbumps!
    
    One of the lowered front struts had its boot undone and that resulted in a leaking strut making it effectively just a spring.  
    The bolts and everything did look quite good, on the green Justy they were really rusted up.
    
    I also cleaned the brake rotors and wheels with a wire brush and put a light coating of ceramic grease on them to prevent (galvanic) corrosion.
    
    It looks funny now  
    
    
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To which @Fawkes replied

    Well today i spend several hours expanding my neighbors vocabulary.  
    The left side is raised but the right side had it's wheel bolt free spinning with the lug-nut still on it… F  
    Managed to get it off without obvious damage to the weel after hours of drilling spraying and eventually just using a hammer. Jeremy Clarkson would be proud  
    
    
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    And now the brake screws i had to drill out aswell and the brake drum **is** really stuck.  
    Today was a bad day.

To which @TeckMonster replied

    Days like that suck. That's impressive that brake drum is stuck on there so badly, those things are in 4 wheeler territory as far as size goes.
    
    You got some PB Blaster?

Then @Fawkes said

    Yes i just gave up as it was 21:00 and i hadn't even eaten yet.  
    I sprayed it with WD-40 as that is all i got on me now.  
    It's not the best penetrant but i've never had problems with it when leaving it on for a night or some days.
    
    Should get some proper penetrating fluid.
    
    Now i need to go to the parts justy for some “new” studbolts

To which @TeckMonster replied

    Might be worth just getting new ones, they souldn't cost over $2.

To which @alwaysFlOoReD replied

    Are the screws philips or jic? Are the screws already fubar? If not , if you have a screwdriver with a thru the handle shank, use it and a heavy hammer and shock the screw. Or use a screwdriver bit and hammer [hold the bit with vise grips…trust me…].

To which @Fawkes replied

    TeckMonster:
    
    > Might be worth just getting new ones, they souldn't cost over $2.
    
    I agree, but i have 16 spares on the other car and sadly they cost 6,- here. (when i can find them),  
    So i'll try used first.
    
    alwaysFlOoReD:
    
    > trust me
    
    Great advice, i indeed hit them with a hamer and screwdriver before trying to take them off.  
    One went (with my whole body weight pressed against it).  
    The other one i had to drill out.
    
    Good news however i managed to get the drum off using the bolt trick i saw over at Eric the car guy
    
    video
    
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Po-WXqIKjHQ

After which, @Fawkes added

    Fawkes:
    
    > I agree, but i have 16 spares on the other car and sadly they cost 6,- here. (when i can find them),  
    >  So i'll try used first.
    
    DON'T USE USED STUDBOLTS! one big headache!  
    At the dealer i got 2 new bolts and nuts (out of parts bin) for 10,-.
    
    So the justy passed MOT!  
    I can finally enjoy driving this little thing  
    i already knew it had a leaking transmission but i got that sorted out after mot (hopefully it won't leak again) the seal between the axle and transmission was leaking.
    
    In the meantime i-am touching up on the car.  
    Removed the backseats (unusable anyway because of the front seats).
    
    Painted the strutbar black instead of that horrific red.  
    And i-am currently flushing the engine with cheap oil (it already is so black… disgusting), soon the second oil change will happen and after that some quality oil with a new filter.
    
    I-am also thinking about welding the viscous clutch for full time 4wd.  
    Any thoughts on that?
    
    Pictures will follow.

After which, @TeckMonster added

    Fawkes:
    
    > I-am also thinking about welding the viscous clutch for full time 4wd.  
    >  Any thoughts on that?
    
    Unless that thing lives off road don't do it. Doing that for a road car would be extremely hard on your transfer case/transaxle, CV axles, drive shaft, bearings, and tires. Not to mention your car will start doing weird stuff when you turn sharp.
    
    I've never done anything like that, so I'm not sure if everything I'm saying is accurate, but that's what I've gathered from 4x4 manuals warnings about using 4x4 on the road, YT videos,  
    and 4x4 buddies.

So @Fawkes replied

    TeckMonster:
    
    > Unless that thing lives off road don't do it.
    
    Clear, the video was very informative!  
    guess i'll keep the viscous clutch.

After which, @Fawkes added

    PICTURE TIME! as promised.
    
    This was under the hood when i bought it.  
    
    
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    And this is under the hood a few weeks ago after a few things that just had to be done.  
    
    
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    The strutbat was i bad (ugly) shape  
    
    
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    After some (a lot) of grinding and sanding, and after spraypainting it.  
    
    
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    The car has now been lifted aswell back to original height.  
    
    
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    And here's a little peak towards my next upgrade  
    
    
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After which, @Fawkes added

    small update after a long time,  
    The exhaust will have to wait, to many weird bends and whatnot.
    
    I-am however working on the rims,  
    They are certainly not perfect, but nothing you'll see from a meter away.  
    
    
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    Is it me or do white rims look way bigger?

So @lesser replied

    Nice, thread @Fawkes

@TeckMonster replied

    Looks good!
    
    I know white wheels are hard to keep clean, but I've always liked the way they look, and when you see a car with white wheels that are clean you know they really care about their ride.

@w.meri replied

    Just needs an STI swap now.

After which, @TeckMonster added

    Lol that would be madness. I think that car weighs something like 1600lbs

@Fawkes replied

    w.meri:
    
    > Just needs an STI swap now.
    
    The gearbox takes Suzuki G engines,  
    I'd LOVE to swap a G13B (GTI engine 102hp stock) engine to replace the G13BA (68hp stock).  
    However funds… plus you'd have to find a swift GTI wich is a rare find on itself.  
    more doable would be a G13BB (86hp stock)engine. but funds…
    
    TeckMonster:
    
    > Lol that would be madness. I think that car weighs something like 1600lbs
    
    845Kg 1800lbs

So @Fawkes replied

    Whoops, look what i found whilst removing the rear tires…  
    
    
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    it's not to bad.

After which, @Fawkes added

    BTW the rear wheels are white and they are on the car also 
    
    I got around cleaning it up and tomorrow it'll get welded.  
    
    
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    !
    
    I got some steel to   
    
    
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    and a nice sticker for about 23.8 extra HP  
    
    
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@Fawkes replied

    And it is welded:  
    
    
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    It's not the most beautiful, but it is rock hard.  
    Sprayed it down with rust converter / primer, that's why it looks so black.
    
    I also had a go on a lot of surface rust underneath the car. This car is almost ready for winter.  
    Only need to touch up the undercoating.

After which, @Fawkes added

    So. Where there's rust to see, there's a lot more that you don't…  
    Anyway, one weekend of work later the bottom of the car is rust free.  
    And sprayed down with undercoating that is now intact again.
    
    This was the biggest hole.  
    
    
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    I also installed some mudflaps, and they work very well   
    
    
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So @Fawkes replied

    After months of f*ing around with cookie cans, pvc pipes etc.  
    I finally succesfully have a normal way to mount a “sport” filter.
    
    I bought the air intake case from a Suzuki Samurai (sj413).  
    
    
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    Made the exit hole bigger to be able to fit the original rubber ring.  
    To fit over the throttle body.
    
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    The threads on the screw holding it down stop halfway. so i threaded them to the bottom. and i had to bend the legs of it because this intake case is a lot lower than the original.
    
    afterwards i sanded, primed it (with rust converter) and painted it with wheel paint.
    
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    Once it hardened i made a hole for the air temperature sensor.  
    Made mounting hole a little bigger (because it did not fit by a few millimeters).  
    and voila.
    
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    The tube going to the “top” of the filter is the stock way of providing air.  
    I just cut it to length and put it againtst the top of the filter.  
    I have plans to add another tube from the bottom of the car towards the filter to shoot cold air at the filter.
    
    When i stop the oil leak at the distributor i'll clean it all up and put a new filter on.
    
    The sound is crazy! It now has a really profound intake sound.  
    The tubes are now so much shorter and way larger.  
    I almost can't believe the car could even run with the stock tubing and filter.  
    It really did restrict in this case!  
    The RPM's increase much more rapidly and a bit more steadily on WOT.
    
    It not only looks better then the retarded way the previous owner did it.  
    It also works a lot better because the way the previous owner did, it still had to suck trough a very little hole.  
    Now, not anymore.
    
    Also the mudflaps are working great!  
    
    
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To which @TeckMonster replied

    That intake hat looks great! The stock intake hose going into the top of the filter looks odd though. I personally would just remove it.
    
    Fawkes:
    
    > The sound is crazy! It now has a really profound intake sound.
    
    Yes! I love intake sounds!

So @Fawkes replied

    It looks odd indeed.  
    Until i get the other pipe ready i'll have to keep it for some cold air.

So @Fawkes replied

    I got some new chairs!!!
    
    The old ones were way to big and to high up.  
    Also i couldn't sit straight in front of the steering wheel.
    
    DIY frame:  
    
    
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    Old chairs...
    
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    NEW CHAIRS!  
    Known as the " SS 52Z "  
    
    
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To which @Zibob replied

    Very nice, looks much tidier. Though I do like the old seats, just not their condition.

After which, @Fawkes added

    Update after a little while.  
    I removed some rust from the front of the roof.  
    not the best job, but i look at it as removing a tumor and leaving a scar.
    
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    Just a few days ago i also removed the 3d brake light.  
    
    
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    Then another update, i acquired myself a set of pretty much new winter tires for 60,-!  
    
    
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    However these tires are 185/55R15 and the standard tires for this car are 155/70R13  
    
    
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    Thus rubbing occurs… only when charging a speedbump or speedbumps in corners. but rubbing none the less. as seen on the picture below.  
    
    
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    But it looks sick!  
    
    
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    The height of the car has also changed a lot! it sits way higher than it did before.  
    For the rubbing part i-am thinking about getting some of these things.  
    
    
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To which @TeckMonster replied

    Seems like it's barely rubbing, so you could probably just role the wheel wells.

@Fawkes replied

    I was thinking of that, but the weel wells have a plastic inlay.  
    if i roll the wheel wells further out the plastic sheet has nothing to rest upon.

Then @Zibob said

    Why remove the third brake light?
    
    I guess it is not a legal necessity where you are but why mess with it?

After which, @Fawkes added

    Its legal for cars build before 2001  
    Because brake lights are ugly and cover a large portion of the trunk window.


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