1998 Subaru Impreza Brighton L x STI Swap conversion project
Follow along as I document the conversion process of building my 98 Subaru Impreza Brighton L into an Impreza WRX STI for show and track use.
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Project Kickoff – Impreza Brighton L to WRX STI Conversion 🚀
This my first journal that documents my 1997 Impreza WRC widebody build. The 97 WRC Impreza has been my all-time favorite Subaru. Since 1992 I’ve been into performance and show cars of…
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Sound Deadening Removal with Dry Ice (Part 2)
What an absolute pain in the a$$ it is to remove sound deadening material from this car! I ran out of dry ice during the first go around on removing this stuff.…
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Sound Deadening Removal With Dry Ice (Part 1)
Since I’ve decided that this car is going to be a dedicated track car I want to completely strip down the interior of the car. Once I got the car down to…
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Refinished The Dash Support Beam
From the start of the project Another area of the swap project involves replacing the stock dashboard from the Brighton L with a version from a 1998-00 Impreza RS2.5. I could have…
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The Dismantling Of All Old Parts
Once the car made it back home from the body shop, I started working on dismantling the remaining components of the car. Since the goal of the project is to replace all…
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The Car Returns From The Body Shop
Once the car was finished I had it towed back home. Seeing it arrive home and roll of the trailer made me want to do a backflip right there in the street!…
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Body Shop Progress
After the car made it down to the body shop in Orange County it took them about 6-7 months to knock out all of the body work, mold the widebody kit to…
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Seibon Carbon Fiber Hood
Going into this project build I was already set on ditching the OEM mega heavy steel hood. (See pic below) Since this car will see track duty I need to lose as…
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The Rear OEM JDM Taillights Have Arrived
Scored a nice set of OEM Japanese taillights. These were actually pulled off of an Impreza in Japan and sold to me via eBay. Got super lucky with finding this seller and…
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Sending The Car To The Body Shop
Body Shop Fiasco TL;DRI had a tough ass time finding a good custom body shop here in the Bay Area. I called and emailed at least 25+ shops. Half of the shops…
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WRC Replica 60mm Widebody Kit
A big component of this project is to build the vehicle to look like the 1997 WRC Subaru Impreza Rally car. (Only mine will not feature the WRC decals and roof scoop.)…
