Austin Ulmer's 1994 Legacy L (Postal)
Member #87352
Car Description:
I bought the car in 2019, but stripped it to a bare shell for rust repair in 2020.
I taught myself sheet metal shaping and how to mig / tig weld on this project and it has been a blast. The rust repair included both Full Rockers, Quarter panels, Passengers Strut tower, both rear wheel houses, etc.
The car is being run on a Haltech 1500 Elite using a custom harness jumper I made.
The engne is a ej20h long block with a ej25d intake manifold, COP conversion, Yellow sidefeeds, vf48, custom exhaust excluding the stock cast headers, big Motion Raceworks catch can, and a lot of little custom brackets to tuck mount things that looked ugly.
I built the car to learn all of the necessary skills, but it’s intention was to be a streetable drift car that stays tagged and registered. So to support those goals it has Apexi N1 coilovers, cut and welded knuckles, extended lower control arms, a mismatch of Subaru catalog inner / outer tie rods, welded read diff, KEIN Diff brace, 93 Legacy SS front subframe, rebuilt factory steering rack, 94 JDM Legacy GT rear subframe and all accompanied low mileage arms, and most importantly I swapped in a BRZ 6 speed manual (Aisin AZ6).
It is rolling on a set of OG Desmond Regamaster Marquis Promada’s in 17x8 +38 that I had refinished after importing from Russia. The rear quarters and inner wheel houses had to be stretched, reshaped, and rejoined to fit the wheel and tire combo without having to run a bunch of negative camber in the rear.
The interior is a combination of pieces from multiple cars that I sourced or dyed over the years. There is 5 total aftermarket gauges including 3 in the Defi single din meter above the head unit, and 2 in custom gauge pods I designed and 3d printed.
The front end is also a mashup of parts. USDM Touring wagon hood, grill, and front bumper, TBO half bumper from Japan, and EUDM glass height adjustable headlights.
I’m sure I’m missing things as I’ve spent thousands of hours at this point working on this car, but it has been a highlight of my life up til this point and im excited to share it’s current state with people =)
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