Tintmasters Motorsports Project STi

Test fitting the amp and what not…

January 12, 2006 on 4:34 am | In Progress | 1 Comment

Here are a few spy shots that I took while Shane was mocking up the amp, battery, and sub placement:

Seriously… where the hell are these subarus coming from???

January 12, 2006 on 4:16 am | In Randomness | 1 Comment

It started out with 1!

Now it has spawned an 02 WRX with a pe1820, JIC coilovers, kaaz tranny, kaaz rear LSD, APS DR500 FMIC, UTEC, perrin swaybars, and much more… (the blue one)

Also a 2005 WRX with an automatic transmission. Currently in the shop to recieve its deadbolt reworked vf39 (hey, did you know we were a deadbolt turbo dealer now too? ), STi pinks, Ham radio, perrin inlet hose, perrin IC hoses. That’s to go with the injen downpipe, Accessport tuned in house btw , catback, perrin short ram intake, MBC, and some pretty looking defi gauges.

Pics of the turbo that jerry @ deadbolt sent us for the silver one:

These are some of the customer cars we do work on, seems like there is always another scooby to keep the STi company lately. All the work done on these two cars were done entirely in house by either Shane (resident scooby specialist) or Kyle (He still likes the hondas after a couple plugs and injector installs, no one can figure out why… ).

MOMO steering wheel install

January 12, 2006 on 3:55 am | In Progress | No Comments

First things first, that stock boost gauge has got to go. Sure it doesn’t match the dash, it reads in mpa, and probably isn’t real accurate. The real reason it got tossed was that it could only read to .15 MPa(megapascal) which is only 21.7556607 PSi! I don’t think were going to see the kind of numbers we want with ~22psi:

Stock wheel MIA:

HKB Boss kit and SPW quick release installed:

Momo wheel getting installed:

All done! :

Big bore kits on the fiftys and the first ever GP Moto event held in the parking lot…

January 12, 2006 on 3:36 am | In Randomness | No Comments

This blog is mostly about the STi, but we do have some fun when we aren’t taking measurements and installing things on it.

The big bore kits came in for the fiftys and all hell broke loose.

Dennis putting his knee down, he’s had plenty of practice doing that on the busa so the fifty (now 88cc) was nothing new. Shane also showing his expertise in the field of fifty riding by taking a cone out . However he would like everyone to know he was in the lead at this point in the race…

Ethan: “I’m not trying to show of or anything…”.

Liar :

and in other completely unrelated to project STi news… Jason, the manager of the Fargo store, picked up his 2006 Honda Civic Si. It will be nice to have a new Si around the shop to experiment with, this is the only new Si in Fargo:

Suspension is kind of stiff…

January 12, 2006 on 3:24 am | In Progress | No Comments

We put the STi up on jackstands today to check on a few things, looks like we might be doing some three wheeling:

Look at that wheel stay tucked up in the wheel well…

Shane jumped on the motor mounts and the car didn’t move at all. If you didn’t know Shane isn’t a small guy by any means. Yes, we know it needs to be lowered about another inch in the front too