Schwarz-Brot

Nomenclature: Wikipedia gives some info on the naming of the cars. Seems like Subaru called their cars WRCxx until '99 with xx being the years number. From 2000 on they went with WRCxxxx, where xxxx is again the year. Prodrive went with a different naming convention. The WRC2001 is listed as S7.

@MetroRacing Thank you for that link. Not sure yet, what exact car I want to build. What car to build? With building the 2001 Car I want to tribute it to Richard Burns, as it was the year he won the world rally championship on this car. This gives two possibilities for me: Monte Carlo: Tarmac version as the box suggests. Easiest option. New Zealand: The only (!) Rally Burns actually won that year. Gravel outfit, meaning I need different wheels and tyres, as well as decals. May have to lift the suspension. Currently I tend to do the NZ car. No matter what version I build, I want to fit it with a spare wheel. I still think of making at least the front doors and the trunk workable. We'll see. First up is the engine. If everything fails I may glue the bonnet back on and turn to the Monte car. Identifying cars: Outside edition As stated in earlier posts the cars are not easy to search for. One may find many look-a-likes which technically differ pretty much. Additionally the WRCs of the era are looking very similar to each other. First four helpful Graphics I found on the web (source). Burns/Reid. Rally Great Britain 2001. (Source: Rallycourse Rally annual 2001-2002, Hazleton Publishing) From the front: The most prominent feature of the WRCs is the bug-eye style front lights. These are only found on the WRC2001 and WRC2002. From the side: The four-door variants are only used since 2001. From the side most times one can see the starting numbers which were in 2001: #5 (Burns), #18 (Solberg) and #21 (Arai). From the back: This is a bit tricky. The cars feature large backlights with the upper and inner edges angled. Older cars have more or less horizontal oriented backlights. For the WRC2002 it seems the exhaust was more integrated into the rear bumper, lying higher than the year before. The slightly facelifted WRC2003 features this more integrated exhaust as well. The backlights introduced a circular graphic element with very similar overall apearance. Otherwise these cars look nearly identical from behind. A rear spoiler with vertical fins was only introduced later in 2003 or maybe even 2004. More subtle differences: The central roof scoop went away sometime in 2002. The little scoop over the driver was introduced in 2002. There are pictures of cars with both scoops fitted, so I guess first the little one was introduced before the large one had to go. Did not dive too deep in there. One might track down the number plates. In many pictures they cannot be seen, so I did not bother yet. A good source to do so would be http://www.ewrc-results.com. The stiffening plates between A-pillar and rollcage are folded differently on the 2001 and 2002 cars, afaik. Obvious differences in decals: Spike logo on front fender in 2001. No STI-Logo on rear fender in 2001. Yellow Subaru writing on front and rear windows in 2001, white in 2002. This is where my research stands on outside details right now. If you have any additional hints, please let me know!

I am absolutely not into F1 cars, but I will follow closely. Read this whole thread and I am very impressed. Much to learn for a beginner. Thank you for taking your time for this detailed write up.

Thank you for your comments, mates. I will order some hiroboy carbon decals and some other generic stuff. That shop is a goldmine of useful stuff! Ashley, this is indeed a very useful search practice. What also helps a lot is youtube videos on the actual events.

Hi there, I feel like I am fairly new to modelbuilding and until now I never came further then out of box builds. This project may come out pretty crude or possibly end up in the bin or get stopped Introduction However, when I started this kit it felt natural to cut open up the bonnet. Which leads to the obvious problem of this being a curbside kit. No engine... meeh. So here I stand, having built two kits recently which came out reasonable ok. I never scratched anything before. If I do stupid things, please clue me up. I am in need of every helpful comment I can get. Help, please! - Materials edition Being on a tight budget as a student, there are no expensive PE parts involved. I may though order generic stuff which can be used on different models as well. Especially thinking of grills. Any recommendations are welcome. Since I am fairly new to the hobby I have no overview over the market. I may as well try my hands at making my own PE parts if necessary. I will need carbon decals. I am looking for complete sheets to cut out to suit my own needs. Any recommendations? If you know of a transkit for a EJ207 Motor, please let me know soon. I will consider ordering it. I only found some for EJ20 Motors, which basically is the street-version of this motor. I have one of these from Factory 81. Not overly detailed, but reasonably priced and a starting point for my own work. Help, please! - Research edition I already did a fair bit of research, mainly looking for tech pics. I am not going to do much to the outside of the model, supposing the tamiya kit is fairly accurate. There are a few problems when researching this car. The first being there's no real name to that model. It is commonly called Impreza WRC2001, but if you google for that you will find many years of WRC Imprezas. Worse, there are lots and lots of WRX modelled to look like the WRC cars, which leads to many threads and pictures in several forums and blog posts and whatever. They are technically very different from the real WRCs and of no help but often it is hard to tell apart what is street tuning and what is real rallye cars. What I am still looking for is pictures of the underbody, the front and rear suspension, an overview of the trunk. A detailed walkaround of an EJ207 motor would be really useful. The next problem is the evolution of the car. The WRC 2001 is a completely new car, moving to a 4-door chassis. But the technology was transplanted from the WRC 2000. This is probably not too bad, giving more sources for pictures. For the WRC 2002 the technology got updated piece by piece. I already hijacked this thread by @MetroRacing , who provided me with some very helpful information. It seems Prodrive mostly played around with the air intake design and did away with the roof scoop. I know of some more details which are different in the 2002 cars, but in most pictures they are not visible, so it is often hard to tell which pictures show which car. If you can help out on some of these things, please do it. If you have any further ideas or suggestions, let me know. Every comment is appreciated. In my next posts I will present my research, pointing to my sources, maybe presenting the information I gathered and show you where I stand with my build (at the very beginning, that is). Thank you, Jan

Fantastic car and brilliant work on it. In some pictures it could easily be mistaken for a real car. I love it!

Thank you, Ashley! The Klein Book should be in my fathers bookshelf. That is his favourite photographer. He also owns the Rallycourse yearbooks (Hazleton Publishing) which I already searched through. Some fine pics in there, but no specific information and pictures for technical details. That Robson book looks like a real treasure. Pretty expensive on amazon.de and abebooks.com, maybe I have to buy the ebook. I am not sure about the developments. The 2001 car was 4-door, 2000 was 2-door. If I remember correctly they transplanted all the tech from the 2000 car and placed in in the 4-door chassis for 2001. For 2002 they took basically the 2001 car and updated its internals race by race. Klein was a good tip by the way. The McKlein publishing website offers a fully searchable picture archive. I had totally forgotten about that. Found some preview pics of 2001 Imprezas. Did you know the roof was white on the inside? And a good view into the engine bay as well. May have to buy these photos, if I can afford it. Jan

Great work, especially impressive in that small size. Good to see an Impreza finished, I am working on Burns' 2001 WRC in 1/24. It is the Tamiya Curbside model, I am trying the first time to scratch something as I want to go full detail. Do you have, by any chance, some in-depth reference pictures I might not have found yet? I find it quite hard to find detail pictures of the WRCs via google as there are so many look-a-like street cars. (I have found some of the real cars, though.) Also, I am looking for detailed information on the technical differences of the 2001 and 2002 WRCs. I can tell them apart from the outside but don't know about what changed. It seems to be a pretty tough period for Impreza builders since there's the transition ongoing from the 99/2000 car to the 2002 car. Of course I am willing to share my findings. Will post them in my own Imprezas thread anyway when I finally open one up. Jan