NSW Prospective Legnum owner saying hi :)

jars121 · May 18, 2015

G'day everyone,

My name is Jamie, I'm a 25 year old engineer from Sydney.

I'm looking at moving onto a new platform in the near future, and the Legnum is towards the top of my list of candidates. I've had the pleasure of owning an Evo VIII for the last year, which had been my favourite JDM car since I was ~13 years old.

Here's my VIII (for science

):

I've done plenty of reading on this forum already, and plan on doing plenty more over the coming months. I'm still unsure as to the specific application of the Legnum if I were to get one, but building a 4G64 has been on my to-do list for a while now, so you never know what could happen...

GMan · May 18, 2015

Hi, Jamie. Welcome and good luck with your search. Nice Evo -- is that an Evo IX front bar you have on it?

jars121 · May 18, 2015

Thanks Jet, much appreciated. It's got both front and rear IX bars

mookers · May 18, 2015

Bradleh · May 18, 2015

welcome dude!.. love ure beast!.

If u think of a Legnum as Grandads Evo you wont be disappointed haha.

jars121 · May 18, 2015

Thanks Derek, I had read through a couple of them already, but it's good to have the full list in my thread as well

Thanks Bradley

'Grandads Evo' sums it up perfectly haha. It should make for a nice daily (although I'll be catching public transport to/from work) while I build a weekend car on the side

Bradleh · May 18, 2015

yeah.. sounds like me... i got the Legnum as a daily and its AWESOME!... whilst i build up an old AB GSR Cordia

Vstar_83 · May 18, 2015

Welcome aboard mate.

Gt_Galant · May 18, 2015

Welcome To OzVR4

unclepaulie · May 18, 2015

Welcome!

Yes, buy a legnum. Put the 64 in it. Please do so.

jars121 · May 18, 2015

Thanks Paul

It's quite an enticing prospect! I haven't done too much research on engine swaps just yet, have 64's been put in VR4's before?

Bradleh · May 18, 2015

I wouldnt mind a 63 swap in mine. Apparently its not all that difficult

unclepaulie · May 18, 2015

jars121 said:
Thanks Paul

It's quite an enticing prospect! I haven't done too much research on engine swaps just yet, have 64's been put in VR4's before?

a member here put a 63 in
http://www.ozvr4.com/threads/taylors-4g63-into-galant-vr4-build-thread.11144/

although wouldnt bother with a 2.0L bottom end. 2.3L or bigger: yes

jars121 · May 19, 2015

unclepaulie said:
a member here put a 63 in
http://www.ozvr4.com/threads/taylors-4g63-into-galant-vr4-build-thread.11144/

although wouldnt bother with a 2.0L bottom end. 2.3L or bigger: yes

Thanks for that Paulie, that was an interesting read. I wonder if he ever got it up and running 100%...

If I were to do a 4G6x swap, it'd definitely be for a 2.4L '64

VOLK · May 19, 2015

Sweet baby 4Jesus63 that's a fine looking Evo. Good shot too. Bit of post processed tilt shift going on there?

jars121 · May 20, 2015

VOLK said:
Sweet baby 4Jesus63 that's a fine looking Evo. Good shot too. Bit of post processed tilt shift going on there?

Thanks mate

Not quite, it's more the Brenizer effect than tilt/shift. I come from a large format background, where extremely shall depths of field are attainable, and tend to incorporate that into my digital work as well.

VOLK · May 21, 2015

Right, cheers. Had a quick read and now I geddit. Explains how you managed to get the entire car in focus with an extremely shallow depth of fixed look.

jars121 · May 21, 2015

VOLK said:
Right, cheers. Had a quick read and now I geddit. Explains how you managed to get the entire car in focus with an extremely shallow depth of fixed look.

Exactly. Here's another of mine with the Evo and my mate Adam's widebody Series 8 FD RX-7 Bathurst Editiion (this thing is amazing).

GMan · May 21, 2015

Great photo! The Series 8 was my dream car. Sadly, it will probably always be a dream

jungle · May 21, 2015

jars121 said:
Exactly. Here's another of mine with the Evo and my mate Adam's widebody Series 8 FD RX-7 Bathurst Editiion (this thing is amazing).

Nice they look like toy cars!
So a 4G into the Leggy- not many engine swaps have been performed.
Should improve the weight distribution significantly.
Have you been for a drive in a manual Leggy? If not make sure you do, quite a difference in low end torque which is the Leggies fortè.
Hats off for the 2.4 build, hope it works!

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