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He did pin the block basically made it a semi closed deck block. He was also running e85 and some water injection. Tuned with a utec. Other than that it was a stock bottom end with some mileage and stock wrx heads with cams. Of course he had to use all the wrx wiring and ecu to go with the heads. Keep in mind that for the most part it all depends on the heads you use as to what wiring and manifold. The ej blocks are all basically the same dimensin wise. If you used a used td04 or small vf series turbo you should be fine. Run a mild amount of boost. just make sure if you use the old wires and stuff that you put in bigger injectors and run some kind of FMU(1:1) to add fuel based on boost reference. The problem with running an older ecu id that you have limited tuning. To be honest if you are not sure about tuning and this is gonna be a daily driver and not be tinkered with alot. I would try to do a complete swap. Yes it's more pricey up front but in the end you'll probably spend more trying to make stuff work. People do it all the time but the amount of time and energy exerted is pretty extreme. You can find, if you look carefully whole wrecked wrx's for less than 3k. There are also "swaps" avaliable on the interent. They come mostly ready to drop in. with a lot less worry.

Looks great! I love the steering wheel.

Yeah. I am interested for sure. I don't own a brat but my last name is FINK. For real.

I don't know all the fine fine details but here is some info for you to chew on. My frind matt has an ej22(regular non turbo) stock bottom end around 146k miles. He put wrx heads on it with kelford cams. He had on an ebay 20g turbo and ran an 11.9 1/4 mile. In a GD body. How much power? enough.

I could sell you a real running ej22.

http://www.ultimatesubaru.org/forum/showthread.php?t=24227&highlight=ea81+alternator http://www.ultimatesubaru.org/forum/showthread.php?t=100559 Found these with a quick search. Don't know if that helps...

Welcome! Nice to see someone teaching kids about this stuff. It is so sad when I see people who don't even know how to check tire pressure. I think it teaches respect too. Your more likley to appreciate things when you have to do them yourself.

Good deal. Looks like you use it for it's intended purpose. Welcome!

I like LSD's They work well for most applications. I have not run a welded diff in a subie so...

WB is about 105". 8" or so longer than ea82 cars. I am probably gonna trim out the spare tire well area and even the back bottom up a bit. Til i get to the suspension stuff back there I'm ?.

I thought about moving the tires forward but the damn legacy is already long between the wheels. I might actually move the wheels back if I can get away with it depending on how it looks at that point. Someone said to me yesterday that I should cut off the back doors and make it a two door and that really got my head going round. I would like to have 4 seats but shortening her up would be great. I might have to wait for the sequel on that one...

Awesome build! I was just looking at that same kit for the suzuki sami case for my rig. Keep it up!

Accessories to buy: Naked lady and or "Back Off!" Yosemitie Sam Mud flaps 15 antenna for cb or dual 4 foot antenna mounted to the mirrors. accent lights on roof Dual 3" exhaust stacks right behind the cab with the semi toppers. :lol: JK, great lookin truck!

^^^ ooo Thanks for that pic. Thats exactly sorta like what I have in me head and on paper. The nice thing that I am doing is saying bye-bye to the whole front factory subframe. It will be cut off at the firewall. This will make it much cleaner I think too. And I can increase my approach angle because the won't be much metal in front of the tires at all. I am just gonna rehang the fenders with bracing and re- use part of the front core support to remount the headlights and grill. I have taken quite a few measure ments and have pages and pages of drawings so far. From what I can see I will also be moving the whole motor and trans back about 5 inches as well.

I know. Well at least they took it all apart for me. The vans guy is not me. A good Friend though. I'll tell him you digum' Honestly I have had very few people tell me it will never work. Just some JEEP people that have been shown up by this little wagon before. As well as some that have no idea what this could possibly look like. Most including those here are very supportive. I am positive in my abilities but I don't have a ton of time so this may take a while. I am stoked to start building the a arms but really they will be easy to make, just getting the lengths, and placements right will be the hard part. I needs to get the frame figured out, mountings for the motor(h6 babay!), trans, xfer case, and diffs. I could have done solid axels on this a lot easier but to me it would be getting even further from subie heritage, But it's different and thats good... right? Getting the diffs, and xfer case in the next week or so. Motor by the first of february(donor svx). I am gonna head to the steel yard soon too to get some stuff. I needs to build bigger jack stand too. Thanks! All in all thanks for this site. Without the lifted offroad crew here I would never have thought this was possible myself

Sorry for the blurry pics too. The last one is so I can kinda get a perspective on what it's gonna look like or how high this will be to be able to utilize the tires.

Wow. Really all I can say. HUGE thanks to Chris, Rick, Brian, Mike R. and Drew(not azar). It's great to have good local subie people. I am amazed. About 6 hours and quite a few *************** rump roast bolts and it goes from a car to this:

Looks good! Make em' fit!

She's gotta have fuel, spark, and air. Check to make sure you have spark out of the coils(screwdriver test), make sure she is getting fuel(FP test) or just take off the fuel line and make sure some fuel comes out a bit when you turn the key. Make sure it's all the way in park since it's an at. All I got for now. Did you change the motor?

No correction. I do have a slight bit of pos camber but it never bothered me.

They will be tiny for sure. I have my lunch box locker out of my truck for a template.

For direct bolt on there is headers, exhaust and intake. Cams as well. Plus port the crap out of everything. The best option minus the eaton is to do a wrx swap. IMHO the best power adder ever. Pricey but it can be done on a budget. rs25.com is a good resource for swapped obs's. Good luck!

I am making the axels myself for now. I have a couple sources for built ones but they are pricey. For the mock up mine will work and until I put them thru their paces I won't know for sure what they will take. I am going to be reinforcing the cups and reworking the cv's, and beefing up the shafts. I am hoping that will work. The big thing I am worried about is using subie diffs. I am planning running 4.11 r160's and hopefully going to be machining lockers for them but I just don't know if they can turn that much tire. Again it'll be an experiment. Worse comes to worse I'll step to r200's and then proabaly use a chevy pig diff out of an IFS housing(last resort). Any info is appreciated for sure!

2" Lift blocks with OBS struts/springs It is good but I want more.

Ok. Time to revamp reeprise the legacy a bit. I have not done any more to it because I have been busy on tons of other stuff. I have some new goals for this little bugger. So now what? This is my recent cent outline for this project. Starting with a 90' Subaru Legacy wagon: Already lifted 4 1/2" over stock running a Subaru HI/LO 5spd. Goals for the rig: 1. Run a 35 13.5" tire on a 16" rim 2. Say Bye-Bye to the mcpherson strut suspension in favor of a double wishbone setup - front and rear. With long travel coil overs or nitro charged shocks. 3. Rear steering 4. Utilize a subaru engine(h6,), trans, diffs. 5. Secondary Xfer case ( suzuki samauri ) 5.5 Using 1/2 ton 4x4 chevy knuckles front and rear 5.75 Custom Chevy/Subaru Hybrid axels 6. At least 14" more lift 7. Finish repairing body 8. Gut interior, Rhino line interior, custom Aluminum dash 9. Bulid half tube doors front and rear( making the stock doors still work for winter) 10. Build tube rear gate(makeing stock rear door still work for winter) 11. Be able to rock crawl/offroad and still take to car show and look good. I got some pics for a starting point and some meausrements for comparison after it's done. Measurements: Rocker to floor clearance: 15" Tire height : 27" Lowest front point to the floor: 10" (exhaust) Front bumper to floor : 23 1/2" Rear diff to floor : 10" Roof to floor : 61" Front and rear wheel track(outside tires) : 66" Interior: Vid of motor running in case I sell it : Couple teaser pics. Got some junk tires for mock up. 35 x 13.5 x 16. So thats the start. This saturday I hope to have it down to a shell and then the fun begins.