The Scooby

man i would love to go and run it, but a lack of lisence for another 5 weeks, and school hinders me, oh well have a great time, get lots of pictures for us who cannot attend. Shean

alright, thanks for the heads up, ill have to go on a day that i got a few hours and take a few buddies of mine. and ya i wont forget, i already made a list of stuff i need and put your parts list on there.

well my I.Q. just dropped after reading the information he posted...

oh, and does the wiring run between the seats, or driver side, passenger side, what? does anyone know before i get there and try to trace this stuff down. also do i need anything that plugs intot he harness inside the interior. what i mean is where the harness enters the interior through the firewall, anythign that plugs into it, do i need that stuff, or can i just plug in my stuff from my 86 carb wagon? Thanks, Shean PS, calebz, dont need them, i got my turbo heads sittin in my garage, when i do all this i will also bolt on the turbo. and change over the intake for the turbo settup.

because the guy that i was talking to was being a prick to me, so i told him that i would be back later for the rest, and i would give him $35 for the intake, wiring harness, ECM, and everything else, ifnot then i will tip the freakin car off the other one. he gave it to me after i pulled it and said that, worked out a deal for the parts too, $40 for everything i need. they are pricks, you step up, they back down, its nice.

yes its a grey interior, and its at AAA by Budget auto wrecking in kent. what do you need, im going back to grab the parts, i can get price quotes for ya. are you serious about the ECM, dam that sucks, so i have to pull apart the trunk to get it? and what am i soposted to do about the wiring running to it? just pull it with the ECM?, that means pulling out the whole interior huh? it sucks because its on the top of a scooby wagon so it isnt the easist to get into, i had to crawl in through the sun roof today to grab some stuff and pop the hood.

darn, i dont think i can afford the monkey, so i guess i just settle for the ECM. so i need: Mass Air Flow Throttle Position Sencor O2, dont i have one on my hitachi carbed EA82? and i know that i need the dizzy. what about the knock sencor? is that on the top of the deck for the block? or is that in the ECM in this year? Thanks, Shean

then heck, im going to go grab the wiring harness out of the XT tomarrow, and the ECM, as well as the sencors. also, how do i take out the ECM out of a 91 XT4?? i know the wiring harness runs into the car, but where is the ECM, is it behind the center concole? also how do i get the harness out? i need everything so i can put it in my 86 wagon. everything is there, i just need to grab it. but also, what sencors do i need to convert from carb to MPFI? i know: MAF Knock Cencor but what else?

i was wondering, to me lit seems like the spider intake would work with the regular MPFI system, i mean everything, bolt up to where the injectors plug in at their little blocks, and everything else. because i snagged a spider, non-turbo, intake today at the bone yard for free. if i want i can also go grab the wiring harness and the rest of the system, its off a wrecked 91 XT, 4lug, 5st 4wd car. i would buy the whole car but the driver fender is pushed up about an inch from the valve cover, and the passenger side is about 2 extra inches away now, so the whole frame is shoved. or could i pull the ECM, harness, and everything else, its only missing one fuel injector, and plug it into my wagon. my main question about that is will that ECM plug into the stock system of my wagon, or will i be cutting and splicing? Thanks for any information. Shean ^my new intake

read his title, it says springfield, OR, i think that means Oregon, if i am not mistaken.

well you could move the turbo, or rotate it, all you have to do is cut off the pipe for the wastgate, rotate the turbo, and then weld it in its new angle. just a thought.

well if i wait till i get my lisence then i can take it into my school auto schop, where my 3rd period is and do the work myself there with all the tools and such. also i get my student discount through Napa, so i can use that to my advantage on some of the parts.

that was the other thing, they where gonna do work to the tentioner also, and a few otehr things, i cant remember it all right off hand. i would do it, but when i do have time the weather is crap and when i dont, its sunny. so it sucks for me. Shean

congrads, sounds like your havin fun. Good Luck, Shean

ok, i called up Brian's Subaru, a local shop here in Burien, and talked with the owner, Brian, who i have known for a while. since i got that oil leak on my wagon i wanted to see how much it would run ,me to replace everything. he quoted me at $110 for valve covers, and $425 for a new timing belt, cam seals, o-ring, oil pump, main seals, basically everything that a subaru takes a leak from will be replaced. so does $535 sound good, i dont have the time to do it myself, nor help from the weather. Thanks, Shean

skip, ya i ment fusable link, and sorry then i am wrong, i assumed that they where throughtout the car like that crysler and my old 78 chevy, but subaru is different, and i should have thought of that before opening my mouth, thanks for the info. caleb, that was pretty good, i left myself open for tha one. Later, Shean

i would recoment picking up your car manual and making sure about that fusable link, it sounds like thats the problem. and sorry, skip but they are not always located by the battery. we had a crysler at auto shop taht had this same problem as well as many others, but the link was actually in the wiring that ran to the tranny, it poped inline and the FSM didn't have it listed, so we had to trace the wire, and cut out the old and redo it with a new one, also re wrapping all of the wire along the way so it was not to be chafffed through be rubbin on the tranny. good luck man, also check your fuel pump relay, sometimes that will go beserk and only let the car run for a few seconds and maybe a minute.

Turbone, i take no offence to what you said, you have a very good point. but i have drivne many subaru's, owned them before and worked on them ALOT since my grandpa had a 87 GL wagon, 4wd, 5sp, that we changed from hitachi to MPFI. also his 1980 brat. i know a decent amount, but not that much about the swaping part of it, that i am new two, i never paid attition to what parts we had, mainly because it was also like 5 years ago. also, no i havent been driving and i have just under 6 weeks until the 6months is up so i get my lisence back. Thanks, Shean

ok great, thanks on the info about that, and ill have to contact him about that. also thanks for pointing out the CR, i read that off the page on here for my EA82, oh wel. Thanks, Shean

ok, big request, but can you guys get me some pictures of everything you are talking about, if its this complex, i might now be doing the swap. i will probally just find a EA82T engine and put that in, and go from there, rather then pay for a rebuild kit, rebuild the engine, buy the wiring harness and everything else. ill have to price some EA82T engines and find out what i can get. so if anyone then knows of a turbo ea82 in the pacific northwest that is for sale please PM or e-mail me the contact information. Thanks, Shean

skip, ill go and take pictures of everything i got from the guy. i do have the cam, heads, dizzy, valve covers, intake, throttle body, turbo down tube, cross over pipe, plug wires, and a few other things. the engine im getting is the same as the one in my 86 wagon. im going to put in the turbo cam, put on the turbo heads and all that, but keep the short block the way it is with 9.5:1 compression ratio. and i go real up on all that stuff you posted, thanks for that help. also, for the fuel pump, since my car is carbed, do i need to put a new one in the tank, or can i put it some where else? and i do have to put in a return line huh? archemitis, thanks for the heads up on the wiring, that doesnt bother me, ive put a newer chevy LS1 into a 67 chevy truck, and wired everything into the stock system, no problems with wiring. Thanks guys, Shean

well im not going to use the stock down pipe, i was thinking of using my stock edhaust that bolst to the heads and goes back then run a 3inch waste gate to a dump towards the ground, would i have any problems with this, how loud would it be? if its too loud then i toss a glass pack on it and then a turn down under the car. also im grabbin a BOV or pressure relife valve off a volvo this sunday when i go to a 20 acher bone yard. so if anyone needs parts, PM me and ill see what i can find. Shean

oh and by the way, can someone make a list of every sencor, and part im going to need to make the MPFI and turbo swap onto my 86 GL wagon with a Hitachi. Thanks a bunch, Shean PS can someone tell me where i can get the cheapest re-ring kit for a genII, i think, the EA82 with the box around it. also what pistons should i run i want to have alot mroe power then the stock junk, and i was looking at the stats, it says with 7.7:1 compression it had only 111hp, what if i boost that up and maybe be 8.5 to the stock 9.5:1, what numbers would i be looking at, and if i did do this what problems might i run into. also can someone send me the article on how to build the manual boost controller? Thanks, Shean

picked up a MPFI system, turbo heads, turbo, Y-pipe settup, cam, dizzy, and a few otehr things, pretty much everything i need to do the swap, i think just a few things here and there like the harness and ECM, and i should be good to go. tomarrow, or if i can tonight ill get pictures after i clean everything. Also the heads, a custom cam, and other stuff is going on another EA82 im getting for free and rebuilding. once im finished i will take the MPFI off my current engine, which i am putting it on for now, and put it on the second engine, with the turbo also. then drop it into the wagon. if anyone can help me out with helpful info on how to install this, boost HP very cheaply, etc please PM me or e-mail it to me. Thanks, Shean

wel i got everything tonight, see other post for more info, but i am also getting another EA82 engine that im putting the turbo heads and MPFI system on along with the turbo, lower compression pistons, and rebuild it with a custom camshaft taht is built for upper power band power for the turbo. also i will later run a WRX turbo and inner cooler. so if anyone has any tech articles and/or info please e-mail it to me. Thanks, Shean