gwilson87

Wow . That looks so good. I hope to someday have my brat looking just half, shoot I will take 1/4 that good. What did you do to fix the rust on the bottom of the doors? That is something that is bothering me about my brat aside from the wheel well rust spots... :-\

Hooray for your brat! I'm glad to see that I'm not the only one who takes pictures of their mileages as they are driving.

So for those of you who care, Pull and Save in West Valley Utah considers subaru d/r trans as a transmission and a transfer case. Sucks for me because it ended up costing the same as a trans would have at the junkyard down the street. Anywho... Here are some pics of goodies picked up at the junkyard today, and a few fun transmission pictures. Magnaflow exhaust Fuel pump from turbo fuel injected Loyale Snazzy subwoofer for under the seat or something if I can figure how to wire it up. The legacy transmission (held up by radio flyer, been in my family for as long as I can remember) Transmissions. Appearing from left to right: GL 5sp d/r, Legacy 5sp, Brat 4sp d/r. Note the size differences, the brat trans is 10" longer than the soon to be swapped in GL trans. That means the Legacy driveshaft will be shortened to fit in there. Yay for more projects!! More pictures and random writings to come as things get pieced together. Maybe one day I will be able to post a picture of my brat out on at least the road, hopefully a dirt one.

In the process of moving to a new place the work on the brat came to a crawl. Tomorrow I am getting the 5sp d/r from the junkyard (half off wednesdays!!! ) Hopefully I can find a proper fitting crossmemeber with power steering to put in. I also got a nice section of square steel tubing to be used as a body lift. Pictures to come soon.

I vaguely remember reading someones experience where pushing the struts and not the cross member will REALLY wear on your axles. I believe they said it would "eat through axles" So that could be causing some shuddering. Don't hold me to that tho

I might be wrong but im PRETTY sure in order for the subwoofer to do its job, it has to be in some sort of box enclosure.

I know nothing is wrong with it, just seems like the norm around here is to convert to 6 lug hubs.

AWESOME!!!! I laughed when I saw the wheel was drilled to 4 bolt rather than redrill the hub to fit a 6 bolt. There is a little dune buggy body for sale I keep driving past that I want to put my ea81 engine in. But one project is enough for right now.

Possibly a compressor hooked up to a power inverter would be easier, but honestly, where is the fun in that? It may not be the most practical thing to convert the AC to air but it is unique and fun. I for one know I will use it pretty often with mountain biking. I might not be airing down my tires but I bike a lot and it would be nice to have the air right there when I need it. I can't wait to get my swap done so I can start on this.

I am looking at the process of turning my ej22 engine in my brat into on board air. As for write ups... google will give you better results than anything here. Lots of rock crawling jeeps do the conversion. I am going to convert mine with help from a crawler buddy. Including a 5 gallon tank where my spare tire used to go.

"Sticky: Frequently Asked Questions: Tires Wheels Lift Kits Mods for offroading Soobs." This thread at the top of the offroad area has a lot of links to different people who have made their own lifts. Hope this can get your creative juices going. I am taking some of their ideas to make my own lift. I'll send you information as soon as it gets done.

I am now tossing around the idea of converting my ac compressor to an air compressor for on board air. I tend to pinch flat tires a lot while I am biking and having air would be handy for that. Also possibly being able to air down tires for future off road excursions could be usefull as well.

So I'm having a conflict of interest one might say, so I'm looking for some feedback/opinions. With my swap should I keep my AC? I haven't had AC in any of my vehicles for a really long time so its not as if I will be missing it. Also this brat will primarily be used just around town and off-roading. Another thing is power steering. I am having troubles finding the proper crossmember and power steering rack that isn't too wide. Thusly, I am thinking of just making my stock brat x-member work until I find said power steering setup and install it later on. Obviously having power steering will help out when offroading, but I dunno how soon it will be able happen. Any feedback would be greatly appreciated as far as what you have done to make AC work in your swaps and etc.

Latest update, the legacy wiring harness is pulled and thinned down some. Hopefully I will get it wired enough to start it. I wont be getting the transmission till friday. Also still need to find a proper fitting front crossmember to get power steering. When im back at a computer I will upload some pictures. As far as I know I cant upload any pics here from my phone.

Latest update: EJ22 engine pulled and chilling in the brats engine bay dangling from the hoist. Started playing with wires, got frustrated again and stopped. Hopefully getting the crossmember and steering rack tomorrow. Bad news is I was told the GL at the junkyard was moved into a back corner and is now underneath another car so that should make for some interesting times at the junkyard. Here are a few pics of the engine pulled. Engine pulled. Empty (sorta) legacy engine bay. Trans will be pulled sometime next week after work.

My buddy's father in law swapped in a 300k+ engine to a family members car once and its still kicking along. Long live indeed!

Started to pull apart some of the legacy today. Took a decent amount of time because I don't have torx bits to get the steering wheel off. finally found two bolts that dropped the entire assembly down low enough to pull the dash out and leave me with wiring harness with plenty of fat to be trimmed. Here is the current shot of how my donor car looks. On an AWESOME note, I have found about $9 in spare change when I pulled out the center console. Already recouping some costs!

I don't know what jackman wheels are... I just wish mine didn;t have a dent on it from some PO hitting a curb. Tomorrow I pull the front crossmember and finish the stereo wires (donor car came with a pioneer cd player so might as well upgrade that also) Tuesday hopefully cleaning/pulling the EJ22 and getting it all prepped for installation. It will have to sit until at least a week because im waiting till the Salt Lake City junkyard has half off day to go get my 5sp d/r. Might settle in on some wiring in the meantime.

New to the forums and I figured I should post my own process of doing the EJ22 swap. There are many threads of peoples swaps and each one contains much information about things the person went through and all of them help people like me with little automotive know how. So first, Thank You to everyone who has posted information about these swaps! The car. The engine was running pretty good but it would not pass emissions. Possibly low compression, possibly just a vacuum line. Instead of chasing things around I got the wife's permission to start my swap. The swap stuff started about 2 days ago as I got the engine and trans pulled ready for selling, (4x4 Welder already is getting the trans). *after power washing the engine bay. I picked up a car for the donor yesterday for $180. Rusted, 1992 Legacy, 202k miles, manual 5sp, AWD. Also found a front cross member with a power steering rack for $20 at a junkyard I'm going to pick up after my vacation. Also getting a 5sp, d/r for the swap as well. More pictures and information to be coming as I get into this.

Inspiring, truly inspiring. Makes it look possibly for joe shmoe to accomplish... I am tossing around the ideas of rebuilding my EA81 or being all trendy and going with the EJ22 like most people. Thanks for the write up.

Little late to the post but I'm in orem. And I have seen that lifted yellow DL. It is what made me want to get a brat since I was younger. However lately I haven't seen it parked outside its usual house (I drive around orem a lot with my job).

Hearing you talk about all this wiring stuff is getting me slightly nervous for my swap. However it also makes me smile because I know I can come back here and read your posts when I run into electrical problems and maybe find my answers within your findings.

Sorry, my stickers are original *as far as I know*. I was reading the post and someone said they wanted more brat pics. And since I too am a new brat owner I threw my pic up for the viewing pleasure of those out there. Doug_ATX's brat doesn't look like it had the stickers.

Here is my brat helping shuttle some bikes up the mountain. Only owned her few a few weeks and am making the plans for the EJ22 swap... *If I can find a proper donor...*

4x4 Welder, Thank you soooo much! All those links will greatly help me as this will be my first ever engine swap I will start a personal thread somewhere to show how it goes.