Kostamojen

*The message you have entered is too short* WTF???? Thats lame...

Since neither of us seem to have any welding equipement, thats out of the question Cutting might work, but mudrat states in that email "you will severely rub steering if you don't have the 180 crossmember OR modified steering." I emphasised the OR, since to me that sounds like if you just swap the crossmember then it will work fine without physical modificaiton... But I dont know if thats what was meant.

Um, I think you might be confused... All Impreza outbacks are "Outback Sports". Meanwhile Legacy outbacks are just "Outbacks".

Bah, you beat me to it I'd like to know what options are availible from the people who have done simular swaps. IE what model EA81's to use, what trannys to use, what steering systems/crossmembers, etc. sets of combinations may work best. It would be good to keep the stock tranny for now on the '78.

No differences that I know of.

Probably not very good (the chances) I wont be able to make it down there for at least another week. Ill give it a shot though.

Both the rancho and roseville ones. Saw one or two legacies, not many, and only at the rancho one... Nothing of much use.

Thats the plan

I must note that I had an underdrive pulley on my EJ18 before, but switched to a stock sized lightweight pulley. I noticed a significant loss in engine revs between 2000 and 4000 rpms (IE the underdrive is faster than a stock sized, lightweight pulley)

Went to a couple Pick n' Pulls today on the way to pick up an RS hood for my L, found some wheels for the '78 wagon: http://community.webshots.com/album/138980219SMGShA As you can see, they are the Subaru 13" "gold snowflake" wheels listed on the wheel page but in a bit better shape, with aparently BRAND NEW Kuhmo 771's. They were just sitting around too, not actually on a car... I had to search to find all 4 No lugnuts though. Saw a few other interesting things. An EA82T in pristine shape, a couple carborated EA81s in good shape, one with only 85k miles aparently from a 85 GL hatch (im thinking of going back for that one, I could use it in the wagon... Need to find out exactly what I need for the swap though) Saw a ton of rims as well, including 6 of these Pug 14's: A couple of these Scoob 13's with chrome sections around the steel A set of these in PERFECT shape, but with some blown out tires (which worried me) 4 of these The hilarious H wheels Only 2 of these And a bunch of steelies... I picked the snowflakes mostly cause of the tires, but they reminded me slightly of BBS rims, so I went with those instead of the Pug's or the nice other set with blown tires.

You have alot of things you can do with yours. Just stick a cone filter on the trottle body with the neccessary vacume lines routed into it, get one of the aftermarket intakes (cobb is the best) or run a replacement pipe from the airbox to the fender kinda like this: That part of the intake on the newer MAP engines is used mostly just to get air into the large airbox and it does do some silencing (just unscrew the couple bolts and yank it off to see what it sounds like with just the airbox) Watter isnt as much of an inssue with the newer airboxes.

Cool huh

Yes, it is a "cone filter", I swap one in and out of my EJ18 Impreza for kicks. Sounds fun, but ya, it does kill the low end. However, I do notice that the engine runs smoother with it on, especially in conjunction with the straight pipe track pipe catback I use for track days and such. No power gains really for either, mostly for kicks and to let the engine breath better. As far as the "electronics" in the intake tract, that is the MAF sensor (Mass Air Flow sensor), it is what your ECU uses to read the airflow to the engine to deal with fuel and timing and such. Dont mess with it, or take it out, or you car will be fubared.

Wrecked STI's are $$$ The EJ25 and drivetrain wont cost that much, since its pretty much all being done within the group. (Ive been trying to get it for my car, but oh well) Its still what, another 60hp? 2.5's are just fine, especially in the older lighter cars. You can get ~190hp out of them with just bolt ons.

P.S. the SECCS crew is really heavily involved with the local SCCA chapter, and is TRYING to put together some Rally-crosses up there (hopefully) And scott, the owner of the site, is thinking of putting together a GL wagon with an RS drivetrain...

Ya, thats Ian I was just talking to him online the other day. He has some hot shot job in the bay area now. I still have the pics somewhere of him drifting into that snowbank...

Just toss it. A common mod for N/A EJ engines with MAF sensors like yours is to just remove the whole silencer and just leave the airbox open to the fender well (where there is nice and cool air) Here are some threads about how to do it: http://www.scoobymods.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=113 http://www.scoobymods.com/forums/showthread.php?t=167 I did it with my EJ18, runs much better without the silencer.

Just curious if you nevada subaru guys have met up with these nevada subaru guys: http://www.seccs.org/forums/

That doesnt sound good to me... Having a state inspector say you NEED 4 new tires... That means they must be in pretty bad shape. But I must re-itterate a fact of the automobile world: Tires are THE most important thing between you and the pavement!!! Dont skimp on tires, always keep a good eye on them (tire pressures, wear patterns, alignment, lugnuts, etc.) dont ignore them and dont wait to get them replaced. Many, many drivers had ended up on the wrong side of a telephone poll, curbing, or back end of another car as the result of bad tires... *end rant*

Ill bring in some NASIOC/I-club N/A Impreza wisdom The Cobb Intake is considered the best intake by far for the MAP based EJ series N/A engines (IE your car) good for 5-10hp depending on who you ask and what dyno it runs on, yet expensive ($280 new, ~$150-200 used . The Injen intake is also good, but its got alot of long piping and goes into the fender with a cone filter... Not as good of a design, and equally expensive, with almost the same power as the cobb. Cheaper options are the J-bend intakes like Weapon-R (garbage), JC Sports (also garbage), and intakes you might find on Ebay... With those, you loose low-end, but have decent high end, and cost usually $150 or under. The problem is though that you just get hot engine air instead of actual cold air with these intakes... Simple options include: Ganzflow/PDM style intakes, which basically are just a pipe that goes from the airbox with the filter to the fender. Dont do alot hp wise (2-5hp, closer to 2 IMHO) but are cheap ($75-40), but you can do the same thing with home-depot piping as suggested. Another option is the throttle body cone filter... Basically you stick a cone filter on the throttle body and get air via the hoodscoop. A little custom tubing is involved to maintain engine vacume, but its just about the cheapest option (new cone filter ~$40, used can be had for about free )