jgrote

Sorry I didn't even bother to stop here first, but I just wanted to say hi to everyone here. It seems this is the place for people who like to break and then fix there subbies. I hope not to do too much breaking, but you never know. I will try to keep things up to date as my swap progresses, but it will be slow. I want to open the motor up and freshen it up before I drop it in. I do have one noob question though. Someone sent me a message (not a private message though. I do not remember what it was called) I read it but didn't reply, and now I can't find his message. Thank you all in advance for all your help

I was hoping you would chime in. Once I had gathered all the facts I could, I was going to contact you. I am just not quite that far along yet. I have been reading quite a lot on all of the forums, and have not found anyone that has successfully used a gen 2 4EAT. I am hoping it's possible. I know htrdd is close, but not running yet. I am not looking to mod this motor, but really just doing this for the fun off it. My fozzy (99 by the way) is in need of some motor work, so I thought this would be a good time. And FYI, no one over at SF.org has done it yet, so I will be the first of that crowd. I am not worried about physically fitting it in there. This is not my first shoehorn job, just my first big wiring job. I will do the wiring myself, but I may need some "consulting" help from you. I will pay for your time and expertise of course. Free info is rarely good, and good info is rarely free.

So after LOTS of research, I have found out nobody has figured out a way to hook a gen2 A/T to an ODB1 harness. It seem as if I will need to run a dual ECU setup, hooking up all the needed sensors to keep my oem ECU happy, while letting a standalone run the engine. I do not like this option. The next option is to buy a gen 1 transmission. This will essentially allow me to run it like it's an SVX with a 4.44 swap. Budfreak on http://svxworldforums.com/ sells this swap as basicly a plug and play swap. I may need ecutune to play with my TCU a little too. This seems to be a viable option. I measured the trans in both cars, and the are very close. I still have not checked how the mount to the cross member yet. I will then just need to splice my body harness into the harness of the SVX for a/c, lights, cruise, etc. Anyone have a couple of 4eat's laying around to check to see if the cross member mounting looks the same?

According to Hayne's (at least for a 98-02 forester) it is not pressed on. take off the nut by using a pin spanner wrench to hold pump still and then remove nut. I'm sure you can find another way to hold pump from turning. The pulley is splined and will just pull off. No puller is needed. Torque spec is 58 foot lbs. No mention of grease on shaft either, but I would use just a little anti-seize if it seems hard to get off. If you want to make a spanner wrench, see one here: http://www.subaruforester.org/vbulletin/f113/diy-crank-pulley-wrench-75029/ I doubt the pins will be in the same place, but you get the idea.

I will address the "why would you" question first, just to get it out of the way. I want to and I have a donor car. Wrecked 01-02 leggy 3.0 sell on copart for about 3k. It is a little easier a swap, just too rich for my blood. Also, they never made an SF Forester XT. I want low end torque for off road use, so I will use this motor. Custom rad and condenser is not a problem. I am able to do the merge, but I would like to farm this out just because of time. And for the last reason, I will be FIRST. Now for more research.....

So I have decided to be the first one over at SF.ORG to do an H6 swap. I've read through RS25, Nasioc, ect, but still have a few unanswered questions. Firstly, does anyone know someone who will merge an SVX harness into a 99 forester? I bought a running donor SVX for the swap, so I should have all the needed parts. I don't really want to run standalone if I don't have to, but may end up going that way. Secondly, I seem to be the first to want to keep an A/T in my swap. Anybody know just how involved getting the SVX ECU and Fozzy TCU to talk will be? Once I get the SVX torn down and start collecting parts for cooling and A/C, I will start a build thread over at SF.ORG. I hope to be the first successful a/t 3.3 foz in the U.S. The mechanics of shoehorning this motor in is no biggie, but I just want to have an idea of where I'm going on the wiring before I take my Fozzy apart.

Hello all. I've been around SF.org for a while and like the techy nature of things there. I've seen reference to this site a few times when people don't have the answer, so I figured I would join. I hope to provide some info as well as learn quite a bit too. I am looking to swap my 99 fozzy with either a wrx motor or an svx. Thank you all in advance for all your knowledge