firehawk618

It's been done for a while. The car will now do 80mph effortlessly! Before I could hardly hit 70 unless the highway was perfectly flat. It has great compression. The cylinders looked excellent inside. I just pulled the engine out because the car was smoking like CRAZY upon deceleration. When getting the engine ready to put in for the swap I put all new gaskets and seals in it but I never pulled a piston because the cylinders looked good inside. The piston tops did have a bunch of carbon build up so I cleaned it all off. That should have been my clue. Anyhow stuck oil control rings. I have pulled the oil rings and am soaking them in some cleaner overnight then will put the engine back together. Should do the trick!

SPFI ecu's are generally all the same. What year / model are you installing this into? I just took to the dump a complete running SPFI EA82 + harness + ecu. Got tired of looking at it taking up floor space in my garage. Just buttoned up an EJ22 swap in my 86 GL.

If you're going from SPFI then the temp gauge, tach, fuel pump, oil pressure gauge, check engine light and charge light wire are all found in the long rectangular plug that's right by the hood release against the kick panel. It's a plug all by it self, not in a group like the ones that are on that plastic bracket with 3-4 plugs.

Oh those pictures were just a trial fit. I do have the covers on. I plan on taking it off road regularly and don't want a branch, rocks, etc etc knocking my t-belt off.

Well the EJ22 harness I gutted it and had ready to lay in the car in roughly 3 hours. I am very good at schematics and wiring though. This doesn't include any wrapping of the harness. Just rough lay out on the ground with some zip ties to keep bundles separated. The EA82 ECU harness removal only takes me about 45 mins / 1 hr. Pulling the fender and bumper take the longest for me. After it was out I spent about an hour removing all the tape and deleting all the ECU wiring from it. EA82 part went pretty quick because I've already had it out once *swapped out 86 carb harness for full 88 SPFI* so I knew exactly what I was in for this time.

Put some hours in this weekend. Got an exhaust scabbed together. Good enough for now. Got radiator hoses scabbed together. Filled her up and let her run a while. Left to do: Finish wrapping / fastening the headlight / front harness. Install the original fan + secondary fan in front of radiator. I will be tying these into the ECU's fan output vs the stock thermo switch. I will also be adding a bypass switch so I can run the fans when putting around in the mud. Wire up the alternator. I will tie it in so the stock charge light works as it should. Seal up the hole I made in the firewall + seal up the 2 grommets I took apart on the left side of the car. I'm trying to decide if I will cut the cluster apart and delete the worthless oil / temp gauges and fabricate something in their place or not. Note: I purchased an ultragauge. My intention was to use it as a temp gauge. Any other parameter it happens to display with this 1995 ECU is a bonus. With a tiny bit of fiddling it seems to work fine. Time will tell how reliable it is. I'm trying to avoid running aftermarket gauges for now because Subaru makes it fun to tie into the oil pressure / coolant. Not super hard but definitely not as simple as picking up a cheap triple gauge and hooking it up with the included adapters. It's been really hard for me not to just throw the wiring harness on top of the engine and go for a quick drive. I really want to feel the difference! To hell with it, I might just do it anyhow after I charge the battery back up! EDIT: Ok yeah went around the block. Such a difference.

I don't know why I didn't think of this sooner. I have an inspection camera. I will run it until it stops sucking fuel again and inspect. I looked at a few pictures of our tanks online and the only access hole I see is for the sending unit. It appears the feed, return and evap lines all enter the side of the tank on the right side. I got a feeling I'll be replacing this tank once I get sick of only being able to use 1/2 before re-fueling.

Thank you as I very well may end up needing one. I am aware of the carb'd tanks lack of baffle. This car flat out runs out of gas with 1/4 still remaining in the tank. I had run it down to E before with the low fuel light on. This is a new issue *prior to EJ swap*. All I can think of is that whatever pick up tube is in the tank has busted off but I cannot see in the tank enough through the sending unit hole to confirm this.

I haven't dropped my tank yet but several times now my car has run out of fuel with 1/4 tank of fuel left in it! I had run it down much farther in the past so I know this is a new problem. My gauge works fine as does the fuel light. I have pulled the sending unit the last time it ran out of fuel and sure enough there was 1/4 tank left just as the gauge read. I can't see any pickup tubes in the tank when I shine a flash light in there. Is there another removable port that contains the pickup / return lines on this tank or am I better off to just get a used tank? Used tanks in the wreckers are hard to come by. They either punch a hole in it or they always seem to throw the wheel stands under the tank to hold the car up which smashes the tank in. Thanks.

Since it's a 5 speed you don't have to worry about adding / grounding a pin on the ECU to tell it to ignore the EGR, MAP and a few other sensors. It's already built into the harness.

You don't have to pull the whole dash to get the EA engine harness out. It all unplugs under the dash.

The rear calipers with parking brake in them that I have taken apart would never cause a no brakes situation of the rod was messed up by someone pushing the piston back in wrong. It's just not possible on the ones I have been inside of. If the fronts on the Subaru are of similar design then the OP has nothing to worry about as far as brake loss goes.

In my 1988 SPFI swap my fuel pump never ran with the key flipped on. Not even for a second. It would run when cranking the engine or while engine is running. Are you sure your distributor isn't f'd up? If your ECU doesn't see the engine spinning *distributor signal* then it will not command the pump to turn on. I don't think I have read about a single ECU failure on our SPFI cars that I can find.

Did you pull the entire harness? I had to pull the whole dash, heater box, everything out to get the harness 100% in tact. I recommend pulling a complete harness out of the EJ22 donor. First thing I did after I removed it was print a diagram. I sat at the ECU connector and removed any pin that I wasn't using. After that I sat down in the garage, spread the harness out. Removed all tape / ducting. I then removed any wire that didn't goto the ECU, Main relay or Fuel pump relay. It's a giant mess. Go slow and you can get through it. Any wire that goes to a splice that I wasn't using got trimmed right at the splice. After that I knocked out a 3" hole in my passenger firewall *no ac in my car. I fed the harness from the interior into the engine compartment. I then laid everything out where it needed to plug in. Taped it up, wrapped it up. ECU is stuffed above the heater box on my car. I kept the OBDii plug for diagnostics + I am going to try an ultragauge on it so I can have engine temp and fuel trims on display. I also picked up a 1996 ECU incase the 1995 isn't fully compatible with the ultraguage. **WARNING: The 1996 ECU physically plugs in place of a 1995 but the pinout is 100% wrong. You MUST repin the connector if wanting to swap from 1995 to 1996 ECU's. Oh yeah, was the Legacy a stick or auto? It makes a difference and I can save you some hassel.

If you could do that I would be very grateful. I can paypal you some $$ to cover the shipping / hassle on your end. Can you get them out next week some time? I plan on doing something about the exhaust and getting the car buttoned up the weekend of 4/23. PM or email me at firehawk618@gmail.com for paypal / address info. Thank you ! Right now I am just using the EJ mounts that came on the engine. They're rectangular / square shaped if I remember correctly. There was no centering nub to be ground off that was mentioned on some other threads. I didn't even have to do any grinding on my subframe. It dropped right in. They MIGHT pull out but it's going to be a pain. Be careful. Several of the wires are spliced together mid harness. It's really not all that hard to pull the whole harness out of the car. Removing the bumper / fender is 2/3 of the battle. Laying it all out on a garage floor / driveway and taking your time stripping / re-taping it all might be worth it in the long run.