Bussaca

Super Dave told me this might be the better place to put this Ok.. i remember (like 1999) back in the day someone going over the steps to change out the turbo from an 2.2t into an RX.. Well i got back from the junkyard..and 2.2t turbo in hand with what i vaugely remembered.. so i removed my 1.8t Turbo..to find..they are pretty close..but no where near to fitting.. So at this point.. it looks like i'm going to need a 2.2t Down pipe and up-pipe..??? or would it be easier to have a shop make new flanges and weld em to the old pipes? Any info..much apreciated. David Carter

Thanks SUperDave.. but i'm not talking all that.. (i'm doing the same swap you did but putting it into my 91 Legacy SS) I'm just transplanting the Turbo from a 2.2t to my 1.8t.. all the oil lines and colling lines fit.. it's just the up-pipe and down pipe are WAY off. David Carter

Ok.. i remember (like 1999) back in the day someone going over the steps to change out the turbo from an 2.2t into an RX.. Well i got back from the junkyard..and 2.2t turbo in hand with what i vaugely remembered.. so i removed my 1.8t Turbo..to find..they are pretty close..but no where near to fitting.. So at this point.. it looks like i'm going to need a 2.2t Down pipe and up-pipe..??? or would it be easier to have a shop make new flanges and weld em to the old pipes? Any info..much apreciated. David Carter

Now this is your recomended placement of the BOV/BPV..? This i'm not haveing an issue with, it's the Vacume line that comes off of the BOV/BPV where does this route to as the RX dosen't have a stock location...where would i splice it into? I'm gonna start posting pictures and asking it's level of importance....and the ability to re-route/remove.. David Carter 88 RX 1.8t 91 Legacy SS 2.0t 6speed Cusco LSD'sx3 00 RS 2.5

yup! thats the guy... i'll contact him directly see what the deal is.. Consider this post dead.. thanks guys.. David

Well mine routes from the intake plenum to the AAC and then goes to the forward section of the intake manifold completely bypassing the throttle body all together..and in no way connects to the throttle body.. BUT that aside general consensus is to just leave it alone and plumb it in along with everything else.. my guess would be after the IC but before the throttle body as thats where it sits now..no reason to mess with what works. So thankfully thats somewhat cleared up.. but i still have 3 questions un answered.. where do i run the vac line from the BOV/BPV on the engine so that it will function correctly? Boost gauge gets spliced in off of the little nipple on the compressor housing? and what can be ripped from the car..and still hold functionability? Already i've illeminated alot of the vapor recirc (i.e the oil breathers) I've done this on several ea82's with no problems.. the AC is gone along with all it's hoses and under dash parts..at least 40-60 pounds there..but there is still alot of ratsnests to simplify.. Thanks again for all your feedback.. David Carter

Dashpot?? huh? i didn't understand the complete second sentince.. not saying you said it wrong.. i just don't follow.. So basicly leave the AAC alone ,work it in with my plumbing..but where do i splice the new bov vac line?..and all the other stuff i asked.. Seriously though thanks snowman for the timely reply. David Carter 88 RX 1.8t 91 Legacy SS 2.0t 6speed Cusco LSD'sx3 00 RS 2.5

Ok.. if you don't know i just got back from iraq in febuary.. and i finaaallllyy got my 88 RX together and running..so other than some stock ground effects trim i will never find i'm happy with the restoration.. Now a long long time ago (about 4 years ago) i bought a set of 5 lug convertors off this page from at the time, a nice guy from AUS (not saying he's still not a nice guy i just don't know if his buissness ever made it here he made lift kits as well and he had plans with someone else on this forum to open an US version of his sevices) well i have a set of NICE 2.5RS rims and i bolted every thing up fairly well i think..and all my wheels wobble now.. i thought maybee i did it wrong so i brought it to Becker Subaru (BAD IDEA) and other than all the service guys telling me that doing that to my car was like the worst idea possiable..and the world would come to an end because i decided to do something that wasen't in a service manual..and i was satan himself they finally decided to try it for themselves... well it still wobbles.. it dosen't wobble on the stock rims.. but wobbles about 2 inches on the 5 lug convertors.. which suck..cause as long as the car just sits there it's awsome..but if i move it looks like something out of Beverly Hillbillys.. Does this guy still exsist..does somebody make newer 5 lug convertors? Aparently these warped or something just sitting in a box for 4 years..either way i'd like to get new ones..but don't know if they are still around.. David Carter 88 RX 1.8t 91 Legacy SS 2.0tswap 6speed Cusco Tarmac LSD'sx3 00 2.5 RS

Ok now i know this probobly has been answered about a hundered times..but i can't seem to find the answer just by searching around. No my question is not about which BOV is the loudest or which one i should get or where i should get it.. First is i'm installing a Saab 900 Intercooler with a BOV i have laying around (it's an OLD OLD...HKS bov off an Supra turbo but it did my 2.2t justice so i'm sure it'll do fine) , but before i go about doing so i just want to make sure.. possiably find a picture or 2 so i have a plan.. Now here's my question.. Where is the BOV.. on the legacy or any other turbo car i've owned or have worked on the BOV was fairly easy to locate..just follow the plumbing..it useually came after the turbo but before the intercooler or throttlebody (if you didn't get an intercooler).. and most likely re-circed back into the intake or manifold.. But i can't find Anything that resembles a BOV...well not egzactly.. What i THINK subaru used for a BOV is the device that mounts over the thermostat cap..it's the only thing plumbed between the turbo and the throttle body and it recircs right back to the intake manifold.. Problem is it has all the charistics of a BOV but dosen't mechanicaly look like one.. first off every BOV has a vacume line attached to it, this only has a wire.. which leaves me scratching my head about when i install mine where the heck i splice a vacume line from my BOV into the system so that it'll function properly.. Now the Subaru Service Manual calls what i think is a BOV an AAC type B (Auxiliary Air Control) which function is as follows " The AAC valve provides air bypass when the engine is cold for fast idle. It consists of a bimetal heater and rotary shutter. When the temperature of the bimetal is low, the shutter opens and allows air to bypass from the air intake duct into the intake manifold. As the engine warms, the shutter closes and does not allow any air to circulate into the intake manifold. This condition continues untill the engine is stopped and the temperature of the engine block cools down" THIS DOES NOT SOUND LIKE A BOV.. so i'm really scratching my head about if i should cut it off...if it's needed.. figureing if i need it, where in the line of plumbing i have to fit it in..wondering if it's an ECU monitored system.. to me it seems to be yet another restriction in a long line of restrictions on this car.. If some one could give me a hand maybee a couple pictures of a proper BOV install...get me pointed in the right direction.. I know it's there... i've removed the airbox and redone all the plumbing to the turbo and when you let off the gas under boost..you get an elephant blowing it's nose under the hood so i know it there.. One last thing.. (all you tree hugging hippies leave the room) I HATE RATS NESTS/Speggetti (or spelling) all these hundreds of vacume lines..Emmisions controlls..vacume canisters all over the car.. I LOVE old muscle cars, just the engine 2 cooling lines a gas line 8 park plug wires and a battery.. NOTHING ELSE.. a VERY CLEAN looking engine compartment.. and i've SEEN these cars in race/rally form the engine bays are SPARTIN..just the engine a big honking turbo (for it's day) and intercooler.. NOT MUCH ELSE... If someone could honestly tell me what !!HAS!! to be there to make the car run (reliably)..if it dosen't HAVE to be there let me know... i want it gone.. Russel steel braid the oil and cooling lines one or 2 vacume lines and the bare nesseitys thats all i want.. No my town does not have emmisions..is it a consern..No not really..will this car single handedly with out it's emmisions controlls bring the down fall of the plannet for 2 or 3 days of auto crossing i might do with it a month.....no.. So if some one could point me again in the right direction..much appreciated.. Thank You David Carter 88 RX 1.8t 91 Legacy SS 2.0t 6speed Cusco LSD'sx3 00 RS 2.5

Thanks everyone. i'm gonna give it a shot, it seems the general consensous is the same so it's gotta at least work for a bit right What do you mean weld my diff? to the frame? or the internals in some way? Other than that..Gary where did you see my hood for sale? Thank you again.. i will try and post some more pictures/info as i do more. David Carter

I searched the message board first..but it don't seem to be there.. i'm sure it's been discused/done.. and i can't find it.. But first... Hi (again) i'm David Carter (aka Bussaca) (err..military nick that stuck) I've actually been a member for quite some time.. but the board changed/moved while i was in Iraq for the past 19 months.. so some of you might remember me as the guy makeing all kinds of fiberglass hoods for early subaru's. Now don't worry if you don't remember anything comeing of those hoods, i did only a run of 90-91 Legacy hoods.. and it put me out of buissness..one my military career stopped me from promply rendering a product my many customers payed for... for over 2 years, and..2 it financially tapped me.. who knew it took 300+ dollars to send just one hood, and all i ever chaged anyone for S&H was 50 bones.. so.. Thats about it.. I'm 26, Single, Live in PA so let me know if anyone plans on going to the pines barrons in NJ for some mudding/sudo rally.. or goes to the rally park here in PA.. Ah..oh yes back to the question.. I have an 86 RX MT 1.8t 4wd.. I've had it for 3 years now and i've never had it running.. (seeing as i tore the engine appart as soon as i got it..and never been around to put it back together..now the motors all rusted) but i got a new motor from a reliable junkyard on 309, and i plan on getting it i good rally order.. Now i'm also into D1 Drift, down at english town raceway in NJ.. my legacy does a fair to crappy job of it (understeers a Bi$ch) and i'm seeing all these 1.8l RWD AE86 Corrola's having a good time, and i'm thinking my 1.8t should kick a bit more a$$.... What do i have to do about making the RX RWD? I've seen a couple people just cut stumps out of old front axles and put it in Full time 4WD turning it essencially into RWD.( i can't spell, sorry).. but i would think that would be stressing the trannie a bit (not like D1 wouldn't be). Is there a way to remove the front internal Diff.. or parts that actuate the front half of the car..? Thanks for any help.