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Thank you so much for the warm welcome! Also thank you for the information, i didn't know that L series stuff won't fit my hatch. Hatchback currently has ea81 in it and ea71 as a spare in trunk (with twin carburetors). I haven't had time to pick up 4wd transmission for ea81 from the previous owner (i spoke to him about month ago to see how he was doing, he is 80 year old man who was sad he could not longer drive a car due health issues). But it will be big trouble finding rear end for it, i live in Estonia which is a really small country in Europe and here are almost NO old Subarus. I checked the vehicle registry and there were only 2 Leones and 1 Brat registered. Hatch has a mint interior it looks like brand new, i will try to get some pictures next time im visiting my country side house. I chose to build this L series wagon because doing projects the right way is time consuming and expensive (my main project is 86 Volvo 740). I had pretty much lost all my motivation to work on cars (hadn't done anything to my Volvo over a year) so i wanted to butcher this wagon together just to get my motivation back and work on it with no pressure. Since mice had eaten the wiring and ive always wanted to build rally style dash, i finally did it: Since the car came with no seat belts, i want to put in a harness so i built harness bar for it: Floor was really rusty so it was a challenge, i welded in some new sheet metal for the floor and added 6mm thick metal plates for the bar to mount. Transmission mounts were totally shot, one was broken up and transmission was super loose. I got these rubber mounts form hardware store and managed to make new mounts with exact same dimensions. Don't mind the purple paint, it was only paint i had in garage to prevent metal from rusting Today i got drum brake cylinders from rockauto. My order comes from 5 different warehouses so im expecting 4 more packages and brakes are done.

It doesn't sound like there is a reasonable way to do this without merging the loom. Sounds like the best way forward might be to find a cheap Forester or outback and put all the good bits from the legacy on it. The main reason I want an auto is for the center diff lock, a torque converter is a big advantage, but it'd be more fun as a manual with a locked center. This is a wacky idea, but I wonder if I could weld the center diff in the 5mt, and come up with a means to easily disconnect the driveshaft for road use. I'm sure a forester would be better, but so far we have pretty much evened the playing field in terms of suspension height, tire size and gearing. I hosted the pic on a different site, try again.

Not really. Drop the rear diff and moustache bar, drop the tank. Still got a rolling body on your hands. Easy! Cheers Bennie

The gray metal rims in the 2nd picture down look like hubcaps that could be on any ol' car.