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Finished machining the first billet knuckle. No major problems, went as well as I could have hoped. With caliper, wheel bearing, disc, and ABS sensor bolted on. Edit: Just noticed I first started designing these almost two years ago now. We 3D printed the first prototypes over 20 months ago. Didn't realize they've been in the works that long. Thanks again to slammo for helping with a cleaner more compact design. Some pictures of the bumper, most of the fitting is done now. Ran out of 1" square tubing so we stopped here. Got the tow bar mounts done, barely visible under the main beam. Ran some tubes from the radiator support back to the swaybar mounts, barely visible. Ordered some 1.25" receiver tubing but they sent 2". Even says 1.25" on the shrink wrap but it's definitely not. So we'll still have to add those, planning on having one in the center and one on each side like we did the white Outback. Waiting until we get the EZ36 in to make the engine skid. Might be getting engine, driveshaft, and diff this week. Might order a Haltech today.

Well hello there! I still want a brush guard!

That might make sense but I when has that ever guided my decisions? I really want to get started on the 3.6 swap. Should be picking one up next week, figure it makes sense to just swap the whole engine and trans together. Speaking of which, gotta get a flywheel and clutch, any advice on those? Figuring stockish STI would be best. For that matter, anyone happen to know if Forester pedals will work? Figure I'll get STI master, hose, and slave. Will try to remember to get a bumper pic for you, will probably be fabbing on that more tomorrow. The vents and scoop have solid sheet metal bolted under them, I don't think they flow any air stock. Any vent options in particular you'd recommend? I don't expect to have any cooling problems but might experiment with unblocking the vents and/or scoop at some point. Finally took the diff stubs to heat treat. Made some for R160 and some for R180 for using the female front CV axles in the rear. Figure you guys might want to see a little of how the sausage is made. Billet knuckle fixture. Ready for op4. op4 finished Made fixture to fit milling table and fourth axis. Got it all set up on the fourth axis to do the side holes today but didn't quite get to making chips before I had to leave.

EJ swap sounds like the way to go. When bolting an EJ engine to an EA trans you make or buy an adapter plate, I forget what happens when you do it the other way around. Get one 3.9 final drive and keep your rear LSD. EA rear diffs are a cake walk to swap to 3.9 so you can swap your 3.7 LSD to a 3.9 final drive really easy. I’ve done it.