eulogious

From what I have read it seems pretty straight forward. The retrofitting section will have LOTS of good info. There is a post by cmiller that documents a swap he did recently and how to solve some of the issues that come up. It's a good read for sure. Since your car is an EA82 series, it should be a really straight forward swap. numchuck's PDF documents the procedure very well. I am planning on doing an EJ swap and using an EJ 4EAT trans with it, but I am not going to do both swaps at the same time... But this is beacuse I have an automatic. The 5spd D/R is a better trans because of the D/R and works great with an EJ from what I have read. The EJ 4EAT is improved from my design, so it's worth the upgrade. The one thing I have found out is the subaru = lego Alot of the parts are interchangeable even across product lines. It's great!

I can tell you a little, but I have not done a swap so take this for what it's worth... If you check out the retrofitting section there is a sticky with numbchux's write up on the swap and explains the wiring. There should be a link to a pdf in there as well. LOOK FARTHER THAN THE FIRST PAGE. The download link won't work on the first page. Read the rest of the post to find the right link... numbchux also will do the wiring harness as well, for a fee. I believe the mounts work with the existing ones, but of course it depends on the car that the EJ is going into. You didn't mention a car, so it's kinda hard to tell you if the existing mounts will work... This is assuming you meant the engine mounts, and not the trans mounts... Fuel system, I don't know, need a car to be able to tell you that. The drive shafts should stay the same unless you are doing a trans swap as well. An EJ motor is just motor, so your drivetrain stays the same. You need an adapter plate to mount up the EJ motor to an EA trans... And the breaks and suspension should be just fine. Again without knowing the car it's hard to tell. Most people say that you should do the rear disc conversion for better stopping, but other that that it should be fine. Again, without knowing the car, it's hard to say... Hope that helps. I have done extensive reading on this swap trying to decide if this was the route that I wanted to go, and all my questions have been answered just by reading info on this forum, so I would say you still a little more research to do. Not trying to be rude or mean, just saying But some nice members might chime in to help you along, you never know Good luck!

Looks good, can't wait to check it out in a couple months! Keep it up!

Good work! Looks like lots of progress has been made. Is it running yet? Keep it up!

Ok so South Side Brake & Clutch in Tacoma has them, and on the shelf for $87 and some change. That's about the online price for these, so not too shabby!

Good to know! and PM sent...

To bad it's not a turbo, or it would probably be sold already, oh well, can't win 'em all :-\

I kinda figured that's what the deal was with EMPI, whenever you mass produce something, you will naturally have some bad apples. Ouch, that's alot for axles! If the OE axles are that much, I will take my chances with EMPI. I will keep that in mind when installing the axles, to try to do it right! I will at least try We shall see how that goes Good stuff so far! Thanks all!

Thanks for the insight renob123! From the sounds of it, EMPI does suffer from some bad apples, but that's to be expected with any company. I am still interested in info on some good reman OE subaru axles. I have also email raxles.com on info and prices, so we shall see what they say. So far it seems if I want EMPI axles, tacoma seems to be the closest so far...

That's what I love about this forum, I get good stuff whenever I ask! Thanks all! The reason that I choose EMPI was simple because they seem to have a good track record here on USMB. That being said, I have no experience with axles, I was just going with what everyone seemed to agree with, and that was EMPI... Of course this is arguable, but I also now have some more options... Gloyale, or anyone for that matter, where could I pick up a good reman OE subaru axle? The dealer? I could rebuild it, but I would need an OE core, which I don't think I have... I think I got a cheap reman from the store, but I don't have any paper work for it so ya. Is there anyway to tell? The PO didn't mention anything to me, and I can't really tell by looking at it. If the EMPI stuff requires you to switch both axles at the same time, and then only use EMPI axles, no thanks to that... Thanks for the heads up about that site renob123, I will take that into consideration for sure when I go to purchase something whether it be EMPI or others, thanks.

Nice! You know their prices off the top of your head? Thanks for the shop, I will keep them in mind for sure! I keep getting closer and closer to oly...

That's what a lot of people have said, and for a little more money, they seem WAY better than the reman crap you get at the local parts store, so we shall see. Good to know there are still some places that offer good cust service as well as prices Hopefully I will be able to source them locally...

Sweet, they even have the turbo axles $85 for the 25 spline, but that seems to be the rate. Free shipping is sweet as well. I take it you had good luck with them? Thanks for the link! I might be going there if I can't find a local shop to get them from...

So I am newer to the Olympia area and was wondering if anyone new where I could buy EMPI axles from? I have no idea what shops are in the area, I was looking for after market vw shops and came up with nothing, and google really didn't help me out much. Hell, if there was a shop in Seattle that was open on Saturdays with good prices I would just pick them up in Seattle since I am up there just about every weekend. But I don't know any shops here (Olympia) or up in Seattle for that matter, so if anyone knows of a good shop to purchase EMPI stuff from (axles specifically), please let me know! Thanks all! PS. I know I could order them online, but I don't want to pay for shipping. Also if there is a local business that sells them I would rather buy from them, then some internet store on the ease coast...

Glad to see it was a simple fix and you got it going!

The vacuum controls the movement of the vents, ie the switching between defrost and vent. I really don't know how you would bypass it to always have it on defrost, since it's all control by vacuum. I guess you could take a part your dash, find the vent levers, detach them so they aren't control by vacuum anymore and just permanently fix them in the position that you want, using a screw or something. I really don't know, I have not take the dash apart, but that is one way to solve your problem for sure.

The first thing I would look at is all the vac lines for a potential leak. It seems that the hvac isn't connected up the the reserve tank, and is somehow only getting it's vacuum off the engine, and that's why it changes, or the vac tanks doesn't hold vacuum and is just useless as the only vacuum that the HVAC system sees is that produced by the engine. Maybe there is a check valve, one that allows vacuum in but not out, that needs replacing or that is not exsistant, ie wasn't put back in after the weber conversion... I don't have my FSM on me so I can't verify that. Have you tried checking the reserve tank to see if it actually hold vacuum? Just pull the vac hose off of it and it should make a noise as air fills the reserve. When I took one off a junk yard car, it still made noise! Who knows how long it's been there, but it still had vacuum in it, so needless to say they should hold vacuum for a LONG time. If it's not holding vacuum, then I would check to see why that is. Since you replace the reserve tank already, I would say either a vacuum leak, or a bad check valve, or a bad tank if the tank doesn't hold vacuum. Other than those things, maybe the actual heater control (the buttons the choose which vents) could be bad and have a leak. It's a simple system, so there can only be a few things that can go wrong. But I would lean towards some sort of check valve/reserve tank problem...

+1

I wish I could go, but I don't have a D/R and I know walker is pretty hardcore. Maybe one of these days I will be able to go to a meet :-\ Oh, well, have fun everyone!

Look up the coefficient of a barn in a wind storm, and I think they are about the same On a serious note, the first thing that I would do is tidy up the underside of the car. Make the exhaust closer to the body, add some sheet metal to smoothen the underside out to try to make it better, that sort of thing. I don't really see what you can do with the rest of it, it's seriously a shoe box with wheels, so it's going to be hard to make it have less drag. Sounds like a good idea and I would love to see a wagon getting 40 mpg. That would be sweet. Until then my shoe box and I will rock the 25 mpg Keep us updated on your progress with this, sounds like a fun project!

Thanks for all the info, and the link, some good info in there It looks like this is all doable, so think I am going to go for it and see what happens. At least I will have the trans on hand when mine takes a dump on me, so that's good. Thanks everyone for the info and the help!

I believe most subarus are 4x140, not 4x110, but I could be wrong since I don't have a hatch, but I know my ea82 is 4x140, not 4x110. Just thought I would throw that out there...

Hello all, So I have had a little more time to go through what everyone posted and here's what I have come up with on what I would need to do to swap this impreza trans into my loyale. 1. Drill a few holes in my rear cross member for the new trans to fit up correctly. 2. Swap the impreza diff into my orignal loyale bell housing and use my loyale bell housing on the EJ case. 3. Reset my backlash for the diff after doing #2. 4. Find a rear 4.11 diff out of a early Legacy (90-94 5spd, 90-91 4EAT) for the correct stubs and what not to use in my loyale (ea82). 5. If I can't source #4, then swap diff using the EJ case and pinion, then mount the 4.11 ring onto the EA diff chunk and install it into the EJ case and use my EA rear diff cover marking it 4.11 accordingly. 6. Use the stock speedo cable and screw it into the EJ case. 7. Make a swappable harness so that I can use my original TCM with my ea82t ECM and my new EJ trans. Make it swappable so that when I do my EJ swap, it's not a pain to wire in the new TCM. What about the drive shaft? Will my EA drive shaft work, or will I have to get one made or pull off another car? Also, what about my half shafts? Can I use my turbo half shafts since they have the 25 splines already, but are they the correct length and such? Obviously the rear half shaft should be fine since I am just using the orignal ea ones, just a new diff with lower gears. I think that about does it with my questions. Please feel free to comment on my steps as well. Any input is appreciated. I am pretty sure I am going to do this, it's just good to know what needs to be done before I spend money, thanks all!

I just wanted to add, thanks grossgary, that's exactly what I was looking for, options and opinions on the idea, if it was possible, and was it worth my time. I don't want someone getting "butt hurt" over the ideas in this thread or a sale... I was thinking about this before this particular sale came around, so it was already on the for front of my mind, this sale just made me actually ask about it Turbone mentioned the same thing (about using a legacy trans) to me when I stopped by his place yesterday as well (Thanks for the AAV Turbone!). I am asking if this is doable because I am thinking I am going to go this route, whether it is with the impreza trans or another trans (legacy or impreza), so it's good to hear the plus side and the negative side. So far it's looking good! Thanks all! Keep'em coming...

I want to say thanks for all the good info! I am a little short on time, and thought I would at least chime in real quick... There's a couple reason why I would like to go this route... One would be the 4.11 gearing. I want to lift my car and put on bigger tires, so have the lower gearing is great for that. I also realize that there are legacy trans everywhere, but they haven't been rebuilt already. For a little more money, I would reather buy a rebuilt one and store it until mine breaks. I have no plans on doing anything to my car until it breaks. It would just be nice to have the parts laying around to fix it, instead of having to source parts and then fix it. This is my DD, so I would like to be able to fix it ASAP when stuff breaks. I also don't mind storing stuff either... My garage already stores my motorcycle, MR2 (my project car) and most some of my belongings as well, it's not really a "garage". So storing a trans isn't really a big deal. When I have more time I will respond a with some more details, but for now thanks for the good info. Looks like it's doable, and I will have some time to source the other parts I need for this. I am also not planning on doing an EJ swap anytime soon. My ea82t runs great so far, and until it breaks for good, I can't justify the EJ swap. That's the main reason I don't want to do the EJ swap right now, or else I would. I would also like to take the time like grossgary said and completely redo the engine and put the money into it to do it right, and that requires time and money, of which both I really have very little of. That's why I want to do this in "phases". My donor car is another story, but it's not going anywhere anytime soon, so I am not worrying about it anytime soon. I like the idea of a of a conversion harness plug set. I am not afraid of a soldering iron, so I will go that route for sure. Thanks for that idea gloyale... That's all for now...