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This was my first thought as well. I have seen many of these cables corroded especially the one to the starter.

You have to get the rear hubs off from an XT6, and these are hard to find and can be very pricey, and if you are running front legacy brakes like I am, you can fab up a backing plate from a legacy to fit, like in Pooparu's thread, so you can have and e brake or you can just not have one like me ( I will get one in someday) As for the front I went the hard way, I got xt6 control arms and welded in new mounts so I could put new front hubs on (Subaru has a larger balljoint for the five lug cars) Instead of doing this though you could simply have the current control arms you have machined to fit the larger balljoint. Now for the front spindle you can run the xt6 stuff and this will let you have a front e-brake like you currently do and this will solve the e-brake problem, but if you want better stopping power you can put the spindle assembly off from a new Subaru such as a legacy, or an impreza. I currently have outback dual piston calipers on mine. Now with this swap things like custom cv's with have to be made (shortened ej cv's if you are running legacy brakes, not sure about the spline count for the cv's on an XT6 as I have never had one or even worked on one so if you went for the xt6 stuff you might have to swap one of the cv ends) For struts, with a lift ej ones may fit, but with the the way I'm going on my project I want it lower, because the ej struts were so much larger I could have bashed the towers a bunch until they started to be able to turn, but I went with coilovers because I found a set for wicked cheep, and they were going to give me the ride hight/handling that I wanted. Also things like brake lines will have to be made, and if you go with the xt control arms the tire rods on the rack will have to be swapped out for longer ones (I used the ones off from an outback) Sorry for the novel I hope this info helps! Cheers -Shaun

Pooparu and I have both done an AWD swap Pooparus thread (his will realate a little more to yours as his car is a hatch) http://www.ultimatesubaru.org/forum/showthread.php?t=98829&highlight=Project+ej+hatch+continues And mine, still and EA81 but a Brat http://www.ultimatesubaru.org/forum/showthread.php?t=117101&highlight=Brat+build%21 And it looks like the "frame rails" (I use that term lightly as the ea81 is a unibody car) in an ea81 are about 31 inches across, and a DOHC engine is about 33 inches, so a couple inches at least have to be taken out. I was trying to find pictures, but most people just do a 2.2 swap so no cutting is needed.

That list looks pretty good, make sure you get the o-rings that are between the two half's of the block. I got my bearings for mine from a local machine shop, although I don't remember the name, I still have the boxes at home an could check this weekend if you could wait that long. I got aftermarket rings as well by ROCK RINGS. I can't tell you how well anything has worked or complaints as I have not gotten the Brat the engine when in running yet... I also replaced the valve seals while I was there because the heads I got were unknown.

I have noticed a lot of wear with my swaybar links, they clang and rattle around and the bushings in the end of the swaybar itself went bad in about 100 miles of drive , but that's about it. My CV's have been fine. And thanks for the compliment, the wheels are just the start, I'm planing on tube bumpers color matched to the wheels soon

I just did that with my 92 lego wagon last week. Works like a charm! It came pretty close to my oil pan though because I have the larger 2.5 on on it.

Your biggest problem with any DOHC swap, is that the unibody hits the heads so the area around the engine has to be modified to fit, this is why the EJ22 is normally used, as it is only SOHC and doesn't require cutting to fit.( If you want more power you could build a frankenmotor using a EJ25 block, and EJ22 heads this will up the compression and get quite a bit of power and still fit in an ea81) As for the AWD swap it is pretty challenging, the trans tunnel on an EA81 is very small compared to an EJ so getting the trans in there is a tight fit. Custom trans mounts have to be made along with shift linkages, and a driveshaft. The rear diff bolts up no problem as far as I know.

I have no issues with my setup and I'm running the biggest tires i can without cutting i think they are 205/70r15's I just put them on yesterday so I'm having a hard time remembering what they are. No rubbing or cutting anywhere, and this is without the suspension mounts out of an outback to correct the caster in the rear, although I was worried when it was in the air, because the tires were less than half an inch away from the rear quarters.

Subsribed I have seen this brat on here before didn't realize you ended up with it. I really liked how the rear quarters were cut and the bumpers look awesome. Can't wait to see progress on this one!

I put wheels on mine today and larger tires!

I may have one, but I don't think it's much better. I hate not being able to find stuff locally. Another question, will the bolts that hold it into the car come out... I have had issues there as well.

I really like this idea, like a lot.

Mud season has started here in VT (it's between winter in spring for those who are not familiar, when all the snow starts to melt and the roads turn to mush) And I got mine nice and dirty on the mud covered back roads it was awesome!

I have heard of people welding them, but usually I would just replace the whole thing, but as you know they are hard to find up here in the north east now I guess I would take it out and see if you can fix it, and if you can't then at least it's out and ready for a new one to be put in if you can find one...

I don't think I've ever seen 20's on a Gl before...

Wow! Now you just have to get her dirty and post pics

That grey one looks super clean, sorry about your other one, but glad you found a decent replacement! Looks great with those Mazda wheels as well!

Me cut into something... Never I'll have to scope it out this weekend to see if I can make something work.

My system isn't really stock. I have the rear disc, and the front calipers are outback two pots. But that does make sense i guess. Would it help to use to use the booster as well? Or do they not fit? And if not what should I use the stock Brat one or is there an upgrade of some sort.

Well I came home again last night to try to get bleed my brakes, and no such luck. I ended up taking the master cylinder out and trying to bench bleed it, and could not get a single drop of fluid to go through it. This baffles me I have never seen anything like this in a Subaru. I even ended up taking it all apart just to see if it was sticking, and everything was free, and all of the seals were good, just no fluid?! Oh well, Looks like it's time to go take that outback one off Oh and I was trying to use dot 5 because the whole system is new, except the rear calipers and the master, but after seeing this happen I'm not sure that was such a good idea? Anyone have any words of advice?

Here is a link for the SPFI I was thinking about doing this to one of mine someday. http://home.comcast.net/~trilinear/EA81_SPFI.html

Subaru had different weight flywheels right from the factory on a lot of their cars. I think the lightest one I have seen came out of a 1.8 impreza, but I'm not 100% sure on that because I have had it kicking around my garage forever. That's what I put on my frankenmotor (still not running due to wiring) And it was a few pounds lighter. So you could just look for a lighter factory one and probably be okay. As far as clutches I'm a strong believer in Exedy as well!

Yeah I haven't exactly figured out a e-brake yet. I was thinking I may take some four wheeler calipers or something, and make my own brackets and have a hydraulic e-brake of some kind. I was also thinking that I may do ej rear brakes, but there are no good baking plates up here, they have all rusted out, and the price of new ones will shock you so for now I probably won't have one. There's always a block of wood in the bed, and first gear!

Wow! Looks like you have quite the project ahead of you, although it's in better shape then most of the old subis I have started with

Looking good! I felt so accomplished when I got got all the five lug parts swapped onto mine. This is going to be outrageous with that 3.3 in it!