Pooparu

Cool site, if I could read it.

This is funny.

The hotwheels & subaru fish decals are up on our ebay store now. Subaru Fish: http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/Subaru-Fish-GL-DL-BRAT-Legacy-Outback-Impreza-WRX-STI_W0QQcmdZViewItemQQ_trksidZp1742Q2em153Q2el1262QQcategoryZ80736QQihZ004QQitemZ140241878252QQtcZphoto Hotwheels Subaru: http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/Subaru-Hotwheels-GL-DL-BRAT-Legacy-Outback-Impreza-WRX_W0QQcmdZViewItemQQ_trksidZp1742Q2em153Q2el1262QQcategoryZ80736QQihZ004QQitemZ140241878734QQtcZphoto

I think I'll leave it the way it is. It'll be used for street and mild off roading.

Or you can just buy an adaptor plate and use your transmission and axles. There are several write up on here with people that have done the swap so you'll find a lot of support. Also some of the swap experts have put together a handy dandy swap guide that you can download. As far as the wiring goes it was a real struggle for me, but for some it was really easy so I'll leave that one up for debate. For some reason though I don't think you'll get around to doing anything too hard core with your ride anytime soon. It seems like only a small portion of these kinds of posts only goes as far as that, a post. I think maybe 'cause it is a lot of work and you almost have to have Subaru running through your veins in order to have the patience and knowledge necessary to really modify older Subarus. Subaru for life essay!

You can do an ej22 swap. or Head job and cams from delta cams. or K&N air filter and bigger free flow exhaust. or Rear turbo disk brakes. or if it's carbed you can put a weber carburetor on it. I don't think you're going to see any huge power gains unless you do a motor swap of some kind (at least not that I know of). The EA82 wasn't much of a power house, but it was a nice reliable motor. Good luck and welcome to the board. If you poke around a little and use the search engine you might stumble upon something else related to your topic.

I could be interested in an outback lift depending on the price.

Here's what I found and used for my swap. http://www.ultimatesubaru.org/forum/showthread.php?t=73885&highlight=transmission+wiring

I would swap that transmission out for a mid to late 80's GL D/R 4wd. The push buttons suck balls.:-p

The hotwheel decals are 3.25"x8" and are going to be $15 for the pair (free shipping). The Subaru fish will be 2.5"x5" and $4 (free shipping). We can custom size them if you want but the price will change. (your 4.875"x12" size would be $20.00) We expect to have these available late this week or early next week. You can paypal us at contact.us@bandrcom.com, or you can mail us a check/money order (make payable to B&R sign and design LLC.) at 7104 se 86th ave. portland, oregon 97266, or call us with a Visa/Mastercard at 971-255-2970. As soon as we get your payment we’ll sent out the decal or decals.

Coming soon to our ebay store: Subaru is my religion... and...

Here's my 1978 with an EA81 motor and transmission installed.

Update: I got my ECU and wiring all wrapped together and stuffed under the dash today. I also had time to put the rest of the interior back together. Check it out yo.

I can't wait to tear up some dirt. You're on for the ride.

Update: So I messed around with the wiring this weekend and got some things figured out. Let me start by telling you what I needed to get finished first. The headlights, cooling fan and horns were not working. This had nothing to do with the EJ harness at all, but just my own stupidity. I figured out that the big loom of wirers that I cut out should not be wrapped together and taped up. This caused a short and blew my fuses, and I didn’t discover this until I put a piece of wire in the fuse panel and smoke came up from under the hood. (I know stupid) That blew my fusible link for the headlights. (which I didn’t even know existed) That’s why all of my headlights didn’t work. I didn’t really discover all of this until after Matt and I had rigged up all the junk that didn’t work. The way we figured it out was by running the car and smoke stared to come out of the fusible links. I guess I had the alternator wired wrong. I just hooked it up to the old EA alternator wire which ran directly to the fusible link panel and ‘cause the battery was low the alternator was kicking out a lot more juice causing the fusible links to smoke. I had a fully charged battery before and that’s why it ran fine before. So we opened up the links and found one that was blown, so I replaced it and a light went off in my head (no pun intended). That’s why I wasn’t getting power to my fuses. So I reconnected the headlight stuff up the way it was and it worked (the way I had it set up was kind of funky). I still can’t get my fans to kick on so I think I’m just going to hook up ignition power and have it run when the car is running. At least I know it will stay cool that way.:cool: I also painted all my jams and the underside of my hood. So now everything is black and matching. I’m just about ready to tuck all my wires up and put the rest of the interior back together. This coming Saturday I’m going to get the exhaust done and the hood hinge welded in. Then I think it’s time to drive it around and work out the bugs. I’m so close I can taste it.

Stop yelling.

Update: I got my stereo installed and everything put back in the center of the car. In case you didn’t notice I got a slanted center console. I’m not sure what to do about my Toyota inclimeter, but I’m sure I’ll get it figured out at some point. I just want to focus on getting this on the road and work out all the bugs before WCSS. I’m going to do some more wiring this Saturday to fix a couple of small electrical glitches with my accessories then I should be able to clean up that mess on the passenger floor. I just want to make sure everything is working before I start stuffing wires up in the dash. I really don’t want to have to take that apart again. At least not for a while. I’ll get some more images up after I have that mess cleaned up then it’s off to get my exhaust done.

I might be willing to make a trip or two up to help out. It sounds like fun.

I got my brush guard from an old friend I had and he gave me all the nuts and bolts I needed. He also gave me a small spacer that goes in the center. I did have to fabricate some small brackets to bolt up the front. I took off the bar that runs across the front and modified the brackets to fit with the brush guard and bumper brackets. Here are some photos of both.

How about a baja hatch? What kind of work do you need done?

I think I'll have a 6" pipe made and have nubs to hook all the hoses back up.

Thanks for the note. I'm stuffing them under the passenger side and I've soldered, shrink wrapped and taped all of my connections so I hope that's going to do the trick, though adding a fire extinguisher isn't a bad idea.

I'm trying to accomplish 2 things. One, keep it from sucking up gobs of water when I'm hitting mud puddles and two keep it cooler. I wanted to add a hood scoop to help the cooler part out, but I need to figure out if this relocation thing is going to work before I go cutting a hole in my hood and adding a scoop. I'll just put it back to stock until I can get a pipe made. It's not a big deal right now.

Well I guess we'll see. I just need to find someone to custom make the part then I should be on my way.

So if I found a way to hook all 4 of those lines up to that 6" pipe it should work right?