My donor was a usdm 02 wrx, the motor was purchased separately. Don't be afraid of getting the 6spd, it will be much easier to fit than many think, and you can always sell it for good money. I have a 02 wrx 5spd with a RA gearset on the way waiting to install and a 04 sti 6spd, there within a couple inches of each other. I will get 6spd to work as well. Theses cars usdm/jdm are like soooo interchangeable it is crazy. I would get a solid wrx and go from there. You will need 15,000-22,000 total for this build. I would lean more towards 20k to play it safe.
Someone wanted to buy my rear quarter panel skins and door jams to do a widebody conversion on a wagon (for those interested, see here http://forums.nasioc.com/forums/show....php?t=2143885 ) Got those cut off and cut up the rear. Where there once was a car there's now a dirty floor and a pile of cut up scrap.
Look like great therapy, the last time someone hit my car it took me a while to get over the anger issues. Knowing the heart and soul of your car will continue on must be helpfull.
Well I have been busy restoring the front wheel assemblies and rack. Here is a picture of the rack after I depowered it and replaced boots and ends. I'll send photos of the engine upgrade soon. Lots of cleaning and painting parts for assembly so far.
Nice. I took apart one of my rear hubs yesterday. Bearing was a bit loose. Everything is a bit rusty from spending the first three years of existence in upstate NY. Plan to wire wheel it all and paint it.
Well I have been busy restoring the front wheel assemblies and rack. Here is a picture of the rack after I depowered it and replaced boots and ends. I'll send photos of the engine upgrade soon. Lots of cleaning and painting parts for assembly so far.
Here are pictures of my redone RF wheel assembly and intake. I replaced the wheel bearings, seals, lower balljoint, rotor and pads. I painted the caliper. On the intake I replaced all gaskets, hoses and upgraded injectors from AJW. I painted the top of the manifold and injector shields. I am going to replace all vacuum and water hoses as well.
Wallace, looks good. Not sure how familiar you are with Subarus, but most people ditch the injector shields. They're commonly known as the "Green Brackets of Death" or, GBOD. Makes changing injectors, o-rings, or anything else in that area difficult with them installed.
At least when installed on the car they're difficult to take off and fish out. They were designed to protect the injectors in case of a large frontal impact.
14 hours later...
about 200 lbs of wire loom sitting inside the car
engine and transmission sitting on a dolley
many beat up knuckles
many smiles and several opportunities to take out my saws all, actually destroyed one cutting the front supports and some of the front "frame" where it was accident damaged (luckily I have two!)
lots of plastic interior pieces
seats, doors and many miscellaneous parts all boxed up
suspension and diff next!
Sorry about the poor image quality, using the throw away camera with the greasy hands! Forgot to reset the date after the batteries died too...
The wiring is the only part that I find daunting. So much interlinking of stuff that you have to be careful what you cut out, and what you don't.
Got another video made yesterday. Nothing too exciting like chopping up a car. I think right now that the one section of my garage floor is cleaner than your kitchen floor. I'm not sure if that's sad or awesome. I'm going with awesome. Too bad there's a few new rust stains. :sadbanana:
Question for Subaru experts. There are 2 small tubes bolted to the intercooler on my 2002 WRX. Were do they go to on each side? My donor had lots of ripped out vacuum lines and I am trying to get everything correct as I assemble the motor. Thanks for any help. T.W.
The wiring is the only part that I find daunting. So much interlinking of stuff that you have to be careful what you cut out, and what you don't.
Got another video made yesterday. Nothing too exciting like chopping up a car. I think right now that the one section of my garage floor is cleaner than your kitchen floor. I'm not sure if that's sad or awesome. I'm going with awesome. Too bad there's a few new rust stains. :sadbanana:
Great work. Only suggestion is to place a large tarp on the trailer prior to putting parts on it. That way you can just fold up the tarp around it when you take it to the yard. Twice I have had incidents where people stuff came off their roof or truck bed.
Great work. Only suggestion is to place a large tarp on the trailer prior to putting parts on it. That way you can just fold up the tarp around it when you take it to the yard. Twice I have had incidents where people stuff came off their roof or truck bed.
I was going to wrap a canvas tarp over teh top of it and strap it down with every ratchet strap I own (~10). No way I'd go down the street with it just as it is.
now there isn't a single bolt on the chassis that hasn't been removed
the bone yard is hauling it away tomorrow!
I discovered that my steering rack is trashed from the roll over, need to find a rack
So my Copart roll over had a broken front wheel, broken lower control arm and busted rack
shopping time!
Next question: Anyone have a trick to get that damn cross bolt out of the rear suspension? My 650 ft lb air gun can't break the bolt free...
TRime to start listing parts for sale on craigslist and the Sube forums! yeee haaa
The first time I took mine off to upgrade the bushings I had to use an angle grinder to cut the head off and point it through with a punch. Anyone doing work with that bolt typically buys new bolts before starting in anticipation of it getting cut.
Here is my latest pictures. I am waiting on new coolant hoses to continue. Also I cut my right index finger putting on the S/S clamps . I am waiting for a little healing before moving on. Here is 2. By the way AJW has been a great source for parts and help. They offer very good prices as well as excellant service. Much better than other sources I have contacted. I recommend them highly.
I bought a 2002 WRX from a Sheriffs ranch. It is a place for wayward boys to repair cars. They got over their heads with the subaru. The car had 276,000 miles on it. But it came with a zero miles CCR rebuilt 2.0 EJ motor in the trunk. The engine has been totally recon to stock specs with lots of new parts. This was too good for me to pass on. The car was butchered under the hood but I am slowly fixing everything. I am installing a performance kit suggested by AJW on the rebuilt motor. I just have to recon the brackets and such. I am replacing all hoses and such. It has been fun learning the Subie stuff. I hope you can enjoy the ride with me. thanks, T.W.
Here is my major donor car. It's an '04 that tangled with a van. The gentleman that owned it from when it was new took OCD care of the car and had all the records. He let the insurance drop to minimum coverage and it would have cost him far too much to repair the car. I picked it up for a song and a dance. I have sold over $600 worth of interior pieces. which brings the cost in under $1,500.
And several hours later .....
And as soon as every unboltable piece is removed from the car A local recycle-er is giving me $500 for the shell.
no wonder it looks so clean! I'm torn as to how much I should do on a 70k motor... It appears to only have AEM intake and filter as the only mod, turbo down and up pipes, turbo etc are stock and original
Since it's an unknown I was thinking:
pull the heads, check the bores and replace head gaskets
replace timing belt and water pump, tensioners etc
powder coat cam covers, brackets etc
pull oil pan, replace oil pump, check main bearings
powder coat oil pan
clean up all the exhaust covers etc...
delete ps pump and ac comp, modify brackets and tensioner, powdercoat as required
thoughs????
(now back to a 1/2 done brake job on one of my winter beaters, a 93 Civic Del Sol SI)
You can't check main bearings without splitting the block and doing a full tearsown. At that point you're doing a full build and adding quite a bit of cost. Obviously easier to do it now nut if the car looks to be stock and on decent condition there's no reason you can't get several years of DD use out of it as it sits.
decent condition? haha... i found many beer bottle caps under the seats etc... Easy to guess why/how it got rolled over!
I'll trust that the bearings are good vs splitting the block and doing everything, that's why I wanted a low mileage donor, to avoid a total rebuild!
Since I currently have 10 cars/trucks it is safe to say an 818 won't see more than 4000 miles per year...
If it rolled, I'd at least pull the oil pan and check for metal flakes. If it ran for an extended period while upside down, that could be bad. You could also reach 3 of the 4 rod bearings and wiggle them.
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I think you confused me (guy with totaled wrx due to lady running red) with metalmaker (guy posting pics of clean parts).
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