Hi everyone,
I've been sitting on the Outback for too long... but last week I FINALLY set aside time to do the JDM swap. It took 2 days. One night to pull old motor and the next to put the new one back in! The motor I got from the importer had a different intake manifold, throttle body, etc and different hose connection locations for the AC and power steering.* Both motors had EGR so no fiddling with plugging it up on the new motor. I also installed a new clutch, flywheel, PP, PB, TOB, etc. I'm impressed with how easy this car is to work on! She passed smog with flying colors but I'm keeping all the old parts until I make sure everything is alright. The motor is smooth and has a quiet valvetrain with no check engine lights after about 300 miles of driving. Very happy to have saved this car! I bought some new Sparco Terra's with 215/75r16 General Grabbers but wanted to hold off on mounting them until the major work was finished. (see photo for how she sits right now)
In the downtime I also ordered Baja springs, KYB GR-2/Excel G shocks, shock mounts, just about every suspension bushing, camber correction kit, rear caster kit/trailing arm spacer, a rebuilt steering rack (current one leaks from the inner joints), new axles, pads and rotors and some other stuff I'm forgetting.
I'm more pshyched on this car now that it's running and driving perfectly and will be installing all this new stuff one of these weekends coming up.
Future mods/projects include tube frame bumpers, front skid plate, some sort of lighting upgrade, low range gearbox/transfercase (I know zero about this swap) and roof rack.
Thanks for the continued help!
*EDIT: Clarification on the swap - I installed the old intake manifold and accessories on the new (to me) engine.
I've been sitting on the Outback for too long... but last week I FINALLY set aside time to do the JDM swap. It took 2 days. One night to pull old motor and the next to put the new one back in! The motor I got from the importer had a different intake manifold, throttle body, etc and different hose connection locations for the AC and power steering.* Both motors had EGR so no fiddling with plugging it up on the new motor. I also installed a new clutch, flywheel, PP, PB, TOB, etc. I'm impressed with how easy this car is to work on! She passed smog with flying colors but I'm keeping all the old parts until I make sure everything is alright. The motor is smooth and has a quiet valvetrain with no check engine lights after about 300 miles of driving. Very happy to have saved this car! I bought some new Sparco Terra's with 215/75r16 General Grabbers but wanted to hold off on mounting them until the major work was finished. (see photo for how she sits right now)
In the downtime I also ordered Baja springs, KYB GR-2/Excel G shocks, shock mounts, just about every suspension bushing, camber correction kit, rear caster kit/trailing arm spacer, a rebuilt steering rack (current one leaks from the inner joints), new axles, pads and rotors and some other stuff I'm forgetting.
I'm more pshyched on this car now that it's running and driving perfectly and will be installing all this new stuff one of these weekends coming up.
Future mods/projects include tube frame bumpers, front skid plate, some sort of lighting upgrade, low range gearbox/transfercase (I know zero about this swap) and roof rack.
Thanks for the continued help!
*EDIT: Clarification on the swap - I installed the old intake manifold and accessories on the new (to me) engine.
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