98 Legacy 05 LGT swap ECU, any knowledge or advice on this??

[rallywagon]

I have a 1998 Subaru Legacy L wagon NA stock 135 hp ej22 motor with 170k miles on it-I just sold the motor and now I'm putting in a 2005 LGT Turbo Aspirated stock 250 hp ej25 motor with 100k miles on it. I already took apart the new motor and replaced all the gaskets, seals, timing belt etc. and just bought a brand new 2009 Forester TD04 Turbo that has 100 miles on it-they immediately took it out to do an sti swap on the forester-which btw was Steve's Pacific Import Auto's big project in spanaway. My question for you guys is the wiring, I have never messed with an ECU before-Were planning on putting in the GT dash in my legacy and so were rewiring EVERYTHING. I live in the tacoma area and I work at Tool Guru Subaru & Auto Import Repair, if any of you are local and are willing to come help out or check out the swap then PM me please. I really don't know what my best course of action though is gonna be to go about wiring this. PLEASE HELP ME! haha Any knowledge on these 2 motors will help. What would you do if you were in this situation?? Thanks guys.

Here's some pictures of the swap
Here's the engine right now
https://sl-i.net/FORUM/images/imported/2011/09/314660_279084265438206_100000099053337_1-1.jpg
This is Steve's PIA Forester Project-Getting the turbo from this car
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Here's the VF40 that came with the 2.5-it's gotta broken wind mill inside so I'm getting a smaller TD04 because I still haven't gotten a better tranny or set of axels etc.
https://sl-i.net/FORUM/images/imported/2011/09/331654_274123952600904_100000099053337_1-1.jpg

[mycargoesvroom]

You sold your stock motor before swapping the new one in? Brave man!

[rallywagon]

haha ya I did

[Garrison]

Good luck.


You sold your stock motor before swapping the new one in? Brave man!

This ^^

[csweston]

Just use all of the LGT harness and ecu then just splice accordingly. Seems simple enough :lol:

[rallywagon]

Thanks weston ;)

[99' legacy l]

still got that exaust?

[rallywagon]

Naww I gave it to my boss

[ouch1011]

This is going to similar to doing an Sti/wrx swap, which has been pretty heavily documnted.

[Garrison]

This is going to similar to doing an Sti/wrx swap, which has been pretty heavily documnted.
That doesn't make it easy though.



How's the build coming?

[rallywagon]

The build is going great-I got the turbo x member-steering rack-hubs-control arm and everything in. I got black leather back seats, drilled and slotted rotors, the engine is all assembled and ready to drop in. The project that I'm currently working on is making a turbo inlet-the stock one is ripped which leaves potential for a vacuum leak that I'm not gonna risk so I'm cutting up and welding my cold air intake to be a turbo inlet