Blankdeluxe's 97 Legacy L w/22t - 9-3 Wheel swap

[blankdeluxe]

Follow me on instagram for more updates on the build @blankdeluxe
- Most recent photo -
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Exterior
Hatch swap for one with a wing
Roof rail clean up and paint
OB Front bumper with yellow fog wraps
Scoop Hood swap
8k projector headlights
HD garage lips front and rear
Slight fender roll
Baked headlights dipped black
02 WRX wheels painted duplicolor gold
Stock wheels painted copper for winter
Dipped chrome trim black
Gutted grill and installed mesh. Painted black
Raceland Ultimos. Nothing special but they ride decent
Supertones in grill and sti badge
Rally Armor Universal Mud Flaps
Satin Black Hood Wrap
RFRB Limited Grill

Interior
93 black turbo wagon seats front and rear
Double din LCD touch screen
Boost gauge mounted in front of custer
Black with red stitching shift boot
Triple dash gauge pod molded to fit above vents
EGT, Oil pressure and A/F gauge
Everything else returned to stock from previous owner neglect

Engine
04 forester top mount
Custom BOV mount to clear throttle cables
HKS SSQV V4
EJ22t block and heads
EJ22e intake manifold and electronics
STI exhaust manifold
AEM Uego Wideband
3 inch catless uppipe
VF-11 in stock location at wastgate pressure. Going to td04 once the motor swap is done
Home made intake piping
Optima Red Top
Gutted tleg down pipe
2.5" Exhaust to a 4.5 inch can
Manual Boost Controller Set at 6 psi
Turbo Blanket

I'm sure I left a few things out but that is the basic list of what I have done so far. Bought the car in May or 2013 so pretty good progress for less then a year of ownership. Here are a few pics from the past year and few more recent ones.

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What it looked like when I picked it up.
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[oskar_subaru]

Holy Cr** that´s awesome !
what EM are you running right now if the E-manage is in the garage ? just stock ?

[Wagonista]

Now this is relevant to my interests.

Welcome to the board.

[blankdeluxe]

Now this is relevant to my interests.

Welcome to the board.

Thanks, I'm going to do my best to keep this updated and have it as a reference for any future work.


Holy Cr** that´s awesome !
what EM are you running right now if the E-manage is in the garage ? just stock ?

Thank you, its starting to come together. I'm ready to swap turbos already. Stock 22e ecu right now with the VF-11 are 5psi. At this boost level the ecu can handle it fine and runs perfectly(aside from a slight BOV leak). Should be putting in the emanage within a month or so and I'm update on here as I make progress.

[eddierotary]

What type of AFM is that? Ej22t? How it runs with it?

[blankdeluxe]

What type of AFM is that? Ej22t? How it runs with it?

That MAF was the 22t metal one. I don't recommend it unless you are running way more boost with a bigger turbo and injectors. I was literally just dumping fuel when I had that one in. Burned half a tank of gas in less then 50 miles and the car ran super rough. Swap back to the stock 22e one and in still a little rich but much closer to ideal. I'm getting about 20 mpg now. When I first finished the swap I was getting a bad misfire and couldn't get the car to rev past 3k so I swapped MAF's to that metal one and thats when I took the picture. I'm going to try and go get some slightly better pictures this weekend.

[blankdeluxe]

Still just crappy cell phone pictures but I put my WRX wheels back on, got my front lip back on, and redid my fog light wrap. One of these days i'm going to get motivated and take the good camera out for some decent pictures. I also need to get the car a bath soon.

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[Somthy]

Sweet! Another Colorado member
Car looks great with the wrx wheels. Jealous of that turbo kit.

[blankdeluxe]

Ordered a AEM wideband, HKS SSQV, and a dash gauge pod. I got the gauge pod in yesterday so I'm going to hit it with the head gun tonight and see if I can get it molded to my dash. Everything else should be here next week. Then its on to turning up the boost



Sweet! Another Colorado member
Car looks great with the wrx wheels. Jealous of that turbo kit.

Thanks, its starting to come together. Are you taking your car down to the CUSCC show on May 4th?

[Somthy]

Are you taking your car down to the CUSCC show on May 4th?
Yeah I'll be there in my evo. If I can find someone to drive my leggy down it'll be there too

[blankdeluxe]

Got this in the other day. Starting trying to fit it last night. Just hitting it with the heat gun right now a little at a time to get it to follow the bends in the dash.
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[ddudlext]

saw a pic of your car while googling for 97 outback lips.

I just bought my 97 OB and it's my beater/DD/winterbeater/fun-mobile, i give zero ****s about this car and its so liberating.

just wanted to say i'm a big fan of the lip, and the yellow fogs, did you spray them or use a tint film? i went to wal-mart advance auto, autozone and orielly today looking for a yellow spray tint but didn't find anything. gonna try home depot tomorrow when I go pick up the garage door seal to make a lip like yours. maybe stained glass spray paint?

[wentz912]

Are you going to use any other supporting parts to go with the TD04 instead of the VF 11? Should be able to use the stock ECU as long as you are staying at wastegate boost pressures with the better turbo, right?

I just picked up a 22T yesterday, and already had the TD04 and FXT intercooler, so it kind of sounds like we might be twins!

[blankdeluxe]

saw a pic of your car while googling for 97 outback lips.

I just bought my 97 OB and it's my beater/DD/winterbeater/fun-mobile, i give zero ****s about this car and its so liberating.

just wanted to say i'm a big fan of the lip, and the yellow fogs, did you spray them or use a tint film? i went to wal-mart advance auto, autozone and orielly today looking for a yellow spray tint but didn't find anything. gonna try home depot tomorrow when I go pick up the garage door seal to make a lip like yours. maybe stained glass spray paint?

Nice, glad some of the pictures are actually help people out. I'm going to be trying a new lip sometime this summer but bang for buck on OB bumpers is the home depot lip. I looks good, cheap, and easy. The yellow fogs are a vinyl wrap that my girlfriend bought for me off of ebay. Heres the link, http://www.ebay.com/usr/rvinyl_inc , its really thick vinyl and it holds up awesome. Good luck with the lip an let me know if you need any pointers.


Are you going to use any other supporting parts to go with the TD04 instead of the VF 11? Should be able to use the stock ECU as long as you are staying at wastegate boost pressures with the better turbo, right?

I just picked up a 22T yesterday, and already had the TD04 and FXT intercooler, so it kind of sounds like we might be twins!

The td04 has different wastegate pressures from year to year so it depends on what version you get. I have an 06 so technically I could just run wastegate pressure on it and it would only be about a pound higher then the VF-11. But to answer your question, I am doing some supporting mods as well just to make sure that I don't have any issues with the cars once I'm ready to start turning up the boost. I will be replacing the fuel pump to a walbro 255, I'm putting in the 22t injectors until I can get it tuned a little (I will be going up to 550's at some point but I just want it running good first), and I will be running a wideband as well just so I can keep an eye on things. Congrats on the 22t. I don't care what anyone else says, those are by far my favorite subie motors. They are built pretty stout from the factory.

[wentz912]

And just to confirm, you are using your cars FACTORY EJ22E intake, harness, and ECU? My TD04 is from the same 04 FXT that I got my intercooler from. I'm excited to get this thing together! Will the 22T injectors fit the 22E rails? And is a rising rate regulator necessary with that combo, or can that be addressed later on down the road?

[86bratman]

The end of the 22t injectors I'd different than the 22e, they aren't swappable between rails. Pm incoming.

[blankdeluxe]

And just to confirm, you are using your cars FACTORY EJ22E intake, harness, and ECU? My TD04 is from the same 04 FXT that I got my intercooler from. I'm excited to get this thing together! Will the 22T injectors fit the 22E rails? And is a rising rate regulator necessary with that combo, or can that be addressed later on down the road?

Correct. 97 22e intake manifold, factory harness, and stock ECU right now on 5 pounds of boost. Your td04 has a ~8psi wastegate so you not going to want to run that much boost with the stock ECU and no tune. The MAF voltage will max out and youll hit a fuel cut. And I have a set of injectors, rails, and manifold. So I'm most likely just going to swap intakes at the same time with just a few modifications to get all the electronics working right.


The end of the 22t injectors I'd different than the 22e, they aren't swappable between rails. Pm incoming.

Well I have complete intake manifold still so I will just swap all of it if need be. I didn't get a PM...

[wentz912]

I actually have just about EVERYTHING from the 22T car, so I'm going to go ahead and throw those injectors/rail at my 22E manifold while I've got things apart. And I guess it will be time for a piggyback/standalone sooner than I thought!

[blankdeluxe]

I actually have just about EVERYTHING from the 22T car, so I'm going to go ahead and throw those injectors/rail at my 22E manifold while I've got things apart. And I guess it will be time for a piggyback/standalone sooner than I thought!

You will want to do a piggyback/standalone and wideband before you try to run the car at 8psi. But it sounds like your pretty close to having most of the main pieces to get it all together. Make sure you get the right waterpump for the 22t too. The 91's are the same as wrx, the 92-94 are unique only to those years. Rock Auto was the best price I found for the waterpump.

[blankdeluxe]

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[Huffer]

Great mods. Looks formidable and the gold really sets off against the black nicely. Any video?

[blankdeluxe]

Great mods. Looks formidable and the gold really sets off against the black nicely. Any video?

Not yet. I still need to get some good ones filmed.

[Beauchemin]

Car looks awesome man! i want your headlights haha

[blankdeluxe]

Car looks awesome man! i want your headlights haha

I'll sell them to you once I get my JDMs. The light output isn't great on them anymore but they look good. Give and take I guess.

[blankdeluxe]

The rest of my gauges came in on Saturday so I got them in the pod and wired into power and ground. I still need to hook up the pressure sender and EGT probe but thats the easy part anyway. My HKS BOV also came in and I built a new flange from that and got it installed but don't have any pictures yet. Needs paint and then I will post it. I also need to get a video together for some sound clips.

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[blankdeluxe]

Got my HKS bov flange built and got it installed. So much better then the crappy first gen legacy bpv I was running before. There is a huge Colorado car show tomorrow so I'm spending the rest of the day cleaning my car and putting new mud flaps on the GF's bugeye.

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[twoheadedboy]

Looks great with the gauge pod

[Beauchemin]

Deff. let me know on the headlights, gauges and BOV look sick man!!

[blankdeluxe]

Collecting some parts for the new round of upgrades. 3 inch bellmouth downpipe, td04, turbo legacy brakes(not shown), and full 3 inch cattless exhaust(because racecar?). I may try and start swapping this weekend if I can get all the small parts in that I need to get it back together.

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[blankdeluxe]

Threw a few stickers on finally. Put a bid on a RFRB limited front grill at a decent price that I hope I can pick up. Also might have a chance to pick up an AEM Tru Boost to replace my crappy parts store boost gauge.

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[blankdeluxe]

Wrapped my hood and put a honda pilot rear wiper arm on. So much better then that crappy stock wiper. The wrap came out pretty bad since it was my first time trying it but it still looks better then it did before. I melted a hole in it with the heat gun so I'm going to have to redo it anyway.

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[peugoby]

Wrapped my hood and put a honda pilot rear wiper arm on. So much better then that crappy stock wiper.
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Nice, did you get the wiper from a Honda dealer? Whats the cost on one?

[blankdeluxe]

Nice, did you get the wiper from a Honda dealer? Whats the cost on one?

Yeah, I just called up the dealer and ordered one. Its was about $25 for the arm and then I went to the parts store for the blade. They wanted another $25 for the blade from honda and it was about $12 at the parts store.

[blankdeluxe]

RFRB grill finally! Its so pretty. Also ordered my 3 inch exhaust this morning. Should be here mid next week then I just need to extend it a few feet and get my new downpipe installed.

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[blankdeluxe]

Picked up a new center diff yesterday. Should be popping that in this coming weekend. I can't wait to be able to drive more then 30 miles without locking up my center diff (cooked my current one over the winter running bad tires)

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[blankdeluxe]

3 inch exhaust went on and got finished Friday. I kept a cat in the downpipe and I already don't like how much quieter it made things so I will probably be climbing back under tonight to take care of that "problem" right away. I'll get a back of the car shot with the new muffler tonight and an under the car shot since I need to fix it anyway

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[Muse]

Sweet-looking exhaust.

[blankdeluxe]

Ended up breaking two studs off my turbo and then finding a crack in my waste gate. So after a quick message to my subie club I came home with a couple more turbos in case I have issues again.
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Sweet-looking exhaust.

Thanks. Its super loud and grumbly now. I'm loving it so far.

[blankdeluxe]

Got rid of my crappy homemade flaps last night and put some RA's on.

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Also, here is a quick sound clip of the new exhaust. Shot on a cell phone though so it doesn't really do it justice.
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[blankdeluxe]

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Cut out a template and then started laying out the hardwoods to see how things are going to look. I'm going to start gluing them in tonight and then figure out how to get it in for the final install.

[blankdeluxe]

I have slacked off from posting for a little bit. I had some carnage a few weeks back and had to replace a bunch of parts. Ripped my DP into 3 pieces, destroyed a uppipe and turbo, and had to completely redo all my exhaust. But its back up and running now better then ever.

Also have pictures of the finished floors. I have a strut bar in there now as well but I don't have any pictures of that yet.
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Installed a EBC as well. Low boost is set to wastegate for daily driving and trying to save gas. High boost is right around 10psi right now. Any more and I hit fuel cut. Plus i'm pretty sure my injectors are almost maxed so I need to swap in my tleg rails soon.
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Also picked up a first gen turbo wagon last weekend so I have another project this winter to try and bring this car back from the dead and get it running like it should .
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[eddierotary]

3 inch exhaust went on and got finished Friday. I kept a cat in the downpipe and I already don't like how much quieter it made things so I will probably be climbing back under tonight to take care of that "problem" right away. I'll get a back of the car shot with the new muffler tonight and an under the car shot since I need to fix it anyway

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did you had to modified your exhaust to make it fit?

[blankdeluxe]

did you had to modified your exhaust to make it fit?


Yeah, I had to add about a foot of tube from the 02/07 WRX length to get it to fit. I have yet to find anyone that makes a real full exhaust system for these cars.

[blankdeluxe]

Swapped to 06-07 WRX wheels last night. I'm not the biggest fan of this style but I only paid $350 total for all 4 with brand new tires on them and my old tires need to be replaced. Probably going to end up painting them gold again because I love how it looks.

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