First subaru

[DaveM]

Hey, Just wanted to introduce myself to the forum. My names Dave, I live on the east coast of canada in nova scotia. I just acquired this little gem through a friend of mine who is a technician at a Subaru dealership in town. Came in on trade long story short I got in it for a whopping $300. 96 subaru legacy wagon (BK) , 2.2L, 5mt. The car came from Edmonton so it is in quite good shape underneath. Still has the original exhaust and heat shields! My friend looked at it all over and came to the conclusion it needs nothing to pass for a new 2 year mvi as the one on it was up in a month. Plans for now are to just drive it and maybe start with suspension and wheel's as I've been putting another car together for a couple years now and will be ready for spring, That car in question is a 94 sentra with a sr20det I swapped in and all kinds of suspension and supporting mods, Anyway look forward to learning more about subaru's!! Also the layout is pretty much the same for this forum compared to the sr20-forum I use for my sentra so shouldn't have any issues navigating through here! Dave


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After tax and a temp plate.

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[lord flashheart]

That's awesome! Welcome to our forum! Feel free to kick back and Make yourself at home! Its good to meet a new member. I'm flash but my real name is chad.

[nepbug]

That's a nice blank slate foot just over $300.

Judging by the fact that it has a Subaru battery in it, I bet the previous owner serviced it at the dealership, so that's a plus.

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[meepers]

welcome and congrats on a great deal! You have yourself a great base to start with there. When you are ready for forced induction, there are lots of us here who will gladly give some direction. :D

[slo_leg]

Welcome! This looks like it will have great potential. I am quite excited to see what you do

[Hinyo]

Shes looks great. Welcome!!! and take care of her and that engine will run forever. seriously.

[DaveM]

That's awesome! Welcome to our forum! Feel free to kick back and Make yourself at home! Its good to meet a new member. I'm flash but my real name is chad.

Thanks man, I'm rally looking forward to reading/learning all about subaru's! (Pun Intended) Dave

[DaveM]

That's a nice blank slate foot just over $300.

Judging by the fact that it has a Subaru battery in it, I bet the previous owner serviced it at the dealership, so that's a plus.

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Yea, I knew as soon as my friend jamie called me on this by how excited he was I had to buy it! Sight unseen for the most part, Lol. The price was just icing on the cake. As far as I'm aware it's been dealer maintaned since being in nova scotia. oem battery, oil filter, timing belt was done not to long ago same with the clutch. Dave

[DaveM]

welcome and congrats on a great deal! You have yourself a great base to start with there. When you are ready for forced induction, there are lots of us here who will gladly give some direction. :D

Thanks, for now im mostly going to just drive it and slowly work on suspension and brake's. My friend who got me this car is building a 97 gt wrx swap and has all kinds of parts laying around so I'm sure some stuff will trickle down to me once he gets his together. But like you said when I'm ready to go forced induction I'm sure I will have some question's for everyone, but not after reading up myself. Dave

[DaveM]

Welcome! This looks like it will have great potential. I am quite excited to see what you do

Thanks man, for now probably just slowly work on suspension and brake's and just drive her. But who know's, at some point something will happen. Just gotta wait for the right moment. Dave

[DaveM]

Shes looks great. Welcome!!! and take care of her and that engine will run forever. seriously.

Thanks, ohh I will. She is a gem and I take pride in everything I own so she will be maintained to the fullist. Dave

[lord flashheart]

Thanks man, I'm rally looking forward to reading/learning all about subaru's! (Pun Intended) Dave
I see what you did there...

[jmills62]

Wow! What a deal! Welcome!


I'm curious to see about your SR20det in the sentra

[DaveM]

Wow! What a deal! Welcome!


I'm curious to see about your SR20det in the sentra

Thanks, It's something I've slowly been putting together. I should finally have all the suspension together and on the ground for the first time this friday.
Little run down
94 nissan sentra b13 2 door
sr20det Bluebird motor
gtir t28 exhaust manifold,turbo,wastgate (bluebird comes with a t25)
blitz 550cc
nismo afpr
walbro 255 high pressure fuel pump
Running nismotronic for tuning
swapped the interior from a 200sx. Was my parts car with really clean interior so I had got everything to swap over front and rear seats with seat belts
240sx steering wheel
b14 oem wheels (200sx)
rear disk conversion (was drum)
arp extended studs (for a subaru)
muteki extended lugs
adjustable rear control arms
nx2000 front calipers and rotors
pretty much everything in the suspension/brakes was replaced front and back including nuts and bolts
New rear brake lines
kyb agx struts on hypercoil springs new strut mount boots bumps etc
progress adj swaybars
trunk mounted battery
slight harness tuck
hydro clutch swap
short shifter/poly bushing
digital gauge cluster from nx1600 to match digital aem wideband,boost and oil pressure gauges
manual steering rack
3 ss turboback from vrs exhaust
seibon carbon fiber trunk and hood

Getting ready to put the rear together
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Pic of the rear suspension and brakes together sway bar not on yet
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Little interior shot after I got the b14 seats in
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Only engine bay shot I have at the moment lol
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Nismotronic
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Probably could have just made a thread for it here but whatevs. Lol

I can't wait to finally have this on the road then I can really start aquiring things for andre legacy!

[DaveM]

well got my sentra on the ground finally.

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Havent even got a chance to clean the subaru since I got it. Damn weather just been brutal, snowing today so I stopped at the superstore parking lot on my way to work this morning for some sideways fun. She's driving great, Havent had any issues with her. What a gem!

[Dead91silvia]

I have a couple Pulsar GTIR's and they are a blast!

[DaveM]

Well, Picked up a cargo basket and scored an oem rubber trunk tray for $40. Just got to figure out how I'm going to mount the basket. Gonna make a thread for that and get some opinions.

[DaveM]

Well did my first mod to the subaru yesterday. My friend had an outback bumper laying around that he was going to use on his but decided not to go that route so he hooked me up. Both fogs were busted so I'm thinking of replacing them with hella 500 driving lamps, also need to get the proper grille, Lol.

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[DaveM]

Got some wheels from a friend, He just lent them to me until I can find something abit more perminent and a guy he works with sold me a mint set of dunlop tires for $120. Forester rims, I think they look really good! My buddy's forester in the back lurkin, he put a set of saab wheels powder coated black on that and I scored his for the time being. Lol

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Me and my buddy's 98 with full wrx swap (same guy with forester) after he swapped my summers on and got his wrx wheels on. Guy he worked with buffed his car and it came out great, Really brought the paint back on his.

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I also did the rear wiper mod, forgot to take a pic and scored a free cargo cover. Some guy left a note on my windshield asking if wanted it too call him. So I did and he came through. Hahaha

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-Dave

[DaveM]

Went and stripped a 99 outback for a bunch of parts. $200 and I took whatever I wanted. So first off we swapped my crappy seats for some really good shape leathers front and back!

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Installed some fo wood grain trim peices. Not sure if im going to keep the automatic woodgrain trim. I think it looks kind of weird with the stick shift. Also installed the cluster aswell but I"m having issues with it currently. I followed the diy post on this but the speedo doesnt seem to work and my rpm is off so gotta do some of my own research there. Scored that momo wheel locally for a great price.

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Got the front sway bar, rear was dickered. Took front and rear bumpers, hood with scoop, rear pass door cause mine is banged up, trim peices, map light with sunglasses pocket and a couple other small items I'm forgetting.

Also went to a little subie meet about 3 hours away from where I live, didn't get many pics though phone was about to die. Here's me and my friends wrx swapped legacy. Saw someone on here I believe with the smile face fogs and my hellas hadn't arrived so decided to make some covers for the drive up because wind was going into those big ass hole's and pulling the car.

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[foohfooh]

Bwahaha rad foglight covers. Nice score on the woodgrain. I personally love it. Best of all is that wheel though! Black momo bag looks amazing! Wheel is off a jdm legacy methinks? Does the bag actually plug in? Best wheel i think you can put on these cars inmho

[DaveM]

Bwahaha rad foglight covers. Nice score on the woodgrain. I personally love it. Best of all is that wheel though! Black momo bag looks amazing! Wheel is off a jdm legacy methinks? Does the bag actually plug in? Best wheel i think you can put on these cars inmho

Yea love the way this car is coming together! Unfortunately the wheel does not plug in. Plug end are reversed. The momo wheel has a female plug while the regular wheel had a male plug. For now I just took the airbag bulb out of the cluster. I'm not sure I want to try and figure what wire does what for sake of blowing the thing up. The guy I got it from said it was a version 3 or 4 wheel. For 60 bucks I was grabbing it regardless. Haha

[DaveM]

Scored some 08 wrx wheels for $250. Car needs to be a little lower i think. Going to look at a 02 wrx tomorrow aswell. :cool:

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[DaveM]

Sorry no pictures but I scored some projectors off ebay for $89 and a set of jdm wrx struts/springs complete with low mileage.

[DaveM]

Well I scored a pretty sick deal on a complete set of jdm wrx/sti suspension and got around to throwing it on. It did come off a sedan so i do have the infamous saggy butt, I'll be looking to correct this with proper springs for the wagon in the future but spacers will have to do for now (on the way). Compared to the old worn out original suspension it's night and day but who ever had them before me I think jacked the dampening up all the way as I feel every little bump in the road and they seem extremely firm. I'm a little scared to try and adjust them at all at this point. They had originaly sent me 2 pairs of rear struts, 02-03 and a set of 04-up. They ended up sending me the fronts after I called them out on it so I now have another set of rears for spare, Lol. Also the front they sent me had group n top hats! Couple pics..

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[DaveM]

Finally got around to putting the matching leather door card inserts in that I pulled with the seats from an outback awhile ago, also put the sunvisors with vanity mirrors/lights in and limited speakers fron and back, had to cut out the rear panel and fit the speaker grille (pretty straight forward). Gonna wire the lights up when I put the map light with sunglasses pocket in. Also hoping to get my hella 500ff in and jdm projectors before the weekend as there is a big subaru meet here on sunday! Also need to get side skirts and rear lip on.

Before leather doorcard insert

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leather door card

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Sun visor, Lol finger in the pic

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I also replaced the rear view mirror as it was seperating

[nepbug]

Coming along nicely. Need to find a scooped hood and rear spoiler for this. Those 08 WRX wheels look great on the wagon.

[DaveM]

Coming along nicely. Need to find a scooped hood and rear spoiler for this. Those 08 WRX wheels look great on the wagon.

Thanks, I actually grabbed the scooped hood from the outback I got alot of the interior stuff from. It's white so I think I'm going to put that on after winter. Gonna color match the front bumper, hood and mid wing I just picked up and the rear pass door as its dented in abit from the previous owner, front pass door should be able to pop the little dent out and buff her. Grabbed the door off the outback aswell.

[DaveM]

Got around to installing my jdm projectors! Took'em apart and corrected the light pattern before installing and put some ddm tuning hid's in aswell. So much better than the stock headlights!!!!

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Also got around to wiring up the heated seats I put in from an outback several months ago. The passenger side doesnt seem to work! Gonna take the seat apart and check the element for any signs of damage. Also the illumination bulbs in the switches are burnt out.

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[nepbug]

You can check the elements without disassembling the seat. Unplug the connector and check for resistance between all the pins. There are 3 pins on the seat side, and they should all have continuity for each pair combination.

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[DaveM]

You can check the elements without disassembling the seat. Unplug the connector and check for resistance between all the pins. There are 3 pins on the seat side, and they should all have continuity for each pair combination.

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Good call! I'm still very much a newb when it comes to diagnostics, especially with a multi meter. Lol. I'll do that before pulling the seat apart! Thanks, dave

[nepbug]

Here's the schematic for the seat heater system, it'll be useful in your troubleshooting.

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[DaveM]

Picked up a set of yakima roof racks for the naked roof with a wind fairing for $80. I may have to buy different clips but it came off and 02 impreza and I quickly layed them on the roof and looked like they will work so I'll find out sunday when I have time to actually try and mount them. More room in the car for snowboard trips now!

[DaveM]

So turns out my pass side heated seat plug wasnt full connected. Plugged her in and she is working. So both heated seats are working for winter.

Took this random pic the night before I changed the rims for my winters.

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And with the 14" winters. Sucks cause these are brand new and I'm planning on upgrading the brakes after winter and they wont clear these rims so one winter out of them and i'll have to sell em and get some tires for my forrester rims. oh well.

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[DaveM]

Got around to putting some yakima roof racks on that I picked up a couple weeks ago. Was waiting on the proper clips, also put the cargo basket on that I bought months ago now that I had roof racks. It was super nice out on sunday so I gave her a rinse aswell.

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Left my buddies place the other night and this wrx was parked beside me, Lol. Also I got a hubcap of someone junking a legacy for free. I was missing one.

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Picked up this nice 46" workbench tool box for 250 the other day aswell. Now I can contain my growing tool collection and have a functional workbench. Although my rents garage is jammed. My sentra is in there with my motorcycle including 2 spare motors and transmission for the sentra and then all there stuff. Lol

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[DaveM]

I was having an intermittent starting issue so I replaced the contacts and plunger in my starter. $10 bucks and she starts like a charm now!

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[talonsorensen]

sweet ride!!

[prodriver1]

I like the wood grain suround from an auto converted for manual use! way to class it up there:thumbleft:

[DaveM]

Took the 14" winters off and put my forester rims on the other day.

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Then the following day my rear brake line blew. It's been raining something fierce the past couple days so I havent been able to inspect it yet but from what i've read/been told it's easiest to splice into the lines inside the car and run them back out. So I'll be doing that, while i'm there I'll be installing some grease fittings into my struts as I have the infamous strut clunk with my sti suspension and some saggy butt spacers.