My '93 L UHEV

[Piddster]

I think you all have seen it, but I just joined. There have been a few changes in that last few months. My pipe set is on its third and final revision w/ a TiAL 44mm wastegate. Also added an Aeromotive FPR. I'm waiting on a 5 bar map sensor so I can crank it to 23-24psi.

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[StatGSR]

w00t! welcome to the forum dan!

[Plays_with_Toys]

Hey there welcome to SL-i! Call me stupid, but... UHEV?

[phi11]

w00t for sure!

Piddster was MNsubarus ride of the month, last month!!!!

[deadlydave]

Hey there welcome to SL-i! Call me stupid, but... UHEV?

Ultra Heavy-Emissions Vehicle.

[Piddster]

haha, bingo. I guess I do have a working PCV system, but thats about it.


Statgsr bugged me for long enough to get over here. :cool:

[Reason]

Statgsr bugged me for long enough to get over here. :cool:

Sorry to say, but he's been ban from the forums.

[Wiscon_Mark]

yes, but somehow he posts from the afterlife :lol:

Welcome aboard, that's quite a sleeper.

[StatGSR]

Statgsr bugged me for long enough to get over here. :cool:

Sorry to say, but he's been ban from the forums.

yea, im such a jerk..... i hate being banned.... :shock: :grin:

[Piddster]

Statgsr bugged me for long enough to get over here. :cool:

Sorry to say, but he's been ban from the forums.

For some reason that doesn't surprise me. :confused3:

[Airgne]

anything new about this?

[Kansei]

all I have to say is that is one hell of a sleeper.

[StatGSR]

anything new about this?

yea it recently got T-boned and now hes looking for a new BC shell.

[henryq89]

umm...one question...totally out of random lol....how is statGSR still posting even thou he is banned?? can anyone explain???
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[99SUS SFD]

Just his title.

[StatGSR]

umm...one question...totally out of random lol....how is statGSR still posting even thou he is banned?? can anyone explain???
:sleepy5:

see my signature

[jg09]

So basically you're here so that we can all point and laugh at you?

[henryq89]

So basically you're here so that we can all point and laugh at you?


lol thats kinda harsh hahah :lol: :lol:

[Reason]

wow man nice car once i saw the pic of just a car i thought it was just a starter car or sum but wow bro once the engine bay pic loaded it got me excited, theres not alot of first gens here are there?

Not many but some, we love them all the same!

[StatGSR]

i guess i can give a little update since i know he doesnt frequent here. He has stripped down the old car (seen here) and has found a new shell down south some where that he is getting shipped up so that he can make the transplant into that. he is still sticking to a first gen and it should be much more bad ass than this one once its done, and much cleaner as well.

[xXGTBspecXx]

nifty build.. cant wait to see it finished in the new body.

[chuckthefuk]

https://sl-i.net/FORUM/images/imported/2007/06/sideview-1.jpg

That pipework is insane same goes with the turbo/wastegate :shock:

[grayguy]

Dan's car is what got me into subaru. I was mildly interested it them, then he happened to build this car in my buddies garage, and once I hung around him/his build, I knew I had to have one! Keep up the good work!

[Piddster]

OK guys. Kyle (statgsr) told me to get my ass back over here. I took a little bit of a break from forums for a while. We all get burnt out at some point.



Anyways, there was a little shake-up in my world in August. I was out re-tuning for the Deatchwerks 900cc injectors I installed the night before, and a woman in an '08 Camry decided to make an illegal U-turn into the side of my car when I was doing 60mph. If iwouldn't have swerved, I would have hit her drivers door at 60, and that would have been messy, aside from most of my goodies being trashed.

Before that, I had finally put the new fenders on that had been hanging from the garage wall for six months, and sprayed the silver stuff black. It looked almost presentable for about three months.


So....bear with me. I'll be pasting stuff together because I'd rather not retype everything 5 times, lol

Current mods:

Engine: 1991 EJ22T
Wiseco Pistons
Eagle Rods
Balanced & Blueprinted
Clevite Main Bearings
Cobb “race” rod bearings
Delta Camshafts
Garrett GT2871r 56T turbo
TiAL 44mm wastegate
Custom pipeset
Custom IC plumbing
Modified WRX TBE
Spearco FMIC
TiAL BOV
Koyo radiator
Slim fans
Custom lower radiator support
Diamond coilpack
Magnecor plug wires
Aeromotive A1000-6 FPR
Aeroquip fuel lines & fittings
Outfront Motorsports fuel rail adapters
Deatschwerks 650cc SR20 injectors
Link Plus G2 ECU
Zeitronix wideband w/ EGT 3.5 bar MAP sensor
MAC BCS

Driveline:

’05 STi 6 speed
Exedy Hyper Single clutch
’99 Imrpeza RS rear VLSD
K4RT30Y rear shifter bushing
Spiider’s Auto DCCD controller

Suspension:

H&R coilovers
RacingBrake 16” 4 pot kit
Hawk HPS pads
Goodridge lines
Energy Suspension bushing kit
SuperPro steering rack, lateral link, tranny x-member bushings
Whiteline Anti-lift kit
Strut tower bar
Lower H-brace

Interior:

Autometer boost, oil pres, water temp gauges
’93 Legacy Sport Sedan interior


What's changing:

'98 DOHC heads
Modified (again :laugh:) pipeset
IC down low
COP
revised fuel system
much cleaner wiring
Opera Tuning style chassis reinforcements
tubular bumper beam
'04-05 R180 w/ hybrid axles
and plenty of other things I decide to change along the way.



The car previously:

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Crunch!
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This will need to be cut apart, extended for the DOHC heads, flex joint removed, etc.

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Opera Tuning is a shop in Japan that uses factory sheetmetal over the top of existing sheetmetal to reinforce the car. I'll be doing this in some key areas since the old Legacy is damn near a wet noodle by todays standards of chassis rigidity. You can see what I removed hear. I think there was almost 30 spotwelds on each one...

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I pledge allegiance...

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[Piddster]

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Finding somewhere to put all this stuff is fun...



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Interior fasteners thus far :eek3:

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And I made some money while I was at it :biggrin:

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The coolest part is that I get to do this all over again when I get another car :(

[Piddster]

I did this Christmas night. I had to retreat to the garage after six hours of family. :smt013

I did the welding on on the intake a few weeks ago at Matt's place. It is pretty ugly, as I had never welded on cast aluminum before. If I would have known at the time, I would have messed with the balance control to get better penetration. Oh well.


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[Piddster]

I took delivery on Sunday (1-25). I didn't have time to go do a burnout, plus with the clicking axle and lack of plates, I was less inclined anyways. Maybe next weekend. :cool:



It ended up being cleaner than I expected. The car is 99.9% rust free. All the normal nasty spots are all solid metal, and the little spots of surface rust is also solid by how it sounds when I tap on it. The front end has never been repaired beyond a bumper cover and a little spray in the front, as none of the core support or any sheetmetal under the hood or along the frame rails has been eff'd with. Now, about that color.......


Not bad for $840 shipped :biggrin:



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It might be a few months before she looks like this again. I may paint the door handles this time. I dunno. I have time to think about it ;)


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[Legacy89]

Is that slate metalic gray?

Just leave the handles, easier for you to fin them :razz:

I sort of miss my BC but not the Auto.

[Piddster]

I can't remember what the exact color is, something along the lines of pewter metallic, or something like that. I'll be painting it with Forest Pearl, the color of my wrecked car. It was only sprayed in '93.

[T_F_E]

Wow awesome story and car

[Piddster]

Finally, some progress. After working on everyone else's toilet, I get to work on my own car(s). Got the wrecked green car out of the garage and the newish car in. The Kansas car is like working on a new car. Every bolt comes out like it is coated in butter. I love it.

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All that is left of the FWD fail in this car is the fuel tank, and it has 12 gallons in it at the moment.

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Of course, no car from Kansas would be complete without piles of dirt...

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[Piddster]

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This is why all the old Legacys have rusty-ass fenders on them.

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It is comforting to know that most of this stuff has to come back out for paint :(

[rougeben83]

so youre going to transfer the stuff in your old car to the new one? Looking good so far :smt023

[Piddster]

so youre going to transfer the stuff in your old car to the new one? Looking good so far :smt023


And then some.... :wink:

[Piddster]

It's starting to look like an AWD car....


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Old captive nuts are ftl.


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After that fun I was able to get the front half of the rear crossmember in.

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Hmmmmm. What do I have here? Looks like an R180. When I get my axles this week, she'll be ready to go in. Hopefully it is a 3.90. When I get my axles I'll know for sure.


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[Piddster]

I started working on the front core support where I found that the lower core support is taller than turbo cars. Weird. :dunno: Oh well, it makes a little more work out of it.

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Therefore it all needed to be cut apart so I can modify it. Also, I started my jog in the center support. It might still need to come up a hair. Everything will be boxed-in and reinforced to be as strong, if not stronger than the original.

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Why am I going through all of this? I want to fit a decent sized intercooler in there and maintain some semblance of a bumper beam, which is also being modified extensively.

Old in front of new :biggrin:


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[Piddster]

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That is the tentative IC mounting, ish. I need to weld brackets to the bottom of the IC, and some mounting brackets to the bottom of the core support. I had to buzz off the center support so I can move it up a RCH. I'm not close to done yet with this part...

[rougeben83]

wow that's pretty big :grin: So...like...what are you going to do with your old one? :smt002 :grin:

[Piddster]

It's getting used on a GSR :smt009

[StatGSR]

lookin good dan!

[Piddster]

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[Reason]

Build projects like this are awesome! Are you going to paint everything before you put it all back together one fabrication is complete?

[Piddster]

Thanks!



It all will definitely be painted before final assembly. A catalyzed acid primer on the bare metal, and we're considering possibly using a base-clear on it, because we can. In some sort of metallic black for engine bay and the front end.

[Piddster]

Did some test fitting. The bumper cover fits great. Ran into a little issue with the headlight though. I'll most likely cut them like I did with that junk headlight, and reseal them up with windsheild urethane.


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[rougeben83]

nice! can you take the FMIC out afterwards just in case you ever need to replace it?

[Piddster]

Yeah it'll come out. I'll have to take the bumper beam off to get it out, but it will be a nuts and bolts affair. The intercooler isn't mounted yet as I wanted to make sure everything else fit before I made some mounting brackets for it.

[Piddster]

Been a while, but school and work have owned me. Small updates are small...


Got the R180 in with proper axles etc. I'm waiting on some pads and one more rear caliper.

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Brackets welded to the IC and car for mounting.

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AC hole delete.

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[StatGSR]

lol, i feel like im following you around all the forums haha