1982gl4's 1991 Legacy Sports Sedan off to paint

[Reuben]

Yay 6spd glory!

[1982gl4]

Pulled the spare 22t today. The black car gave a bit of a fight, nothing some torches couldn't take care of. I guess its expected with 270k and a very salty northeast life. I took it for its last drive yesterday. Started right up after jumping the starter. The drive was super sketchy with bald summer tires, 3 inches of fresh snow, and no brakes. I'll be starting the engine build soon! I'm sure I'll have some questions along the way. I'm still undecided as to what exactly I'm going to be doing as far as the build. I'm aiming for 300whp at least. I'm doing a lot of research as I go along. I took a couple photos from today, but my phone went dead after a while due to no cell signal in the shop, I'll be sure to take more as I start tearing down the engine.





Just a bit of rust.


One I took last year, just so I can remember it in its prime.

[Muse]

Hey, if you have no signal, and no hope of it, you can put your phone into 'airplane mode' and it'll stop searching for signal. Saves a lot of battery life that way.

[1982gl4]

I know, I just forgot to turn on airplane mode last time. Dccdpro came in! Now I need to install it. I may fool around with it a bit this weekend, but I think I'm going to start pulling apart the 2.2, and I need to remove the cylinder head on my datsun because the valves are sticking.

[1982gl4]

I disassembled the 2.2t down to the short block today. All was going great. Pulled the valve covers off.
The engine looked super clean.



I pulled the intake off without any problems, as well as the goose neck I've had the bolts break off in the block, and that usually turns into a bad time.



Had a check engine light for knock sensor, I can't imagine why.


And then I had a bad time. I didn't even try with it, and it just snapped off.


Right now I have the broken bolt soaking in penetrating oil, my dad as a knack with this sort of thing, and he thinks we will be able to get it out. He had a couple of tricks we will be trying. But I'm still open to suggestions. I've taken 100's of ej engines apart, and never have had a head bolt break. Guess I should buy a lottery ticket.

[Muse]

What's the story with the 280?

[1982gl4]

Haha, everyone loves that thing. I picked up sitting in a barn along with another one. They had been sitting since 88 I'm in the process of putting a new head on it, and getting it up and running, just making a fun beater out of it.

[1982gl4]

Even though I felt like crap today I decided to get off the couch and do something with my life. I pulled the oil pan off, and the pistons out without a hiccup. I then decided it was time to split the case. As I was heating the bolts/block I was wondering to myself why do I live here. As a car guy I wonder this often.... The northeast is really not the best place for cars. Anyway the thrust bearing looks like it has seen better days, and the crank has worn on the case a tiny bit. Hopefully its still good enough to work with after I get the head bolt out thoughts?

[1982gl4]

Picked up this wrx last week. It looks nice, but it is super, super rusty. The rear strut towers have holes the size of my head in them, and there are no rocker panels to speak of. I have worked on this car for years, and know the history. One owner car, it has been pretty well taken care of. It now has 200k on it so its due for a timing belt. But it has a new cobb turbo back, access port, cobb heat shield. New radiator, front brakes, subframe in the front, control arms, power steering rack, the list goes on. I'm thinking it will be a harness swap for this, I'll be taking some other goodies off from it for my legacy as well! Not sure if I want to try and tackle the dash swap others have done, or have the harnesses merged, anyway a lot of good parts to be used here!

[1982gl4]

So I haven't done much with this the last few months, but the other night I decided I need to get it ready for summer, as its almost here. Pushed it out of its hibernation spot and started working on the dccd controller install, I had a spare seatbelt housing in my black legacy, so I pulled that out, and sketchily gutted the seatbelts. When they say do not remove that cover they mean it. The springs are crazy strong! Anyway after the seatbelts were gutted, i took the shell, and welded it together and made a bracket to hold the controller firmly in place. I don't have pics right now, but I will make sure to upload them in the next couple updates. I went to radio shake the other night as well, and picked up the last few things I needed in install it. More to come soon!

[r3v_v3ng3]

I had a head bolt snapped on me when I was removing the heads (timing snapped/interference). Didn't bother taking it out but it was a good block.
Thats a great donor car (wrx) you can probably update all the stuff in your car with it since you have the whole car to part out. BTW you should move over to the westcoast if your a car guy lol. Not CA cause we have a very strict smog laws and were on severe drought. All the water/snow went to the eastcoast

[1982gl4]

Yeah that was the goal for the wrx, update the legacy! I know all about the west and east coast. I usually go to the West Coast to pick up my personal cars. I have yet to mess around more with the broken head bolt, however, I set some time aside the last couple of days to work on this a bit. I did a couple of things that I had been wanting to do all winter, but just couldn't come up with the time. Now that is starting to get nice out up here, the pressure is on to get some things done so I can enjoy it this summer. I swapped the wrx peddles I had over, this was a very easy conversion. The clutch and break peddle pads just swapped over, and the accelerator peddle had to be modified a little. I had to cut the top side of the peddle bracket, and grind it down a bit to accept the legacy throttle cable, but it was only about 2min of work. I also wired up the dccdpro. I didn't like the connectors that it came with, so I went and looked for something that would work better. I found a connector that fit perfectly for the dccd manual button. A heated seat switch connector for a 2002 outback fit perfect. The control knob, I wasn't so lucky. I found one that I made fit, but its not 100% perfect. Other than that the install was very strait forward, I have yet to try it, but I do like having those extra switches in my center console!




Connectors


Switches placed next to the e-brake

[1982gl4]

Long time no update, haven't been working on this much, basically just driving the heck out of it! I found a set of 2005 wrx seats and swapped them in, I'm working on a way to lower them, but haven't had much luck. I'll post more as I finish that up and have so decent photos of the project. Right now i have them sitting about half an inch lower than they normally do, but thats not enough for me. The plan was to have them reupholstered to match the stock ones, but after I did a lot of work to a friends car they seem to want to back out of the deal now..... I'm also have some issues with the center diff I'm thinking, It is binding a low speeds combined with sharp corners. I'm wondering if my DCCD pro was programed for a normal tps vs our reverse. I was thinking that that my cause this. Anyway here are a few photos.

[91talon]

Man, that's looking good!

[1982gl4]

The car went off to paint, Got a chance to work on it tonight, can't wait until the body work is wrapped up and we can get a new coat of paint on this!!!!

[webberjames95]

ever finsihed?

[1982gl4]

Long time no post, but this did get finished, painted. I never did end up building an engine for it, I got board with it, and other projects took over. I ended up selling it this summer. It now has a home in road island with someone taking very good care of it.





This is my new project. Imported from japan.



However I'm back here, because I put a down payment on this and will hopefully be driving it home next week.

[2002jm]

Love this thread: some day I will have an ss
jm