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    Thats a good idea but, from what i understand all of the cars have the wiring up to the bulk head connector found under the glovebox on the RH pilliar that lead down to the floorboard, to supply power to the heated seats. Its a light blue wire and you will need a relay to make it supply the power but it is already fused and everything. I have some pretty good wiring diagrams i will post up, i am getting ready to wire mine in probably tonight. Also if you look at nepbug's outback he has a really good write up.

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    Wired in the headed seat switches, not a bad job at all the hardest part is getting to the harness to run your wires. I went ahead and pulled my entire carpet out as well because it's nasty and I needed an excuse to take it out and really scrub it.



    This guy right here is the main power to the heated seats, I just extracted the pin from the connector then ran a wire from here to my switches.



    You will also need a relay to plug into the rear accessory harness to supply power to the switches.



    I also tapped into the illumination wires but I suppose my lights are burnt out in both switches, because I'm receiving power to them. I took one of the switches apart to see about replacing the bulb doesn't seem to bad I will just have to find out what size it is.


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    Today has been my first chance to spend some quality time in the garage for about 4 weeks. I started piddling around, put my LH fender back on, removed the carpet and wired in the switches. Next thing I know I grabbed the phone and it read 4am haha haven't stayed up that late in a long time!


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    Anyone have any experience dying their carpet? I have scrubbed and scrubbed some more on my carpets and they are still stained like crazy.


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    Quote Originally Posted by dna View Post
    Wired in the headed seat switches, not a bad job at all the hardest part is getting to the harness to run your wires. I went ahead and pulled my entire carpet out as well because it's nasty and I needed an excuse to take it out and really scrub it.



    This guy right here is the main power to the heated seats, I just extracted the pin from the connector then ran a wire from here to my switches.



    You will also need a relay to plug into the rear accessory harness to supply power to the switches.



    I also tapped into the illumination wires but I suppose my lights are burnt out in both switches, because I'm receiving power to them. I took one of the switches apart to see about replacing the bulb doesn't seem to bad I will just have to find out what size it is.


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    Check my build thread, I've got a write up on replacing those bulbs. I'd link it if I wasn't on my phone.

    Nevermind, wasn't hard to find.
    https://sl-i.net/FORUM/showthread.php?t=18632

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    Quote Originally Posted by dna View Post
    Anyone have any experience dying their carpet? I have scrubbed and scrubbed some more on my carpets and they are still stained like crazy.


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    Haven't dyed it, but if you have it out, take it to a car wash and pressure wash it. If it's still dirty then use some lacquer thinner on it (let that dry and air out really good before reinstalling, also do a small test area first to make sure it doesn't discolor your carpet). If it's still bad, time to get a new one or try dying or painting it.

    I think new carpets are around $200 from Subaru, not as bad as I thought they'd be. I still haven't bought one though

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    Yeah that's not too bad, I was thinking closer to 400 for a new one. I pressure washed the carpet and took the shop vac to it seemed to really help.


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    Quote Originally Posted by dna View Post
    Anyone have any experience dying their carpet? I have scrubbed and scrubbed some more on my carpets and they are still stained like crazy.


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    I spray dyed mine on my BH. I used SEM landau black and sprayed a few cans on it. Just put it in the car a few weeks ago and it's holding up fine.

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    Sweet that's good to hear I went out earlier and bought a can of the duplicolor fabric spray slightly darker than my current carpet. Haven't had a chance to test it out yet though.


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    Just ordered my head gaskets, timing belt and throwout bearing!


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    Does anyone have info on the L to Gt style headlight swap. I have searched quite a bit and found a lot of conflicting info.


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    I dyed the carpets with Duplicolor vinyl and fabric spray. I ended up finding the exact color of my carpets so I really just used the spray on the major problem area's. I'm really surprised with the way it turned out.


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    Gaskets, clutch and timing belt are in. Time for a busy weekend


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    Major work is about to go down, updates to follow. It's going to be another late night!


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    Head gaskets are installed and torqued. The cometic ej22t MLS head gasket mates up perfectly to this build. Thanks bratman for the recommendation!


    I didn't get many pictures taken because it was just me, but I did have one small issue with a rivet on the drivers side head.

    So I took a small chainsaw file to trim about 1/8th of an inch off of the corner.


    And all was well, this piece of the gasket doesn't actually affect the two mating surfaces, but I figured any little imperfections may cause a leak.


    I also cleaned up my engine bay some.




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    More progress to be made tonight, hopefully going to wire in my headlight and reinstall my interior.


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    Painted my snowflake rims today at work, also balanced them.


    Decided to go with the snowflakes because the have practically new tires and I traded my Gt rims haha


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    So i have a question, has anyone ever bough reman STI, brake calipers from auto zone? I was looking earlier and i added both front and rear calipers to the cart, total (paying core charges) was like 450. These sets usually sell for 1200 bucks on subaru sites?

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    Hybrid Ej251/ej22e in the making

    Not much progress at this point, I bought a set of wrx injectors along with the fuel pump and recirculated stock blow off valve off a buddy who just replaced his.


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    Finally got to put in some work to the engine today, replaced my oil pump seal, valve cover gaskets with spark plug gaskets, removed the oil pan and replaced the gasket on it. Also I removed the coolant crossover pipe and replaced the 2 o-rings that seal it.

    Oh yeah and I installed my timing belt with a new tensioner, water pump and pulleys.

    Didn't really get to take many pictures though but here are what I did manage to get.


    The engine has its fair share of mileage and that shows with the oil pan removed, but I was pleased to find all of the crank bearings seemed tight and the oil pickup was completely clean.


    I cleaned what I could off of the bottom of the engine, mostly used my air nozzle and a little scraper to get the sludge off, then very little brake clean to get the rest off. I figure as long as I can tell if it is leaking that is good enough for me. I could really scrub and get it looking really nice but it's not going to be a show car so I'm happy with it.


    And here it is the almost complete engine, tomorrow I plan on installing the intake manifold, alternator and power steering pump.


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    Oh yeah and if you guys have any recommendations for a good cheap engine management system it would be greatly appreciated. I plan on running a wideband 02 and a boost gauge to monitor my engine, and I need a cheap efficient way to adjust timing and fuel. Right now I have been looking at emanage ultimate, however it's price has me looking at other options.


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    I edited my original post to try and clean up my build thread some, I inserted some hyperlinks to jump to the more exciting parts of the build. (All 4 of the pages haha) I know this build is taking me forever but like i said in the beginning I am literally working off of a non existent budget and furthermore I would like to add that all of the parts that have been installed on the car so far have been either traded for, or i sold something to purchase them. So the only part that has actually came out of my pocket has been the Cometic head gaskets and that was because I was itching to get some work done on the car. Haha

    Didn't get much done to the car today other than finishing up installing the timing belt cover, and removing one of my injectors to compare it to the wrx injectors i have. I plan on installing the Wrx injectors tomorrow and getting the intake manifold installed.

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    Parts still needed to complete, if you guys have any of these let me know.

    • Wideband 02 sensor with gauge
    • WRX headers and up pipe
    • Greddy Emanage Ultimate/ or alternate engine management
    • Wrx/Forester Hood scoop
    • Forester XT BOV


    Parts That i want
    • All new brakes and rotors
    • Swaybars and endlinks
    • JDM or Baja scooped hood
    • Black leather rear seat to match the front

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    Engine is mostly assembled, I installed the wrx injectors today. It actually went a lot better than I expected.



    Most things I read online said that the wrx injectors sit about 3/8 inside the manifold but after I got them seated properly I would say mine is a lot closer to 1/4" which seems to me will work perfectly.



    What you need to do if you want to run wrx injectors is buy a set of ej251 injector o rings, then install them onto the wrx injector. Then for the bottom of the injector make sure that the port on the manifold is clean, I took some really fine sand paper and cleaned the corrosion around the port and the injectors slid right in. Nice tight fit.




    And here it is basically ready to drop in, minus the alternator and power steering pump.


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    Carpet is back in along with trim, drivers seat and center console. I'm leaving the passenger and rear seat out for now so I can put in the fuel pump and the emanage.

    I'll get some pictures posted up soon, the carpet looks 100x better then it did.

    Once this blizzard is over with I'm gonna haul the car into the shop so I can finish it up. It's just a hassle trying to heat my garage every time, all that I have is a small wood stove trying to heat a 1200 sq ft metal building. The stove heats decently but it eats the wood and I didn't cut near as much as I should have this year. Besides at the shop there is every tool I need to finish up the job and on the plus side it's right next to the DMV so as soon as I get it finished I'll drive it over and get it registered.


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    I have a wrx header, what's your price?

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    Oem?


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    Yeah, from a 04/05

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    I haven't tried one but I've heard the oem headers won't clear the NA water pumps.


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    That is probably correct

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