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TonyAKAVW
post Nov 14 2005, 01:32 AM
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At the top are clips that hold the radiator in place by the pegs from the top...


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post Nov 14 2005, 01:32 AM
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Now with the radiator in place...



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post Nov 14 2005, 01:34 AM
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Some holes for rivets to hold the frame onto the firewall. At the bottom is a support piece which mounts to the firewall via a welded on angle-iron segment. (hard to explain, will show with picture when it is installed later)


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post Nov 14 2005, 01:35 AM
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Last but not least, a bit more on the mounting methdo from the last picture. Use your imagination for now as to what the element on the car is going to look like.


As a final note, this whole thing is going to be welded up by a neighbor. There are a ton of screws holding pieces together. All of those will go away. The rivets howwever will stay. After that it will be powdercoated black. Or, if anyone wants to anodize it for me, that would be cool (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif)

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post Nov 14 2005, 11:38 AM
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Looks cute!


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post Nov 14 2005, 12:07 PM
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Somebody needs a TIG welder. (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif)
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post Nov 16 2005, 12:42 AM
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Last night I sprayed some expanding foam around the perimeter of the oil pan. The purpose of this was to figure out where to expand the oil pan to increase volume but at the same time not interfere with installing it, or other things in the vicinity like the engine mounts, oil filter, and engine support bar.



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post Nov 16 2005, 12:45 AM
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So I cut pieces out of the foam for a few major sections.

1. Front
2. Rear
3. Sides

I can get probalby 2/3 of a quart with the front and rear, this is _probably_ enough. When I cut off the bottom I removed 1 quart's worth.
I got crazy with the bondo tonight and covered the front and rear pieces, sanded and painted them.

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post Nov 16 2005, 05:37 AM
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(IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/wub.gif) the sump, thiught that you might put the volume on the front and the back, this would suit the turbo on mine also
ie the oil drain (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/clap.gif)
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post Dec 6 2005, 01:13 AM
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The only new thing to report is that I have decided to abondon the conversion of the silver roller pictured in this thread. Instead, I am going to convert my '70 1.7 daily driver to Subaru. What I will continue doing though is finishing the parts for the conversion on the silver roller. On my list of things to finish soon are a lot of little things, and a few large ones such as modifying the oil pan, etc.

This will hopefully speed things up a bit, as I don't have to complete a full restoration in addition to the subaru conversion stuff.

So witihin a month or two I'll have the silver body for sale. It won't come with a suspension, it will just be a bare body in need of some work.

More updates to come very soon I HOPE!!!

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post Dec 6 2005, 01:51 AM
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Hey Tony-
Sounds like you've got a plan. So a couple questions...

-Are you going to cut out the sheet metal in front of the motor like on your silver car?
-And I've been wondering what fuel pump you were planning to use. Sorry if you already posted that info earlier, don't remember seeing it.

Keep up the good work,

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post Dec 6 2005, 11:28 AM
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I'm pretty sure that I will remove the engine surround as I did on the silver car. I am also contemplating removing the stock engine mounts.

Once I get everything installed I may add new engine surround to the engine bay, but it will need to be made to fit the subaru engine. Its also possible that I might put in a removable piece of some kind that would fit above the engine and provide the same effect as engine tin for separating the cold and hot side of the engine bay.

As for the fuel pump, I am just going to use the stock pump from a 1975 914 and see how it works. If it doesn't work I will have to look into something else.

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post Dec 16 2005, 03:02 AM
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Finally some progress! The alst two weeks I have been working a lot in the evenings on the electronics box. This box will sit between the seats in the car, and contains the Subaru ECU, "main relay," a sensor simulator (for unused sensors), and some diagnostics stuff (OBD-II connector, voltmeter, and a check engine light).

The box isn't completely done, but the wiring is essentially complete. It still needs a lid which will be hinged for easy access.

Here's the box, along with the harness.



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post Dec 16 2005, 03:04 AM
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Closeup of the box. One of the important things I tried to do with the wiring was to isolate it mechanically. I'm using soldered connections so this is a must. We'll see how this works out long term, but with proper vibration isolation it ought to be okay.



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post Dec 16 2005, 03:06 AM
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Diagnostics panel. The voltmeter is for battery voltage, but I may configure it so that it can be used to measure voltages with a set of probes. This would be a useful troubleshooting tool.



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post Dec 16 2005, 03:16 AM
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I mentioned that I would post schematics tonight, but my scanner isn't working... So tomorrow hopefully.

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post Dec 16 2005, 09:02 AM
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Those schematics would be great since I am having a time sourcing manuals for a 2004 right now.
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post Dec 16 2005, 11:43 AM
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Okay, the manuals are available. One place is here:

techinfo.subaru.com You can download whatever you want in a 72 hour subscription for $34.95

Or...

Alldatadiy.com is a service that has service manuals online. I have a subscription for my wife's TT and its a great service. They ought to have full manuals for basically every car. I think its $25 or so a year, and $15 for each additional car.

I can't remember the place I got my manual. It was some web site that I found doing a search on google.

Chances are that the schematics for my engine and ECU are going to be very different from yours. I remember noticing that the ECUs and wiring diagrams for even one or two years off were significantly different. So when I post the schematics later today, remember that they may not be applicable, and it would be really easy to blow up an ECU or sensor if its not hooked up right. The schematics I'm going to put up are just a small fraction of the overall circuit. They are just for the power conenctions, fan relays, main relay, and fuel pump. Its the stuff in the manual that is a little harder to track down than the rest.


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post Dec 16 2005, 12:58 PM
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Thanks,
I found the Alldata site yesterday but there was no way to check if they had my specific car until I subscribed. It looked pretty comprehensive from the samples provided however. Thanks again.

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post Dec 18 2005, 03:51 AM
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Well today I went to the local pick-n-pull and picked up a complete 1985 MR2 cable shifter setup. The only part I didn't bother to pull off was the fixture on the transmission. I'm planning on custom machining a bracket for the transmission to translate two cable pull/pushes into rotate and push/pull.

So I built a standoff for the new shifter. Since the lever is so much shorter, the whole shifter needed to be moved up 7 inches from the center tunnel. Luckily that happened to be above the level of my new center console ECU box. The cable shifter will make accessing the ECU a bit more tricky, but not too difficult.

The cables that came with the shifter are far too short for use in a 914, so I'm planning on ordering a set of cables from Mcmaster Carr. Damn things are like $70 each!

-Tony


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