Ex BUILD-OFF CHALLENGE: Brett's 914, Got engine installed and working on wiring! Options

[brettrarnold]

I'm surprised he sourced the chains. I couldn't find them or the oilers but mine seemed in good shape. I've heard stories of these EZ30's turning 300,000 miles with proper care. Seats look great! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/beerchug.gif)
EDIT: you can open up those headers at the merge and pick up a little umph. There is a lot of meat in that area.

Nice to hear on the 300k miles. I pulled this bad boy from a junkyard of a nonrunning vehicle so not sure on its mileage. The guy who put it back together guessed around 100k.

Apologize but not following on opening up the headers but wouldn't argue with a bit more umph! Should i do this now or wait until after its in the car?

After looking at it, he replaced the following:

• 2 timing chains
• 2 levers
• 2 tensioners
• 4 guides
• a few other o-rings and gaskets

[brettrarnold]

The car sat mostly covered in Indiana for 15 years however the tarp that was used, didn't quite cover the rear 2' or so of the car. I have ground the majority of the rust from the rear trunk pan.

Should I replace cut out and reweld the hole spot and cover the trunk with something or cut out the rear trunk pan and weld in a new one?

Before

After

Hole

[76-914]

Replace it. One of the easier pieces to do. Re: opening the headers. The exhaust manifold merges into one outlet (3 into 1). I used a rotary file to remove some of the metal and increase the opening size. Dealers choice as to whether it's done with the engine in the car or not. I wouldn't want to try it with the engine in place unless you have a lift. Or have the guy that built your engine open it up a bit. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/beerchug.gif)

[brettrarnold]

Replace it. One of the easier pieces to do. Re: opening the headers. The exhaust manifold merges into one outlet (3 into 1). I used a rotary file to remove some of the metal and increase the opening size. Dealers choice as to whether it's done with the engine in the car or not. I wouldn't want to try it with the engine in place unless you have a lift. Or have the guy that built your engine open it up a bit. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/beerchug.gif)

Do i spray it when I am done with something?

[brettrarnold]

First things first. Ive decided to name my car Gertrude. I like it because i can call her Gertrude or Gerdy for short.

Okay now that i got that out of the way I have finally made some progress on getting ol Gerdy off the wooden stand and boy that feels good. Its like shes a new car again.

Two questions for the 914 community.

1. Anyone in the Colorado area want my car stand? It measures 50" long x 73"wide x 22"tall. The width is a little wide for the 914 but all else works well. It has a little shelf for mounting a jack and lifting the rear end up and down easier.
   
   
2. What is this metal disk? i think it comes from the suspension somewhere but i couldn't figure it out.
   

[mepstein]

#37

https://nemigaparts.com/cat_spares/pet/pors...14/570u/302050/

[brettrarnold]

#37

https://nemigaparts.com/cat_spares/pet/pors...14/570u/302050/

When i am doing the subaru transmission mount would i need these?

[76-914]

I didn't but I made my own cradle. I can't speak to other cradles. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/beerchug.gif)

[Gint]

Step 1 of 2,600: Got her up on the engine stand
(yes we all felt accomplished so we sat around patting each others backs for the next 40 minutes)

@brettrarnold

Let's have an update Brett. Do I have to come over there? LOL

That could be McMark's brother...

[brettrarnold]

Alright alright getting back into working on the 914 after a long hiatus and some serious life changes that have freed up some time for me. That being said I'm excited to get back to working on her and posting on here.

So after doing welding I must've installed the chassis braces incorrectly or something because both doors are quite tight but the passenger door is the sticky wicket. Is there anything I can do to expand it to give the doors some more space? I mean it will work in the current state but certainly not ideal.


Second, for the engine bay Gint stopped by today and gave me some pointers and he mentioned to use lizard skin. Ive seen other folks using the spray in bedliner raptor stuff. Has anyone used either or something else and have any recommendations?

Third I am going to start making a bracket to install the radiator. Is there any issue with having it angled in here?


Alright so next on this list is going to be dry fitting the motor and transmission to see if there is anything that I need to fabricate. This was so long ago, what exactly is this black mounting piece?


Another item that im quite confused on is wiring. I have the ECU from the donor car (LL bean outback) but not sure exactly how to go about pairing it to the 914. What is the process? Do i have to pull everything out and lay it out then reinstall the wires or should i just leave all the wires in place and label them? Here is a photo of the ECU i pulled out of the car.


Anyways glad to be back at this and now that i found my old digital camera that takes photos small enough to post, this should be pretty cruzy!

-Brett

[brettrarnold]

Unless you plan to AX the stock brakes are fine. I haven't seen Jeffs914's harness' but I can tell you that you can make your own harness (if you have a donor harness from the Subaru donor car) for pennies then tie into the existing 914 harness. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/beerchug.gif)

How do i tie into the existing 914 harness?

[targa72e]

What I find as the easy way to post pictures since I prefer to do from my computer is to do the following.
Take picture with your phone. Send to yourself or transfer via cable.
Open picture on PC. Use snipping tool that has been part of all windows OS since at least Windows 7. Save Snip and upload. You can edit, crop add text or circle in snipping tool.

john

[mepstein]

Unless you plan to AX the stock brakes are fine. I haven't seen Jeffs914's harness' but I can tell you that you can make your own harness (if you have a donor harness from the Subaru donor car) for pennies then tie into the existing 914 harness. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/beerchug.gif)

How do i tie into the existing 914 harness?

You don’t just tie in. You sit down with the harness and a Subaru wire schematic and 30-50 hours later, you have a harness that will plug into your car. Seriously, if you aren’t good at wire schematics, send it out to a pro.

[brettrarnold]

Unless you plan to AX the stock brakes are fine. I haven't seen Jeffs914's harness' but I can tell you that you can make your own harness (if you have a donor harness from the Subaru donor car) for pennies then tie into the existing 914 harness. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/beerchug.gif)

How do i tie into the existing 914 harness?

You don’t just tie in. You sit down with the harness and a Subaru wire schematic and 30-50 hours later, you have a harness that will plug into your car. Seriously, if you aren’t good at wire schematics, send it out to a pro.

I would be more than happy to send it to a pro... just need to find said pro!

[brettrarnold]

Unless you plan to AX the stock brakes are fine. I haven't seen Jeffs914's harness' but I can tell you that you can make your own harness (if you have a donor harness from the Subaru donor car) for pennies then tie into the existing 914 harness. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/beerchug.gif)

How do i tie into the existing 914 harness?

You don’t just tie in. You sit down with the harness and a Subaru wire schematic and 30-50 hours later, you have a harness that will plug into your car. Seriously, if you aren’t good at wire schematics, send it out to a pro.

I would be more than happy to send it to a pro... just need to find said pro!

[brettrarnold]

What I find as the easy way to post pictures since I prefer to do from my computer is to do the following.
Take picture with your phone. Send to yourself or transfer via cable.
Open picture on PC. Use snipping tool that has been part of all windows OS since at least Windows 7. Save Snip and upload. You can edit, crop add text or circle in snipping tool.

john

I actually got a pretty nice little system with an old camera just sized down basically to thumbnails and then i have an SD card slot that reads the card and then am able to add them to 914 world.... so pretty easy all things considered.

[mepstein]

Unless you plan to AX the stock brakes are fine. I haven't seen Jeffs914's harness' but I can tell you that you can make your own harness (if you have a donor harness from the Subaru donor car) for pennies then tie into the existing 914 harness. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/beerchug.gif)

How do i tie into the existing 914 harness?

You don’t just tie in. You sit down with the harness and a Subaru wire schematic and 30-50 hours later, you have a harness that will plug into your car. Seriously, if you aren’t good at wire schematics, send it out to a pro.

I would be more than happy to send it to a pro... just need to find said pro!

Jeff Robenolt
jeffrobenolt@gmail.com
Great guy, very experienced with Suby wire harness conversions. Way better than sending to smallcar.

[brettrarnold]

Unless you plan to AX the stock brakes are fine. I haven't seen Jeffs914's harness' but I can tell you that you can make your own harness (if you have a donor harness from the Subaru donor car) for pennies then tie into the existing 914 harness. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/beerchug.gif)

How do i tie into the existing 914 harness?

You don’t just tie in. You sit down with the harness and a Subaru wire schematic and 30-50 hours later, you have a harness that will plug into your car. Seriously, if you aren’t good at wire schematics, send it out to a pro.

I would be more than happy to send it to a pro... just need to find said pro!

Jeff Robenolt
jeffrobenolt@gmail.com
Great guy, very experienced with Suby wire harness conversions. Way better than sending to smallcar.

I sent Jeff an email but haven't heard anything back. Do you happen to have his number?

[brettrarnold]

Unless you plan to AX the stock brakes are fine. I haven't seen Jeffs914's harness' but I can tell you that you can make your own harness (if you have a donor harness from the Subaru donor car) for pennies then tie into the existing 914 harness. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/beerchug.gif)

How do i tie into the existing 914 harness?

You don’t just tie in. You sit down with the harness and a Subaru wire schematic and 30-50 hours later, you have a harness that will plug into your car. Seriously, if you aren’t good at wire schematics, send it out to a pro.

I would be more than happy to send it to a pro... just need to find said pro!

Jeff Robenolt
jeffrobenolt@gmail.com
Great guy, very experienced with Suby wire harness conversions. Way better than sending to smallcar.

I sent Jeff an email but haven't heard anything back. Do you happen to have his number?

Got ahold of Jeff at AV Subaru and he confirmed what a few others have said. I need the whole wiring kit and kaboodle which im sure a lot of you already knew. Alright back to the junkyard to try to get a full harness from a subaru with an ez30d engine

[brettrarnold]

Okay i have a couple of questions before just attacking this with the angle grinder.

I am planning to spray on bedliner in the engine compartment. Should i be grinding all of that down to bare metal as well? Do i need to spray Primer on everything before spraying on the bedliner?


How much grinding on the rear metal behind the seat? Should i be getting it all down to bare metal all over on the inside?? Does the bedliner really help with sound dampening?