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Got the fuel stacks separated from the fuel rails the other day. http://i135.photobucket.com/albums/q131/Jessekrs123/EG33%20swap/101_1856.jpg http://i135.photobucket.com/albums/q131/Jessekrs123/EG33%20swap/101_1857.jpg It has been so damn nice out lately. Too bad I have to go back to school this wee...

Got a good amount of work done today. Quick timing components reference. http://i135.photobucket.com/albums/q131/Jessekrs123/EG33%20swap/101_1852.jpg Timing components removed. http://i135.photobucket.com/albums/q131/Jessekrs123/EG33%20swap/101_1853.jpg Exhaust manifolds removed. http://i135.photobu...

It sounds like a marginal cam or crank sensor. They can cause strange starting behavior. I had a problem where my car would sometimes fail to start when hot. It was like it missed the first few engine revolutions and would flood out by the time it figured things out. Sometimes continuous cranking w...

Almost clean...

Got the EGR valve off today. All of the EGR flange bolts snapped like butter, but oh well, this won't be going back onto the engine which is why I'd like to give it the middle finger. http://i135.photobucket.com/albums/q131/Jessekrs123/EG33%20swap/101_1808.jpg Took the side timing covers off and fou...

Finally got the big guy on the stand this morning. Have to clean it all up after work and then start tearing it apart. http://i135.photobucket.com/albums/q131/Jessekrs123/EG33%20swap/101_1804.jpg http://i135.photobucket.com/albums/q131/Jessekrs123/EG33%20swap/101_1805.jpg Spring break this week and ...

When the car does not start, there is only an absence of spark. I've gone through extremely extensive testing. When testing the car when it would not start, there was fuel, timing and compression (obviously) but no spark. Tested out power and ground to both the igniter and coil pack and they were bo...

Wow, thanks a lot vrg, you're always so helpful. I have a good amount of spare coolant temp sensors on hand, new from the dealer. I've replaced them numerous times with no luck. At certain resistances (1020, 1080, 1180, 1280, 1380 ohms) the car loses spark for some reason. There is also a relation t...

I bought an ECU a while back from somebody on here in hopes of fixing an intermittent cold start issue. In the case you do not know, I have tested every circuit under the sun, tested all grounds, everything checked out fine, so I figure it must be the ECU. Now here is my problem. My original ECU, PN...

Been a while since I posted anything so, I found some extra wires within my harness.



Those turned out just to be branched TPS wires that go to the TCU. Won't be needing those with a 5 speed.

Got the SVX side of the harness completed today. Still a little messy, but once I merge the Legacy harness in there, everything gets wrapped right up and hopefully all goes well, she'll fire up with no problem. I am pretty confident everything is set, all needed SVX pins are accounted for, and they ...

Cool, happy to give what little help I can. I'm really excited about your swap project. CNC might be overkill for intake manifold spacers; simple hand tools might be enough for you to make a spacer from raw materials using a stock gasket as a guide. This guy makes Teflon spacers that way (which are...

Looking good! I'm getting excited! I wonder if those extra cooling fittings are to run coolant through the two throttle bodies. I sometimes use disposable rubber gloves to plug open holes on engines. Stuff them in -- or more than one, tied together, if necessary -- just the way you would a paper to...

Got the coolant crossover pipe off, enabling me to clean some of the engine off. There are 4 small ports on the EG33 pipe that my EJ22E doesn't have. http://i135.photobucket.com/albums/q131/Jessekrs123/EG33%20swap/101_1731.jpg Got the center of the block pretty clean. I have to seal off my intake an...

If this has only been happening for a short time, I'd just give it more time. Yes, it very well could just need to burn crap off. Every time I do work like what you did I end up with some smoke for a little bit. It's probably just random bits of penetrating oil and stuff that gets into the engine a...

vrg3 wrote:Wow. That is impressive. Are you just going to wrap it back up in some split loom tubing or something?

That's correct. I am actually going to completely de-pin each ECU connector to untangle everything, get the wires nice and straight and then wrap it up in intervals and loom every wire group.

Got the harness separated today! Everything I need is on the left, everything I don't need on the right. Cut no wires. http://i135.photobucket.com/albums/q131/Jessekrs123/EG33%20swap/101_1663.jpg Now I just have to un-tangle the needed part of the harness, make it nice and neat and wrap everything b...

Nice! I wonder if you could swap the guts of the SVX seat belt controller into the case of the Legacy one so it would mount up the same way. That is what I was thinking. The Legacy computer is a little easier to take apart than the SVX. The SVX computer is held together by metal clips, I'll have to...

Made an awesome discovery this morning. To make a long story short, my Legacy auto seatbelts have been malfunctioning for a while now, and I was contemplating on spending $$$ on some canadian manual seatbelts until I made the following discovery: The SVX auto belt computer is interchangeable with my...

Got the fuel stacks and fuel lines off today. http://i135.photobucket.com/albums/q131/Jessekrs123/EG33%20swap/101_1655.jpg Fuel stack. Possible area to port to match the gasket and intake port? I'll have to make some measurements to see what is possible. http://i135.photobucket.com/albums/q131/Jesse...

Thanks for all of the advice fellas, I appreciate it a lot. I am pretty set on getting the harness separated without cutting anything at all, so that is how I am going to end up doing it. I can definitely crimp well (done some wiring on a few radios). I just want the electrical work to be extremely ...

I understand everything you said about the wiring, but I don't understand what the problem is. Are you trying to avoid cutting any wires? Is that what makes this a problem? You can indeed remove the terminal from the ignition relay connector. You're right that a heavy duty pin or something is all i...

Ran into a slight roadblock with the wiring. I have ran all of the wires that I need to run the engine except for ECU clip D. Reason being, there are 2 O2 sensors. One of them branches off from the engine harness, and the other branches off from the transmission harness. And both O2 sensors receive ...

Removed the electrical crap from the intake manifold today, and removed the butterfly valve actuator. http://i135.photobucket.com/albums/q131/Jessekrs123/EG33%20swap/101_1627.jpg Got the transmission out as well. If anyone is in need of an OBDI AWD 4EAT, let me know. 140k miles, shifted well while t...

De-pinned useless SVX pins from the ECU clips today, now I just have to run everything through the rats nest...



Taped pins are the ones I do not need.