kimokalihi's 91 SS EJ20 Swap

kimokalihi · Post by **kimokalihi** » Thu Oct 15, 2009 7:06 am

93forestpearl wrote:That is a serious lump of silicone.

Sure is. Then you got the silicone y pipe and throttle body hose. I'd like to get silicone everything else too. At least radiator hoses. Anybody know if any of the impreza silicone hoses are the same as ours?

Airgne · Post by **Airgne** » Sat Oct 17, 2009 12:14 am

did you every think about taking the tank out and getting it boiled/acid diped?

kimokalihi · Post by **kimokalihi** » Sat Oct 17, 2009 1:59 am

Nope, didn't know that was an option. Where would I get that done at and how much would it be? Sounds expensive.

93forestpearl · Post by **93forestpearl** » Sat Oct 17, 2009 2:02 am

kimokalihi wrote: At least radiator hoses. Anybody know if any of the impreza silicone hoses are the same as ours?

Don't bother with silicone radiator hoses. They leak more often than not. OEM works by far the best.

evolutionmovement · Post by **evolutionmovement** » Sat Oct 17, 2009 2:21 am

The silicone hoses seemed to work well in boats. How do they leak or are they just cheap? The ones we put on boats were definitely not cheap.

kimokalihi · Post by **kimokalihi** » Sat Oct 17, 2009 2:30 am

Maybe they're not molded very well? I just wanted something that would last forever and look good/match.

93forestpearl · Post by **93forestpearl** » Sat Oct 17, 2009 4:58 am

Maybe its the newer gen stuff, but lots of my friends got rid their Samco, Perrin, etc radiator hoses because they leaked no matter what they did. Granted, they didn't go as far as using t-bolt clamp, but who should?

The aftermarket hoses just don't seem to fit right. Police Interceptor vics come with silicone hoses, but they don't leak. Yet they were OEM.

200k on original radiator hoses should be proof enough to stick with them. Just use distilled water.

asc_up · Post by **asc_up** » Sat Oct 17, 2009 5:00 am

Lol oops. I've been using water from a hose for years....

93forestpearl · Post by **93forestpearl** » Sat Oct 17, 2009 5:03 am

Meh, it works just fine. Its not going to cool any different. I just get sick of the deposits that I have to clean off whenever I take hoses or a water pump off.

I used tap water for years too. The crud just got annoying. When I finally committed to it, there was no crud for in three years.

Maybe I'm just a little anal?

asc_up · Post by **asc_up** » Sat Oct 17, 2009 5:06 am

Aaaah! I wish I would have known that that's what causes those deposits!

93forestpearl · Post by **93forestpearl** » Sat Oct 17, 2009 5:09 am

Yeah, I don't mind spending a couple bucks on distilled water anymore. Especially since coolant has gone through the roof in price.

Airgne · Post by **Airgne** » Sat Oct 17, 2009 6:15 am

try calling your local rad shops to see if they can boil it.

madmallard · Post by **madmallard** » Sun Oct 18, 2009 2:21 am

i like the methodical posting with pictures. Hope to see you succeed where you want. :]

kimokalihi · Post by **kimokalihi** » Sun Oct 18, 2009 2:27 am

Thanks! If it weren't for all the people on this board I wouldn't even have this car let alone have any idea what I was doing with it.

kimokalihi · Post by **kimokalihi** » Fri Oct 23, 2009 1:54 pm

Bad news. I found some free time and dragged my ass over to my parents to work on my car. I thought I was going to be able to just yank out the old intake and install my new silicone ASI intake relatively easily. Turns out that's not the case.

You have to remove your entire intake, remove the fuel lines which means removing the fuel rail on the passenger side (I tore the stupid hose that comes off the fuel rail) and unbolt the bypass/coolant tubes. After all that bullshit I put the silicone intake on and it's too damn big. I can't get the fuel lines bolted back on. Also, it's not an exact match. The hose outlets coming off it are a bit different. I can't even attatch one of the hoses to this silicone intake.

I have to talk to slodrive and see what the hell he did with this because I'm about to rip if out and sell it. It's really frustrating me and I'm getting sick of it. I'm already burnt out on this whole project after all the damn setbacks and always having to buy more parts.

How the hell am I supposed to get this hose to stay on here with 1/4" of metal to clamp on to!??!?

kimokalihi · Post by **kimokalihi** » Fri Oct 23, 2009 1:59 pm

Wait...after looking at the pictures just now, I noticed in the first 2 pictures before I put the intake on my car that hose has far more metal sticking out of it than it does after I put it on the car. I guess it got pushed in. That's retarded, that means it's not attached to the silicone, they just slide it in.

dropdfocus · Post by **dropdfocus** » Fri Oct 23, 2009 5:52 pm

I was just about to point that out Kimo...

kimokalihi · Post by **kimokalihi** » Wed Nov 04, 2009 3:36 pm

Haven't done jack on my car in a while. I lost my motivation. The setbacks and constant money spending built up slowly and got me pretty overwhelmed with it.

I almost don't want to even think about it lately. Nobody said it would be easy but....

Anyways, I got this in the mail yesterday. Found it on NASIOC for $40 shipped. Brand new. Wasn't looking for it, just stumbled across it in the FS section. Shouldn't go there when I'm bored. That's what happens.

Group N Pitch Mount

dropdfocus · Post by **dropdfocus** » Thu Nov 05, 2009 12:02 am

Nice! I know how it goes with losing your way on a project. I'm finally getting back on track with Trixie this week (4EAT to 5MT swap).

kimokalihi · Post by **kimokalihi** » Fri Nov 13, 2009 2:17 pm

Worked on my car/garage for 8-9 hours today! I got that silicone intake fitted and connected a couple hoses to it. I even managed to bolt the brackets for the fuel lines back on using all my strength to squeeze that intake since it's too damn big, nearly twice the size of the stock one.

Couple pictures to show you how tight it is.

I had a lot of trouble getting the damn intake manifold to seat properly because I could NOT get the silicone intake on the turbo inlet. The intake is wedged in there so tight it won't budge and I can't wiggle the manifold much because that stupid coolant pipe that comes out between the intake runners on the passenger side is preventing me from getting much movement.

I realized I still need to buy bigger hose clamps before I get that intake on the turbo anyways so I stopped wrestling with that for now.

Then I put my axles on the tranny, bolted the hubs back up to the struts, put the wheels back on and dropped the car back down. Found out my average PSI per tire was around 10PSI

The driverside has little rocks stuck between the rubber and the rim that's causing a slow leak you can hear quietly hissing.

Got my step dad to help me push the car out, turn it around and put it back in the garage rear end first so I could drop the rear LSD to sell and was going to put my new whiteline swaybar on but it says in the directions it must be installed at ride height so I guess you have to drive it up some ramps instead of jacking it up?

I cleaned my garage for over 2 hours just so I could have enough room to get the whole car in, close the door and jack all four corners up on jackstands.

Then I dropped the LSD and found out the driveshaft is smaller than the one on the forester swap so I have to use the forester driveshaft too now. Hopefully it's the right length. Also the forester LSD has really long studs on the end of it and they're way too long to fit on my car so I have to remove them and find shorter ones.

I tried getting pictures of all this but my camera quit working after those pictures above. It only works when it wants to now.

I took a flashlight and looked in the gas tank and the tank itself is just as rusty as the fuel pump and sending units are! Shit.

Got quite a bit done if you count cleaning the garage, it was a mess, still is but not as bad.

206er · Post by **206er** » Fri Nov 13, 2009 5:34 pm

why dont you want to run your lsd?

mike-tracy · Post by **mike-tracy** » Fri Nov 13, 2009 8:16 pm

Cuz he has 4.11 gearing?

kimokalihi · Post by **kimokalihi** » Sat Nov 14, 2009 3:12 am

I think it's 4.444 gearing. Or so I was told.

mike-tracy · Post by **mike-tracy** » Sat Nov 14, 2009 4:55 am

kimokalihi wrote:I think it's 4.444 gearing. Or so I was told.

I believe you are right. I couldn't find any literature online showing a 1997 Forester specifically, but the 1998-2002 JDM turbo models had 4.444, like you said. I had 4.111 on the brain because of both my auto 96 Legacy and 5mt Forester (non turbo sadly) are both that ratio.

kimokalihi · Post by **kimokalihi** » Thu Nov 19, 2009 5:03 pm

Progress!

Drove up to Seattle last night in the metro to pick up a sunroof that Chris (biggreen96) brought over from Idaho (I think) for me. Nice guy, btw.

Came home and the power went out. Crazy ass wind storm last night. So I took a 3 hour nap from 11pm til 2:15am. Went over to the parent's place and got right to work. He kept the glass so I had to swap my glass over. Broke a piece of the sunroof in the process and had to swap that part over as well. Cleaned it and lubed it up like crazy. Someone already siliconed the shit out of it or I would have done so myself and had bought a tube just for that purpose. But I don't know how I would have gotten the tracks off to do it myself. I tried removing the ones on my sunroof and ended up bending everything and they didn't even budge.

Got the sunroof in. It's tough to do by yourself. Really burns your delts holding that thing up! Talk about fatigue.

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Then the moment I've been waiting for, for a long time. I installed my canadian headliner! It fits great too. Got rid of those unsightly gaps the canadian trim pieces had exposed. It was expensive but worth it.

WRX rear seats ready to go back in as soon as I finish up with the trim installation. Can't wait to be done with the interior. Really sick and tired of being crammed up inside that car in akward positions trying to bolt shit in all over the place.

My cat watched for a while. You probably wouldn't notice but his wiskers have been "trimmed" by my 5 year old niece. I noticed that the other day and immediately knew what was up with his shortened facial hairs.

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