Timo's Turbo, rebuild FCD engine, US bumper, launch control
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Timo's Turbo, rebuild FCD engine, US bumper, launch control
Hello Legacy fanatics.
After a tip from another Dutch Legacy driver (“SP-boxer” on this forum) I decide to introduce myself at this forum.
(First: excuse for my English what is not always as good as I want Tips are welcome)
I’m from the Netherlands.
I already found a lot of usefull information on this forum and I hope learn a lot more.
My Legacy stoy:
From my eighteenth I’ve got an 91’er Legacy. It was a 1.8 FWD in white.
After 2 years somebody made me an offer of a 93’er station (1.8 FWD) which has a conversion to an 2.0 Turbo. I decide to buy it and my white 91’er went in ‘long’ winter-sleep in my grandparents hanger.
After 3 years of a lot of fun and driving experience I want my 91’er Sedan more and more back (one of the reasons was the pass away of Colin MCrae)
So I decide to converse everything from my 93’er station to my 91’er sedan. Below the fast picture story of the conversion.
(the station body work was very bad, whit rust holes in the wheel arces etc. )
Ather almost 3 years out of her resting-place
(battery placed and the engine turns so beautiful after 3 years of standstill )
Back to my parents house! First clean up the garden and make a nice workspace
Moved to the workspace
Lift the car for 50 cm so I’ve got a nice height for working
In a couple of evenings the car was totally stripped.
Very nice to work a car from 91 and really NOTHING was broken or damaged by dismantle. (good job of subaru engeneers)
The 1.8 engine
Not so many pictures of the dismantle. When she was stripped she moved to the hanger and the donor was placed in a big-party tent from a friend of mine.
Cleaned everything from the red station, and place it back in the white sedan.
My workplace:
White one in the hanger.
Red one in the tent.
The ‘new’ black dashboard
Front side of the dash
Car without dashboard
White wheel arc just like the rally cars
All the little stuff and the electric back in place in the cleaned white engine compartment.
Engine out of the station and cleaned up
Engine back in place in the white sedan
After that it goes really fast and the First meters where a fact!
Don’t look at the tires!!!! They are much to small but I want to know how the wheels will stand under my white sedan!
Station became one with the garden
So the project gets to his end.
(tried with and without spoiler, not really sure what I want)
After that weak I went to the Inspection and it accepted in one time.
After it, there were some little things:
Shorted exhaust
New bigger en special made intercooler
With the little original in front of it
Removed the 16” wheels and put the 17” inch back on it to make some pictures
(still the little tires)
And my Memorial to the biggest rally driver ever, Colin MCrae
Final specs of the car:
Subaru Legacy BC (‘91)
Engine: 2.0 Turbo (open deck EJ20T)
Drive train: Impreza 4wd with 5 speed gearbox and rear diff
Suspension: Impreza dampers with RSR Ti-2000 lowering springs (others stabi’s)
Breaks: front: 294mm with STi-breakpads, back:290 mm Legacy spec-B
Exhaust: Mongoose 3” race-exhaust (down, mid and end)
Interior:
Black dash from a 93 Turbo
Black/grey seats impreza turbo
All original grey plastic caps changed for black from a Turbo
Shortshift
Sparco imitation Steer (deepdish 3.5cm)
Wheels:
1 set Speedline 17” Gold
1 set Compomotice 17” White
1 set original Subaru 5-spoak 16” Gold
Things I want:
-Turbo Bumpers!! (American one's because the JDM's are to hard to find )
Somebody suggestions????
-Bigger Legacy Spec-B breaks at the front
-Other stabi on the rear
I hope you enjoyed my introduction. If you have questions, just ask!:)
Timo from the Netherlands
After a tip from another Dutch Legacy driver (“SP-boxer” on this forum) I decide to introduce myself at this forum.
(First: excuse for my English what is not always as good as I want Tips are welcome)
I’m from the Netherlands.
I already found a lot of usefull information on this forum and I hope learn a lot more.
My Legacy stoy:
From my eighteenth I’ve got an 91’er Legacy. It was a 1.8 FWD in white.
After 2 years somebody made me an offer of a 93’er station (1.8 FWD) which has a conversion to an 2.0 Turbo. I decide to buy it and my white 91’er went in ‘long’ winter-sleep in my grandparents hanger.
After 3 years of a lot of fun and driving experience I want my 91’er Sedan more and more back (one of the reasons was the pass away of Colin MCrae)
So I decide to converse everything from my 93’er station to my 91’er sedan. Below the fast picture story of the conversion.
(the station body work was very bad, whit rust holes in the wheel arces etc. )
Ather almost 3 years out of her resting-place
(battery placed and the engine turns so beautiful after 3 years of standstill )
Back to my parents house! First clean up the garden and make a nice workspace
Moved to the workspace
Lift the car for 50 cm so I’ve got a nice height for working
In a couple of evenings the car was totally stripped.
Very nice to work a car from 91 and really NOTHING was broken or damaged by dismantle. (good job of subaru engeneers)
The 1.8 engine
Not so many pictures of the dismantle. When she was stripped she moved to the hanger and the donor was placed in a big-party tent from a friend of mine.
Cleaned everything from the red station, and place it back in the white sedan.
My workplace:
White one in the hanger.
Red one in the tent.
The ‘new’ black dashboard
Front side of the dash
Car without dashboard
White wheel arc just like the rally cars
All the little stuff and the electric back in place in the cleaned white engine compartment.
Engine out of the station and cleaned up
Engine back in place in the white sedan
After that it goes really fast and the First meters where a fact!
Don’t look at the tires!!!! They are much to small but I want to know how the wheels will stand under my white sedan!
Station became one with the garden
So the project gets to his end.
(tried with and without spoiler, not really sure what I want)
After that weak I went to the Inspection and it accepted in one time.
After it, there were some little things:
Shorted exhaust
New bigger en special made intercooler
With the little original in front of it
Removed the 16” wheels and put the 17” inch back on it to make some pictures
(still the little tires)
And my Memorial to the biggest rally driver ever, Colin MCrae
Final specs of the car:
Subaru Legacy BC (‘91)
Engine: 2.0 Turbo (open deck EJ20T)
Drive train: Impreza 4wd with 5 speed gearbox and rear diff
Suspension: Impreza dampers with RSR Ti-2000 lowering springs (others stabi’s)
Breaks: front: 294mm with STi-breakpads, back:290 mm Legacy spec-B
Exhaust: Mongoose 3” race-exhaust (down, mid and end)
Interior:
Black dash from a 93 Turbo
Black/grey seats impreza turbo
All original grey plastic caps changed for black from a Turbo
Shortshift
Sparco imitation Steer (deepdish 3.5cm)
Wheels:
1 set Speedline 17” Gold
1 set Compomotice 17” White
1 set original Subaru 5-spoak 16” Gold
Things I want:
-Turbo Bumpers!! (American one's because the JDM's are to hard to find )
Somebody suggestions????
-Bigger Legacy Spec-B breaks at the front
-Other stabi on the rear
I hope you enjoyed my introduction. If you have questions, just ask!:)
Timo from the Netherlands
Last edited by Timo on Sat Dec 05, 2015 9:12 am, edited 4 times in total.
Welcome, and very nice documentation of the swap!!
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For turbo bumpers, if no one has one here, you could try www.car-part.com—it's a national US recycling yard parts search. Don't know how the yards are about shipping internationally, but it might be worth contacting a few of them. The bigger ones would probably be willing to do it, though the cost might not be worth it and there's the question of condition, so I'd definitely ask for pictures if you find one.
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The black dash came out of your wagon?
Refresh my memory guys, did we ever get USDM Legacies with black dashes?
I'm definitely going to a black dash now. I was considering it before, as my dash is showing its age a bit, and was considering have an upholstery shop paint/stain it. That looks awesome!
Very nice result! Car looks great!
Refresh my memory guys, did we ever get USDM Legacies with black dashes?
I'm definitely going to a black dash now. I was considering it before, as my dash is showing its age a bit, and was considering have an upholstery shop paint/stain it. That looks awesome!
Very nice result! Car looks great!
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Thank you all for the welcome.
I'd love to have the jdm bumpers but it's to hard to find
The black dashbord came out a facelift 93/94 legacy Turbo.
I'm not sure if we had EUDM Legacy pre-facelift with black dashes
Will place an WTB and otherwise try your opion.
Already know that the cost for shipping are very high
Thanks again for the think along, veryusefull!
@G-unit: that braun interior is like you said very ugly I only had the grey interiors in my car! They are better than that ugly braun
I don't like the scoop in the bonet so muchG-unit wrote:looks great, any plans for a jdm bonet? was guna say about the jdm front also but you seem like u have tried 2 find 1
I'd love to have the jdm bumpers but it's to hard to find
No, the wagon had also a grey dashbord, this wagon was original also a 1.8.DerFather wrote:The black dash came out of your wagon?
Refresh my memory guys, did we ever get USDM Legacies with black dashes?
The black dashbord came out a facelift 93/94 legacy Turbo.
I'm not sure if we had EUDM Legacy pre-facelift with black dashes
Thank you for this information. I tryed already some optionsevolutionmovement wrote:For turbo bumpers, if no one has one here, you could try www.car-part.com—it's a national US recycling yard parts search. Don't know how the yards are about shipping internationally, but it might be worth contacting a few of them. The bigger ones would probably be willing to do it, though the cost might not be worth it and there's the question of condition, so I'd definitely ask for pictures if you find one
Will place an WTB and otherwise try your opion.
Already know that the cost for shipping are very high
Thanks again for the think along, veryusefull!
@G-unit: that braun interior is like you said very ugly I only had the grey interiors in my car! They are better than that ugly braun
92-94 SS had the option for a black interior. My dad has one in his 92 SS, I want to steal SO badly.DerFahrer wrote:The black dash came out of your wagon?
Refresh my memory guys, did we ever get USDM Legacies with black dashes?
I'm definitely going to a black dash now. I was considering it before, as my dash is showing its age a bit, and was considering have an upholstery shop paint/stain it. That looks awesome!
Very nice result! Car looks great!
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Re: New forum member. 91 BC Legacy from Holland
Time for a very big update here.
Some big changes are done in the previous year.
After the rebuild and swap from the red to the white legacy I drove some months till my engine broke down...
Because I was really busy with my study I didn't had time for the car so I left it an half year.
After finishin my study I started with rebuilding a full closed deck block with better parts to make a reliable setup.
Short list of the engine:
2.0 closed deck
RA-heads
ACL race bearings
The more reliable WRX-coils
STi-connectiing rod
550 yellow sidefeed injector
TD05H-18G MHI Turbo
Group-A exhaust manifold
Chip with max 7800 rpm, launch control, knock warning etc
Complete RVS 3" Mongoose exhaust
Hand made ALU front(water) intercooler
The engine:
Cleaned engine compartiment
After that I finaly painted my US turbo front bumper which I bought from one of the bbs members (Legacy Rally Guy) Now even more happy with this part!
(rear bumper project wil be for the upcoming summer.
Some other specs on the car. and some new!
STI aluminium whisbones
Whiteline 22mm front and rear swaybars
Whiteline endlinks front and rear
H-Brace
WRX shocks with TI-2000 springs
Rear legacy spec-B brakes
Searching for the Legacy spec-B front brakes
Full black turbo interior
VDO gauges
Sparco steeringwheel
Impreza STi seats
placed rear seat in the garage
Exterieur
Original US Legacy Turbo frontbumper
2 sets Speedline 17" wheels (gold and black)
1 set Compomotive 17"
And more...
And plans enough
The differnce between the EU en the US turbo
The check to get back on the road. (easaly made it)
Completed and driving again
Together with her little sister (1.8 4wd)
And my black winter wheels (I prefer the gold wheels, but these are nice for the winter)
Next month I hope to post some action pictures, because I'm going to take my rally-driving license!
And will do some trackdays this year!
Think that is it for now
Some big changes are done in the previous year.
After the rebuild and swap from the red to the white legacy I drove some months till my engine broke down...
Because I was really busy with my study I didn't had time for the car so I left it an half year.
After finishin my study I started with rebuilding a full closed deck block with better parts to make a reliable setup.
Short list of the engine:
2.0 closed deck
RA-heads
ACL race bearings
The more reliable WRX-coils
STi-connectiing rod
550 yellow sidefeed injector
TD05H-18G MHI Turbo
Group-A exhaust manifold
Chip with max 7800 rpm, launch control, knock warning etc
Complete RVS 3" Mongoose exhaust
Hand made ALU front(water) intercooler
The engine:
Cleaned engine compartiment
After that I finaly painted my US turbo front bumper which I bought from one of the bbs members (Legacy Rally Guy) Now even more happy with this part!
(rear bumper project wil be for the upcoming summer.
Some other specs on the car. and some new!
STI aluminium whisbones
Whiteline 22mm front and rear swaybars
Whiteline endlinks front and rear
H-Brace
WRX shocks with TI-2000 springs
Rear legacy spec-B brakes
Searching for the Legacy spec-B front brakes
Full black turbo interior
VDO gauges
Sparco steeringwheel
Impreza STi seats
placed rear seat in the garage
Exterieur
Original US Legacy Turbo frontbumper
2 sets Speedline 17" wheels (gold and black)
1 set Compomotive 17"
And more...
And plans enough
The differnce between the EU en the US turbo
The check to get back on the road. (easaly made it)
Completed and driving again
Together with her little sister (1.8 4wd)
And my black winter wheels (I prefer the gold wheels, but these are nice for the winter)
Next month I hope to post some action pictures, because I'm going to take my rally-driving license!
And will do some trackdays this year!
Think that is it for now
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Re: Timo's Legacy Turbo, rebuild FCD engine and US bumper.
I like the black wheels better! Car looks stunning. Great work.
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Re: Timo's Legacy Turbo, rebuild FCD engine and US bumper.
The car and that bumper looks very clean! And OH MAN, that was not fun to ship, but we finally did it huh!
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Re: Timo's Legacy Turbo, rebuild FCD engine and US bumper.
"And US bumper" that's funny reading that. Its rare to see someone stoked on USDM parts. Cool.
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91 SS EJ20G Engine/Tranny/Diff Swap Build Thread Here
"Your testes are close to your bottom but you still play with them all the time." Jeremy Clarkson
91 SS EJ20G Engine/Tranny/Diff Swap Build Thread Here
"Your testes are close to your bottom but you still play with them all the time." Jeremy Clarkson
Re: Timo's Legacy Turbo, rebuild FCD engine and US bumper.
Haha, yeah, but the US turbo bumper looks much better then the EU or non turbo bumper
I prefer the RS bumper, but that one is impossible to find
It was indeed a hell of a job to get it, but I finally have them here
I prefer the RS bumper, but that one is impossible to find
It was indeed a hell of a job to get it, but I finally have them here
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Re: Timo's Legacy Turbo, rebuild FCD engine and US bumper.
You're probably the only one. I agree the non turbo ones look like crap.
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"Your testes are close to your bottom but you still play with them all the time." Jeremy Clarkson
Re: Timo's Legacy Turbo, rebuild FCD engine and US bumper.
I think I'm the only one in Europe indeed
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Re: Timo's Legacy Turbo, rebuild FCD engine and US bumper.
I want a set of those headlights, just can't really justify $300 for them. I'd buy some new bushings or save up for some real brakes before spending that much on headlights. After I sanded and buffed and polished mine they look new and function much better than before so I'm not too worried about them.
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Re: Timo's Legacy Turbo, rebuild FCD engine and US bumper.
Timo, time to ad a lip and foggies to that front bumper. That would set it off!
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