My car is a freak

[Splinter]

During the dismantling of my November 91, 92 model year (post facelift) car, to get it ready for painting, I noticed something very odd.

Way back when I first got the car, I developed a leaky water pump. I tried to replace the pump with a new one from the dealership for a 92, and it turned out my car had the factory oil cooler, so I got the wrong waterpump. This seemed really weird to me, because only the 91s came with an oil cooler... and I looked into the service records for the car, and the engine at some point had seized and been replaced. I assumed it had been replaced with an engine out of a 91, which came with an oil cooler.

Ive been in the process of preping for my EJ20G swap, and I remember someone mentioned something about the 91s having a 3rd round plug on the manifold harness which contained grounds, that the 92-94s dont have, and I didnt think about it until a few days ago when I was pulling the wiring harness out, and the body side of my harness has that connector.

So I have a post-facelift car, built decently far into the production year, with a pre-facelift engine and wiring harness, from the factory!

This would explain some of the issues I had with my 4EAT/5MT swap a year ago that never really got resolved, and a number of other odd little quirks I came to find in the car.

I know Josh's legacy is also really strange (wasnt it built in a factory that wasnt supposed to exist yet or something?)

Anyone else have any factory oddity stories?

[Legacy777]

Why is mine strange? It was built at the FHI factory in 7/89. Wasn't that factory up and running at that time?

I would assume it would have been since they started releasing models to Japan and other parts of the world in 89....

[Splinter]

I guess it wasnt you.

Somewhere here said they had a 1990 Legacy built in indiana I thought

[Legacy777]

Michael I think has one.....but there's nothing strange about that either......the indiana plant was up and running too.

[AWD_addict]

What's strange is that Izuzus and now Toyotas have come out of the Indiana plant too.

[PhyrraM]

I thought it was the Post-facelift cars that had the third connector. My '93 has 3 connectors. The third, round, connector is all grounds.

[Legacy777]

The 90 and I think some of the 91 MY's have the 3 connectors, but they're all square. The tlegs all had 3 connectors, but one was all grounds like you mentioned. All the rest of the n/a's had two square connectors.

[entirelyturbo]

Mine was built in Indiana, but it's a 91.

That's always bugged me a little. EVERYONE I can think of on this board has an FHI-built 90 Legacy. The SIA plant opened in 89 and started producing Legacies for the 90 model year, but I never see them.

Conversely, most of the 91 Legacies I see are SIA, and virtually ALL the 92-94 Legacies I see are SIA.

[93forestpearl]

My color code on the VIN palte is 278, which doesn't exist. At the dealer, digging way back in the book, we found 078.

[danan_22]

this is probably more common than what others have written but, the '95 i race is a "vin 6" which means it has a 90-94 ej22 sorta. It has factory similarities of both 94 and 95 cars. I.E. no egr valve, but does have a knock sensor and diamond coil and stuff like that.

[93Leg-c]

virtually ALL the 92-94 Legacies I see are SIA.

My '93 ss is made in Japan.

[555BCTurbo]

All SS's were made in Japan

[93Leg-c]

Well, that 'splains it, then!