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Look what someone finally tried to do!
Posted: Sun May 27, 2007 11:26 pm
by Arctic Assassian
I may be a newb, but I've never seen anyone actually put the TT motor in a LHD car. This guy(
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/1997-SUB ... dZViewItem) did. I wanna call him and see what his problems with install were.
Posted: Mon May 28, 2007 4:03 am
by Damon
He didn't finish it. I think anybody can stuff an engine in there, the trick is getting it to run afterward.
Posted: Mon May 28, 2007 11:40 pm
by Arctic Assassian
I asked him some questions but no response yet.
Posted: Sun Jun 03, 2007 8:34 pm
by Radial GT1
Just need a standalone. A microtech could get it running fairly quickly. The other hardware issues (exhaust cooling and fuel) would take more dinkin' with I bet though. They have them in Japan, so it is not impossible. Does anyone on this forum run this setup? I would like to know how it turned out.
Posted: Sun Jun 03, 2007 10:57 pm
by dzx
The difference is the japan models are left hand drive and the master brake cylinder is on the other side of the firewall.
On USDM models, the master brake cylinder is in the way.
Posted: Mon Jun 04, 2007 3:56 am
by jake15
yeah, he removed the brake master cylinder to get the turbo to fit and just left the brake master cylinder out.
Posted: Mon Jun 04, 2007 6:00 am
by dzx
haha yeah I didn't see that. It is missing the master brake cylinder.
Posted: Mon Jun 04, 2007 6:02 am
by Splinter
I dont get the point in this, seeing as the first thing most Aussie guys do to their twin turbo legacies is replace with a single large turbo...
Posted: Mon Jun 04, 2007 6:42 am
by dzx
probably the uniqueness
Posted: Mon Jun 04, 2007 9:10 am
by i_c_the_light
I'd know what would happen. Subaru twin setups are notoriously unreliable, which is part of the reason why the Aussies do a single conversion.
According to my sources, the primary turbo usually lets go first. Also head gaskets failures are quite common on the EJ20H/R.
From my point of view, they are a bitch of a car, especially to work on. A vast majority of the club boys here have twin turbo setups and I've told them not to come running to me for help if something goes wrong, especially to do with anything under the bonnet. The single turbo Legacy setups are far, far less complex and make repairs/maintenance so much easier.
Oh and then there is that VOD issue which stands out so much in those cars.
Posted: Tue Jun 05, 2007 8:34 pm
by Arctic Assassian
The guy just doesn't want to deal with it anymore, he says he has a smaller master cylynder and brake booster, and that someone is making him custom uppipes and downpipes, but I agree totally that the twin turbo setup blows.
Posted: Fri Jun 08, 2007 2:45 am
by Radial GT1
Oo
That is alot of stuff to go wrong I guess. Would explain why they don't still make a twin turbo setup huh?
Posted: Thu Jun 14, 2007 11:43 pm
by Matt Monson
Many are started, but few are finished. And I have yet to ever see a LHD one done.
http://forums.nasioc.com/forums/showthr ... ?t=1238143
However, Drew got this RHD one into his Impreza just this week...
http://forums.nasioc.com/forums/showthr ... ?t=1282326
ps. Can you just feel the love between Mel and me???
Posted: Fri Jun 15, 2007 2:12 am
by dzx
Looks like a sweet ride.