Wes's white 94' touring wagon build

[njdriver04]

This is my Touring Wagon build which is taking place on a driveway of a lovely home 50 minutes west of the Holland Tunnel. Going for a unique, fast, well handing wagon for the mean roads around the tri-state area.
Daily driver, autox/rally xer, ice racer. Going to try to outline and explain as much as possible and include some theory along the way. Have several friends who compete in Rally America rally and rally cross series and I really want to knock their pants off when they take this wagon for a fun run.
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What I am doing and what has been done in no apparent order.

- Patching rust spots: Cutting out rust spots and welding new sheet metal damaged areas.

- Transmission swap: Swapping in a Forester XT 4.44, 5 speed transmission, cv axles, differential
02 WRX pedals, slave, cylinder,

- 6 speed sti trans shifter Taking a 07'6 spd sti shifter assembly and making changes to it for the xt trans
assembly retrofit:

- Exhaust/intake: Making a custom desnorkle with factory airbox, turbo resonator delete.
done already(large diameter aftermarket sti downpipe, straight 3 inch pipe to
magnaflow race muffler)


- Swap in WRX dash Swap in WRX dash, dash beam and steering column some fabrication to make
& steering column: it work. done already( wrx rack in with aftermarket bushings)

- Removal of certain ABS, A/C, Air Bags, Radio, Cruise control all gone. Battery relocation
factory components:

- Suspension: Custom lateral links, bigger sways, done( 04 sti agx struts, sti springs, 89-90
legacy top hats in the rear, sti top hats in the front). 05 wrx rear subframe, lateral
links, trailing arms, hubs, 04 wrx front control arms, crossmember, hubs

- Brakes: Done(front 4 pot calipers, wrx rotors), rear 05 wrx stock calipers/ rotors. Braided
lines wrx master cylinder,new brake lines throughout.

- Engine: Keeping stock for now just replacing all the coolant lines, putting a wrx coolant fill
resevoir, installing MSD SRT4 coil pack and magnacore ignition lines

- Wheels/tires: On 16 inch wrx goldies, with tiny wheel spacer to help them clear the 4 pots.
tires new set of Hankook Ventus V12 K110 255/50/R16

[Legacy777]

Sounds good. Looking forward to seeing some pictures of the work

[njdriver04]

f***** box, while removing the right rear subframe bolt i totally ripped out the area that the bolt threads into the body/frame. Looks like it was rotted out, will require some fabrication annoyed because it is just more work. Any suggestions to best fix this?

[Legacy777]

Probably best to cut out the area that you know is rotted and weld some plate in there. Once you've got it fixed, bolt up the sub frame, mark where the hold needs to be, drill and either leave yourself an opening to put a wrench in there to hold the nut, or weld a nut on the back side of the plate.

[njdriver04]

my neighbor next door has all the equipment to fabricate something nice I am still brainstorming how I would like to do it.

[njdriver04]

As it stand right now, entire suspension out , control arms, crossmember the works,

Pulled the motor. picture of a bare engine bay.

[njdriver04]

due to the amount of rot on the car I decided to scrap the shell and look for another legacy in better shape