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Hi all, As the title suggests, I've been to look at a 2003 Liberty GT sedan today. 5 sp Sportshift auto EJ20 Turbo. After the drive, I'm practically in love with it, I reckon it'd kick the behind of the last WRX I drove (Bugeye rally car)! Anyway, its a little out of my price range so I'm hoping to ...

Oh I had fun today! Started by converting the donor engine from hydraulic to standard timing belt tensioner, fro the cooked engine. Its quite a simple process and it's one less thing to leak or break easily and apparently is just generally better. Basically, there's a substructure in the block that ...

Not a complete start again. More picking up cheap parts to try and recover some costs :D But yes new ECU and loom, to make things easier on that front and the engine for its bolt-ons as I suspect its quite cooked. Its already proving useful, discovered the difference between the "standard" and "hydr...

Here's a good one.

Did the front wheel bearings in my L series last year, forgot to put the spacers back in!
5kms later and nearly lost my wheels!
Aaand repco only had one more set...to this day I still have one "new" set and one "best of the old" set installed :P

Finally finished raiding the Gen1 today Got the engine, loom, most of the front end bolt-ons (lights, etc) [if anyone needs parts in WA....] also have the seats because they're mint and blue and WILL be going in Scooby at some point soon!! oh and the steering rack, because I could and have been thin...

Haha, no probs man, you see my confusion now!
I've got my hands on a "normal" ecu now and a loom, but I'll see how I go with my USMB contact.

Hi Toonga, Thanks for the links, but as helpful as those sites are, the FSM's do not make any reference to the single-plug-with-bolt design that I have. Some seem close but the pin arrangements are always different. I think it may be because the FSM's do not reference for the ej25 models… Anyway, i ...

I'm raiding a manual gen1 tomorrow, will try to grab the loom and ECU if possible. Then I'll have the matching set with the engine! :P Its very confusing...my donor car has a severe case of multiple personality disorder! Experience counts for everything in this sort of thing...knowing an ABS plug wh...

Today- Successfully reduced the loom to the required engine wiring, was a messy and tedious but not particularly difficult process. Mam's partner being an auto sparky helps. Photos to come soon. Trouble is, I have no idea what ECU I have...according to Google its from an auto EJ25!! So integrated EC...

Hi all. Highly confused and Google isn't helping, so lets play a game... I pulled this ECU out of my Subaru yesterday (Leaving model, engine, etc unspecified, year is after-1990, pre-2000). What can you tell me about the engine, transmission and model that this ECU belongs to? http://i892.photobucke...

Today's update:

Wiring is out!
Now comes the tricky part...
And it turns out I have a Gen1 engine in a '97 Gen2 Liberty with the original '97 wiring and ECU...so all my plans for the wiring need reviewing, mostly just finding the right pinouts and replanning. But it shall be done!

Cheers for that Bennie, I'm going to persist with the process, as I honestly have limited practical experience with engines and most of that on Carby ones! So this process is mostly about learning what's what and where it is! But it is good to know that its [relatively, dare I use that word!] simple...

If it has grey injectors then it's a pre 8/91 (Gen1 Ser1) Liberty engine. All EJ22 engines from the face-lift 9/91-94 (Gen1 Ser2) onwards came with red injectors. Have you removed the injector plug to check? Have you got a pic of them? Absolutely, positively, 110% Grey http://i892.photobucket.com/a...

Apologies for the break in posting, i was down at Collie for the weekend driving a 78 series Landcruiser (not at all a bad thing, if I win Lotto....) and closing roads for one of the WA Rally Championship rounds. Also, the donor car has now ben retired from paddock bashing- Dad has been using it to ...

Thanks RSR555, after a closer inspection I thought it would be a resistor of some sort and the others make sense We had a bit of a discussion on the AUSubaru WA Facebook page and decided it was still a phase 1 due to the lack of red injectors and the presence of dual port heads. :p Would a Haynes/Gr...

Alrighty, a bunch of questions for you who are good with the electronic gadgetry in modern-ish cars. My donor is a 97 Liberty Automatic with the EJ22 Phase 1 engine. This thing on the drivers side strut tower....what is it? http://i892.photobucket.com/albums/ac128/t-ridden/Libertybits1_zps1c1a9973.j...

Also, i will be cross posting here and over on offroadsubarus.com, and I'll try to keep the two as similar as possible!

Cheers,
Tom

Hi all Having been lurking around on the forum for plenty long enough and just about to get stuck into an EJ swap into my beloved little red wagon, I figured it was about time i started my own thread! Saves me hijacking everyone else's with my questions and eeps you guys up to date :iconwink: So, in...

Hi again,
If I can't repair my current door cards well enough, does anyone have a set of 4 L-series cards, in good nick, not fussed on colour, that they'd sell to me?
Preferably south of the river, near Perth but will travel for them.

Will do steptoe, not sure how common they are in good nick, but I'm not fussed on colour so might get lucky.