WRX centre diff - into L series box?

Sideways Subaru · Post by **Sideways Subaru** » Fri Mar 16, 2007 8:50 am

http://cgi.ebay.com.au/ws/eBayISAPI.dll ... &rd=1&rd=1

Any way this could fit into an L series d/r box?

Alex

FROG · Post by **FROG** » Fri Mar 16, 2007 9:10 am

Maybe With A Very Big Hammer:d
SORRY COULDNT HELP IT

Brumby Boy · Post by **Brumby Boy** » Fri Mar 16, 2007 4:46 pm

I think youd need the rest of the wrx internals

Gannon · Post by **Gannon** » Sat Mar 17, 2007 12:32 pm

No i dont think so, but apparently you can put a wrx front lsd into the l series FT4wd Box. A guy on the usmb did it

YouTube · Post by **El_Freddo** » Tue Mar 27, 2007 3:14 pm

and you'd beable to put it in the centre (as long as its a centre LSD) IF you have the extension housing/shafts etc from an EJ gearbox, this will give you an AWD gearbox with a tight LSD for off roading.

Cheers

Phizinza · Post by **Phizinza** » Thu Mar 29, 2007 12:28 pm

If you grab a D/R Liberty gearbox, put it's output gears, pinion shaft and rear casing in your EA82's gearbox. Using the EA82's low range gears, and input gear set. Then you should be able to fit the tighter(?) centre VLSD out of the WRX in that.. You will also need to custom your gearbox crossmember.

YouTube · Post by **El_Freddo** » Tue Apr 03, 2007 5:11 pm

This is what i've already talked about roughly 6 months ago... Hope it helps and i still hope to do this some day as it will be quicker for me than waiting for a Dual Range AWD L series gearbox to appear in my shed...

showthread.php?t=4311

Hope its of some value.

And i say a tight LSD cos somewhere along the lines i heard that a standard centre diff is a 5kg LSD in the EJ Dual range boxes and the WRX's had a 'tighter' centre diff rated at 20kg.

As Phizinza said, swap the EJ gearset into the EA box add EJ extension housing to EA box with WRX LSD centre diff. You'll probabily have to shorten you gear selector shaft as well as custom the crossmember. There's a little thing you'll have to do with the D/R selector as you'll read in the above thread.

Cheers

Phizinza · Post by **Phizinza** » Wed Apr 04, 2007 3:02 pm

If your using a L gearbox casing, not the EJ box, it will make it harder to put the detent in for the low range (I assume this is what your talking about "little thing you'll have to do with the D/R selector.") Because the casing doesn't have a detent in it like the EJ casing does. So you would need to ally weld sometihng to the casing. But, from what I've read about the twin stick (for low range 2wd) you don't need that detent anyhow. I've talked to a guy how has driven for half a year in his daily driver with no detent on the low range, and it has never popped out or been an issue. So I think the detent talk is all just a bit of over engineering.

The gear selector shaft for the D/R liberty box are the same as the L series box..

And if you are wondering what all this detent stuff is (because you can't find a single pic of a low range detent thingy on the net.) Just have a look at these.
http://offroadingsubarus.com/images/lse ... tforks.jpgLiberty fork on the left, L series on the right.
http://offroadingsubarus.com/images/lse ... etent2.jpg
http://offroadingsubarus.com/images/lse ... etent4.jpg

YouTube · Post by **El_Freddo** » Thu Apr 05, 2007 3:14 pm

Phizinza wrote:If your using a L gearbox casing, not the EJ box, it will make it harder to put the detent in for the low range (I assume this is what your talking about "little thing you'll have to do with the D/R selector.") Because the casing doesn't have a detent in it like the EJ casing does.

That's what i was saying. If i was ever able to do this i think i'd still put the dedent in, its there for a purpose. Anyway, thats not what we're here to talk about.

Either way, the center LSD will, from what i've read/heard, fit in the L casing with EJ internals using the rear EJ extension housing.