Dann's 92 Subaru L Series Build

Dann · Post by **Dann** » Fri Apr 22, 2011 10:07 pm

haha yeah i've started, And yeah i've killed two red backs and got bitten twice by another spider, little brown buggers, while under working on it. Almost finished working on the car it's self just trying to get all the things off it so i can get rid of it and free up space

RSR 555 · Post by **RSR 555** » Sat Apr 23, 2011 2:32 am

Dann wrote:Pulled the power steering rack out today, need to get new boots and Lseries ends for it now,
liberty power steering rack by Dann_Evans, on Flickr

Question - Because i'm using the liberty power steering rack I know you have to change the ends, I'm pretty shore I know the part that needs to get changed but just confirming I've taken a pic of the liberty ends, so i just need to get the l series ones lyk these or is it more??

Yeah Dann.. you'll need use the Tie Rods from your L (as well as the Tie Rod Ends) onto you Liberty Rack

d_generate · Post by **d_generate** » Sat Apr 23, 2011 3:44 am

Should get up that hill at Two Rocks with the 2.2 lol, great going.....Like my new sig pic, my fav pic of the car so far, bloody under-tray & things getting in the way & stopping me

Dann · Post by **Dann** » Sat Apr 23, 2011 1:43 pm

haha nice tom

. and paul sorry i'm still new to terms even though i've had my subie for lyk a year already haha. so the tie rod ends are the little bent things right at the ends of the rack with the little ball joint on them, and the tie rods are the two rods right at the end that the tie rod ends attach on to??
just confirming thanks.

YouTube · Post by **El_Freddo** » Sat Apr 23, 2011 5:07 pm

Looking good dan!

You'll love the EJ!!! L series (4wd one's at least) should have come from the factory with 27 inch tyres, 3 inch lift and EJ22. A well tried and tested setup!

130,000km on the EJ is still a baby - especially for a conversion. I was lucky to find one at the wreckers with 124,xxxkm on it. Since then I've done about 40k kms with it and no major issues (touch wood).

Keep the pics coming - its what we love around here

Cheers

Bennie

Dann · Post by **Dann** » Sat Apr 23, 2011 5:44 pm

Cheers bennie :P
Yeah I can't wait for the EJ, still stripping it and cleaning bit and pieces, here's a pic of it at the moment;

EJ22 at the moment by Dann_Evans, on Flickr

I managed to put the liberty seats in the "L" today not much work 4 new holes and they went in just fine, very happy with them, pitty they not the same colour but i'll just get sum nice seat covers for em.

My new liberty seats by Dann_Evans, on Flickr

guyph_01 · Post by **guyph_01** » Sat Apr 23, 2011 8:56 pm

Great work dann, were you able to keep the 'up&down' feature of the seat?
Hows the head space?

Engine looks very clean:)

Dann · Post by **Dann** » Sat Apr 23, 2011 9:41 pm

guyph_01 wrote:Great work dann, were you able to keep the 'up&down' feature of the seat?
Hows the head space?

Engine looks very clean:)

Yeah I was able to keep the up and down feature, not that I need it cause when i put it up my head is touching the roof lol, But yeah it's an added feature

RSR 555 · Post by **RSR 555** » Mon Apr 25, 2011 7:59 am

Dann wrote:haha nice tom . and paul sorry i'm still new to terms even though i've had my subie for lyk a year already haha. so the tie rod ends are the little bent things right at the ends of the rack with the little ball joint on them, and the tie rods are the two rods right at the end that the tie rod ends attach on to??
just confirming thanks.

Nps Dann.. this first pic is of the sterring rack with the Liberty Tie Rods attached (which you'll need to swap for the L.Series ones)

Dann wrote:

These are the L.Series Tie Rod Ends that will also be needed

Dann wrote:

guyph_01 wrote:Engine looks very clean:)

+1.. should look sweet in the engine bay

Dann · Post by **Dann** » Mon Apr 25, 2011 2:54 pm

ok awsum one more thing i've got sorted

Does the tie rods have to be from an L series with power steering to??
hows the rest of the kit going paul have you heard from the guy yet??

angosurf_81@hotmail.com · Post by **angosurf_81@hotmail.com** » Mon Apr 25, 2011 3:12 pm

hey Dann,

Just curious about thos 6X9 in the rear, i put 6's cause i didnt think i could get 6X9's in. Can you put a pic up of them or something. Cheers mate.

Dann · Post by **Dann** » Mon Apr 25, 2011 3:58 pm

angosurf_81@hotmail.com wrote:hey Dann,

Just curious about thos 6X9 in the rear, i put 6's cause i didnt think i could get 6X9's in. Can you put a pic up of them or something. Cheers mate.

yeah no worries mate. heres a pic of them mounted and how it looks, I wanted to put them long ways but they ended up being to low down so i mounted them upright, also cause I didn't wanna cut anything.

6/9 speakers mounted in rear door by Dann_Evans, on Flickr

The next pic shows the backside of them on the panel, I put thin MDF on the back to take up the room inbetween the panel and the door, to stop vibration. And to strengthen it.

rear side of the 6/9's by Dann_Evans, on Flickr

And the third pic is of the in side of the door i had some sound proofing lying around so i put that in aswell, (really does help) and if you can see i have taped all the wires and anything that can rattle down so if you tap the back door you can't hear all the rattle from wires and shit.

I also had to screw the panel on because if I didn't, the speakers are so heavy when you close the door they fall off.

inner door contents by Dann_Evans, on Flickr

Hope that helps abit

RSR 555 · Post by **RSR 555** » Mon Apr 25, 2011 4:32 pm

Dann wrote:ok awsum one more thing i've got sorted
Does the tie rods have to be from an L series with power steering to??
hows the rest of the kit going paul have you heard from the guy yet??

Yep.. if you're using the Liberty Steering Rack in the L.Series Engine Crossmember then you'll need to use both the Tie Rods and the Tie Rod Ends from the L.Series Steering Rack and fit them to your Liberty Steering Rack. If you're going to use the Liberty Engine Crossmember in the L.Series (and convert to 5 stud), then you can use the complete Liberty Steering Rack without modifying (so hang on to your Liberty Tie Rods and Ends)

RSR 555 · Post by **RSR 555** » Thu Apr 28, 2011 10:31 pm

Hey Dann.. guess what I have for you???

YouTube · Post by **El_Freddo** » Thu Apr 28, 2011 10:36 pm

RSR 555 wrote:Hey Dann.. guess what I have for you???

Ok I'm intrigued!

Bennie

Dann · Post by **Dann** » Fri Apr 29, 2011 2:06 am

Yay. Might pop down next week sumtime:).

RSR 555 · Post by **RSR 555** » Fri Apr 29, 2011 9:38 am

El_Freddo wrote:Ok I'm intrigued!

Bennie

haha.. sorry Bennie Top Secret Stuff.. LOL

Nah.. just kidding, these are the part B to Dann's lift kit, these brackets are for the rear K frame. It's designed to stop the flex on the front bushing. Part C and hopefully the final to the kit is the rear bump stop mods but we'll need to wait to see what sort of wheel travel the car has after Dann does the rear strut conversion like you did to Suby Ruby (unless you know off hand?).

Dann wrote:Yay. Might pop down next week sumtime:).

No probs Dann.. will need to be Monday or Tuesday as it's that time again.

guyph_01 · Post by **guyph_01** » Fri Apr 29, 2011 11:00 am

Hahaha, yeah this will definitely stop the 1cm flex that was seen on my car:D

Man, WA is up there with the design of new innovative parts for our subi's:p

Wagonman · Post by **Wagonman** » Sat Apr 30, 2011 12:03 am

Hey,

With those Lib seats did you just use the same frames and drill four new holes??? Im asking cos im doing the same to mine 'shortly' (sometime this year)..

Dann · Post by **Dann** » Sun May 01, 2011 11:36 pm

Wagonman wrote:Hey,

With those Lib seats did you just use the same frames and drill four new holes??? Im asking cos im doing the same to mine 'shortly' (sometime this year)..

hey john the way I did it was that I used the original top hole(front of the seat holes) and drilled the appropriate hole corresponding to the bottom of the l series seat tracks, As everyone says pictures speak a thousand words, the picture below is of the difference between the liberty and the l series seat tracks (liberty-right with the red dots and L series- left with the green dots)
this is the passenger side (the easy side).

libertyl series seat runner by Dann_Evans, on Flickr

The second pic is with both L series tracks installed and the old hole at the bottom in red.

l series seat runner in place by Dann_Evans, on Flickr

For the driver seat it's abit different because you have the raise and lower mechanism, the top (front of the seat) bolts are easy they just come out but the bottom is different because you need the bracket that swivels when you raise and lower the seat, the image bellow shows the bracket that you need, I had already taken it off so i just used paint to show you the position it was in. With this bracket it is spot welded onto the track at the bottom and like crimpt at the top, just cut the little crimpt knob off which should pop out with a metal punch or sumthing similar though a big hole you can see in the picture, next you just need to separate the two pieces, I used a chisel to get down to the spot weld and a hacksaw to cut it, you can pretty much do it what ever way you want you just need to get that bracket from both sides.

bracket liberty mount by Dann_Evans, on Flickr

The next image is of the L series track bolted at the top (front of the seat) and the bracket you cut off installed in the original position on the seat and how it all lines up, the red holes are the crimped knob that held the liberty track on and the green hole are the new holes to attach the L series track on. I'm pretty shore that i swapped the too brackets around so i put the left one on the right and the right one on the left otherwise the tracks don't line up, if you look in this image and the last one you can see how i have positioned them, the bigger one is on the left and the smaller one is on the right. mabey i didn't swap them?? haha forgot lol but you should see there only one way to put them on.

old and new hole l series bracket by Dann_Evans, on Flickr

The last image is of the L series tracks installed on the drivers side the red holes are the old original mounting points and the green ones are the new holes with a small bolt holding it, The bolt can't be too big otherwise it will interfere when you put the seat down.

liberty car with l series runners by Dann_Evans, on Flickr

Ok well that my way of putting liberty seats in an L series, I know other people have welded things and cut things but I found this way to be pretty straight forward

tell me if you get stuck and i'll help as best I can.

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