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4K Mile update:
Only one conversion related problem has reared it's head since the last update. Leaking coolant at the head after 500 miles... this is apparently a common problem. Subaru had a tech update about this and I rode by the dealership to pick up a $3 bottle of coolant additive. Poured it in and no more coolant leak. I have yet to bother with fixing all the error codes with resistors, they aren't effecting how the engine is running. I'll tackle them when the weather warms up so I can have a working check engine light. The following resistors have not been added: rear O2 sensor rear O2 heater EVAP solonoids gas level gas temp As on the some of the earlier engine, there is a pin on the automatic sohc ecu that can be grounded to remove some error codes. A wire should be added to ecu position B25 and run to ground(ref: subaru-vanagon group). Power was supplied to the a/c switch to bump up idle from 600 rpm to 800. I talked to several tach suppliers and manufacturers to see if there was a conversion box to get the 914 tach to run off the subaru ecu tach signal with no luck. Autometer tach installed. Engine bay radiator... I ran the car with the radiator sealed but no scoop to see how the different cooling combinations would work: rad frame sealed, no scoop = too warm on the interstate rad frame sealed, with scoop = just right, sits at 200 on the interstate I have two electric fans on the rad, one is always on and the other is ecu controlled. The ecu control come on a bit late for me and in stop and go traffic the temp would creep up in warm weather. One fan all the time and it hasn't broken 210. Conversion notes: 2002 EJ25(Legacy automatic), stock ecu Stock radiator in engine bay Flowmaster 80 crossflow muffler, this is loud on the interstate, thinking about a way to quiet it down 914 stock round air filter generic fi fuel pump all electric fused in engine bay thacher-style engine mount bar shift bar cut, rotated 45*, welded oil pan shortened and boxed out Summit heater core behind engine running to stock heat inlets at firewall oil pressure sender added to block oil temp sender will be added at current oil light sender position coolant temp sender added to line that had run to throttle body(adapters for all senders can be found at egauges.com... M18 to npt) all relays in radioshack project box under passenger seat
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