Why not the WRX? Options

[Brett W]

I was checking on the net today and you can pick up a WRX motor for about 650 used. This is pretty complete. That would make a great 914 swap. Better turbo, and some cleaning up of the engine wiring and such you could have one bad ass daily driver.

You would still have the flat four and you could over come the limitations of the T4 engine.

[fiid]

FIID,

Why did you not just run the factory ECU and injection?

For the last time - Have you ever seen a factory fuel injection brain with all the wires cut one foot from the box??

It has like 80 wires hanging out of it. They are all pretty colours. Some of the sensor wires are shielded. Some of them might be for the security system, air conditioning system, power steering, ABS, etc.

I could spend hours and hours pouring over wiring diagrams trying to decode what each of those is and hook it up to something sensible.

Or I could spend very few hours getting a megasquirt running, during which I might actually learn something useful, and have a lot more fun.

Plus, when the megasquirt system is done, I can jack a laptop into it to diagnose problems, and do further tuning. With the stock ECU, I have no options for diagnosis or tuning. In fact - most of the subaru tuners run aftermarket systems for this exact reason. The stock system might not even run correctly without sensor inputs from the other systems.

There are pics in the other thread.