My subaru 1302 build thread

[Eatoniashoprat]

Hi, my car should be coming out of paint today or tomorrow and within the next two months will be going together. I have all the parts to complete the car but I'm getting married and with the honeymoon won't be home to work on it for about 3 weeks in august. Anyway, I'll update with pics here when I can.

Here are some in the paint shop. The really dark color you see is the ~2004 VW color platinum grey with no clear coat yet. Its quite amazing how it turned out since in certain light it looks black, like in the pic, but you move you angle a little bit and it goes to a light grey/silver.

[Eatoniashoprat]

Not sure why the two came out small and the one pic is big?

[jmd]

Can we get some specs on the car?
Power Plant
ECU Solution
Pedal Setup

Thanks.

[Eatoniashoprat]

Originally Posted by jmd

Can we get some specs on the car?
Power Plant
ECU Solution
Pedal Setup

Thanks.

Engine: EJ20 turbo, Early legacy closed deck block, td05h-16g turbo, 550cc injectors that'll be bumped up to about 630-650 with higher fuel pressure

ECU: Using the Subaru harness and have an ECU out of an 96 STi that will run my engine ok. I'll use that to get everything working and then I have an APEXI Power FC with datalogit that plugs right in to my harness. It is a complete standalone fully programmable system. I want to be able to tweak

Pedal setup: ? stock pedals? Cable running to the throttle just like the VW. I imagine I'll have to do some fiddling to get wide open throttle.

Tranny: Built type 1 with ZF LSD. I will drive this car hard but won't be abusing the gearbox. I am confident this box will stand up for many miles.

944 CV joints, currently running on stock beetle axles until I can find a set of the 'short' 944 axles.



I just got the car back home and the paint looks amazing. When I get back home from work (friday) I'll take some pics and post. It saddens me it will sit for the next month but I suppose getting married and honeymoon take priority.

[volkdent]

I think the pictures got small because you've got them at photobucket too large. If you save smaller pictures on photobucket they'll come up just fine on here.

Jason

[shakajava]

Did you do all the prep work and body work before the paint job?
I was wondering of you thought about using MegaSquirt for your engine EFI management. Take a look if you haven't yet.
http://www.megamanual.com/index.html

I haven't used it yet, but want to for my volvo 240 and future subaru project.

[effvee]

Originally Posted by shakajava

Did you do all the prep work and body work before the paint job?
I was wondering of you thought about using MegaSquirt for your engine EFI management. Take a look if you haven't yet.
http://www.megamanual.com/index.html

I haven't used it yet, but want to for my volvo 240 and future subaru project.

Hay Guys, I want very much to use the MegaSquirt system. I have a second type IV setup I would like to use the 1.7 intakes injection with. Although my throttle body will be from a 5.0. Saving some money on the EFI system sounds very nice. My heads are going to be totally re-worked hopefully to support a 2.7.

[Eatoniashoprat]

Sorry guys I've been super busy, I'll post some more pics, when I get home next week. I've got the brakes/susp, wiring and dash mostly done. Engine goes in next, then on to all the other small stuff.

Originally Posted by shakajava

Did you do all the prep work and body work before the paint job?
I was wondering of you thought about using MegaSquirt for your engine EFI management. Take a look if you haven't yet.
http://www.megamanual.com/index.html


I haven't used it yet, but want to for my volvo 240 and future subaru project.

I thought about using megasquirt but there hasn't been much success using it on subaru turbo engines. I have the Apexi Power FC which apparently works very well. I would like to megasquirt something but would rather do it on a low performance daily driver to gain more efi experience then to use it on a hi-po engine.

Originally Posted by BulletBug

hi Eatoniashoprat... nice setup there.. does it requires u to cut the fire wall for the engine to mount properly in the car? radiator location??

thanks, ojan..

I cut a bit out of the firewall to fit the turbo. The IC sits directly overtop of the engine. I shortened the decklid mounts so the intercooler would fit. Once its installed, hopefully next weekend, I'll put some pics up. The radiator is up front, there should be pics of the cooling setup when I was mocking it up in the Engines-Subaru- section.

[Eatoniashoprat]

Here is one pic, this is when it first came to my house. More is done since then but I can't access the pics right now for some reason.

[shakajava]

Very nice!!! i can't wait to get some more $$$$ to put into my 71' 1302. Here is my project page. Just getting started. http://www.germanlook.com/Forums/showthread.php?t=9582
My 69' is a daily driver and I will be leaving that mostly stock with a 1500cc SB.

[BulletBug]

hi Eatoniashoprat... nice setup there.. does it requires u to cut the fire wall for the engine to mount properly in the car? radiator location??

thanks, ojan..

[C4 Metal Werks]

Any updates? More pictures please!

[Jim]

There are no more updates on this beautiful thread??

[evilC]

Originally Posted by Jim

There are no more updates on this beautiful thread??

He's still hibernating!.............or stuck in snow!

[Eatoniashoprat]

Hey guys, the project didn't move very far last summer. I was having some tuning issues, ended up the MAF was really dirty and throwing everything off.

Then I was having oil pan issues, still am actually. The pan I was running originally had no baffles in it so turning or stopping under small g-forces I would lose oil pressure! I took it apart a few times and built some baffles into it, and I'm still not completely satisfied. Under hard braking it still has issues. I installed an oil accumulator (like an accusump) and it helped but I want that as a back-up and not a crutch.

I'm going to cut the factory pan down like the outfront motorsports pan and try that, the lost oil capacity is made up in the oil accumulator which adds 1.5-2L.

Then I can drive it like it was meant to be driven.

Anyway here are some pics from a carshow a few weekends ago. I didn't build the car to 'show', more to drive, but one of my goals was to enter it in this particular show because it was the show we went to growing up. Sort of a rights of passage for me to have entered a car in it, and ended up winning best modified VW!

Take care

Mike