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[sbv]

Sorry to hear about this mate. It's bad enough seeing all those dollars go down the drain, but all those hours you've put into it is what makes it a real shame.

On to bigger and better. I'll be watching this with interest.

Have you considered a 257 short block?

[Cam.]

The heads will need machining to suit. It gets pretty expensive and illegal as well.

207 is heaps stronger compared to the 257.

[sbv]

Fair call

[Tim.]

207 is looking like the go. Just putting it out there, could you go single with stock ecu? Or would it be a rewire and wrx/aftermarket ecu job?

[Cam.]

Aftermarket ecu. I used a link.

[Tim.]

Thanks Cam. Love your work - We should dub you "Forester Yoda"

[Cam.]

[jakefake]

Doing an engine conversion in my lib was the best thing I ever did. I can't imagine the shit i would have to deal with owning an s15 or something along the lines of that shit 

[CodeBurn3r]

Tim, have a look into ESL ECU Boards.. they look pretty good...
stock ECU + All the good stuff

[MrSober88]

Only just read this thread, really glad I saw it.

 

 

"Excited to start the car for the first time after having it off the road for near 5 months, I was bleeding the clutch and had removed a cable from the starter solenoid make room to swing the spanner. Put the intercooler back on, Clutch in and turn the key .....Nothing! I was devastated. Then remembered I had disconnected the cable from the starter solenoid."

 

This was me the first time I went to start it up, had taken that same wire off and forgot. I also had nothing but the dump pipe, but got some vids of the sound lol.

[sbv]

Tim, have a look into ESL ECU Boards.. they look pretty good...
stock ECU + All the good stuff

Not sure if ESL support 99-01 B4/GT yet. Eculabs have just finished development for these though (just had confirmation from Emmanuel last night actually). Same idea as ESL.

Hope things progress well over the next couple of weeks Tim!

[Tim.]

ESL looks alright but as Josh said, looks to be for pre 99 ecu. Anyway, tuning isn't really a problem as Ecutek can read my ecu and I've purchased a license so i'll be sticking with it. I'm happy to monitor how the car runs but as far as tuning, i'll leave it to those that have more experience

The shop's reopened so it should be being worked on as of today.

[sbv]

Good luck with that. Keep us updated!

By the way, with ESL and Eculabs I think it's just a matter of loading a single turbo map to the existing ecu if you ever want to remove one turbo. If your happy with Ecutek though that's cool as Sean is a good bloke and knows his stuff.

[Tim.]

Engine rebuild pt 1.

So I went for the rebuild option, the heads were reco'd and fitted to a new 207 short motor from Subaru. For the first 1000kms it's just being run in with the boost bridged. I am trying to keep it under 5k rpm and to stay off boost all together which is proving to be very hard!

In a week or so, it'll go back for a re-tune and should hopefully be all sweet.

It's very enjoyable to be driving again and have it back at home. I think i'll spend most of the long weekend cleaning and detailing it, not that it's dirty!

[Tim.]

Engine rebuild pt 2.

Well the car's been back and forth to the shop for some troubleshooting. The boost bridge was removed (I think this is a fancy way of saying it was running wastegate pressure) so it's back to the factory plumbing but boost did not return back to normal. It was only running about 12psi, changeover was terrible like it's opening the ECV way too quickly and too early which was causing secondary to either take too long to spool or giving the DPS grief and throwing a 66 light.

It's just a wait now til the root of the problem is found. A bit relieved though that I didn't do the engine rebuild myself otherwise this issue would be mine to deal with - and dealt with by means of 'a can of petrol'.

[Tim.]

Engine rebuild pt 3.

 

Oh, I didn't really update this with the root problem and resolution. A little plumbing problem when it was put back together - both wastegate and ecv duty solenoids bleed ports were 'joined together' instead of being tee'd back into the air intake piping, causing all sorts of issues. Needless to say it's all sweet again after this was sorted, has been re-tuned and now running 20psi.

[Tim.]

i've been around, just not around here much lately.. settling in to a new job so as i'm more comfortable with the work i'm doing and watched less closely i'll be on here more!!

 

Pic I took on the highway. thought it was pretty good:

 

[Adam]

Awesome!