Give me the VIN and tell me who is on the title. I'll see what I can do!

 

pm sent

 

have an appointement to bring the car in tomorrow at 9:15 am. hopefully it starts no problem.

the car is completely together, seats and all that, minus sterio system and carpet. All the lights work, so at least i did that right

 

Good luck man.

 

so i got the codes and brought it in, but something else is wrong and they don't know what. fortunately they didnt really have a tech here this weekend so he'll try to figure out whats up on monday

 

ghey hope tooo see it monday

 

subaru couldnt do anything, they didnt even try to diagnose it even though i asked them to and said i would pay. Now my car isnt allowed back because its bad for the company and because they dont deal with swaps and conversions, like it could be stolen or something. whatever

taking the car to GST Motorsports tomorrow to get it programmed, ill keep you guys updated as to what happens

 

Which place is this? That's freaking weird. Good luck at GST tomorrow.

 

i kinda understand their view, but o well

Prestige Imports in santa rosa - vw, subaru, and bmw, the people are nice and everything and plus my mentor greg (Roo) works there. they do have a couple really hot showroom women though...

 

why not take it to lic? its closer than gst.

 

they cant program keys, i already checked, that would be way more convenient too, its not even half the distance

anyways : (

key is programmed, but it still doenst start. i need to go through the immobilizer wiring and check for anything wrong and i also need to check all the grounds.

i'm trying to get a hold of an an 04 sti ecu to check to see if the car will start as well.

However, if this doesnt work and the sti ecu does, ill end up getting one of those and a tune so i can forget about the immobilizer

 

damn... what a mess... i bet you cant wait to just be able to drive it!

 

Dude you're my hero, seriously. I have been looking everywhere for a detailed EJ25 swap. Im planning on doing the same thing with a Brighton Coupe and an STI EJ257 next fall. You seem to have a lot of problem with the wiring, if I were you I would have had LIC do all the electronic. Thats what im going to do. How hard was the engine to retrofit in? I heard you have to modify the crossmember or get one out of a turbo legacy to fit the EJ25 in. You made it look like it went in no problem. Maybe since it is a 2.5 RS it has the same mount. How about the dash? It didnt just bolt up did it? You've just made it look soooo easy it would be awesome to get some details on what the difficult parts are. What all have you had to modify or retrofit? You've given me confidence that this really can be pulled off without a full tuner shop like LIC (minus the wiring). Thanks so much for doing this report and answering all these questions. You're an inspiration to us all.

 

^ have you been on rs25.com? check there for some more info.

 

wow thank you

crossmember bolted right up no problems. dash was kindof a *****, took awhile to fit in, and still, it doesnt really fit right. if you plan on doing the dash as well, you will have to do some drilling/cutting in the firewall for the heater core. that was only thing that took some modifiying. you will have to do some drilling and tapping to mount some engine bay parts for the sti, but not much modification was needed

let me know if there is anything else i can help you with. I've been learning along the way, so there is still a lot of things i dont know.

damn i really want this thing on the road