Hello All, let me introduce myself. My name is Nate, I live in the mountains, and I love cars. I love cars ALMOST as much as I love to snowboard.
Let me begin.
I've been building my 1990 miata into what has pretty much become a canyon car. It's also used for the occasional track day and auto-x. Although it is what I would call a "toy", I dd it in the summer. Here she is:
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It has a bunch of modifications, from chassis rigidity mods, safety mods, and of course power. It currently has a 99 motor swap with turbo goodies and a standalone ecm.
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This thread is not about that car though. As mentioned, I'm an avid snowboarder. I try to get at least 50+ days in a season, which is typically around 3 days of riding a week. I also mountain bike in the summer. On top of that, I love driving (sliding) in the dirt/snow any chance I can get. These are all reasons why I've picked up a subaru.
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Enough about me, onto the car I've acquired as a project. This is my new to me 1999 SF forester. I picked it up for a song with a nasty rod knock, although the engine still runs (only ran the engine to drive it onto the trailer). Here you can see it next to my brothers GC wagon which was also a hell of a steal, due to the timing belt snapping on the PO and wrecking the valves.
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We've already got a complete low mileage ej22e for his car, so i have free reign over his hopefully still intact phase I ej22e bottom end.
Now I bet you guys can see where this is going. Here is the tentative plan. Check out the ej22e bottom end, ensure it's in working order still. Pull powerplant from the 99 foz, disassemble and inspect the heads. Assuming both are in working condition I will be assembling the two together to get her running hopefully in time for some heavy snow.
This *should* leave me with a good running lower compression ej22 with good flowing heads. Come spring assuming this frankenmotor is running as intended I have some homebrew turbo plans, assuming the lower comp ej22 isn't enough oomph for me. Plans for the subie are VERY tame. IF i do go turbo, it will be low boost wastegate setup, which will probably see somewhere between 160-180whp. That should be more than enough for a snow/gravel fun car.
I understand the mechanicals very well, I'm completely stumped when it comes to tuning so that is where I have been investing most of my research. So far it looks like I have a few options this being a MAF car.
1) rising rate fuel pressure regulator.
2) something along the lines of a SAFC or PP6
3) reflash? is that possible at all? Still more research to be done.
Now the turbo idea is a huge maybe, but the ej22 bottom/ej25 top is the plan now. Hopefully I can get this thing going before any serious snow comes my way.
This is kind of an intro thread, but this will also be my build thread. I'll keep you guys updated as I make progress on the new project. For now I'm just proud to be a subie owner!
Let me begin.
I've been building my 1990 miata into what has pretty much become a canyon car. It's also used for the occasional track day and auto-x. Although it is what I would call a "toy", I dd it in the summer. Here she is:
It has a bunch of modifications, from chassis rigidity mods, safety mods, and of course power. It currently has a 99 motor swap with turbo goodies and a standalone ecm.
This thread is not about that car though. As mentioned, I'm an avid snowboarder. I try to get at least 50+ days in a season, which is typically around 3 days of riding a week. I also mountain bike in the summer. On top of that, I love driving (sliding) in the dirt/snow any chance I can get. These are all reasons why I've picked up a subaru.
Enough about me, onto the car I've acquired as a project. This is my new to me 1999 SF forester. I picked it up for a song with a nasty rod knock, although the engine still runs (only ran the engine to drive it onto the trailer). Here you can see it next to my brothers GC wagon which was also a hell of a steal, due to the timing belt snapping on the PO and wrecking the valves.
We've already got a complete low mileage ej22e for his car, so i have free reign over his hopefully still intact phase I ej22e bottom end.
Now I bet you guys can see where this is going. Here is the tentative plan. Check out the ej22e bottom end, ensure it's in working order still. Pull powerplant from the 99 foz, disassemble and inspect the heads. Assuming both are in working condition I will be assembling the two together to get her running hopefully in time for some heavy snow.
This *should* leave me with a good running lower compression ej22 with good flowing heads. Come spring assuming this frankenmotor is running as intended I have some homebrew turbo plans, assuming the lower comp ej22 isn't enough oomph for me. Plans for the subie are VERY tame. IF i do go turbo, it will be low boost wastegate setup, which will probably see somewhere between 160-180whp. That should be more than enough for a snow/gravel fun car.
I understand the mechanicals very well, I'm completely stumped when it comes to tuning so that is where I have been investing most of my research. So far it looks like I have a few options this being a MAF car.
1) rising rate fuel pressure regulator.
2) something along the lines of a SAFC or PP6
3) reflash? is that possible at all? Still more research to be done.
Now the turbo idea is a huge maybe, but the ej22 bottom/ej25 top is the plan now. Hopefully I can get this thing going before any serious snow comes my way.
This is kind of an intro thread, but this will also be my build thread. I'll keep you guys updated as I make progress on the new project. For now I'm just proud to be a subie owner!
