Zwingfilms 1998 Legacy EJ255 Turbo Swap

[Zwingfilms]

Hey everyone! My car is a 1998 Subaru Legacy Wagon with an EJ255 motor in it from a 2005 Legacy GT Wagon. These motors come stock with an STI block -the difference is the small turbo, plastic intake manifold, and a tiny TMIC. The swap is in the finishing stages and should be done during this summer. When I get my car running prime and have it street tuned in Gig Harbor, I'd like to find a set of wheels, spacers, run some camber, lower my coilovers, and weld in some '89 Honda Accord Fender Flares and give it a nice stance for 2013.

Here's my mod list

Motor
-'05 LGT EJ255 Engine
-OEM VF52 Turbo
-Fast Motorsports TMIC
-TGV Deletes
-GrimmSpeed EBCS
-GrimmSpeed 8mm Phenolic Spacers
-GrimmSpeed Down/Up pipe Gaskets
-GrimmSpeed 4 TGV to Intake Manifold Gaskets
-Perrin Divorced Downpipe-Ceramic Heat Coated
-Agency Power Up pipe
-2004 STI OEM Headers
-2006 WRX Axelback Exhaust
-Perrin Turbo Inlet
-K&N Typhoon STI Intake
-Cobb Lightweight Crankshaft Pulley
-Cobb Turbo Heat Shield
Stage 2 Excedy Racing Clutch
-2010 STI OEM Fuel Pump
-A/C Delete
-ABS Delete
-Air Blower Delete




Suspension
-TEIN coilovers
2003 WRX
-front hubs
-rear subframe
-rear control arms
-rear lateral links
2005 Outback XT
-Steering rack and pinion
-Turbo X Member
-Front Sway bar/End links
2006 WRX
-Front Dual 4 pot brake calipers
-Front Rotors
-Rear Dual 2 pot brake calipers
-Rear Stoptech Drilled/Slotted Rotors
-Rear Hubs
2010 WRX
-OEM Black 17" Wheels
-Dunlop Sport Tires






Interior
Sparco Racing Seat - Driver seat only
-Rerouted Brake Lines/Proportioning valve
-Sound Deadening Gutted
-Interior Gutted
2005 LGT
-Dash
-MT Wiring
-Tinted Cluster
-Momo Steering wheel with '04 STI Airbag




Cosmetics
WRB custom exterior paint job
Black interior paint job
WRB OEM Fog light Covers
WRB Hella Horns
JDM Headlight Projectors
JDM Taillights
JDM 3rd Gen Legacy BH rear wing
JDM BG5 GT front Mesh C Grill-
Poly Urethane Rally Armor Mud Flaps
'06 WRX Hoodscoop & Splitter
Legacy GT Bumper

Test fitting an '06 WRX Hood scoop and JDM Grill


Most Recent picture from April 13/13



3 years ago, April 19th, 2010
I was a 10th grader in high school and bought this super riced out Subie



These were all of the mods that came with the car
WRB Custom Paint
Mesh Grill
OEM '02 WRX rims
Stage 2 Racing Clutch
Skunk 2 shift nob
2.25" Straight pipe
Dual Loop OBX exhaust tip
Perrin Cold air intake
Smoked tail lights
After Market Hood Scoop
Blue HID's
DC/Shocker/JDM stickers

As I've grown older, I've started to turn it from rice to nice



Excited to be apart of this forum, I'm a huge fan of Stanceworks and most of the builds on here.

-Z

[244Brick]

Gosh this makes me miss my BD

[CrackerTeg]

In to see where you take this. The chick cleaning the coils your girlfriend? If so, big ups for getting her involved and wife her up!

[e.mury]

Did you ever make how to videos on youtube, your car/garage/watermark/gold crank pulley looks familiar... Awesome legacy btw

[SlammedForester]

what's up my man

[Zwingfilms]

No, she's my x but we've done a great job of staying friends, I'm not your typical tool Subaru driver haha, yes I was that child who made Subaru tutorials on YouTube. I was learning as I made those tutorials, I never had a dad who knew anything about cars or a group of car enthusiast buddies. Just from personal research and tons of personal experience I slowly taught myself the ropes and then Ben^SlammedForester sparked some interest and we started learning together. We went to the same highs school ad live 5 minutes from each other. He then picked up a sweet fozzy and we just help each other now but with a lot more knowledge. Funny thing is, Ben here was the original photographer and inspired me to pick up a camera and now it's my full time gig!

Back to cars, update- My cars currently at PIA getting some codes figured out with the SSM and when they're done I'm gonna get my car street tuned by Josh Long from Roopair, he use to be on the SRTUSA WRC pitcrew and has a lot of experience, I have a lot of respect for this guy. Stoked to see some big numbers. Stock this motor makes 180whp and I'm hoping to see around 285ish whp and 350hp to the crank-also 350 f/lbs torque

[Jlyons617]

Welcome! Good to see a bit of Legacy love. Do you have a link of where you're taking yours for a remap? I need to get my 05 in for a tune as well and don't want to go to Auburn fot a JohnJohn tune if I don't have to.

Also, you plan on going to the Subie meet in Port Townsend in August?

[Zwingfilms]

Theres a link to their website- he does the tuning personally on his own
so just ask for Josh Long to talk about getting your car tuned.

http://www.roopairspecialties.com/

Hopefully my car is ready by then, if so I'll probably be there

[Darksyde]

This build is tight! Stoked to race when our swaps are both done.

[SebastienPeek]

This is going to be awesome. In for more!

[johnnytsunami]

love it, in for more. I was seriously considering this swap for my ea82.

[t3rriblet]

[lowandy]

Nice wagon dude! i have the same legacy and will be watching this build also i remember your videos on youtube

[snowvak]

How well did the 05 dash fit into the BK? How much Custom fab did you guys have to endore?
But this wagon is sweet. I've been searching for a wrecked 4th gen LGT to do a swap similar to this into my BD.
Keep the posts coming!

[Zwingfilms]

Sorry I haven't been active with this thread at all. Were still working out a throttle issue but
here's a before and after in the mean time. This is what the motor looks like today