Crankwalk

For what it's worth, my Outback has 2-3k miles on these arms and my ball joints are fine. No noises whatsever.

 

[Can anyone confirm or deny that these are now regular steel arms? Bought a Leggy GT and was going to get it aluminum arms too, but it seems Rock Auto fixed it.

Oh, and what are you doing about TGVs? I thought I could use the JDM lower intake, but it doesn't work with the US injectors, so I had to swap over the US lower intake/TGVs. Did you Dremel out the TGV stuff? Or did you find a way to control the TGVs with the JDM ECU?

L88, do you have a picture of this question? I can try to look at my harness to compare.

 

Crankwalk, correct, I did not repin the ecu connector or use any type of adapter. The plastic case legacy JDM ecus have the same pinout as the plastic case legacy US ecus, at least for BP/BL applications. The JDM ecu uses some of the empty US pins for the extra functions.

 

I am 100% CEL free with the one caveat, I disabled some secondary air codes since I do not have the pumps and valves on my early-gen motor. The later gen motors probably should function without disabling these codes since the hardware is installed on these later motors. SI Drive works as well.

 

My ABS and Traction lights are still on and ABS is non-functional. I will look into this when I have finished tuning the car. In California where it doesn't rain, this is not an issue and I used to enjoy sliding around in the snow when I lived in the snow belt, but I can see that this might be an issue for other folks.

 

Beautiful man! I was intimidated by this route, but I think you have done enough trail blazing I can follow in your footsteps. I'd like to have traction control, but if it comes down to quad AVCS or traction control, I will take the AVCS. Hopefully I can find someone who can program the immobilizer, I am in a smallish town, so locksmith selection is minimal.

 

Any chance you have a diagram of where the exhaust AVCS wires and cam positioning sensors get pinned into the harness at the ECU?

Just to clarify a few things, you didn't need to use the AEM patch harness to do any repinning at the ECU? Just add the wires for the cam position sensors and AVCS actuators?

 

So you are 100% CEL free and fully functional? ABS, traction, SI Drive?