98 Ej22D-T LGT

[Beauchemin]

Hey guys wanted to start a journal for my 98 Legacy Gt

Car was purchased in the winter of 2012 and currently drive it as my daily

 

 

http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g238/beauchemin/Boostedsleeper.jpg

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mod list:

Engine/exhaust

Under construction!

 

Exterior

Outback front bumper setup

Nokya yellow bulbs for the fogs

 

Interior

02 Wrx Momo Steering Wheel

Oem Lamco Boost Gauge

 

Suspension

H&R lowering springs on stock struts

 

Brakes

Stock

 

Wheels

Stock Lgt wheels i sprayed gold

Hankook Ventus v4 215/55r16

[Beauchemin]

When i bought the car it did come with stock gt "snowflake" wheel, 1 with a crack so got one from a pull yard and decided to paint them up

 

Sanded down and used a can of etching primer

http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g238/beauchemin/Wheelprimer.jpg

 

Then a few coats of gold and clear coat

http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g238/beauchemin/Wheelspaint.jpg

 

Was able to score some Hankook Ventus v4 215/55r16 for cheap

http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g238/beauchemin/Tires.jpg

 

http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g238/beauchemin/FreshWheels.jpg

 

 

 

With almost 200k on the stock ej25d its ready for a now heart, im currently working on a DOHCEJ22-T build

 

Stock ej25d intake mani, i stripped down, cleaned up and painted

 

http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g238/beauchemin/Manifoldtapped.jpg

 

http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g238/beauchemin/Manifildprimed2.jpg

 

http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g238/beauchemin/Intakemanipaitedddd.jpg

 

http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g238/beauchemin/Cleanedfuelrail.jpg

 

 

I have a set of ej25d heads as well, they are modded with a coolant and oil return

http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g238/beauchemin/Maniheadsreturn.jpg

 

Also did some cleanup on the heads

http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g238/beauchemin/Clean25head.jpg

 

http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g238/beauchemin/Exhaustports.jpg

 

 

 

When i got the car it had the stock lgt front bumper but car had been in a small accident and the front bumper support was bent and never replaced, my buddy scored me a outback support bumper and fogs that weren't tag on a car that came into the scrapper

http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g238/beauchemin/Faceless.jpg

 

http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g238/beauchemin/Frontbumpersuport.jpg

 

http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g238/beauchemin/Outbackbumper.jpg

 

 

 

 

My Lamco gauge

http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g238/beauchemin/Lamco.jpg

 

 

My wife and I purchased our first home and had been working on the sucking up both money and time, but i now am officially a home owner and have a garage to work in

http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g238/beauchemin/LeggyGarage2.jpg

 

No pics but got my inner/outer tie rods and lower ball joints in, as well as replaced my leaky power steering pump

 

 

Ej22e with 134XXX on it

 

http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g238/beauchemin/Ej22build.jpg

 

Parts came in!!

http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g238/beauchemin/HybrindGaskets.jpg

 

Ej222 headgaskets match up perfect with the ej25d heads

http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g238/beauchemin/Ej222HeadGaskit.jpg

 

How it looked when i pulled of the 2.2 heads

http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g238/beauchemin/Pistondirty.jpg

[Beauchemin]

Cleaned up the pistons and replaced the rings

http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g238/beauchemin/Pistonrings.jpg

 

http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g238/beauchemin/Pistonclean.jpg

 

 

New rear main seal as old one looked like was leaking a little, also got the separator plate as the 2.2 motor has the plastic garbage cover on it originally.

http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g238/beauchemin/Oilseprearmain.jpg

 

http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g238/beauchemin/Rearmainoilinstalled.jpg

 

Cleaned up the block a little, here is a pic to compare to the one above

 

http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g238/beauchemin/Cleanbellhousing.jpg

 

 

Heads bolted up

 

http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g238/beauchemin/EJ22DTheadsmount.jpg

 

As well as intake mani and a new knock sensor

 

http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g238/beauchemin/EJ22DTIntakeon.jpg

 

http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g238/beauchemin/EJ22DTintake2.jpg

 

 

WASHED!!!!

 

http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g238/beauchemin/Lgtwash.jpg

 

 

Stock EJ25D

 

http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g238/beauchemin/StockEJ25D.jpg

 

http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g238/beauchemin/Parked.jpg

 

Daughter snapping tons of pics while we were out and about haha, first interior pic!!

 

http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g238/beauchemin/Interior.jpg

[Beauchemin]

Water pump and 10mm oil pump install

 

http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g238/beauchemin/10mmoilpump.jpg

 

http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g238/beauchemin/Oilwaterpulled.jpg

 

http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g238/beauchemin/Oilwaterinstalled.jpg

 

 

Out with the old and in with the new

 

http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g238/beauchemin/Mounts.jpg

 

 

 

Oil feed, used a 12x1.25mm to -4an fitting on the rear gallery

 

http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g238/beauchemin/Oilfeedrear.jpg

 

 

 

Timing belt installed

 

http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g238/beauchemin/Timingbeltinstall.jpg

 

 

I had a little fun a mocked it up on the stand

 

http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g238/beauchemin/Fitment2.jpg

 

http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g238/beauchemin/Fitment3.jpg

 

http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g238/beauchemin/Updownpipefitment.jpg

 

http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g238/beauchemin/Updownpipe2.jpg

 

http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g238/beauchemin/Updownpipefit.jpg

 

Clutch!

 

http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g238/beauchemin/Clutch1.jpg

 

Stopped by the Subaru dealer and scooped up my thermostat. Got an oil filter while i was there as well.

http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g238/beauchemin/Statoilfilter.jpg

 

So my buddy is awesome!!! abd gave me this full lamco pack

 

A wrx came through the yard, there were no tags for the pack so he grabbed them for me, has the full harness still was plug and play!! It is just missing a oil temp sensor, but moved over my boost line so boost and volts are good, oil temp soon to come

 

http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g238/beauchemin/Lamco6.jpg

 

Swapping!!!

 

Out with the old (206,445k)

 

http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g238/beauchemin/Swap1.jpg

 

 

My little bro hooking it up with clean up while i swapped over some brackets and such

 

http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g238/beauchemin/Swap2.jpg

 

Build is in!!!!!

 

http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g238/beauchemin/Swap3.jpg

 

Fitting up the turbo and moving foward

 

http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g238/beauchemin/Swap5.jpg

 

Picked up a 02 wrx momo wheel the other day and was able to slap it in last night. So much better thank the stock Lgt wheel!!!!

 

Out with the old

 

http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g238/beauchemin/WheelLgt.jpg

 

In with the new

 

http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g238/beauchemin/WheelMomo.jpg

[Beauchemin]

Picked up a Rallitek pp6 and a Innovate lc-1 wideband the other day

Now I can get her all dialed

 

http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g238/beauchemin/Pp6.jpg

[BoozeRS05]

Loving all the pics, keep up the good work and good luck getting it to fire up tomorrow.

[Beauchemin]

Thanks man!! I actually just hit 2000 miles on the build and has been running great, i copied my build thread from sl-i and posted it here so reading it may sounds funny ill have to go and edit it some lol, i do still need to install the pp6 and wideband though. I justbgot those in the otherday

[CG_stl]

This looks really nice, I love the appearance of the painted IM

[dustinsonger]

i like this

[Beauchemin]

i like this

 

Lol thanks man, still a work in progress but slowly getting there

[xrayspecs]

fan of the ob bumper on the sedans. waiting to see where this goes.

[Beauchemin]

Thanks, i love having my big ol fogs hahaha

 

Just released that i never posted a pic of the swap fully in, so.....

 

http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g238/beauchemin/Boostinstall4.jpg

 

 

all i have right now, not the prettiest but functional haha

[GTEASER]

Nice job!!!

[Beauchemin]

Nice job!!!

 

Thanks man!!

[BoozeRS05]

That BPV line looks like it needs snugged up on there.

 

And I have to ask. What's the blue accordian tube off the intake?

[Beauchemin]

That BPV line looks like it needs snugged up on there.

 

And I have to ask. What's the blue accordian tube off the intake?

 

 

Yeah the bpv line has been snugged up and ziptied, thanks for looking out, the high preformance pool hose hahahha!!!! It is recirulating my bpv, if i let the bov vent to atomosphere my car wont run at idle per the maf based motor i have, pool hose will shortly be upgraded to something more suitable haha

[Beauchemin]

It has been a while since i have been able to work on the leggy, planning my wedding has been sucking up all my time and money. But i buy a new Bosch wideband sensor and wired in my Lc-1. Now just need to find time to get the Smt 6 in and start getting the most out of it

 

http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g238/beauchemin/Db1.jpg

[powjunkie4life]

Sweet build man cant wait do buy another leggy and do something simmilar to this

[Shik]

Wow! Very cool build!

 

I would have loved to swap my 97 GT wagon but it just wasn't in the cards unfortunately.

 

Best of luck with it.

[monkeyposeur]

Nice build! How did you get those pistons so clean? I need to tidy up a set for my 22T/205.

[cww]

nice work. subbed.

[Kdubsteezey]

One quick question, Since you used the ej25 heads and intake you didn't have to do any splicing as far as the wiring harness goes?

[Beauchemin]

Thanks guys

 

Monkeyposeur - parts cleaner and elbow grease, and lots of it haha

 

Kdubsteezey - correct, no wiring and running stock ecu, but EM need to be wired in if you wanted to run more boost

[Beauchemin]

Ok so it's been a while since I've been on but I have made a little progress on the legacy. The clutch couldn't handle the boost anymore (Why I put a stock clutch in...idk) and the motor started to leak a little oil so out she came

 

http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g238/beauchemin/Mobile%20Uploads/image_8.jpg

 

 

The cheapo eBay header (that I had to stretch to fit) ended up rubbing against a line in my rack so much it made a hole and started to leak fluid. So grabbed a rack and decided to swap to the legacy ss subframe

 

http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g238/beauchemin/Mobile%20Uploads/image_9.jpg

 

http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g238/beauchemin/Mobile%20Uploads/image_11.jpg

 

http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g238/beauchemin/Mobile%20Uploads/image_10.jpg

 

 

Then yesterday I took myself on a little road trip

 

http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g238/beauchemin/Mobile%20Uploads/image_16.jpg

 

 

 

 

And got a great deal on a ej255

 

http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g238/beauchemin/Mobile%20Uploads/image_15.jpg

 

http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g238/beauchemin/Mobile%20Uploads/image_14.jpg

[Dxg1997]

This is looking awesome. I have the EJ22 in my 1997 Legacy L, and shes got 205k, and still runnin real strong. not tickoring or anything. Do you know if anything else happened to the EJ22 you had in that? If its just leaking? I may want to buy it from you. (Vid of the engine, and the car itself lol skip to 4:30 for the startup

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