ok so Saturday myself, stace, smokah and ryan headed down to pull the car apart some more.

what we were left from last time was 2/3rds of the loom pulled apart and sitting in the foot well.



we finished disconnecting shit from the engine bay and pulled them through the grommets in the firewall. the loom in these cars was much bigger than any of us had seen before, probably due to the GT's electric everything, and bulked out further by its 19 speaker surround sound system. but it all came out eventually



thats a whole lot of wire!

now to the fun bit, pulling the engine out! we needed to get to the gearbox mount, so the cooler had to come off. a few bolts later, and one cooler pretty unique to the subaru family is out



we discovered there was no real need to remove the gearbox mount, the japanese driver had done a fair old job of that himself



we disconnected the brake lines, abs gear, earth straps and any other bits hanging on, and prepared to drop the motor. It's very important at this point to note that at no point during the operation should you put your beer down



we bolted the entire halfcut to the roof with block and tackle, and held the engine up with an eng crane




undo the cross members, and slowly lower the engine



congrats, you have now conquered a half cut



a few things to note, i'll need some new control arms as i think the ones from the half cut are no good.



good for 7 degrees camber!!

while it was just sitting there i pulled off the heat shield and got my first good view of my new turbo



next up we have to go through the whole process again with my GX, strip out the wiring loom and remove the old motor. fun!

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MY93 Impreza GX 1.8L, 0hp, 0nm

progress loooks goood matty!

keep the control arms! and ask john just to give you an alignment

great pics, lots of work involved, worth the effort though. Cheap + fast.

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Plus you get the satisfaction of doing the work yourself, big ups for that

Not to mention that if sumthing goes wrong, because you've done most/all the work, you will have a fairly good idea whats causing what, to a degree. Great to see pictures aswel. Helps scoobie newbies like me identify with certain parts within an enginebay

good work Matt. Can't wait to see the finished product...

Is the gx copping a spray treatment or leaving it white?

Nice skillz Ryan.

Kym for the mean time it will be white, blue silver and a bit of black while i collect the rest of the kit. what colour it eventually gets sprayed depends on how much a sponsor is willing to give me to paint the car =) failing that, back to standard white

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Always little niggly pains in the ass with conversions

So far - radiator, pedal, control arms

Been there done that so know how much of a pain in the ass it is.

Good to see it getting there.

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don't forget the missing AFM

control arms probably wouldn't have fit anyway... oh well, gotta try find some GD STI alloy ones instead

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Looks like a fun project man..id love to learn that type of things to do with pullin apart cars