Hi from Canada

[Josh222]

Hi my name is Josh and I am posting from Canada. This seems like a great forum, lots of info here. Not much for first gen Legacy's up here in North America.

I have a 92 Legacy Touring Wagon which I think you would call a Liberty GT? Got a closed deck EJ22T with no intercooler and I picked it up for $850CAD :D

http://i142.photobucket.com/albums/r83/HpiJosh222/Picture119.jpg

http://i142.photobucket.com/albums/r83/HpiJosh222/Picture104.jpg

[suby roo]

Hey mate. Yeah that's similar to our Legacy GT's but it appears that yours has a flat roof all the way through? Most down here the roof raises up near the front doors, and ours only come with an ej20t, Although they are intercooler.

What's your plans for this car?

[Josh222]

Yes it has a flat roof from front to back. Sadly the turbo wagons here only came automatic so I need to swap it out. I have bought a lot of stuff for it so far and this summer I plan on doing a lot to it.

So far I have...

3" turbo back with high flow cat, resonator and Blitz Nur Spec R muffler :D

Timing belt, idlers and tensioner. timing belt covers, water pump, oil pump seals, valve cover gaskets, cam seals, plugs, wires, drive belts

heat wrapped exhaust manifold with egt sensor bung added

tube with fittings added to remove the intake resonator box and the snorkel removed from the fender

put new brakes on it

H&R lowering spings

trailing arms and lateral links off a 93 wrx to replace the stamped rear lateral arm with the rod type swaybar endlink

My list of things I am buying still

KYB AGX struts
whiteline front and rear sway bars
whiteline anti lift kit
front and rear strut tower braces
camber kit
sti upper spring perches/mounts

wrx lightweight flywheel with oem clutch
5spd transmission

[rec01l]

Top shelf, where abouts in the great white are you located? I look for ages to find one over there, only one in FSJ and the woman refused to sell it to me!

Ninja edit:
Arent these cable clutch instead of hyd?

[Josh222]

I am in Toronto Ontario area. The legacys turbo's we got here used a pull type hydro clutch. They also used 3.90 gearing. When I said wrx I meant a GD wrx since we never got GC wrx's. The only turbo legacy's we got were the first gens, after that we went turboless to 2005 i think and no turbo impreza's untill 2002

[B4theRST]

Nice wagon mate. Like the motor it comes with.

How come no cooler?

[Josh222]

I will be putting a awic cooler on when i replace the turbo. I don't know if the ones you guys get have a VF11 turbo or not but the VF11 we got in north america has a really odd outlet size and angle. Its roughly on a 70* angle, plus that vf11 is really really small. Stock is 8.7PSI but it can't even hold that in upper rpm range. Only good thing with that turbo is full boost by 1800rpms :D

http://i142.photobucket.com/albums/r83/HpiJosh222/Picture083-1.jpg

[gradg]

Probably wouldn't need an intercooler in the canadian winter haha :D

[Josh222]

In the winter it would probably be fine. Where I live it gets over 30C in the summer with high humidity feeling up to 40+ some days. When I finish fixing it up and replacing the worn out suspension parts I will get to power mods.

[Apex3]

Car looks good, I love Legacys in black. Looks like you got the right idea as far as mods go

Hey mate. Yeah that's similar to our Legacy GT's but it appears that yours has a flat roof all the way through? Most down here the roof raises up near the front doors, and ours only come with an ej20t, Although they are intercooler.

What's your plans for this car?
Can't speak for Canada, but the raised roof Legacys are pretty rare in the US, only some of the 94s had it, I assume Canada is the same.


Nice wagon mate. Like the motor it comes with.

How come no cooler?
The North American Legacys didn't come intercooled :(

[Josh222]

I got most of my exhaust finished and it sounds great :D

http://i142.photobucket.com/albums/r83/HpiJosh222/Picture140.jpg

http://i142.photobucket.com/albums/r83/HpiJosh222/Picture145.jpg

video clip...

blitz nur legacy (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CR_FPZF2buo)

[sooobi]

Nice ride! Would be interesting to compare the 2.2, with a td04/05 and a front mount..

[smoov]

Welcome aboard!

The flatlined roof is definitely an oddity! I like it!

Keep up the good work... You're making some positive progress so far on what appears to be a really neat Legacy!

Cheers

Alex

[Josh222]

A little update, there was a banging sound coming out of the bell housing area so I decided to pull out the motor and transmission to fix the banging problem and do some mods and maintenance.

http://i142.photobucket.com/albums/r83/HpiJosh222/000_0864.jpg

broken flex plate...
http://i142.photobucket.com/albums/r83/HpiJosh222/000_0867.jpg
motor cleaned up
http://i142.photobucket.com/albums/r83/HpiJosh222/000_0892.jpg

[Geach]

where around toronto do you live?
i'm moving to beamsville in <5 weeks... :D

[Rob]

Tidy ride mate.
and the low roof does look good

EJ22T is SOHC....?
is it possible to strap on DOHC heads?

[Josh222]

I am in Brampton which would be about an hour drive

[Josh222]

Tidy ride mate.
and the low roof does look good

EJ22T is SOHC....?
is it possible to strap on DOHC heads?


It is possible to stick DOHC heads on it, what you think the 22B STi was :D but I would need a parts motor to do it.

I would need the intake manifold with the right pcv system, heads, coolant crossover pipe, coolant hardline pipes that go over the motor, all the timing covers, the mount the from the head for the exhaust manifold. Pretty much swap everything but the short block.

The SOHC heads do limit power a fair bit but they do give this thing great low end grunt.

[Geach]

I am in Brampton which would be about an hour drivejust up the road from the airport. i'll give a wave when i fly in :P

[Josh222]

I am about 10 minutes away from the Pearson airport. There is a pretty good Subaru community in the Toronto area.