Project EJ25: Complete (Now with Video!)

theDrew · Posted: Mon Jan 14, 2013 4:19 pm Post subject:

As promised -- I've been editing and compiling my journey in moving picture format.

Here's part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=plf6IR2WgtE (I'd recommend watching it HD)

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ftp2leta · Posted: Mon Jan 14, 2013 4:44 pm Post subject:

Total 675$???? ha ha ha.

Well done!
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theDrew · Posted: Mon Jan 14, 2013 4:45 pm Post subject:

ftp2leta · Posted: Mon Jan 14, 2013 5:13 pm Post subject:

MayorMcCheese · Posted: Mon Jan 14, 2013 5:16 pm Post subject:

That's awesome. Thanks for documenting it on video, I can't wait for the rest of the series!
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theDrew · Posted: Mon Jan 14, 2013 7:04 pm Post subject:

Here's part 2:

I'll get to parts 3 and 4 later in the week. Editing is almost as time consuming as the conversion Smile

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hD0ttBU7tE

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theDrew · Posted: Tue Jan 15, 2013 3:52 pm Post subject:

I just put up part 3, hope you enjoy it, this is when it starts getting fun

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aI8lxP8N21g

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theDrew · Posted: Tue Jan 15, 2013 11:44 pm Post subject:

and part 4, hot off the....computer.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDHgiTW8BUg

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MayorMcCheese · Posted: Wed Jan 16, 2013 8:16 am Post subject:

awesome! Really enjoyed those.
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msewalson · Posted: Wed Jan 16, 2013 9:09 am Post subject:

I got the same reaction from my old lady when I "really" got on it for the first time.

I love the reaction from the first start up as well.

Good job and congrats.

Matt
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Jake de Villiers · Posted: Wed Jan 16, 2013 10:09 am Post subject:

"Honey, HONEY!" LOL Very Happy

Thanks for that, and congrats on the re-powering of your van. Wink

Have you fixed that power steering pump noise yet?
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theDrew · Posted: Wed Jan 16, 2013 12:19 pm Post subject:

Ha, yeah. My favorite part of the whole thing is my wife backing away from the van the moment the engine first fires up -- like its gonna reach out and bite her!

Heres the conclusion -- Thanks for playing along theSamba!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SD8YZFn9mew

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tangojeff · Samba Member Joined: February 20, 2005 Posts: 209

I have said this before: Vanagon owners contemplating an upgrade to a 2.2 or 2.5 Subaru engine can expect the difference to be like when Pinocchio the Puppet lost his strings and became a "Real Boy!" Last week I made a 1000 mile trip to So. Calif and back at 70 to 75 mph during most of the relaxed drive. I did avoid L.A.'s 80mph carpool lanes, though. Mileage dropped to 18mpg, but it was nice to not need to use the bumpy truck lanes.

zippyslug31 · Posted: Wed Jan 16, 2013 9:25 pm Post subject:

Just got done running through your videos; really awesome job on your entire project!!!

As I mentioned in a previous post in your thread I'm having a mechanic do mine (hopefully getting underway soon).
He's given me the rough figure of what your project ran.... seeing how much yours cost and all the stuff you had to buy, I'm wonder with great trepidation how far north my final bill is going to run. Shocked

Money aside, I can't wait....
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theDrew · Posted: Wed Jan 16, 2013 11:18 pm Post subject:

Thanks!

Going through it all after the fact, its amazing how fast it adds up. I told my wife it'd be 6-7k, I thought it was more like 8, but in reality land as you saw, it was almost 10.5k.

Course you could cut alot of corners and save some bucks. If you did the harness yourself, thats almost $1000 right there. Although I didn't wanna mess with an OBDII harness -- especially when electrical gremlins are so hard to resolve.

I didn't NEED a stainless exhuast. I didn't NEED silicone hoses, I didn't NEED the performance intake. That all adds up really fast.

Also I went the route of buying each piece from a wrecker -- if you were able to find a "front clip" as they call it (the whole front section of a donor car) you might save money there...maybe. Or you could go the JDM route for the engine. But then you run into JDM vs USA parts and unknowns.

I went the safer (more expensive) route, and I think after going through it, I'd still do the same.

The hardest part was tracking down the correct FULL and COMPLETE wiring harness for that specific engine. Harnesses change throughout the production year, so it wasn't just finding a specific year and model, it was finding one that had the correct harness part #'s on it. I spent alot of time on the phone with the subaru parts guys running VIN's on wrecked cars to see if the harnesses were correct. At one point I was pretty nervous that I'd be able to find one at all. But I got lucky and one presented itself in Corvallis.

You wont look back though, the van is a whole new vehicle and the piece of mind that its not gonna grenade at any moment is worth alot to me.
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Fritz · Posted: Thu Jan 17, 2013 5:08 am Post subject:

Drew- Great job on the conversion and videos.

Did you get the noisy power steering pump issue resolved?

theDrew · Posted: Thu Jan 17, 2013 9:26 am Post subject:

jasonpap2002 · Posted: Sun Feb 03, 2013 7:27 pm Post subject: Great videos!

Those were really fun to watch and I really appreciate the time you put into documenting your work.

NICE JOB!!!

~Jason


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