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im looking for info on where to get a ea82 box to ej motor adaptor plate and flywheel, can anyone help ?
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hey lads got a forrester that that i want to put most of it into a brumby 88 model just wana know the best way to go about it?

vn-lover wrote:im looking for info on where to get a ea82 box to ej motor adaptor plate and flywheel, can anyone help ?
Thanks

See the two quotes below:

El_Freddo wrote:You can try searching for the BYB product - I know they make them and occasionally you see one pop up on ebay.

SteveRisingSun in adelaide makes them and I think Jeff from Crossbred performance makes them too.

AndrewT wrote:Here's a write-up I did on how to make your own adaptor plate.
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brumby23 wrote:hey lads got a forrester that that i want to put most of it into a brumby 88 model just wana know the best way to go about it?

Do your research. Maybe start a thread where you can ask you're own questions about it. Read other people's build threads. Been done plenty of times before. With a crossbred kit you'll be able to use the brakes as well...

Shouldn't be a hard conversion so long as you go about it in the right ways - wiring is most important. Otherwise if you're good spinning spanners on your subi you should be right if you know what you're in for (research!)

All the best, I'm looking forward to your build thread.

Cheers

Bennie

Has anyone got a picture or an idea on the sort of exhaust mods needed? I have a couple of stock systems from my old Forester GT & figure I could use them?

Way I see it is use the heavy as fark cast iron stock exhaust headers, get a custom piece made for between where the up pipe starts to where the down pipe meets the mid pipe & the rest should be relatively easy to fabricate.

apg39 wrote:Has anyone got a picture or an idea on the sort of exhaust mods needed? I have a couple of stock systems from my old Forester GT & figure I could use them?

Way I see it is use the heavy as fark cast iron stock exhaust headers, get a custom piece made for between where the up pipe starts to where the down pipe meets the mid pipe & the rest should be relatively easy to fabricate.

You would have to cut this short so that the exhaust goes under the engine crossmember - not over it. If you make it so that it goes over the crossmember you'll have to mod the engine crossmember so that the up pipe has enough room between the driver's side head and the crossmember itself.

So it is possible but will need some imagination. Or you could get a matching Y pipe from an EJ that has the same exhaust port outlets. I believe that there are some models that have siamese exhaust ports like the EA's did. I know my EJ22 has an exhaust port per cylinder.

To get by for a while I had my L series mid section of the exhaust cut down by about an inch or inch and a half then bolted it to the EJ's Y pipe - the joint wasn't a great fit but it sealed enough to get me by for almost a year before I went with a 2 1/4 inch cat back system.

Hope this helps.

Cheers

Bennie

Hi, has anyone got any pics/info on using an ej radiator in an L series wagon, especially the front cross member mods that need to be done?
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Jake

Oh and am puttin an ej205 into my '90 L series and if anyone has done this did they take the heat shield off the manifold before the turbo to help with clearance of the engine crossmember?

An update on the radiator choice.

I'm now running a Nissan Pulsar N13 radiator. The radiator's bottom support panel has been modified to fit the L series mount points that were cut out of the L series' radiator's bottom support panel.

To make this radiator fit the panel on the vehicle that the radiator sits under needs to be massaged up a little bit - go little by little as I did mine way too much and needed to fold it back down a bit to make it look neat.

This N13 radiator comes in two different outlet sizes - some are EJ size, some are EA size. Mine was EA size with an adaptor for EJ size. I used some adaptors on the top and bottom hoses that we made up with a mate. For me this has worked a treat and radiators are easy to get through ebay.

I've got two 12 inch thermo fans behind the radiator - make sure they're pulling air and not pushing it! I purchased some fans thinking they were pulling. Optimal performance was not had with the blades backwards...

That's the update!

Cheers

Bennie

Hey Bennie what happened to your previous radiator? I remember you had some kind of mega triple or quad core jobbie?

AndrewT wrote:Hey Bennie what happened to your previous radiator? I remember you had some kind of mega triple or quad core jobbie?

It didn't do what I ultimately wanted it to do - and it sprung a small leak in the centre core, I wasn't willing to take a gamble on it so got an off the shelf item that can easily and cheaply be replaced. This new rad also gave me more room between the engine and radiator to run bigger fans - now have two 12 inch fans in there that seem to do the job really well.

What I also found out when fitting the new radiator is that my old thermo fans were running with the fan blades on backwards. I swear that the ebay ad said they were setup for pulling, hence I'd never checked the blade direction for pulling. Having the blades the right way around did huge wonders to pulling air through the radiator. I wish I'd picked up on this much earlier!

Cheers

Bennie

Yeah ?? How long had you been pushing air out of the engine bay through the radiator Bennie ?

steptoe wrote:Yeah ?? How long had you been pushing air out of the engine bay through the radiator Bennie ?

Never pushing air through radiator, just not pulling anywhere nearly as effective as they do with the blades in the correct orientation!

Cheers

Bennie