After throwing in the bulkhead harness (or sqeezing it behind the heater box then quickly bolting in the dash bar to hold it in), we decided the easy option was to do the same for the body harness inside the car. This way the important items like fuel pump controller and ABS sensor wiring should be straight-forward. That leaves us just needing to merge Impreza lights, wipers, etc into the Liberty harness.
I'm super happy because now the ECU is super-happy. The cluster lights up, the fuel pump primes (after a quick splice) and we can even turn the engine over! We are starting to believe that we might just pull this off.
Next we start merging from Impreza switchgear on the steering column to the Liberty harness and then back to the Impreza lights (for a start). As you can see from these pictures, this is fine... there's always a few wires and stuff left over when you DIY... right?
Still to do:
- Tidy it up inside
- Finish wiring lights, wipers, windows (maybe mirrors) and hide it behind trim
- Install dash (we'll try for the liberty dash, otherwise ¯\_(ツ)_/¯)
- Send it off for turbo/exhaust/intercooler - I've been waiting to see if someone produces an off the shelf turbo exhaust manifold. No dice.
- Figure out the final details of the auto to manual swap - should be easy
- Pull pin X to ground
- Remove TCU (apparently)
- Steal wires for reverse and neutral switches
- ???
- Done
- Tidy it up under the bonnet
- Mount Liberty ABS pump
- Mount Impreza fuel filter
- Mount Liberty FPR
- Mount fuse box
- Radiator and fans
- all the other stuff that I'm not thinking about now 'cause it's killing my buzz
To be continued...
Will the Liberty ECU like the ABS signals from the Impreza? Will we be able to work out how to get this ECU to work with a manual gearbox? Will we ever track down all of the codes this thing is throwing? Are we missing any more key components? Will we run out of money before we get to drive it?
Tune in next time to find out.