I need opinions from old friends
Posted: May 27th, 2016, 12:24 am
People. I sold/scrapped all my MX-3's, but you are by far the best online car community I know.
I need a soundboard of technical people.
I got myself into a nightmare swap with Subarus.
I am putting an EJ20K from a GC8 JDM STI (2.0 turbo, 280hp) into a USDM SG Forester X (2.5L NA, 160hp).
Mechancially, the swap is a breeze. Plug and play - yay!
The wiring harnesses are completely different. Different bulkhead plugs, different ECU plugs, one is RHD one is LHD.
In order to avoid literally building a new harness.... I had this crazy idea.
What is stopping me from stripping down the STI harness to the bare bones engine control, and running it in parallel with the stock Forester ECU? The Forester will never know the engine is running, and the STI will never know it's in a whole entire car.
Do you see any problems with this idea? All I can think of so far is that the Forester can't know the engine is turning (thinks key ON, engine OFF all the time) and the STI ECU has to know everything about the motor, and likely control the fuel pump as well. Have to port signals to the gauge cluster, only letting the appropriate ECU know whats going on.
Thoughts? Opinions? Game changing ideas? Deal breakers?
Thanks in advance,
Ryan
I need a soundboard of technical people.
I got myself into a nightmare swap with Subarus.
I am putting an EJ20K from a GC8 JDM STI (2.0 turbo, 280hp) into a USDM SG Forester X (2.5L NA, 160hp).
Mechancially, the swap is a breeze. Plug and play - yay!
The wiring harnesses are completely different. Different bulkhead plugs, different ECU plugs, one is RHD one is LHD.
In order to avoid literally building a new harness.... I had this crazy idea.
What is stopping me from stripping down the STI harness to the bare bones engine control, and running it in parallel with the stock Forester ECU? The Forester will never know the engine is running, and the STI will never know it's in a whole entire car.
Do you see any problems with this idea? All I can think of so far is that the Forester can't know the engine is turning (thinks key ON, engine OFF all the time) and the STI ECU has to know everything about the motor, and likely control the fuel pump as well. Have to port signals to the gauge cluster, only letting the appropriate ECU know whats going on.
Thoughts? Opinions? Game changing ideas? Deal breakers?
Thanks in advance,
Ryan