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Replaced wooden boat wheel with new omp one.

Picked up these today

Hi All, Firstly TT Legacy's are a pain in the arse. Secondly I cannot find a VF26 in Auckland. I only have a VF27, so I would like to know if I could replace my VF19 with the VF27? Will the VF27 work with a VF18? I was going to do a single turbo conversion - but to be honest most workshops were asking for 7k upwards - not including a Link ECU. This made it uneconomical.

I actually have a 96 BD5 RSB with the ej20r motor in it. The engine has 255000km on it. The turbos are definitely labelled vf18 and vf19. The car just suddenly overheated at the back of Carbine road in Mt Wellington about 1year ago. Apparently it was a split hose somewhere, but it did enough damage to the head gasket on cylinder 3 on the exhaust valve side. I didn’t fix the car at the time as I saw a black S401 come up for sale on trademe and went and brought it. I originally wanted to single turbo the car, so I have all the components, like a rebuilt greddy td06 20g, fmic, exhaust manifold, twisted turbo pipes and ej207 short block. But paying a workshop to do the install is quite expensive, about 9k and over which does include a link ecu and tune. The car itself is a beater and cost me 1400.00 originally so I lost the desire to spend so much on. Anyway skip 1year later and I have taken it to our local mechanic Drury Auto Services, to give it a birthday and fix the head gasket. The engine is out now, and the heads are machined, new steel head gasket, the new vf27 turbo replacing the vf19 turbo, the eBay twin turbo silicone intake, radiator being checked over, new thermostat and a Mines ECU. I have got a 240km/h instrument cluster, 18inch Legacy sti wheels and window tints to finish it off. It will just be a run about car for my parents business and family. in the meantime I purchased a second hand closed deck block only from e&h and I am going to rebuild it into a short deck block by myself as a learning exercise. I am a novice so it will be interesting rebuilding an engine myself as I have always paid workshops to do it. I am looking for the right GC8 Type R car to eventually put one of the motors in.

To be fair if your oil drain on a Subaru is anywhere near a manifold you're doing it wrong.

If you get this S*** wrong, your car catches fire. No ifs, buts, or maybes, just a burnt car. Don't get it wrong. What they are suggesting sounds sane. If you aren't already twisted there is some S*** that I strongly recommend with regards to the turbo oil feed and the driver's side AVCS solenoid; that is to say replacing all of the hardlines with braided, which requires a couple of very specific fittings - unsure if your model is at all different to the GDs in that sense.

Worn engine mounts?

I've got both TT turbos (which I thought were off a BE5) in the garage taking up space. Pm me if you'd like me to check if one is a vf26.

Sinco are correct... just do what they say and move on.

@IZichard IMG_7949 by Tim Bowman, on Flickr IMG_7982 by Tim Bowman, on Flickr IMG_7918 by Tim Bowman, on Flickr IMG_7570 by Tim Bowman, on Flickr

Unfortunately the cars covered in all the dirt driving from Auckland to Queenstown will bring, but I think they're good photos none the less