Hello from Warsaw!
I already wrote about my car here thread but wanted to start a proper Project thread.

My story began in May 2010 when I bought a 1995 WRX type RA in UK and drove it to Paris. Ufortunaely a bearing spun on the french autoroute and the car had to be trailored back to Poland.

I'm now in the process of rebulding the engine and converting the car to LHD. As a donor car I got the parts form a N/A 1.6 Impreza.

The plan is to rebuild the engine to the spec it had before 320bhp and drive it as a daily after conversion.

I'll let the ictures speak for themselves now :


MODEL: 1995, Subaru Impreza WRX type RA,

engine: MY04 STI short engine in with new head gaskets and checked the heads, head studsi ARP,td05 16g, cosworth baffle plate, ESL remap of the stock ECU, MOCAL oil cooler and oil filter relocation kit
K&N filter , custom FMIC, CAI , full milltek system with cat

tuned by ZenPerformance to 320hp

Photos:




Bye Bye UK roads



Bearing all over the sump:



Conversion in progress:












Some more progress:

Update

Some progress






















And some extras:

aluminium brace



Nardi Gara :



stay tuned

All the parts left rom the conversion will be for sale. If You need sometinhg just contact me.

 

Steering column already installed. Further progress:

 

Didn't make too much progress on the Subaru recently Yet yesterday we did some welding and basically all the pedal mounts and wiper mount are welded in place

 

Looking good mate keep us posted lots of pictures

 

Did some further work today.
The dash I got was from the 1.6 N/A version and was grey, not black like the rest of the interior. Most people doing the conversion go for the flocked dash, but I didn't want to do that. Fortunately I found a solution: VHT Vinyl Dye spray
Et Voila:

 

interesting project... given the limited availability of LHD sti's near where I live and the ridiculous prices... I might have to do one of these conversions when I finally become unbroke and buy a money pit most likely from the uk!

 

nice to see a lhd conversion

Are you using the 1.6na steeringrack ?,
Also is the sterringcolum the same just moved from the righthandside to the left?.

Do you have a complete donorcar, or do you know exactly what is needed?

i do also think about dooing this to my type r during the next winter


Thanks,
Skassa

 

I had only the needed parts from a 1.6 N/A donor. I had about 90% of what's needed. I have detailed pictures of evry step of the conversion so if You have any questions just let me know
The steering column is the JDM one moved to the left. Fits no problem.
The steering rack is from N/A. If I happen to have some spare money in the future I'll look for a newage spec C one which is quicker.

So spent another weekedn working on the car.
It didn't look to promising at the beginnig but after 3 days the interior is almost finished:

What a mess:



A bit better:



Quite nice!

 

I spent the last few days int he garage and the conversion is almost finished now.
The calipers have been refreshed and they Subie got a set of HEL braided brake lines. Next up a SPA design double gauge for oil press/temp. and a Omori boost gauge.

 

Looks like you've done a great job.

Whats the reasoning for having to do a LHD conversion. Are the models limited in LHD?

 

Zajebiscie!

 

From what I gather all cars have to be LHD in Poland, So those that arn't have to be converted

 

Great Job mate

 

Greetings from Hungary! Nice Job mate!

 

The reason is we are not allowed to register RHD cars.
It will also be easier to drive in that form, and other thing is they were never made in LHD version so this will be a bit more extraordinary than a regular Impreza turbo from that period.

 

Shame we have to put up with your un-taxed and often un-insured pieces over here though.

Still, clean car.

 

Next update is there

With the interior beeing assembled now the conversions is finished.

Some screws that were missing were ordered in Japan





Some extra gauges - I want to keep the car a sleeper so they are fitted above the radio with no stuff on the dashboard or pillar.







I am waitng for the engine to be overhauled now. It will be uprated with Mahle pistons and Manley rods.

 

Awesome.

 

brilliant conversion mate

 

Some more engine parts finally arrived:

 

Engine came back from machine shop

 

The engine is already assembled. A few more parts to install.
New timing set





Thermal isolation for the downpipe and FMIC pipes



plugs etc.



Oil, fuel filter



I'm assembling the rest of the parts tommorow and I hope the engine will ne in the car by the evening.

stay tuned ! ! !

 

AP racing

 

Good luck with it.

 

Looking good ! (Polak potrafi )

 

Interesting, I'm probably going to do this conversion on my Type R too. Did you use the wiring loom for the ecu and other electrical components from the 1.6 or did you get them from a LHD turbo model? As I understand the wiring is different from LHD to RHD.

 

I used the loom from RHD. Simply had to take it out and rotate, then make a few wires longer, but not a big problem.
If You want some detailed pictures e-mail me

 

The car is already on the road. Registered and runnig-in !

 

great effort mate

 

Nice job!