This thread was initially a feeler to sell my car because I tore up a few gears in the tranny. Here's what the for sale thread looked like and what was done to the car before I did the swap:
Over the past couple weeks I started hearing some gear chatter in 1st gear. So I drained some gear oil and out came a tooth. So, 1st gear is in pretty bad shape. The car still drives even in 1st gear. Every other gear is quite. There are no other issues with this car. This is mostly a feeler until I figure out what it will cost me to fix it and if I can afford it right now or not. This car has been well taken care of. Sythetic oil changes every 3,000 miles. Recently changed the tranny and rear diff oil in the last 2 weeks (Super S 75w-90). Most Mods added in the last 6 months
General:
2002 Subaru WRX
96,500 miles
Power/exhaust:
Grimspeed BCS (can include stock BCS and tune with stock boost map if interested in STX for autox)
AEM short ram intake with custom heat shield
Cobb Turbo Heatshield
PTP Turbo Blanket
3'' ERZ catted downpipe
STi Catless Uppipe
5zigen Fireball catback
Nuke tune
Drivetrain:
SPT clutch and flywheel
SPT Short Shifter
Suspension/handling:
Tein lowering springs
Cobb 24mm (adjustable) rear swaybar with solid mounts
Whiteline 24mm solid front swaybar
Kartboy Endlinks (front and rear)
Alignment from "Jeff the Alignment Guy"
Brakes:
Stoptech slotted and drilled rotors (10,000 miles)
Stoptech steel braided brake lines
Whatever pads that come with Stoptech stage 2 kit
Motul Brake Fluid
Wheels:
17x8 +45 Matte Bronze RPF1s - Dunlop Direzza Starspecs 245/40-17
16'' Stock WRX wheels painted gold with Goodyear Eagle GT 205/55-16 (down to the wearbars)
Exterior/interior:
Resprayed Hood, bumper, and fenders this summer (By MC Autoworks in ST Cloud)
Eyelids
Blacked out OEM headlights
Rally Armor Mudflaps
painted sideskirts
50% tint all around
Debadged Trunk
Brand new windshield!
No rust, no dings/dents, only a few very light scratches here and there.
carbon fiber dash inserts (not the overlay sticker crap)
Black Kartboy shift knob
Rubber Subaru mats
I think that's everything...
$8,000 - - - feel free to shoot me an offer!
Luckily I came accross a 2005 STi that was totalled. I shot the guy an offer of $4500 for it and he took it. I scrounged up the cash because I figured that I would spend at least half that much just fixing the tranny and if I did the swap I could possibly make the difference on parts from both the STi and WRX that I sell. So if anyone needs any parts from an 02 WRX shoot me a PM and I'll see if I got what you need!
So on Sunday October 24th, I picked up the totalled STi. The STi had been rolled over but mostly sustained front end and passenger side damage. The biggest thing was that the rear pass. side strut and axle were broken completely off. Otherwise, most other parts that I needed for the swap were in good condition. The motor started and ran decently well at the junk yard. Here's a few pics of what it looked like.
as you can see it was in pretty rough shape.
Right away that night, a good friend of mine and I started taking apart the STI until about 3 am. Throughout the whole next week we put in many hours between our jobs and other things...
Luckily we had a forklift handy. Making the drivetrain swap relatively simple ---- Undo wiring in engine bay and all the other crap, unbolt subframe, lower motor, tranny, diff, suspension parts to the ground and forklift the body away. And the same thing for the WRX. We just threw everything on dollies to make for an easy transition!
Then we brought in my 2002 WRX and did the same thing. Stripped everything off it, even all the wiring (except for the rear harness).
Now we're just about done. Today I finally got all the interior in. Tomorrow the rear axle should be done being rebuilt (since I counldn't find a rear STi axle anywhere!). Had to order two used BBS wheels because two were bent pretty bad (1 will make a good spare).
Unclean and Clean!
Hopefully will have it driving tomorrow! Complete swap in less than two weeks while holding a full time job!
More pics here too:
http://s999.photobucket.com/albums/a...%20WRX%20Swap/
Glad you're coming along well, that dash install looked good. Also I got some brackets off of Nasioc today, but if you find a radio bracket let me know 
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