Timelapse of my LS engine swap. Music is cheesy but pays homage from the video game that got me into cars when I was a kid, Sega GT2002.
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Some info:
I bought my BRZ in 2013. After 5 years of FA20 life, I swapped in a dry-sumped, cammed, 6.2L LS3 from a Corvette and mated it to a short ratio Tremec T56 MagnumXL transmission. Total weight increase was ~100lbs, largely due to the transmission, maintaining roughly the same weight distribution as stock.
I choose to run a 3-stage Aviaid dry sump system because this car will see heavy track abuse and I didn't want to deal with oil starvation. The 2.5 gallon dry sump tank sits behind the passenger seat in an enclosed aluminum firewall.
The car dyno'd at 442whp/407lb-ft on 91 octane. It's enough power to make first and second gear unusable.
I'm using a GM E38 ECU to manage the engine and the stock Subaru ECU to manage the body side. I fused together the stock corvette engine harness to the stock subaru harness using a CAN gateway unit, which allows for all body-side ECUs like EPS, Tach, Speedo, ABS, TCS, smart entry, etc to work like stock.
Some notable timestamps:
0:05 - Rewiring the stock corvette engine harness to mesh with the subaru body
0:30 - Swapping our the trunnion bearings to solid brass bearings
0:42 - Swapping in a higher capacity fuel pump
1:12 - Fabricating a custom radiator mount (later modified to be angled)
1:19 - Engine assy
1:49 - Cutting out the trans tunnel brace (worst part of the swap)
2:34 - Engine trans going in
3:29 - Creating an adapter plate for the GM pedal
3:43 - Creating dry sump oil lines
3:59 - Harness integration
4:13 - Dry sump plumbing
5:10 - Engine start!
Special thanks to: Brian, Patrick, Jose, Evan, Faizan, Cameron, Todd, Eric, and Michelle
