The next thing I started on was reassembling the intake manifold on my engine, this is what iit looked like when I started:
I stripped it down, and started cleaning it, getting it to this stage:
I was then going to get it Vapour honed and powder coated, but I thought the cost would be a bit prohibitive, and I’ve had mixed results with farming work out. I stumbled across some youtube videos of people using wrinkle paint on their Subaru manifolds - in for a penny ……….
I taped off all the openings and used bungs to fill thread hole, then painted away. I then cured it in my BBQ grill as I didn’t want to incur the wrath of the Missus by using the oven, here is how it came out:
I went to the scrap yard and got another manifold which was in better shape but off an EJ253, the injector pipes were the same, the main injector pipes that run under the manifold were different, my manifold has an air injector solenoid the manifold I found didn’t so the pioes were a little different as were the injectors.
I cleaned the injectors with this kit I found on Amazon, the white piece at the bottom is from another kit I purchased, the box is an injector tester the white piece is a cleaner, when you combine the two you can test and clean the injectors at the same time, there are some videos on youtube:
The next job on the list is to clean and rewrap the engine wiring harness, then clean the throttle body.
Anquestion for those with a Subie engine: do you use a throttle body reverser? Like this:
If not how do you route the accelerator cable?
many thanks, I’ll keep you all posted as to my progress.