FULLY STI swapped FORESTER XT (Complete Drivetrain INSTALL)

hello everyone and welcome back to the offline performance YouTube channel my name is Grayson I'm the shop manager here and behind me is our 2004 Subaru Forester XT uh for a long time this was Justin's daily driver now we sort of use it as a shop commuter um we'll send uh gauge to run Parts with it we'll go pick up stuff run errands um or it's a backup vehicle if any of our cars are down for maintenance we can kind of whip this around but it started Life as a automatic XT that was completely stock we have since 5-speed swapped it and now we are going to six-speed swap it because it needs a clutch job and we have this old beat up six-speed with the viscous coupling that we can't really use for Motorsport so we're just going to slap it in our daily driver Forester and make it a little bit more enjoyable to cruise around plus we get the look of putting the brembos on so all in all it's just going to improve the visuals of the car and improve the vi uh drivability as well so I'm a little bit into it so far um I started a little early before Richard came out out um so far I have the shifter trim taken off and the front hubs are about ready to come off so we're going to get those off and then we will get the rear hubs off and then the transmission will come out so we're going to get to it right now okay so over here on the passenger side I have the tiod end uh it's ball joint out I have the lower ball joint out um both of the stock uh or the top strut bolts are loose as well as the axle nut and all the ABS sensors brake lines and stuff like that so I'm going to pull out this last bolt and the hub's going to come right off just like that so I have all my six-speed stuff over here I'm going to make a little pile of the five-speed stuff I'm going to do the exact same thing on the other side now the what could possibly be the hardest part about this whole process and the GD chassis STI and Subaru which this is included in the FL the Forester chassis is essentially the same as the Impreza the back lower control arms have this really long bolt it's about this long and it almost always breaks strips corrodes whatever I soaked it in penetron oil this morning I am going to get out my air hammer bit add some vibration to it and see if I can break it Loose without uh creating a mess really stuck right we might return to those in a little bit [Music] get out of here Katana leave is free but this one down here is not so when I'm twisting the bolt it's just twisting the actual bushing in the housing not ideal but I'm trying to figure out what the best method is because I can either cut the bolt be done with it or I can take these loose here on the subframe and take the whole lower section out as one piece but if we do that then we have to get STI lower control arms up and down there you go oh oh great EV dude adult Legos are way more fun than this true there's no rust on real Legos no did you know fun fact did you know the largest tire manufacture in the world is Lego that's cool that's kind of true statement Lego produces more tires than any other company that guy yay you ready okay so Dana what are you doing dude you want to be you want to be in the video that we want you want to be in the video okay so we got the entire rear differential um lower control arms and the old hubs out um I originally planned on just dropping the diff and leaving the control arms attached to the subframe but um these early 2000 Subarus are notorious for having these really long bolt se's in the hubs and that's exactly what this did and I figured I'd rather keep the bolt in one piece so that we could possibly Swap this into a different vehicle um later down the line and just get some new wh lines uh control arms so that's what we're going to do we're going to get some wh line control arms coming in the mail um and and until those show up we're essentially done here I could put the diff in but I like to do the diff with the axles all at once so we're going to take a break on the rear and we're going to move forward take the top mount intercooler off and start getting the bell housing bolts loose get the starter off and uh then the engine or the engine and the transmission should separate so all right I'll get this out of the way perfect now you you want to go outside you want to go outside come on let's go come on the door's open but you know I got to take you out there go outside you ready all right go go go go go go go go go go go get him let us not forget to disconnect the battery so that I don't try to weld today pipe tube it's a little worm now we have game time decision to make I can either take this Jack out and try to get the transmission out the way it is or I'm going to have to lower it down and grab my chisel and separate them with the Chisel because this transmission's only been in this car for about 4 years so it shouldn't be that corroded but it might be so I think I'm going to put the Tren Jack underneath it kind of see where we can get with with it but I may have to uh lower the car back down with the transmission drooped and uh put a chisel on it we'll see have you seen my my chisel it's a chisel seriously though if you're thinking about doing this job at home go to Walmart uh Dollar Tree something like that and grab the cheapest uh meat cleaver you can find the reason you want this is because meat Cleavers typically have a more broader uh top piece while obviously being sharp and you can stick this between the groove uh on your bell housing and you can hammer it in it'll spread it out gradually rather than marring it up and putting a big gouge in it that's why I have it like I said just going to get this in here oh and it's already separated I didn't even need to do this yeah it's already separated all right back up back to the top yep all I'm going to do is just pull the trans out I forgot to undo some harnesses up top I just remembered so we're going to lower it back down once again got to undo the speed sensor and the reverse and neutral switches and there's a ground strap as well that you have to unbolt from the firewall totally forgot to do that okay so I used my pry bar here put it underneath the diff housing and just pry it on the subframe be sure you take the pivot pin off of the clutch Fork because that'll hang you up because I forgot that this one had one most 5-speeds have Push tile clutches okay now we can shove this off off to the side we'll get the new clutch on and then put the sixspeed in h he's been on there for a minute oh man his tail fell off I've never seen that should probably keep the sh tail you think so yeah you got some good luck get my pliers I don't really want to pick them up he's crunchy oh think of his tail okay okay so this is our donor sixspeed that we have we've had this sitting in the shop for a while um it was a core that we got out of a race car that uh it's it's pretty bad for drag racing to be honest um but it's perfect for daily driver um it has a short ratio first and second with a long ratio third and fourth um I don't know who put the transmission together forever ago and decided to go that route but we're going to leave it like that because again we're just daily driv this car we're just running errands um it's just a backup car so doesn't really matter but the biggest reason we chose this transmission is you see this empty plug right here there's normally two wires going inside and that goes to the dccd or driver controlled Center differential this one has a viscous Center coupling um similar to like an old wagan uh so there's no Dynamic control and it's basically an open Center differential um so we're not going to want to use that in any sort of Motorsport or you know High horsepower street car anything like that but it's perfect for this going to take the old destroyed clutch off okay let's get it on the light oh yeah toasted so you can see it's had some hot spots and then the most important thing to O not on the lens uh the most important thing to notice is how the material is basically down to the rivets here um once you start getting contact from the rivets to the actual pressure plate or the fly flywheel it'll start making some really horrendous noises and by then your pedal travel should be basically all the way out um a good thing to keep an eye on is where your pedal engagement is because if you bought the car and the pedal engagement was pretty down low and now it's getting higher and higher and higher you don't need to adjust your pedal you need to replace your clutch that's gabage we have this old WX Forester flywheel 5-speed flywheel these are dual Mass um a lot of guys don't like to machine them but we're going to save this for uh whoever whatever car decides to get this 5-speed swap it will probably be like a automatic Forester or something like that so rather than trying to Jumble putting your red Loctite 262 on all the bolts and installing them what I like to do is just put a little bit in each of the actual bolt holes on the crankshaft it's just a little bit easier I'll just wipe up the excess now we can throw our six-speed flywheel on che check this out so I'm going to take this wrench and I'm going to put in one of the pressure plate bolts and I'm going to put the wrench on the stud it's on the bottom of the uh uh block here and it's going to fixture the flywheel so that that it doesn't move when I tighten it I need an extension here hang on okay so if you're torquing down your flywheel which on a subu is 55t pounds on all eight of these bolts if you just take a pressure plate bolt and put it into one of the bolt holes and then put this wrench on the dowel you can actually use it to hold the crankshaft in place so it doesn't spin [Applause] just like that of course okay so yeah like I said this is a competition clutch stage two it's a sprung friction material and uh a relatively stock appearing pressure plate um like I was just telling Richard behind the camera um this clutch we use a lot on our basic boltons cars um anything under 450 foot pounds of torque because they drive essentially like stock but they hold a pretty decent amount of power so if you're in the 400 to 500 horsepower range these are absolutely a fantastic clutch for the money all right we got our alignment tool here we're going to put this into the clutch and set that into the pilot bearing it might stay put which it looks like it's going to these uh pressure plates come with a uh film of oil on them out of the box just to prevent corrosion uh flash rust and stuff like that so you want to spray just a little bit of brake clean and wipe all that stuff off before you put it on all right now we can take our pressure plate put it up here try to find home for it there we go all right then for all these pressure plate bolts I normally just like to go in a star pattern and then a couple circles until it gets tight you'll see as you tighten it down these pressure plate fingers will start to go from being bowed in like this to kind of leveled out that's how you know that it's getting close to being um installed and torqued down all the way um they do have lock washers on them so if uh if if you're curious you can look up the torque setting but I just put them on until they stop and then I give them about a quarter to a half a turn all right so before you uh finish up here just want to make sure all those bolts are tight obviously you want to make sure that this uh lock ring for your thrott bearing is in good shape um these little fingers can get bent and what that'll do is you'll put your transmission in you'll spline it put everything together and then you'll go to engage the clutch workk and it won't engage and you'll have to pull the transmission back out so definitely give that a good look before you uh put the transmission in make sure you can't pull it out by hand or anything like that this one's obviously brand new it's in good shape so uh we'll continue on go any further I want to put the six-speed shifters assembly in all right we got that all loose now we'll just get the rear shifter bushing out we're going to grease our shaft get some of this allpurpose grease really S I cannot spell really slather it on there you know going put the excess on the fork pressure plates on new thrott bearing in place Fork is greased I need to get the speed sensor off of the old [Music] one oh my gosh it looks how Grayson is letting his brake Hoppers dangle calipers how about that watch this he just losing up that belt there just and it goes right on effortless success that's what I'm talking about we have that was a one we have [Music] the you see this Cole did you know these are team orange breaks dude I don't know if that's too much sauce don't act like it might be too much sauce don't act like you knew all right cuz I got I got those brakes from a customer and they're like I was like what do you want me to do with the brakes and they're like well you can keep them and I just go yes and then I walked around and just go dude Grayson I hold the brakes and he's like what they're orange brakes I just go they're team Orange breaks insert clip of Subaru drifing if you go up to those catalogs that we have up front with like all the rare Japanese Parts in those are in there all right so Eric's cutting down the caliper bolts I have the knuckles bolted down the Tyrod ends are bolted down uh never took the sway bars off so that's fine um as soon as I get the calipers on bolted down then we'll swap the Lin over and uh start bleeding the brakes a little well we'll wait to bleed the brakes until we get the rears on but uh the front's almost finished so we're getting really really close to the front being all done yeah I know not to your [Music] face [Music] bricks are on maybe a sensor is [Music] [Music] [Music] on that would have been a cool shot did you see that I shoved it through in the [Music] r [Music] I need screw [Music] out this one just kind it out yeah right go I'm just going to like half ass bleed all of it and [Music] then hey it's got Gear Richard watch me okay [Music] non [Music] STI all right our 04 Forester is now officially STI transmission swapped with the brembos as well um it drives phenomenal the gear ratios are way better for commuting and highway driving as well this particular sixspeed actually actually has a close ratio first and second with a long ratio of third and forth so it's really easy to get out from a stop but it gets good fuel economy as well so along with that a while back we also did the JDM front end so it's got kind of the whole Forester STI JDM thing going on and uh yeah it looks fantastic the offset with the wheels is perfect couldn't be happier with the way it came out and uh if you see us around town be sure to honk wave let us know you like it

Channel: Off The Line Performance

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Length: 21min 21sec (1281 seconds)

Published: Mon Mar 11 2024