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05RSKID
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I figured I would edit this and do a full wright up of what I have gone through so far with my 02 RS. I had a nice lifted 05 rs as most of you have seen but this winter she had a date with a telephone pole and the pole won!
So after the accident I went on the hunt for a new car and seeing as I had a loan on this one and it got paid off buy the insurance i decided I no longer wanted a car payment. And was just looking for a cheap car to fix up. So after a few days of looking I found the 02 rs with 170k on it for $1000 and the add said it had some rust and was going to need a clutch and maybe cam seals. So I figured this was a great deal and call the guy and talked back and forth a few time and told hime I would do $800 cash with out seeing it as long as the sub frame was good. So he tells me the sub frame is solid and not rotten.
I drive down to were he had the car and first thing I do is jack up the car and look under the car and all i had to do is tap the sub frame with my light and wala there was a hole. SO being pissed off about that i talk about price again since he told me that was solid and ended up getting it for $660.
here is a pic from when I picked her up.
So now that I had myself a new car I decided to buy back the 05 I totaled for around $1400 and still got $2800 to play with after the car was paid off. Once I got that all take car of I figured I would swap the 70k motor and tranny from the 05 into the 02 and the 90k rear end.So i had my 05 towed to my work to start taking her apart. I decided to just drop the sub frame with the motor and tranny since they both were coming out anyway.
Now that I had the motor and tranny out I figured I would get a new clutch and fly wheel and do headgaskets and a timing belt to the motor before she went back in. So i ordered a light weight fly wheel and stage two clutch and new head gaskets timing belt water pump ect. Since the motor was out of an 07 it had all the electronics on the heads so I figured i would just put on the 05 heads I had from my last motor. So once the headgaskets and timing were done I noticed the motor wouldn't rotate all the way it would only go so far and then just stop. So i knew i had a problem somewhere. And the problem being the heads are completely different from 05 to 07 so I tore it all back down so I could put the 07 Heads back on. Once those were on and she was back together everything was working like it should.
So the next weekend i was ready to do the full swap so I pulled the motor and the tranny in the 02 the same way i did the 05 and I also pulled out the rear sub frame and rear end out of both cars. Once every thing was out I swapped over the 05 sub frame and rear end in to the 02 and the started bolting the motor and tranny together so i could set it on the new shinny sub frame i bought for it and lowered the car back onto the sub frame. Me and a friend managed to do all this in one day but it was a long day 9am to 1am the next morning. We had the car all back together and ready to test fire but all she wanted to do was turn over and over but nothing so being such a long day we called it quits.
opps I almost forgot I had to pull the motor back out because i had the wrong clutch in the car and fly wheel. I wasn't paying attention to when i ordered it and ended up with a wrx clutch not and rs one Which is a big difference since one is push style and the other is pull.
The next day I dug a little deaper and the motor was setting codes for the cam and crank sensor so I swapped out the crank but still nothing and i also pulled it apart to check the timing again to see if i messed up there. though maybe i was 180 out so i reset every thing again and nothing. So at this point I called it a night and posted on here to see what my problem was. I got the answer pretty quick from meyagi that it was the cam and crank gears that i had to change. So I took the timing all apart again and the the gears of the 02 motor I took out and then put her all back together and the I finally had a running car again.
Paying respects to the former rs but the transplant was a success.
So after the accident I went on the hunt for a new car and seeing as I had a loan on this one and it got paid off buy the insurance i decided I no longer wanted a car payment. And was just looking for a cheap car to fix up. So after a few days of looking I found the 02 rs with 170k on it for $1000 and the add said it had some rust and was going to need a clutch and maybe cam seals. So I figured this was a great deal and call the guy and talked back and forth a few time and told hime I would do $800 cash with out seeing it as long as the sub frame was good. So he tells me the sub frame is solid and not rotten.
I drive down to were he had the car and first thing I do is jack up the car and look under the car and all i had to do is tap the sub frame with my light and wala there was a hole. SO being pissed off about that i talk about price again since he told me that was solid and ended up getting it for $660.
here is a pic from when I picked her up.
So now that I had myself a new car I decided to buy back the 05 I totaled for around $1400 and still got $2800 to play with after the car was paid off. Once I got that all take car of I figured I would swap the 70k motor and tranny from the 05 into the 02 and the 90k rear end.So i had my 05 towed to my work to start taking her apart. I decided to just drop the sub frame with the motor and tranny since they both were coming out anyway.
Now that I had the motor and tranny out I figured I would get a new clutch and fly wheel and do headgaskets and a timing belt to the motor before she went back in. So i ordered a light weight fly wheel and stage two clutch and new head gaskets timing belt water pump ect. Since the motor was out of an 07 it had all the electronics on the heads so I figured i would just put on the 05 heads I had from my last motor. So once the headgaskets and timing were done I noticed the motor wouldn't rotate all the way it would only go so far and then just stop. So i knew i had a problem somewhere. And the problem being the heads are completely different from 05 to 07 so I tore it all back down so I could put the 07 Heads back on. Once those were on and she was back together everything was working like it should.
So the next weekend i was ready to do the full swap so I pulled the motor and the tranny in the 02 the same way i did the 05 and I also pulled out the rear sub frame and rear end out of both cars. Once every thing was out I swapped over the 05 sub frame and rear end in to the 02 and the started bolting the motor and tranny together so i could set it on the new shinny sub frame i bought for it and lowered the car back onto the sub frame. Me and a friend managed to do all this in one day but it was a long day 9am to 1am the next morning. We had the car all back together and ready to test fire but all she wanted to do was turn over and over but nothing so being such a long day we called it quits.
opps I almost forgot I had to pull the motor back out because i had the wrong clutch in the car and fly wheel. I wasn't paying attention to when i ordered it and ended up with a wrx clutch not and rs one Which is a big difference since one is push style and the other is pull.
The next day I dug a little deaper and the motor was setting codes for the cam and crank sensor so I swapped out the crank but still nothing and i also pulled it apart to check the timing again to see if i messed up there. though maybe i was 180 out so i reset every thing again and nothing. So at this point I called it a night and posted on here to see what my problem was. I got the answer pretty quick from meyagi that it was the cam and crank gears that i had to change. So I took the timing all apart again and the the gears of the 02 motor I took out and then put her all back together and the I finally had a running car again.
Paying respects to the former rs but the transplant was a success.
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