Stripping again

ts been a busy week this week - but unfortunately not on the project so not so much activity to report.

Basically the impreza has started to be prepared for the measuring stage and the major works to begin.

Saturday was spent with the aim of starting the wiring loom work needed.
Basically we would like to get the loom semi prepared before the car is in a state of non running. This way we can still test that everything works the way it should before any transplanting. If it works now, and then it doesnt work after transplanting we know something has gone wrong - rather than not knowing if its something in the wiring change we have done or something to do with the tranplant! (does that make sense???)

So first of all.....the rear interior components were removed from the impreza to expose the rear sections of wiring loom. Simple - much like the 205 the impreza seats are only kept in with a few bolts so this didnt take too long. Also like the 205 the imprezas plastic trim clips like to break, so resale of these parts has changed into landfill.

With the wiring loom exposed and multi meter in hand the 205 rear light clusters were grafted onto the subaru wiring loom. This isnt much of a job really - easier with the 205 wiring diagram, but dopey here forgot the subaru one so was just a case of trying it sometimes and the multi meter. Strangly enough both the 205 and the impreza dont have integral fog lights so sticking with the external fog light set up.

From here I worked my way forwards through the car - labelling and disconnecting EVERY connector that i came across on the wiring loom. Its quite a few you know







Each of the yellow bits in the photo is a label attached to the loom. And im not too far into the dash connectors yet!

Obviously we are hoping that the majority of wiring can be removed from the loom beefore the conversion. All electric window controls / heater controls / central locking / interior lighting etc etc etc will be removed. As with previous statements the aim is to do this whilst the car can still run in its current state. Proving that nothing we have done has messed anything up.





Basically I managed to get right the way to the front of the car and pull the connectors from the "in car" loom to the engine loom - hence why the headlight and indicator were removed from the car - and YES even the most obvious headlight connectors were labelled so hopefully no confusion later on.
The passenger wing was also unbolted (except for the stubborn broken bolt in the very bottom hence its still looks attached!)

I / We still have some dash to remove to get the drivers side wiring completely out and free to start stripping, but the back of it is broke now.



So this is what our project looks like now.......2 big piles of scrap lol