02 WRX swap into 00 OUTBACK THE HARD WAY!!

[soberpoet]

Hello everyone, so recently at work I've been tasked with swapping an 02 wrx powertrain into a 00 outback. I figured the easiest way would be to swap the wrx harness into the outback and modify electrical as i go. I am well aware that there are companies out there like iwire that merge harnesses and possibly using a baja harness but wheres the fun it that? So this is a thread where I'm going to post pictures and share my progress as i go, it'll probably take me a while to update as i go but here's the first string of it enjoy!

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this is the wrex and the outback
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and the tear down begins
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Harness is out, next I'm going to modify the gauge cluster harness to work with the stock outback cluster.

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[soberpoet]

This is the modified harness all cleaned up, didn't have time to take pictures as i went.
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There's a few extra wires that have no pinout in the schematics
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All warning indicators light up and appear to function correctly
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And it works!! Took it on a test drive to verify operation of tach and speedo, all seem to work excellent.
These are the cluster connector pinouts I used to reference pin locations just to keep myself from getting confused.
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And my personal notes for what pins swap to where in each connector in case someone is curious.
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More to come as I go, and I'll try my best to document the harness modifications.

[airsaab]

Was this a success? Excellent start here and I was scrolling down to reveal the rest and boom...post quick reply. I'll use your notes here for the electrical and find the rest somewhere else

[macman1069]

Yes great work here, Looking to do something similar.

[Opposed_forces]

Looks great