Project Restore Life
 

Well to start off, I bought a 2015 Subaru BRZ Series Blue. It's a flood car and my intention is around a 700hp ls2 street build. But for now I'm just trying to get the car back going like factory before I swap it.

The previous owner replaced the computers due to the flood but some things still aren't working.

The cluster doesn't come on. The car will not go into accessory mode or run or start. The hazard indicators flash in the cluster when their on.

The cluster, the clock, the radio, the power windows, the heated seats all do not work.

The lights, interior lights, horn, hazards all work fine. The car just won't turn on. (The obd port does get power too)

Ive replaced all 3 ecms, checked all fuses, made sure the battery was good, tried holding key to start button, nothing is working.

[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5KOtsy0Zfg[/ame]

The obd 2 port does work. when I put a dongle on there it lights up. But I thought you had to be in the "on" position to be able to program anything.

In this pic #1, #6 and #7 were replaced.

Would them not being programmed cause the cluster not to light up? I assumed it still would. maybe even turn over, just not start. But the previous owner told me its because all the computers need to be programmed that's causing this.

The Toyota dealership in my town said they can't reprogram mine that only a Subaru dealership can (which i don't have in my town)

I've checked all the fuses and swapped around some relays. I've put the original computers back in and switched out every combination of the three.

Kind of clueless where to go from here. I don't wanna take it to the dealer for program and them tell me something else is wrong and charge me anyway

Well it looks like I may go ls3 Instead of ls2 because I found a company in Australia that sells a plug n play ecm for 500 bucks and everything works

good luck

:thumbsup:

if ur gonna swap a motor cause you have at least do something that is cool

rb26
rb25
sr20
1jz
2jz
rotary engine

but not another lame ls swap

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Obvious troll is obvious.

Rb26 would be cool but I'm def staying with a LS.

This is why I was a little biased to the LS2, here is my old GTO.
[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LARnhiwkOV0[/ame]

But after talking with the Australian company, they have an affordable plug and play setup for a LS3 where everything works. for the LS2 only most things work. So I'm currently sourcing a LS3 drive train and researching cams because I want this one to sound even more of a beast than my GTO.

plug and play LS3 setup doesn't sound too bad! What company offers the kit??

Oh, shit. You on ls1gto.com at all?

https://www.ls1gto.com/forums/showthread.php?t=441667

That's my old car. Best car I ever owned hands down.

Had a street sweeper HT cam in mine and it sounded nasty. You always want a bigger cam though, lol.

AGT Engineering.

Only lurked on the forum. I sold my gto a while back it was a 06. Can’t wait to get this BRZ sounding like that.

Alright, I got the swap ordered. LS3’s are considerably more than LS2’s. It should be here by Christmas. Now I get to do a little research and find a cam I want. As well as list things I should do to the eng before I install it into the car.

Well I called all 3 dealers that are around me. The earliest one has an opening is next Saturday (15th) I gotta rent a trailer to take it over there (2 hrs away) and hopefully just recoding is all it needs to get the cars basic functions back.

I have techstream and a cable that should be here hopefully by tomorrow so that I can play with it a little bit and see if I can figure some things out.

Good luck with your swap!

Thanks, I'm going to need it.

Techstream didn't come in today so i tried my cheap little blutooth adapter. You can see obd has power. just cant get into on mode to read anything. Hopefully techstream will let me in to see a few things. I made an apt with the dealer 2hrs away for next saturday the 15th.

[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wUjSle82qWQ[/ame]

how far was the car under water?

No idea. I just assume the worst.

Murphy's law. The package says it was delivered but the postal lady didn't leave a parcel key in the box. -_-'

Alright so Techstream wasn't able to look at anything either. I know I was being overly optimistic.

I have to give a shoutout to Rick. He's a member of a Facebook group that has been talking to me. He confirmed what I already suspected. (That it should have already been going into on mode regardless of immobilizer) Although thats troubling news, he suggested I still keep my apt at the dealer to let them do some diag.

I'm spending $100 to rent a trailer. my truck is massive and gets terrible mileage so it will take me a full tank (75) and 3hrs (the hr they said and a couple more because I figured they would give me bad news) at 120 so spending $575 for them to tell me they need me to buy a few $800 parts and programming and more time.. This was supposed to be the easy part of my project just getting it programmed. I've spent so much on the swap and can bus stuff i may have to put the project on hold until i save up more.

Grrrrrr this was supposed to be the easy part!!

[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0Ovku3aWh0[/ame]

I bought a new main body computer and engine fuse box.

This is really interesting, please keep updating us, looking forward to hearing how you will fix it up and swap it :)

Thanks. A little encouragement goes a long way right now. This issue was supposed to be the easy part. Maybe stuffing the ls3 in will go smoothensince I’m having so much trouble with this lol

At this point, I ordered a new main body ecu and a new engine fuse box. I kept my apt at the dealer for tomorrow and I’m gonna rent my neighbors trailer. I’ll see what they say after the 1 hr diag time. I don’t want pay them the 3hrs I was going to alot for it if I’m going to leave with the same problem I came in with.

I'm interested to hear what the dealership finds. Good luck, hopefully is not as bad as you think!

Just my luck I get here to the Subaru dealership and they have no idea. Tell me they will need me to leave it for hours and hours of diagnosis. Which he explained “can get expensive real quick” I was running every scenario I could by him.

He told me if my key was registered to the damaged removed smart ecu that it could never be programmed to any other vehicle. He said he thinks the cluster may be bad. Even though the hazard lights flash in it. He said the automatic climate control could be bad.

I asked him to give it the one hour diagnostic and just see if he could communicate with anything to point me in the right direction. He told me I’d have to make an appointment and preferably not on a Saturday because they only have two people and are backed up. I told him “I have an appointment,this is it. I was trying to do this last week but this is what you had available” they were trying to say even if I just want the one hour I’ll have to leave it.

I argued with them that i live two hrs away. In addition to the diagnostic I’d have to come back to pick it up even if they don’t get it figured out. He told me to go wait in the lobby and they’ll see what they can do. So here I sit. Hopefully they don’t let it just sit there and charge me saying they didn’t find anything when they didn’t even look.

I have pics but forum says their too large. Taken on my iPhone, I’ll resize when I get to a computer

So after sitting in the lobby, I was called back shortly. I was advised that when they called tech line they told them they want me to buy all new biu new steering ecu and new smart ecu as well as two keys before they will even hook up to it.

The kid told me before I pulled out that he wouldn't worry about the cluster right now. He said to find a wrecked brz that I can get the smart ecu, the key and steering ecu and biu from.

Looks like its communicating with the cheap elm blutooth adapter. but it's not actually connecting. The Techstream doesn't connect either. It's just a cheap ebay cable with a cracked version so I'm not sure if thats it. Or if only a couple of the leads are actually making connection. [ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jI6Z9mnvyUM[/ame]

Not too much of an update. I found a guy on Craigslist to sell me the whole security set. After talking with him he told me he’s on here also (FT86Logic). He didn’t get them shipped out until weds night and that was at a drop off location so they didn’t actually go out until Friday night. Due to the holidays it says they won’t be delivered until Thursday which sucks because I have a long weekend I could be working on it now.

Swap beat the security set here. It's dark and raining so here is a sneak peek.

So I installed the security set. The battery was dead. I tried to put a lil juice to it and it powers on now. It won’t start yet I’m thinking because the battery. Truck is idling in the background. The car isn’t running but the fans keep kicking on and off. I’m thinking due to the battery. I have a replacement fusebox I can install if need be.

https://youtu.be/HBhYvDVMPGk

I am enjoying this thread and give you a ton of credit for your patience and tenacity.

The last time when I got it to power up, it still wasnt locking/unlocking with the remote or turn back off from the on mode at will. After analyzing it time and time again I finally figured it out. I had been so focused on the front of the car, I looked up a nomenclature for the rear and sure enough, there is another ecu for the set thats in the rear.

After contacting the seller that i got the set from i paid him to ship me the other part. Now all is finally well.

Next task is to try to siphon some gas out to see if there is any water in it before I attempt to start it. and if there is, I need to drain the tank.

Well damn..

Looks like I'll be pumping the tank. Debating if I want to pull the plugs and try to shop vac it out in case anything is in there or just pump the tank and put fresh gas in.

I'm pulling this motor anyway. Realistically I just need to get it running to take to the dmv to have inspected to get my rebuilt title. After that I'm pulling this engine and seeing if I can get anything for it. Only has 7,400 miles on it.

I don't need anything throwing off my inspection or I'd just swap it right now. Can you imagine the dmv examiner looking at the car and it's camming out? lol :party0030:

So as i was pumping out the old fuel the cluster shit out on me and I couldnt complete it.
I found a guy selling a cluster from another series blue further south in fl so I bought it. this one shows 28k. I pumped it empty and filled it with 5 gallons and pumped that out. Then filled with 5 more and tried starting it.

I have no intake or airbox or anything. I have a maf thats plugged in but is just sitting in open air so it's struggling but it lives!

[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpLF_QY1EL4[/ame]

Glad to hear you got it going.

Alright, so when I started, I pumped the tank empty. I then filled it with 5 gallons of new gas. I pumped that 5 gallons out. put in another fresh 5 gallons and thats when I started it in that video.

Today, I decided to pull the fuel line and fill a 20oz bottle to see what it looks like and I did see a little water again. So I pumped it empty again. I put in another 5gal of fresh 93 oct with a bottle of heet.

I started the car and obviously it wont idle but i was holding it at 2k for about 5 minutes and the exhaust started glowing.

I'm debating to even keep bothering getting this eng running perfect. I'll have to buy a intake for this engine that im not even keeping. But the again I doubt the dmv will pass its inspection if its already swapped.

Exhaust is probably filled with mud....

[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lodTMVvUeRs[/ame]

[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FyFMIisXv7A[/ame]

Short update;

Was able to get the damn thing titled finally. Ordered my canbus integration, Swap install mounts, oil pan. also ordered a clutch master cylinder recess from a member on here. I'm a couple grand deep in just this, it's getting expensive quick.

Especially when I still have to get a driveshaft,cam,springs maybe heads, def headers and a tune.

The stock series blue engine and transmission are for sale. They have 7,900 miles (Yes thats seven thousand and nine hundred miles.)

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We have finally got our shop to a point we can work on the car and have made a lot of progress. Come check us out!