December 2024 Update: iWire is no longer offering harness merge services so we can focus on other parts of the business, including iDCCD, plug-and-play harnesses, and replacement electrical components. As part of this change, our technical support, wiring guidance, and troubleshooting assistance for harness merge projects will be very limited...
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How to Wire Your Non Turbo Subaru for a Turbo Engine Swap
When installing a different engine type (e.g., NA to turbo) into a Subaru chassis, the Engine Control Unit (ECU) also needs to be swapped in to get the engine running correctly. ECUs, with almost no exception, are not interchangeable if the model and year of the car do not match,...
iWire Merge - Commonly Confused Plugs
December 2024 Update: iWire is no longer offering harness merge services so we can focus on other parts of the business, including iDCCD, plug-and-play harnesses, and replacement electrical components. As part of this change, our technical support, wiring guidance, and troubleshooting assistance for harness merge projects will be very limited...
Drive by Wire to Drive by Cable Subaru Swap
In this post we talk about converting your Subaru from Drive by Wire (electronic throttle) to Drive by Cable (cable throttle) as part of an engine swap. A good example would be a 2005 RS swapping to a 2002 WRX engine. For more information on DBW cars, click here. If you...
CANBus Part 2 - CAN Bus and your Subaru Swap
If you missed it, you could check out our Part 1 CANbus post that explains what CANbus means and which cars are CAN bus equipped. This post discusses how CANbus will affect your Subaru swap and how to work with it._________________________________________________________________ December 2024 Update: iWire is no longer offering harness...
98-01 Impreza/OBS and 98-01 Forester Differences
In this blog post, we talk about the differences between the 98-01 Impreza and 98-01 Forester wiring harnesses. When swapping either the Impreza or the Forester, people mistakenly think that the wiring harnesses are interchangeable, but they are not. Although the cars' interiors and engines are the same, the wiring...
EJ20 - You're Going to Have to Be More Specific
December 2024 Update: iWire is no longer offering harness merge services so we can focus on other parts of the business, including iDCCD, plug-and-play harnesses, and replacement electrical components. As part of this change, our technical support, wiring guidance, and troubleshooting assistance for harness merge projects will be very limited...
iWire Helps Build a Movie Car
Photo courtesy of Kathy Applebaum You read that headline right, iWire helped build a movie car for the new Transformers movie coming out in December 2018 - Bumblebee. As a Subaru wiring company, you may ask how we got involved with a VW Bug movie? Well, it all started with...