WRX Conversion

My car stated it’s life as a 1996 Impreza Brighton, a Plain Jane Impreza with an EJ18, AWD 5 speed tranny, basic interior and no tachometer.

Here is a picture of a 96 Impreza, not a Brighton, probably a LS, but you can get an idea of what it looked like.

I purchased my car as a rebuildable wreck, here are some pictures.

After I got it home, I started taking stuff off, first off came the front bumper beam

Then I stared cutting out all the bent and damaged pieces.

The silver strut tower bar was used as a tool since it was rigid and would show me when I had pulled the left strut tower back into place.

Here is a shot of how far off the left strut tower was.

Here are some pictures of the 96 WRX front clip that I used.

I didn’t take many pictures during the reconstruction so that part is missing, here is the finished installed engine.

And here is the car before I put the WRX body parts on.

And here it is completed or at least 98% completed, still a few little things that need to be done.