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Subject:My first 09 subi conversion and some body work stuff.
From:Benny boy
Date:Thu, 10 Sep 2009 22:39:11 -0400

Hi, i'm surely the first in the world to do an 09.

For now i'm using an 07 harness and ECM, the 09 sub harness and intake need
3 small mod and for now i'm not telling because i spend 4 days solving that,
i'm sure you understand. I also have the full 09 harness and all components,
i already started playing with this one, yep, i think we can cheat the CAN
system. Time will tell. When ready, in a week or 2, i will try the 09
harness, even if the customer will get the 07. I can't wait.

The engine itself is the same, intake and sub harness have some small but
important difference. I will tell you one! the 3 wire coolant temp sender as
now only 2 wire, the cluster/dash wire is gone, send by ECM to dashboard.

Interesting stuff:
AC compressor is half the size of previous years
PS pump is a bit different but nothing major.
ALT is the same but now the third wire/pin is use, for now i'm not sure why.

A few pictures:
http://www.benplace.com/bertrand_subi1.htm

On the same page I just added some pretty cool body work stuff, we now have
a new tool for dent/ding, men this is so great, it save us a lot of hours.
Expensive but well worthed! A few new putty product that dry slower and give
us more time to work on the rough part, but not to long drying, just enough.
A few new tools.... pretty cool stuff

Cheers, Ben

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