Subarus are required to have gold wheels, right?
The color was supposed to be hammered finish but the orange peel effect never actually wrinkled up. These are off the Beetle, they have just a hair less positive offset so will give me more tire to strut clearance. I think they look mildly better than the Subaru wheels.
I reached the end of my patience for letting the VW wiring harness tell me what to do, so I got drastic with the wire cutters.
I decided I didn't want to deal with the extra VW connectors and chasing stuff everywhere, so I clipped the harness at the two ECU connectors, then clipped the engine side at the various redundant junctions and connectors, leaving me with two engine umbilicals. There should be a third engine harness umbilical for the glow plugs, not pictured. I'm going to connect the wires that need to get directly from the ECU to the engine through the passenger side footwell using two Deutsch bulkhead connectors. Anything that needs to interface from the VW ECU to the Subaru car harness (like power/ground, CEL, OBD2, glow plug light, cruise/brake/clutch switches) will connect via the Subaru ECU harness and salvaged connector.
I did manage to butcher the glow plug relay harness while trimming because I didn't recognize the connector. Not too bad, there's still a couple inches of wire left to splice to, but I would have rather left more.
While I was playing with wiring, I took a look at the drive-by-wire throttle pedal.
It's not terribly different in size than the Subaru pedal. The bend is shaped a little differently, which would make it hit the firewall before WOT if I mounted it in the same plane as the stock pedal. Time to make a spacer adaptor.
First, I had to remove some locating nubs on the back of the VW pedal to allow it to sit flat. Easy with a flap wheel on the angle grinder and a delicate touch.
Started with some wood for a mockup.
Position feels fine to me, but it still does hit the floor before full WOT. The spacer probably needs to end up a full inch thick.